bubblebeard

I feel this mostly is a side effect from lack of domain knowledge. Most of the time this has happened to me, it's because I myself did not cleanly know how a problem should be solved to begin with. If you have a clear picture of what you want, approximately what syntax goes where and why, thats really when LLMs shine in my experience.

They aren't proposing to replace git though. They are just attempting to make it simpler for developers to follow changes applied by an LLM in an ergonomic fashion. Not saying it will work well but I'm happy to see someone trying a new approach here.

Super cool! Any plans to release it for Linux? Would love to test it but I have no Mac unfortunately

The more complex the more fragile. The simpler the solution the more robust. This, I feel, is an overall truth to software development. And simpler solutions, as far as I know, are usually the more useful ones.

I've read that privileged ports was created as a trust model, so users connecting to a service using a privileged port would know that service was started by root on that server and therefore could be trusted. I always felt this was a bit wierd though, maybe I was missinformed, or maybe priviliged ports was already a thing and was just leveraged this way?

I can understand that feeling, but remember that just because you have been handed a new powertool you mustn't always use it. Life is not about optimizing everything. It makes redundant work faster, where you fully understand from the outset how to write something, but this just frees you up to learn and explore new things, and work on stuff just for the fun of it, like this.

This made me think and reflect, thank you.

Not so much about language design as how easy it is to take a defensive position on something we are comfortable with when it's challanged. This prohibits growth.

When someone suggests you have been doing something the wrong way or has a new idea, it's usually better to hear them out and take what knowledge you can from them, even if they weren't actually trying to help you.

Anyways, thanks again

Not an expert, but, when you give Claude, or any AI agent a query it will usually need to do research, use various tools, execute commands etc. and all of this accumelates text in the conversation thread. Each subsequent query in a thread submits the entire conversation to the API, potentially consuming an unnecessary amount of tokens. Compression attempts to solve this by removing irrelevant information. For example, the entire output from a CURL query and how the AI thought about it might not be needed, having the resulting outcome might be enough. Since compression is also performed by the API though it may be worth it, or not, it always depends on the situation at hand. This is my understanding of it anyways.

I have the same CPU in my primary system, and if you can afford it, it’s so choice.

A big surprise for me, having owned both a Ryzen gen 1 & 3 previously, was that this time my system posted without me needing to flash my BIOS or play around with various RAM configurations. Felt like magic.

While I cannot see a way to effectively stop companies from collecting data from you (aside from avoiding practically everything), that doesn’t mean we should do nothing.

DuckDuckGo aren’t perfect, but I think they do a lot to all our benefit. Theirs have been my search engine of choice for many years and will continue being so.

Shout outs to their amazing team!

Great article. It think it raises a good point. An important aspect of modern programming languages should be to simplify the syntax, to help developers avoid mistakes.

This reminds me of arguing more than once with JS developers about the dangers of loose typing (especially in the case of JS) and getting the inevitable reply ”I just keep track of my type casting.”.

For example, they retain the right now to brick your console remotely if you go against their usage policies. Which they retain the right to change at will. So, effectively you really do not own that console in any way shape or form. Shame really, used to like Nintendo once.