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alaudet

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old chill IT greybeard
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alaudet··on AI chatbots could be making you stupider
It might be making some people lazier but not more stupid, it's not like you are literally losing brain cells by using it.
alaudet··on GitHub's fake star economy
Sometimes people open issues without proper information. It cant be replicated and nobody else is jumping in that it affects them. You may suspect its something else, maybe with their environment, but if they don't engage what else can you do? Tell them you are closing it and specify what kind of info you need if they ever get around to providing it and it can be reopened.
alaudet··on Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime
If you have failover redundancy of services across your systems of some kind to mitigate then great. With proper setup no worries. I guess it depends how much you want to take on vs hand off.
alaudet··on Claude Opus 4.7
Serious question about using Claude for coding. I maintain a couple of small opensource applications written in python that I created back in 2014/2015. I have used Claude Code to improve one of my projects with features I have wanted for a long time but never really had the time to do. The only way I felt comfortable using Claude Code was holding its hand through every step, doing test driven changes and manually reviewing the code afterwards. Even on small code bases it makes a lot of mistakes. There no way I would just tell it to go wild without even understanding what they are doing and I can't help but think that massive code bases that have moved to vibe coding are going to spend inordinate amounts of time testing and auditing code, or at worst just ship often and fix later.

I am just an amateur hobbyist, but I was dumbfounded how quickly I can create small applications. Humans are lazy though and I can't help but feel we are being inundated with sketchy apps doing all kinds of things the authors don't even understand. I am not anti AI or anything, I use it and want to be comfortable with it, but something just feels off. It's too easy to hand the keys over to Claude and not fully disclose to others whats going on. I feel like the lack of transparency leads to suspicion when anyone talks about this or that app they created, you have to automatically assume its AI and there is a good chance they have no clue what they created.

alaudet··on Git commands I run before reading any code
This is good stuff. Why I never think of things like this is beyond me. Thanks
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