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I am really looking for more reasoned approaches to AI.

I am very close to using it as a pair programmer, but with me actually coding. I am just so tired of fixing its mistakes.

Yes I understand what they were trying to do and this is the ugly hack they came up with.

I just don't like it. I am not ignorant of their intentions, it just does not work well.

Unsafe code is normal. Trying to hide it is unsound. And I stand by that.

It's worth pointing out that "unsafe" in rust is not a very sound concept - it's not like a monad or "function colour" whereby the compiler can say "this code ultimately calls unsafe". It's more like a comment on steroids; you call unsafe in a function, write a comment about it, and no caller of that function would have any idea that it's calling unsafe code.

Can someone who is a more AI heavy user explain what is going on?

I would expect an "AI Note Taker" to faithfully transcribe the entire conversation. With the same quality I see in a lot of automated video subtitles.. ie they use the wrong word a lot but it's easy to tell what they mean by context.

Are these tools instead immediately summarising the whole thing, and that summary is the artifact? Because that is a beyond insane way to treat human communication.

I know this is a bit beside the point of the article, but I also got sick of reading markdown on a terminal...

So I asked my agent to write typst, ran "typst watch", and now I can look at a nice pdf file. it even auto-refreshes when the clanker changes it.

This idea of forcing every programmer to use the same IDE is incredibly depressing. I only associate that with really low tier outfits here in NZ, to think that leading companies want to do this too is disheartening (because of course everyone and their dog will copy it).

Fight for your autonomy as a dev, because they will always want to take it away.

I gave up trying to fix issues with hibernate and audio on linux. I just leave my machine on overnight

love linux but the audio situation has always been bad.

Are any of them profitable?

I suppose you said "AI Company", and not "AI Provider", but AFAIK there are none of the latter that are turning a profit.

This is a genuinely dumb take and you should feel foolish for even thinking it.

Incase you dont, consider the concept of telling an Austrian that German is a foreign language for them. If this concept confuses you, I can get wikipedia links.

The account posted is a massive grifter. He trolls twitter to make content for his youtube channel, which seems to be his primary occupation.

I am not saying that claude has not done this, I am just saying you need a better source than the Jake Paul of tech influencers.

I am actually implementing a reverse proxy right now...

I am doing a typical http thing, but I wonder, has anyone used fastcgi in Caddy?

https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/reverse_pr...

> It's hard to know if LLMs will end up being a net win for the industry. They may speed up the good programmers a little, but those people were able to program anyway without LLMs. They will speed up the bad programmers a lot and that's where the balance sheet goes into the red.

If you will forgive an appeal to authority:

The hard thing about building software is deciding what one wants to say, not saying it. No facilitation of expression can give more than marginal gains.

- Fred Brooks, 1986

You've completely missed my point.

Immigration is not a long term solution to an aged society. The societies of target countries are aging as well and not far behind.

What you advocate is to bolster the work force of a country with a fertility rate of ~1 and falling, with people from a place with a fertility rate of ~2 and falling.

I dont think IQ is based on american adults.

This discourse feels like you are deliberately pretending not to understand things.

Africas fertility rate is declining massively as well.

A lot of people would rather live in their own aged society than a slightly younger foreign one.

Emphasis on slightly younger. Fertility is declining basically everywhere. Much of the developing world is now below replacement including India and China.

Is the average IQ of the US still 100?

I am not Kent Beck; I don't have all the answers.

All AI has shown us is that we should probably write specs before we code. That was true before AI, but LLMs have just shone a light on this, and it will remain true if agentic coding falls out of fashion again.

Never once did I advocate waterfall...

Read the Royce paper, seriously. It's short, he's a much better writer than I am, and if nothing else it's a fascinating looking at the old state of the art.

Author here.

Yes, that would be the first paper I linked to in the article, "Managing the Development of Large Software Systems" (Royce, 1970).

The first diagram is the classic waterfall diagram, used there for illustrative purposes as an example of what not to do.

Highly recommend it to people - it's short but a real breathe of fresh air. Mostly still applicable today.

Author here.

Well I think this just proves we can slap "agile" onto anything. The people before agile actually wrote things with more substance than the manifesto.

The agile projects you worked on sound wonderful, and I would align "writing specs" with what you describe, at least in terms of the design doc.

Author here.

So one of the main points in this massive, 700 word Treatise (which I do hope you will find the time to read) was that nothing Agile practitioners slapped their label onto was actually novel.

Why re-invent agile, when agile itself was just a reinvention by "the kids" (your words, not mine) of things people in the 1970s already knew?

One might as well go straight to the 1970s directly.

Where in Taipei? I have been there a few times, so you can be specific.

It's worth noting that early on in English, þu/ģe (thou/ye) did not say anything about formality. It was just singular and plural.

Yeah it iw called the exclusive form lol.

But if you think about it seems normal... "we went to the city" is not really mean.

If you are interested in Wulf and Eadwacer it is beautifully sung here:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6-QagSE7sFY

Another fun pronoun distinction I have seen is having two forms of "we" - one including the person you are talking to, and one excluding them.

(To clarify this was in Hokkien, not Anglo-Saxon).

How I write is better than how I talk, because by definition I have more time to think. So I aim for the opposite - I aim to spontaneously talk the way I write.

And academic and technical writing should absolutely be lexically dense. It's not poetry, you're trying to express information as efficiently as possible.

I mean it's advice from the same man who thought "delve" - a 6000 year old, monosyllabic word used by Shakespeare and Tolkien - was too complicated and should not be used.

I am not sure we should be taking him as a literary authority.

It doesn't matter - Israel was able to ethnically cleanse and occupy large parts of Southern Lebanon, without undue Iranian interference. Mission accomplished for MIGA.

The "Israel First" administration of the US will happily trade Iran's permanent control of an international waterway for the expansion of Israel.