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I also wonder what kind of bed costs $2000. Is it a bed made of gold and caviar? This article is confusing.

I would never in my whole life sign anything in a foreign language that I don’t understand. It’s the perfect example of what AI is: let’s do anything that looks like a job well done and fuck it. That is not convincing. It’s suicidal.

We never have any proof or source for that, and when we have one (like the Devin thing) it’s always a ridiculous project in JS with a hundred lines of code that I could write in one day.

Give me some refactoring in a C++ code base with 100k lines of code, and we’ll be able to talk.

The complexity has grown but not the quality. We went from writing ADA code with contracts and all sorts of protections with well thought architectures, to random crap written in ReactJS in web sites that now weigh more than a full install of Windows 95.

I’m really ashamed of what SWE has become and AI will increase that tenfold as you say. We shouldn’t cheer up on that, especially if I will have to debug all that crap.

And if it increases the number of engineers, they won’t be good due to a lack of education (I already experience this at work). But anyway I don’t believe it, managers will not waste more money on us, that would go against modern capitalism.

> Why do we ever install anything

To be able to reproduce all the procedures reliably, constantly, and without an internet connection. At least it's a requirement for my job and some other industries. Also because it's good to be serious about your job, and because reproducible builds is a nice thing to do.

> you’re selling to developers

That was my first thought. He's selling a piece of software to me, and I can patch the library in a few minutes to remove the branding and avoid paying $25/month.

The CEO and their "strong cadre of 16 directors" because it’s obviously required to write a HTML parser.

> As long as you are not a terrorist, all those surveillance programs will never be used against you

Can you say "as long as you have nothing to hide"?

We’ve known since WW2 and maybe further that governments have used surveillance against innocents and people they didn’t like.

I agree it's impressive and stuff, but I wouldn't consider a JS POC as a serious project. I have never done that in my whole life and would rather see results from a 10 years old application with a million lines of code of C++. That's would be realistic. What you did is refactoring a pet project and I don't know why we're wasting $billions for that.

Don't rewrite history. Amazon had a million times more books than my shitty local library. ChatGPT is at best the equivalent of a junior that you have to supervise all the time and replaces all your thoughts. It's a very different scenario unless those LLMs can improve very fast which I doubt. And when they reach a senior level, the damage will already be done.

Same experience here. Today I spent 5 hours debugging code, and wondering how I could put 3 contradicting specifications inside while negotiating some weird stuff that does not concerns me, and then I spent 3 hours deleting 100 lines of code and writing 100 lines of code to please everyone. I fail to see how a LLM could have helped me, and I've been doing this for more than 10 years.

> the existence of complete training data is [...] not an absolute requirement [...] this OSI stance is widely regarded as a reasonable approach

That's definitely NOT the case for me and it's the reason why I now see the OSI as a joke. But feel free to make up your own definitions: Windows is open-source, the PlayStation is a car, and broccolis are good for cats (for a different definition of a broccoli).

It looks great but can I get some capillary dilation of the so-called blush response? Fluctuation of the pupil? Involuntary dilation of the iris?

You would first need to make the difference between a user running an application, a service running an application, a server running an application, a remote "anything" running an application, an application running another application, an AI running an application, etc. Good luck with that!

I takes one second with a good script. I don’t understand what kind of SBOM they are writing.

I think we should stop relying on unreliable web sites and go back to the roots: https://timewarrior.net/

https://legal.heyboss.tech/678cdd/ is full of fake info, and https://legal.heyboss.tech/ is dead. You should do something useful in life instead of spamming the internet with that crap.

> for Lynch that would be quite something

It would be very easy: add some randomness to the prompts and keep the visual hallucinations.

Companies have hijacked the open source concept to mean downloadable blob and we follow them as I see in the comments. It’s a real shame.

In another article, he rewrites history by saying that developers were making fun of auto-complete, which never happened of course because it was a reliable addition to our set of tools.

So yeah, most of his blog is about cramming and hyping AI without giving any proof.

I’m personally moving to the Fairphone with preinstalled e/os. A phone that I control, can repair, and has more privacy than the other OS is what I expected from Apple until the past decade where they decided that privacy was a joke.

> extremely good products being free

All the Apple ecosystem is subsidized by the price of the iPhones and Macs. There is no excuse for putting ads in such expensive products. And it's one reason why I'm moving away from Apple but that's another story.

Try this for coding: https://musicforprogramming.net/ Some artists have their SoundCloud or Bandcamp account in the links.

As a non-American, what's wrong about that article?

> which remembers previous conflict resolutions

IMHO this is far from the truth. git is a mess with conflicts and nothing is remembered. When you rebase an old branch a few times, you stumble upon merge conflicts every time you have to rebase that old code. It's really infuriating.

I think git became popular for 2 reasons: cheap branches, and Linus Torvalds.

> Is the world a better place now?

Don't ask me because the only SCM I have been using for the past 15 year is git and I hate it. Every company uses it, I made a lot of PowerPoint presentations to teach people how to use it, yet I refuse to use its command-line.

I switched from SourceSafe/SVN/Mercurial to git, but never used Darcs. IMHO git is fine as an assembly language of SCM, but I'm trying to switch to jujutsu which has a better CLI while staying compatible with git as a backend.

> open-source

> OPENAI_API_KEY

Choose one.

Half of it is automation to generate pretty changelogs if an audit ever happens. The other half is to make sure that devs know that rules are set in order to make them think about what they are doing. It seems a bit restrictive, but it's a good way to say "your commits should be clean and focused on one topic and one topic only."

The only "convention" that exists is the Conventional Commits' one. It is sensible and compatible with some tools. As long as you write "fix:", "feat:" or "chore:" you'll be fine.

Don't overthink it though, it's a thing that is used in some open-source projects and companies. As long as you follow the rules of the project, you'll be fine. Same for the coding style and format, do like everyone else.

I dont understand the hate either. Yes it sucks if you follow people you don’t know, but LinkedIn allows you to hide literally everything without breaking the connection. It’s not like Twitter where you are forced to see the updates of the CEO.