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In the coderunner read me it talks about reading files without sending them to the cloud. Does that mean there is something agentic going on? That’s more than I expect from something called a sandbox. Also if it is agentic, why is it less c
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Presumably other languages with JIT do exactly the same thing?
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I’m assuming that when you talk about crashing processes as the status quo you’re referring to earlier versions of zjit rather than current Ruby on yjit? Because I’ve never seen a Ruby process crash because + was called with different argum
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There’s an AI coding tool called phoenix.love as well
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Interesting: how is CC in your experience at writing tests and then using them to avoid mistakes?
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Very curious to hear about the specific cases where types make tests unnecessary. I spend my working life swapping between Ruby and typescript projects and the typescript project is utter garbage with poor test coverage that needs a day of
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by zingar 10mo ago
Bang on Sandi! I hadn’t heard that quote but she’s my favorite speaker on testing and OO. Another way of looking at this advice is that every time there’s a mock there needs to be a test that shows that the real code can be used in the same
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In hearing the SBOM term for the first time from that article and the linked Wikipedia page. For the ignorant like me: what is it that SBOM is used for that lockfiles aren’t? Everything in the article is something that I’m used to seeing au
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Whenever someone gets into Important Reasons why Software Engineering is Different from Programming, I hear a bunch of things that should just be considered “competent programming”. > Programming is just churning out code without much re
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> And as for turning vague problems into more clear features? Is that not something they’re unbelievably suited for? I personally find LLMs to be fantastic for taking my thoughts to a more concrete state through robust debate. I see AI t
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Reasons why the attempted cursor acquisition might not be about replicating cursor (with or without human help): shutting down competition; market share; understanding user behavior; training data
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> it can even find bugs This is one of the harder parts of the job IMHO. What is missing from writing “the code” that is not required for bug fixes?
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What is it that you feel is missing that would take AI from “just for myself” to “mass market SaaS vibes”?
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Without arguing with your main point: > (few people like writing unit tests) The TDD community loves tests and finds writing code without tests more painful than writing tests before code. Is your point that the TDD community is a minori
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Are you saying that you literally write the features by yourself and that you only use LLMs to understand old code and write tests? Or a more meta point that “LLMs are capable of a lot”?
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I have the same furniture analogy in mind. If we imagine that more people have more agency when it comes to extending software, what does the software equivalent of repair look like? What does dumpster diving or a second hand software store
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I’ve written so much more elisp and bash this year because of LLMs.
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by zingar 10mo ago
Interested in what you’re doing with gaming. Are you literally extending game code?
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by zingar 10mo ago
About 15 years ago I thought of writing custom software for friends and family instead of paying for gifts in order to save money (and give something more “meaningful”). For instance a fun guessing game using photos from a group holiday. I
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100%, the reason I thought of this is constantly telling developers to break their work down into smaller pieces so that they can focus and the customer sees value sooner.
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IDEs have LSP support because they have a plugin that connects to an LSP server. The plugin is a very small piece of code compared to the language server. Creating a new client is not reinventing the wheel. In fact the entire philosophy of
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I’m uneasy having an agent implement several pages of plan and then writing tests and results only at the and of all that. It feels like getting a CS student to write and follow a plan to do something they haven’t worked on before. It’ll re
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by zingar 10mo ago
What is the advantage of skills over just calling code? From where I’m standing a Claude.md with a couple of examples of a particular bash script (examples and bash also written by Claude) is enough.
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I’ve found incredible productivity gains writing (vibe coding) tools for myself that will never need to be “productionised” or even used by another person. Heck even I will probably never use the latest log retrieval tool, which exists pure
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by zingar 10mo ago
I totally did this! Why would I need a database named “mysql” inside my MySQL database? Delete that, good job on day one!
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I was imagining a feature that allowed me to search across all my books, which is something that O’Reilly Learning does (actually it gives you answers from their entire range since their model is a license to access all content). Come to th
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by zingar 10mo ago
Shocked and curious to know why anyone would downvote a story like this.
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I think I know what you mean in that the most experienced person often writes proof of concept code that others take over. But I can’t imagine a situation where someone is expected to specialize in everything but the PoC. Also in my part of
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My neighbour asked me the other day (well, more stated as a "point" that he thought was in his favour): "how could a billionaire make people believe something?" The topic was the influence of the various industrial compl
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Do you mind giving some examples of the work that annoys seniors?

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