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Comment · 1 day ago
The way we do this is to have period "post project" metric checks, looking for

- are the users using the new feature (repeatedly)

- what sentiment is associated with it on customer calls (extracted via call transcripts, but ideally the relevant engineer joins the call)

Comment · 1 day ago
Cool report
Comment · 2 days ago
%s/toxic expert/hn commenter/
Comment · 4 days ago
Can konsole do the fancy shader and inline images? I think that's all that distinguishes the others but I may be overlooking things.
Comment · 7 days ago
Oh, I was thinking verify what the doc claims to what the code actually does, I misunderstood you.
Comment · 7 days ago
That's like me with violins!
Comment · 7 days ago
Seems like an AI could be tasked with verifying the docs. Then a human can double check it's work if it finds anything.
Comment · 10 days ago
Comment · 10 days ago
Go back a few years "css isn't a real programming language, there are no functions or control flow"

These arrive

"no! NO!"

Comment · 10 days ago
3. AGENTS.md tells you not to
Comment · 12 days ago
For a second I didnt see where it says "made by my own two hands", but it's down the bottom.

Phew!

Comment · 14 days ago
I gather it goes through an intermediate coercion step where it is "1" + "hello".

What trips us up is having existing expectations for what an operator called + should do.

Comment · 14 days ago
I suspect all branches of tech have their rite of passage.

For haskellers, it is writing a monad tutorial

For javascripters, it is writing a framework

For make-stuff-with-LLM people, it is producing a diagram explaining your code generation factory

... and so on

Comment · 14 days ago
It would be subversive if the large corporation doing science in space turned out to be benign
Comment · 16 days ago
Even a stalker would draw the line there.

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