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I have a few personal projects, i let codex do all the code - i do the thinking and testing.

One time, something didn't work as expected - its the first time it happened with this project. I read through the section of code and it was perfectly readable and well-written.

Turned out a plugin wasn't effecting the audio, so i just got it to pad some blank audio onto the beginning before processing it, then remove it at the end of the process. That fixed the issue, there was nothing wrong with the code but my ability to think laterally is what made it work.

We're getting to the stage where you can just ask them to write code and they will do what you want, and it writes good code. Its up to you to test everything beyond the internal tests it writes.

I knew this was possible, i asked chatgpt about a year ago and it said no the latency would be too big of a problem. I spent the best part of a year learning libp2p and was looking for a project to do with it at the time.

"NO AI" needs to be the norm, we should be working on better ways of sharing information and better documentation instead of fighting with computers for substandard results.

It doesn't take a week to learn the async basics.

add async keyword to functions add .await when calling them use tokio in your main function (easy to look up) use the async recursion crate if you need to use recursion but don't want to box everything

There are some bonuses like calling functions in parallel, but there you go.

The attention economy, that is the game - there isn't anything else to it now.

Without attention you're nothing.

All the models ignore specific instructions most of the time.

It requires follow-up instructions to get it to do what you want.

By the time its farted around and you have farted around reprompting it you could have done the change yourself.

Digg is gone again 4 months ago

That and most of the news being behind a paywall, which they can scrape anyway.

The internet archive is my safe haven these days, i can go back and remember the old internet.

This is a brilliant idea for webassembly, implementing the core browser features as libraries - they should do it.

(though i do like the open code nature of the internet even if a lot of the javascript source code is unreadable and/or obfuscated)

Its disheartening to see these crop up after spending 25 years through trial and error learning how to write programming languages.

Please think twice before releasing these, if you're going to do it come up with at least one original idea that nobody else has done before.

Why didn't you just call it "bad rust copy"?

And.. how do they not know its their software being leaky and causing these bitflips?

These are potential bitflips.

I found an issue only yesterday in firefox that does not happen in other browsers on specific hardware.

My guess is that the software is riddled with edge-case bugs.