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Comment · 3 days ago
> My most successful work this year was hand-writing a tool, replacing ~4,000 lines of vibe-code with a few hundred. My system has proven more flexible, easier to test, and more generalizable than what it replaced.

That's would be fine for me saving time to get some sample code case - but I have more of relevant codes and docs on my hard drive already - and the best cases, some solutions I like, seem to not have obvious or known connections to the problem I'm solving elsewhere, yet (what I know after research).

But I'm 100% pro AI since I get that reward £160 for £6 spent - and I think, I know how AI makes up that.

Comment · 4 days ago
Eat the dogfood then.
Comment · 4 days ago
That's mark of Google hand - no one/G will say one day "XQuery death" as it's not in browsers.
Comment · 4 days ago
.. race to the bottom. "more competition" for.. ONE thing Google can do, nothing else (ads engine - not document browser).

Want to make browsers easier ? - removing JavaSript and *fixing browser bugs instead* ('outsourced' to the user) will do that better.

BTW JavaSript it's not W3 standard, XSLT is.

("Live and let live", "Don't break the Web" - "breaking web pages that were made 20 years ago is unlikely to result in bug reports")

Comment · 4 days ago
No, * it will not work transparently at the same level *.

What you repeat, it's Google marketing bullshit of the only thing with which they could compete - JS engine.

Comment · 4 days ago
XML and XSLT are great, poor is execution and understanding by the "industry",

"failed experiment" mean used wrong, not for it's purpose.

Used well (it's another dimension), it's very useful.

It's killed only, because what Ads need is JavaScript and nothing else. Flat world.

Comment · 5 days ago
Comment · 14 days ago
I had similar moment while watching "The Rings of Power" when I heard "But that is something only the gods can do", "I will not second-guess the gods" - no gods, no religion in Tolkien's world (except worship of Morgoth) - only the creator and offsprings of his thoughts (as harmonic and disharmonic music).
Comment · 15 days ago
Maybe let someone write it - if such article shall exist ?
Comment · 15 days ago
The first I can hear and I understand as a voice, the later I just read - no synesthesia ?? (non-native reader later speaker)
Comment · 24 days ago

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