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widgeyboy

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widgeyboy··on UK Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
But fortunately "Use of the e-ID is voluntary..." in their case. Whereas in the UK it's being pushed as a (for all intents and purposes) mandatory thing.
widgeyboy··on Wonder Announces Acquisition of Grubhub
Agree, I don't think that's going to work in practice.
widgeyboy··on Ask HN: Can Devin genuinely replace the roles of developers?
I agree with this mostly - but recently a bug was introduced into our app because of a copilot suggestion that wasn't checked thoroughly enough by the engineer (it suggested a property that was similarly named to another property but not the same).

Like you say, it makes the most sense repetitive or easy tasks.

widgeyboy··on Ask HN: Can Devin genuinely replace the roles of developers?
I'm surprised that, as a senior, you're able to offload your work to Cursor. Maybe it's light years ahead of GPT, but I'm also a senior engineer and get almost no usable code out of AI tools without having to double check and then reimplement its suggestions. I use them to generate ideas for algorithms mainly, and would not (could not) just copy-paste its solution into my/our codebase. It must depend on what you're building.
widgeyboy··on RabbitOS
Pretty much, to me it's an inferior version of Chat GPT with worse UI.