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That's silly. You may as well say Santiago Calatrava isn't an architect any more because he's delegating the vast majority of the architecture work for his projects.

You're not including the physical supply chain energy consumption of distributing video game equipment in this analysis. Nobody ships LLMs to big box stores and tries to sell them to consumers.

You are delegating work and reviewing delegated work, but not managing. No performance coaching, no career development, no mentoring, no conflict resolution, no influencing opinions, and on and on.

I think you’ve forgotten about the “software architect” role.

If all you do is write requests and then have the LLMs spit out the code, then you’re not a programmer, you’re a software architect.

Middle managers have to supervise people, otherwise they are not managers.

Are you looking for org-babel?

https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html

The statutory name of this department is the Department of Defense.

I read your book when I was ten years old! I was later stoked to find our computer system at school was a Unix machine, so I could try some of the commands you explained in the story, like ps and sendmail.

“That’s real, and it’s interesting.”

Stop with the slop.

Yeah, NeXTSTEP is notoriously a locked-down, untweakable OS. It's not like anyone was able to use it to program anything of consequence.

We don’t need aggregators like HN pitching AI-authored content, no matter how pedagogically sound. We can direct our own AIs to generate our own AI-authored content.

Almost nobody has DNSSEC enabled.

Against DNSSEC: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/

Stop posting slop.

How about

  for wmv in Path(sys.argv[1]).rglob("\*.wmv"):
        print(wmv, end=" ")
        r = subprocess.run(
            ["ffmpeg", "-i", wmv, wmv.with_suffix(".mpg")],
            stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
        )
        lines = [l for l in r.stdout.decode().splitlines() if "kb/s:" in l]
        print("\n".join(lines) if lines else f"ERROR {r.returncode}")

?

If you go outside stdlib you can use the sh library instead of subprocess.run.

We're not talking about Nazis though, are we? We're talking about well over two billion people (possibly more than six billion if it extends beyond Christianity). Your prejudice against them is almost prima facie unreasonable.

I am an atheist.

There's no desperation and no casting here. I am just pointing out objective facts.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bigotry

> stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.

You:

> But this is a SQL database engine and they chose to publicly affiliate it with religion. That's concerning. I've been considering switching to H2 for a while now to avoid depending on a fat-jar full of binaries. This nonsense has persuaded me to make that switch.

It's textbook. Your decision is not based on any actual technical consideration, but rather "stubborn and complete intolerance." You can't conceive of a publicly Christian person who wouldn't use the software they wrote to somehow attack you, even though Dr. Hipp would never dream of doing anything like that.

Why can't you conceive of this? Because of your bigotry.

1. There is no religious affiliation for this project, official or otherwise. It is not “religious software.” The project founder is a Christian, that’s all.

2. You clearly are bigoted against Christians and likely all religious people. Every comment is infused with bigotry. You likely don’t even notice it because you’re swimming in it like a fish.

3. You are free to ignore the code of ethics and the software as much as you like. The code of ethics is not intended to apply to you. This is all clearly spelled out in the document, but you saw the word “Christ” and let your prejudice guide you instead of exercising basic reading comprehension.

I don’t know, wouldn’t you be pissed if you tried to search your browser history for “gay” and nothing was found? After all, that’s the threat model you’re proposing that you’re worried about — the thinnest of excuses for your clear and deep bigotry.

Good luck! It’s the most widely-deployed database software by far. I’m sure you have hundreds or thousands of SQLite files among devices you own.

https://sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html

The source code is in the public domain. You can inspect it, fork it, and redistribute it as you like.

Nothing is being shoved down anyone’s throat.

“No one is required to follow The Rule, to know The Rule, or even to think that The Rule is a good idea. The Founder of SQLite believes that anyone who follows The Rule will live a happier and more productive life, but individuals are free to dispute or ignore that advice if they wish.”

As the first section notes, the only reason they posted this is to fulfill a checklist requirement for certain commercial users. The external requirement for a code of conduct, which requesters never read and don’t actually care about, is the actual nonsense here.

Hetzner astroturf?

Engineers that didn't move past src.v35.final.zip version control don't really have jobs today, either.

He absolutely is.

You're trying to turn flexibility and the ability to adapt to new circumstances into a vice.

You're wrong. It's a virtue.

I don’t think you’ve actually used any of these tools. 10 different examples in the same session would almost certainly make them perform worse.

You don't need a special feature for this. Just tell the coding assistant what to do.

You should try using the existing agents for your semi-manual editing. You don't need editor support. The coding agent can find "things like this" faster than you can. Just tell it what to look for and how to change it.

What I did was make one commit by hand (involving multiple files), and then told Codex (last year's Codex!) to make the equivalent changes to other instances in the code base.

> But ultimately, the only situation in which LLMs could meaningfully democratize access to software development is one where they achieve a true silver bullet, by significantly reducing or removing essential difficulty from the software development process.

The author didn't seem to read the Brooks essay for comprehension. There is an entire section about expert systems that foreshadows agents. While there is no singular silver bullet, Brooks explores the most promising techniques to reduce essential complexity that were anticipated in 1986.

> The most powerful contribution of expert systems will surely be to put at the service of the inexperienced programmer the experience and accumulated wisdom of the best programmers. This is no small contribution.

Furthermore, his objection to automatic programming was simply an argument from incredulity, which is an understandable opinion at the time, yet quite vacuous in hindsight.

Podcasts (and video) are very low-throughput, low-density information channels. Essays and articles are superior. To demonstrate this, you can just compare the transcript of a typical podcast — even a high-quality, well-researched one — with a typical high-quality, well-researched blog post, essay, or journalistic article.