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What's 內功?

This seems like a promotional post where DeepMind is advocating a product by Cue. It looks cool, and I'll be very interested in general, but maybe when Google offers the same, I'm not super interested in having another company's agent on my computer.

Not only in tech. This is a common phenomenon. We're not that original.

Does anyone have a link to the conference session?

I'm willing to bet that many start off without any notion of workflows thinking they're not going to need that or not thinking at all, and then add complexity step by step until it's an unimaginable tangled mess.

Maybe OP is a dualist.

Quoting:

In addition, Alphabet has reached an agreement to sell $10 billion of stock to Berkshire Hathaway Inc. in a private placement, comprised of $5 billion in Class A Common Stock at a price of $351.81 per share and $5 billion in Class C Capital Stock at a price of $348.20 per share.

This investment by Berkshire Hathaway adds to the position it has built since Q3 2025.

Yeah, I would not be surprised if this learned behavior is passed on epigenetically. This is almost like gain of function research potentially.

Pretty much anything for which you'd need intelligence of any kind. Questions such as: Do these two paragraphs have the same semantic meaning? Do they have the same sentiment? Do these two methods have the same contract? etc. Not all documents our code and even with code deterministic tools gets you only so far.

AI can do things around semantic analysis that a deterministic diff tool cannot.

I understand and agree with your point though.

Right.

Give incompetent people tokens, and they become 10x better at their incompetence.

I built a more naive version for our team using Copilot and GitHub actions and it works quite well (wish I had metrics too). The team loves it.

The ROI here is so high that I don't mind using the strongest model available for the actual code review. I don't trust Sonnet and such. Just let Opus or GPT 5.5 do the whole thing and pay a bit more for less complexity.

For simple use cases, sure. But when you start to have to build artifacts with different dependency versions, JDK versions, architectures, etc., then this complexity has to be somewhere, and Gradle can do that for you if you know how to wield it.

We are a large enterprise shop with many projects being built on different machines, architectures, technologies, etc. We took the time to become decent in Gradle, and it works great for us.

Gradle is really powerful if you know what you're doing and you take the time and effort to keep your build optimized, sane, and working. I recently built a Gradle plug-in that allows us to build native components on a remote system (z/OS) and integrate these tasks and artifacts with the native Gradle model so that Gradle takes care of caching and parallel task execution. I'm sure this is possible with other build tools as well, though, but the Gradle model fit our use case nicely.

I think any complicated build system will eventually devolve regardless of the build tool if it's not properly maintained; the variability of the required tasks is just too high.

Gradle does seem to be moving fast with regards to Java support in general changes and improvements in the build tool. It takes effort to keep up, but it's worthwhile.

And what about copilot?

I agree. Bet apparently most other people don't.

Going for a walk is a good idea even when there's no outage.

Honestly, I can say the same thing about some of my coworkers.

Sonar and PMD also have the notion of Cognitive Complexity for code.

https://www.sonarsource.com/docs/CognitiveComplexity.pdf

That's what I would say regardless of if I was considering paying or not.

it makes sense to keep track of what model wrote what code to look for patterns, behaviors, etc.

I wish I could use Thunderbird at work now that it has Exchange support . Unfortunately we're mandated to use Microsoft Outlook. Outlook feels like it has completely been forgotten by Microsoft. I don't recall the last time they updated anything meaningful in the product (at least on macOS), it's quite a mess of a product. Wishing Thunderbird all the best it's the competition we need.

As in The Name of the Rose.

I loved it.

Works just fine here on FF on Android.

As opposed to the subpar software quality produced these days by the big tech companies (who even knows if Microsoft Outlook for macOS even has a functional product team), JetBrains have been continuously delivering new features and innovations in their products in ways which make my work and life better and easier.

I have been using JetBrains products since 2003, and it's rare to encounter such a long-term commitment to quality and users in software in the corporate space.

A new IntelliJ quarterly release is still something to be excited about since it solves real problems for developers.

I found this article very interesting.

I would've also appreciated a discussion of how intuition of geometry might apply to chess playing abilities and how it might not be sufficient for playing chess well.

As a side note, I appreciated the small typos as a further signal that this was written by a human.

I miss her.

I really wish PlantUML would just solve this jarring problem.

FAQ says:

  "[...] a source port is just the executable code for the game, you still have to provide your own copy of the game's data.

  So for example, using Quake III: Arena again, the game consists of both an executable and a set of data files (pk3 files, in this case). The download for ioquake3 is an executable that is up to date and has been maintained to work on modern Macs, but you still need to acquire the pk3 files from a legal source, such as an existing installation of the game from disc or Steam or GOG."