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The problem with QWEN is that it just can't edit files reliably, I had to hack Pi all over to reduce the pain, but still far from perfect...does Gemma 4 strugle on this?

What about just getting work done because you like to code, and not giving a damn about what others think because we will get rich anyways…I wonder why people are always trying to win instead of just having fun.

Elixir + Postgres is the microservices killer...last time I saw VP try to convince a company with this stack to go microservices he was out in less than 6mo

I fight against this by using it mostly on trivial tasks, which require no comprehension at all, also fixing docs and extending tests. It helps me to focus on what I love, and let the boring stuff automated.

For complex tasks, I use it just to help me plan or build a draft (and hacky) pull request, to explore options. Then I rewrite it myself, again leaving the best part to myself.

LLMs made writing code even more fun than it was before, to me. I guess the outcomes only depends on the user. At this point, it's clear that all my peers that can't have fun with it are using it as they use ChatGPT, just throwing a prompt, hoping for the best, and then getting frustrated.

TODO is a pretty clear name. If it's not to be done, then it should be just a regular comment, no need to tag as TODO.

It's just a ~~reduce~~ loop, with an API call to an LLM in the middle, and a data-structure to save the conversation messages and append them in next iterations of the loop. If you wanna get fancy, you can add other API calls, or access to your filesystem. Nothing to go crazy about...

Amount of 4xx, 500, and 2xx of an http application can tell a lot about application anomalies. Other protocols also have their error responses.

I also keep a close eye in the throughput VS response time ratio, specially the 95th percentile of the resp time.

It’s also great to have this same ratio measurement for the DBs you might use.

Those are my go to daily metrics, the rest can be zoomed in their own dashboards after I first check this.