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Magit Is Amazing 9 months ago

I've used it before when I used to use emacs and it's really neat and simple to use but I think lazygit is better. I think of lazygit as the spiritual successor of magit. If you're curious what that looks like you can see a descriptive video on their GitHub.

I Don't Like "AI" 11 months ago

It's not necessary to provide proof that humans are not machines which do nothing but guess the next likely word. But also feeling anything at all is proof of that.

I had the opposite experience. I liked the niceties of Pydantic AI, but had trouble with it that I found difficult to deal with. For example, some of the models wouldn't stream, but the OpenAI models did. It took months to resolve, and well before that I switched to LiteLLM and just hand-rolled the agentic logic stuff. LiteLLM's docs were simple and everything worked as expected. The agentic code is simple enough that I'm not sure what the value-add for some of these libraries is besides adding complexity and the opportunity for more bugs. I'm sure for more complex use cases they can be useful, but for most of the applications I've seen, a simple translation layer like LiteLLM or maybe OpenRouter is more than enough.

I think Simon was being overly charitable by pointing out that there's a chance this exact behavior was unintentional.

It really strains credulity to say that a Musk-owned ai model that answers controversial questions by looking up what his Twitter profile says was completely out of the blue. Unless they are able to somehow show this wasn't built into the training process I don't see anyone taking this model seriously for its intended use, besides maybe the sycophants who badly need to a summary of Elon Musk's tweets.

Lapce Editor 0.3 3 years ago

I haven't made a vscode extension, but I don't agree that neovim extensions are created with any great difficulty. The lua API is easy to use and well documented. There is a huge ecosystem of neovim extensions precisely because it is so easy to get started.

The same way libraries are free: they're actually paid for by taxpayers.

If the internet was invented in America's earlier days, a lot of these information tools would be a public service, similar to libraries, and we'd all be better for it.

I would definitely expect a high correlation between the top software engineering school and software engineering accomplishments, because there's a strong bias. If you want to achieve something in software engineering, most likely you'd want to go to a top school. I think it's the same for West point.

I'm not going to defend mozilla, since I think deciding which organization we hate more is counterproductive. But I will say that as a user of a browser, I don't really care that much what anyone publishes or who they boot from their organization (sounds flippant I know but at the end of the day I just want a browser that works). Brave putting garbage in their browser like crypto mining and redirecting links affects _the product_, which is the only thing I care about. Firefox has made blunders, but nothing like this.

Not to mention that they're based on chromium.

I'm sure it's possible, depending on the kind of application and the tools you use to build it. But xcode won't build your application if you don't link your account. I believe it needs that to "sign" the application with apple.

There may be ways to get around this but I don't of any.

I read that and even downloaded it and tried it, but like the other commenter said, it's just not for me. I don't see any value added compared to just using the docker-compose and docker commands.

I love this developer's other tool, lazygit, which I use every day. And I can see this one is similar quality, even though it doesn't appeal to me personally. Glad it helps some people out though.