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Comment · 16 days ago
Were you standing on top of the car at the time?
Comment · 19 days ago
Not the nipples, but the t-shirts that let them through. Unless you’re JVN put them away!
Comment · 19 days ago
Assume the computer does not have a modem of any sort!
Comment · 20 days ago
The fix is taking them off the internet, use DOS, and require manual insertion of a floppy to make updates.
Comment · 20 days ago
I met a space alien! His name is Grok and he talks to me when I’m sleeping.
Comment · 20 days ago
It’s a joke…
Comment · 20 days ago
Lawyers would be better suited to argue what programming is because they know logic. There’s not much to algorithms: do this, then do that.

Programmers typically don’t know law outside of which license allows them to get code for free.

Comment · 22 days ago
I guess I should change my password.
Comment · 24 days ago
Just grow a scraggly and comb it down. Venture capitalists wear t-shirts that show their nipples on stage, so what’s the shame in a long scraggly.
Comment · 26 days ago
This day and age you might call that debate club. :)
Comment · 26 days ago
Yes it’s for the worse. Not necessarily because AI in general but because it’s all so new no one knows what the result of using it in the classroom will be. So, consider yourselves an experiment of the “disruptive education” enterprise.

My advice: read lots of real books. Go to the library and study with real books even (especially) if it takes longer.

Comment · 27 days ago
Fossil doesn’t have GitHub PR capabilities per-se. But its design philosophy is different with a focus on smaller groups of devs and not so much drive-by patches. I think in the case being discussed for AI agents, it can be simplified.

If you want human review on the code I’m thinking keep it simple and just review in branches/tags before merging OR even just have loose patch files.

As we’re seeing with resurgence of command-line utility by agents, that extends equally well to the O.G. diff/patch. A PR is literally just a diff with commentary and an approval process prior to merging. Diffs can be attached to forum topics and so-forth.

Lots of possibilities, but I think the main thing discussed here is how is version control better suited to AI agents moving forward.

Comment · 29 days ago
What is beads?

I am curious what people think about the use case that is different for AI agents compared to humans. Aside from the things people use SCM for already that is.

Fossil fits the bill if you ask me because it has built in forum and stuff too, so Agentic discourse can happen there, commits happen in the SCM history. And it has auto sync so they can automatically sync their state.

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