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mechazawa··on License update: AI derivation prohibited on all my art, lore, stories, comics
That has been the sentement for a while, programming is not considered "creative work" so has no value in their eyes
mechazawa··on Replacing Pull Requests with Delta
coderabbit for example
mechazawa··on Replacing Pull Requests with Delta
Primitive in what way? There are already tools that categorize changes so that they are easier to follow during a review.
mechazawa··on CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3
For me the smoking hall going away was a turning point in the culture at CCC for the worse. Sitting there and smoking weed with random people are some of my favorite memories. It feels less like disneyland for hackers each year
mechazawa··on WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages
blueth is numberwang tho
mechazawa··on I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
that's a pretty bad take away
mechazawa··on Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework
I feel like a lot of the stars for repos like this are from people who are riding the AI hype train and not actually interested in using the software
mechazawa··on The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC
isn't that what protected branches etc are supposed to fix in platforms like GitLab/GitHub/etc? My team has yet to break any important branches
mechazawa··on Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos
Yeah it's pretty meaningless to see the ai label below videos. Lots of obvious AI shorts and videos are unlabeled yet other videos are labeled as fully generated with AI when they are obviously not [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3Pdf8iRw5E

mechazawa··on AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too
even before AI very few developers cared about the actual craft. I'd say only about 3%. For a lot of people it's just a job, no matter if it's a corperate dev or a startup dev.
mechazawa··on OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally
prompt injection has been super easy for ages. Heck I do it sometimes against coworkers who process my review comments using claude. I'll tell claude to edit it's global claude.md file or even dump a key from their env (checking if they are using the correct sandbox) and it'll do it without confirming with their user.
mechazawa··on The End of Programming
> Claude told them

People acting like meat proxies add no value. Claude is also very eager to make conclusions without digging deeper. It has no inherent curiosity or prior knowledge about the codebase asside from what it can see.

mechazawa··on The End of Programming
In my experience they still struggle a lot though. They're great at 1 to 1 translations but they will fight the target language to get there tho. A lot of the rust rewrites I've seen done by AI contain a lot of patterns that any rust dev worth it's salt will scoff at.
mechazawa··on The End of Programming
Sufficiently complex software is something agents still struggle a lot with
mechazawa··on The End of Programming
if you tell it to do a thing it'll try it's best to make you think that it was done. I rarely get good refactors from AI unless I tell it specifically what to do.
mechazawa··on The End of Programming
I don't think we'll be fucked as a profession. That's just SV hype from people living far away from reality
mechazawa··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
That's assuming you have the link to their post. The profile page only shows the last 5 posts (assuming they are showing them in chronological order)
mechazawa··on Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM
I'll give that a try. Hopefully it reduces the text vomit Claude tends to do.

Right now all I have is

> - Give terse and concise answers unless the user asks you to elaborate. Big walls of text are not usefull when trying to communicate.

mechazawa··on Browser De-Slop
> Disables DNS-over-HTTPS

Why though?

mechazawa··on Incident with Github.com
Where I work we're hosting our own gitlab instance and the previous company I worked for hosted their own Bitbucket. For most developers I know it's either a self hosted git platform instance or Github enterprise.
mechazawa··on Phones should have a 'guest lock' feature
I've never had to show proof of insurance here, in the Netherlands, it's linked digitally to your license plate. I don't understand why other countries wouldn't do the same.
mechazawa··on Phones should have a 'guest lock' feature
Why are you handing your phone to police? Why are they even asking for it?
mechazawa··on Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack
iirc does pnpm not allow them by default. But even if we killed them off there would still be a chance of the malware hooking into something else or only working in cli applications.
mechazawa··on Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like?
Agents frequently go off on tangents, make wrong decisions, require feedback etc. Agents have never moved away from being a junior that knows everything about programming but has no idea how to properly apply it.
mechazawa··on The lost joy of music piracy
One of my proudest achievements in that scene was gaining the rank of Elite Torrent Master. I had terabites of music that I was seeding. I built a script that automatically found candidates for transcoding, downloaded them, transcoded them and created a new torrent. It's still up on github and people are still using it for RED afaik. It's been ages though since I've been active in the scene. I stored all of my media on raid0 drives so when that died I kind of just gave up. I don't know who but someone leaked my semi-public books archive on the datahorders subreddit and they hit my disks so hard that they just gave up on life. I still hold a grudge all these years later.
mechazawa··on Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
Yeah same. The structure makes no real sense and when digging into the code it reads like I'm the first human to look at it.
mechazawa··on Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter
Gemini writes pretty shitty code in my experience. We tried it out for a grand total of half a day at work before deciding it wasn't worth our time and switched back to Opus.

ChatGPT writes like it's life depends on it and refuses to correct its own mistakes. It'll figure out a way to write 4k lines for something that could've been done in 500

mechazawa··on Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier
There are plenty of people who are willing to work for the government and the pay is pretty decent. But their stack is often Microsoft based and their IT is located in Apeldoorn.

Who in their right mind would want to travel all the way to Apeldoorn.

A good example of internal development in the government is the police. They have internal development teams.

mechazawa··on Wacli – WhatsApp CLI
For some reason vibe coders with no development background consider him a god. But all he is is a charlitan at best
mechazawa··on Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
I wish it was still just iDeal. The rebranding was done very poorly and the things that they added like accounts are just bad ideas
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