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The finished product alone does not have to be the reward. The reward can still be building a great tool, a great application, etc. With AI we can build it 100x faster, freeing us up to think deeper about our test coverage, our design, our scaling, our observability.

There is no excuse for lazy execution using AI, that is, IMO, equivalent to shoddy software engineering. it's just faster and more accessible now. "AI slop" is just poor execution delivered more quickly.

The onus is still on the human in the drivers seat to deliver quality outcomes.

I enjoy building things. I do not enjoy the act typing out code by hand.

Do you not enjoy coding? I'm not trying to be snarky, just a genuine question

To follow this debate through, to maximize coding enjoyment, shouldn't we be avoiding compilers? They take away a lot of the code we need to write. Frameworks as well?

This is frankly disgusting and I hope you do not deploy this to any children. The classroom is the last place where we should be deploying AI.

Look where smartphones not being used in the classroom got us. Imagine how this would harm us.

Honestly? Why does it matter? This isn’t going away so we can all focus our energy on helping this workflow improve, or just ignoring it.

and everybody clapped

Well, it was for many. MySpace, and then BBM, Facebook, and Twitter were absolutely huge at that time for the folks using them.

Not a cursor shill by any means, I do use it at work but that's because it's what they pay for.

But Cursor has a CLI harness.

I also hate the idea of streaming, but I have been super lazy in the past

I have listened to 44,000 songs on Spotify over the last 13 years. It has brought me a ton of value, but I would love to move back to owning my music as files. I've been getting fancier with managing self-hosted infra at home, especially using AI to help me out.

Maybe I'll get back there, but I also can't imagine only listening to 500 songs!!!!

Framework has always been appealing to me as a Mac competitor

At my job, I would just say they are in the ear of engineering leadership, but are not part of it.

I had to take computer architecture. We made a 4 bit CPU... or maybe it was 8 bit. I can't remember. But it was all in a software breadboard simulator thing. LogicWorks.

why is it asking me to select a model during setup if it supposedly runs on my machine?

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your test environment should not have the credentials to write to prod data. yiiiiikes!

GraphQL and SQL are not comparable or competing technologies. GraphQL is more analogous to a REST API. GraphQL can use SQL under the hood, or you can even hand serve the bytes (tongue in cheek here). It's just an over-the-network protocol to serve data.

a Node.JS server might use SQL directly or call out to a GraphQL API, but I literally don't think it's possible to let client-side JavaScript (safely) call a SQL database server directly.

TIL

My iPhones last at least 3-4 years.

How does this hurt you if your kids don't go there?

ffmpeg but for PDFs

This seems unnecessary if we can run imports from functions, right? This feels like a layer of indirection and a potential source for confusion. Rather than implicitly importing a library when the variable is first used, why don't you just explicitly do it?

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A somewhat common way to delay imports is to move the imports into functions (inline imports), but this practice requires more work to implement and maintain, and can be subverted by a single inadvertent top-level import. Additionally, it obfuscates the full set of dependencies for a module. Analysis of the Python standard library shows that approximately 17% of all imports outside tests (nearly 3500 total imports across 730 files) are already placed inside functions or methods specifically to defer their execution. This demonstrates that developers are already manually implementing lazy imports in performance-sensitive code, but doing so requires scattering imports throughout the codebase and makes the full dependency graph harder to understand at a glance.

I think this is a really weak foundation for this language feature. We don't need it.

The way this is written makes it sound like you think there's an algorithm saying "if bad person: then boost".

The credibility is ranking. The ranking is a function of engagement. The engagement is a function of human nature. Things delightful, shocking, or unusual usually strike that chord. Sprinkle capitalism into the mix and people become professionally delightful, shocking, or unusual.

I don't think the ranking algorithms are the problem here.

To play devil's advocate here, clearly there are hosting costs and maintenance costs beyond a one time mobile app payment 14 years ago.

Kinda sped read the article so apologies if I missed it, but why does the author here feel so entitled to something that clearly the company feels unreasonable to continuously maintain? They're clearly a struggling business, it feels like this author has a personal vendetta against the company and would rather they go out of business than break a 14 year old promise made from an entirely different internet economy era.

I chuckled when I got to the Core and it was a cube

Typo in the article?

Jackson says he now lives in “exile” in Dover, where he goes to the socializes with friends and plays video games.

It sounds like under the new ratings, both would be much closer together. It sounds like the water damage caused by Sandy is not articulated in the current rating system. So Sandy might work out to be a 4 or a 5? Not 100% sure of course, but that is my interpretation of the article.

Incredible achievement. I'd love to read a bit about their communications. I noticed their rowboat had a bunch of solar panels on it.

I already daily drive Safari instead

I'm super excited to try the Cursor CLI https://cursor.com/cli

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