louder for the folks coping in the back

Maybe AI was just some elaborate ploy to get engineers to finally write tests and documentation

an invisible contribution to opensource is people adopting projects way too early they use something that is full of bugs, missing functionality, no docs, perf issues and dig into weeds to debug critical in helping the maintainers get to a v1 that everyone else can enjoy

Oh my, oh my... There have been enough stories about people unwittingly exposing their API keys in public repos, and now this. But if you do stupid things with AI to yourself, that's one thing; inflicting it on your users is quite another.

The end of manual programming is a fact of life. There are areas where it isn't fully replaced yet, but that's only a matter of time. x.com/i/trending/201…

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A lot of criticism of agents sounds like "the drill is putting the holes in the wrong place"

Rewriting in Rust for no particular reason.

Mischa van den Burg I've been coding for 50 years. I'm very very good at it. I've probably written more code than most people have read. And I have no idea why I should mourn coding by hand. Code is just a way to get from the thoughts in your head to a running program. The reward isn't the glyphs

Some people: "Letting AI touch systems code is playing with fire" Other people: "Claude, boot the OS kernel in our simulator, find the missing ARM64 instruction in the spec, and implement it while I work on other things"

I often wonder why there’s such a divergence in reception when it comes to using A.I. for software development. My leading theory is now this: Thinking vs typing Throughout my career, I’ve met many developers who would often say that typing was never their bottleneck, thinking

Skynet is almost here.

Most companies right now: - No automated tests - No code review process - No CI/CD pipelines - Poor secret management - No dataset versioning - Production workflows run from spreadsheets - No rollback plans - No integration tests These aren't just some weird companies. They're

Uneven adoption x.com/i/trending/201…

Spoiler: it does after installing libc6-dev. 🤭

“There are no words in the English language that have all the vowels in alphabetical order,” he said facetiously

Indeed. I'm impressed, but not that much. OK, a compiler able to compile the Linux kernel for less than $20K *is* something, but on the other hand, a compiler is very well defined and 100% automatically testable. Now do invoicing and accounting software. I'll wait.

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Another 2022 debate. x.com/i/trending/202…