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You could probably replace LLM with "junior engineer" here as it sounds like you're basically a manager now. The big negative that LLMs have in comparison with junior engineers is that they can't learn and internalise new information based on feedback.

What does SO stand for here? I assumed Significant Other but that doesn’t square with the story as surely you’d just ask

The website doesn't tell me what it does or why it's better. It just wants me to sign-up and provide a bunch of permissions without first selling itself to me.

The landing page should clearly communicate what this does and contrast it with GitHub to make it obvious how it's better.

I guess the little embedded video might show some of this but it's not very clear. I just see someone faffing about and scrolling up and down randomly.

The vowel/diphthong in wear (as in wearing a towel, rhymes with “care”, “there”) and Wear (homophone with weir, rhymes with “steer”, “near”) are not the same in Australian English.

Looking forward to the Steam Chully Bun

A lot of it comes down to differences between “ask” cultures and “guess” cultures, where if something is unknown we in the west may expect the person to ask for clarification, where as other cultures prefer to just guess, because doing _something_, even if it’s incorrect, is seen as better than not doing.

Fair enough but I am a programmer because I like programming. If I wanted to be a product manager I could have made that transition with or without LLMs.

The best part about London weather is that it’s rarely life threatening. No big storms, cyclones, floods or extreme temperatures.

To say it’s pleasant year round is probably a bit of a stretch for most.

It’s an LLM, there was no intention. It’s simply the favoured token given the training set and seed.

Cup of coffee

There is no language that makes it impossible to have any kind of bug ever. The safety languages like Rust offer is around memory, not bad configuration or faulty business logic.

I'm not sure how you mean.

To my understanding, there's less surface area for problems if I have a wrapper over the one or two endpoints some API provides, which I've written and maintain myself, over importing some library that wraps all 100 endpoints the API provides, but which is too large for me to fully audit.

If you aim for 100% coverage of the API you're integrating with, sure. But for most applications you're going to only be touching a small surface area, so you can validate paths you know you'll hit. Most of the time you probably don't need 100% parity, you need Just Enough for your use-case.

If they have a HTTP API using standard authentication methods it's not that difficult to create a simple wrapper. Granted a bit more work if you want to do things like input/output validation too, but there's a trade-off between ownership there and avoiding these kinds of supply-chain attacks.

Node itself is still fine and you can do a lot these days without needing tons of library. No need for axios when we have fetch, there's a built-in test runner and assertion library.

There are some things that kind of suck (working with time - will be fixed by the Temporal API eventually), but you can get a lot done without needing lots of dependencies.

Do you remember the days of “mongodb is web-scale”? It’s that but “spiral is ai-scale”

If you click the “learn more” link it explains it.

You have to click and hold

> Just long press any link

It says right there on the page.

I used to work for Suncorp (~10 years ago) in Brisbane square, pretty sure they are no longer using the building and it’s now a super company.

I’ve not watched Bluey (don't have kids of my own or niblings the right age), but am looking forward to when the time comes, so I can point out places I know.

Like many here, I grew up in Brisbane but moved elsewhere for opportunities etc. Given the cost of everything there these days I doubt I’ll make a permanent move back, but I do get nostalgic seeing the locations and the little details represented so well.

With cursor at least it recognises linter errors and failing tests and attempts to correct its own problems, with varying levels of success

Yup, nice town, friendly people. Bit run down and scruffy, but that’s hardly the fault of the people who live there, rather the economic policies of several decades that destroyed the region’s industry and has failed to encourage growth for a replacement - similar to the USA’s rust belt or similar post-industrial regions in Europe.

Berlin and London are two different places.

Yeah fair enough, there is a lot of bullshit greenwashing and attempts to blame the public for corporations use of plastic, burning fuel, etc.

Green movements can sometimes be their own worst enemy too, letting perfect be the enemy of good and blocking small improvements because they don’t go far enough.

socialism is when you have to provide ID to download porn

> I'm generally against the environmental movements

why is that, may I ask? Always interested to learn about alternative viewpoints.

Which town? I’d be interested in reading about this if you could share some sources please

What’s your source for the labour government’s unpopularity? Not that I necessarily think you’re wrong, it’s just more indifference towards them that I see, more of the same etc.

Yup, along the same lines as the “sharia no go zones” and “get stabbed six ways to Sunday every time you go outside” myths

Do they regularly poll British political parties for popularity in China?