patrickmay

Holding politicians legally accountable for their campaign promises will never happen, but I love the idea.

I must not be a people -- I don't have my browser maximized. I like to be able to see the browser window, Emacs, and a terminal all at once.

Exactly as you put it, but with a date. "I'll get back to you within 3 days." If that's not possible, provide a date for a date: "I'll know by Tuesday when that will be ready."

As the owner of a U.S. based website, I am not sending data anywhere. Some people in the U.K. might request data and download it from my site. I'm not forcing it on them.

> However I think we should be thinking harder about how coding will change as LLMs change the economics of writing code: - If the cost of delivering a feature is ~0, what's the point in spending weeks prioritizing it?

Writing code and delivering a feature are not synonymous. The time spent writing code is often significantly less than the time spent clarifying requirements, designing the solution, adjusting the software architecture as necessary, testing, documenting, and releasing. That effort won't be driven to 0 even if an LLM could be trusted to write perfect code that didn't need human review.

As always, relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2030

No, no, that would be wrong. https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Thermite

They collect data that allows tracking the movement and locations of individuals to a reasonably high degree of fidelity. Governments cannot be trusted to protect this data or to use it legally and responsibly.

And here I was about to post this completely unrelated link: https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Thermite

This is the drawback of teaching some software developers social skills.

/s

Mouths to feed...

Only if you're a meteorologist.

I believe that's Hyrum's Law.

30's hot, 20's pleasing, 10 is not, and 0's freezing.

> JSON parser libraries in general is a black hole of suffering imo.

Sexprs sitting over here, hoping for some love.

> You should anthropomorphize LLMs more.

No, you shouldn't. They hate that.

On the contrary, writing is key to organizing and clarifying one's thoughts. It is an essential part of learning.

"Writing is nature’s way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is." -- Guindon

Son?

It's sometimes called "circular breathing." There are a few versions of an active breathing meditation called Quantum Light Breath (which has nothing to do with either quantum mechanics or light). It's definitely worth trying.

> discombobulates the fat particles

Hey, hey, hold on there Einstein. Enough with the technical jargon!

That seems essentially unreviewable. If you can share without violating an NDA, what kind of PR would involve that many files?

This is a well-written, interesting article. The only issue I have is with this:

> He said, if you tell someone you’re a journalist they’re going to believe you. Your job is to honor their trust.

Sadly, that is no longer true. Today's "journalists" far too often see their job as proselytizing rather than reporting.

Frankly, I'd like lawn darts back.

Or teach people how to point to a different DNS server in an area with laws more amenable to their preferences.

The usual response to this is that if you don't carry with a round in the chamber, you could spend the rest of your life racking the slide.

I regret that I have but one upvote to give to this comment.

Every time someone says "LLMs are good at boilerplate" my immediate response is "Why haven't you abstracted away the boilerplate?"

If what you say is true, we're very lucky no one like that with a massive following has ever gotten into politics in the United States. It would be an ongoing disaster!

How did the garbage code make it in? Are there no code reviews in your process? (Serious question, not trying to be snarky.)

Just how powerful are your . . . . Never mind, I don't want to know.

Two quotes from the article stand out. First, from the X screenshot: "something about the process of writing makes your ideas 10x better". Second from near the beginning: "The most important person to convince is the author."

Design documents are so essential that even after mumble years in the industry, I am amazed when people, including putative "Product Managers" push back on the idea. As Leslie Lamport noted, "Writing is nature's way of telling us how sloppy our thinking is."

For those wanting to learn how to improve the quality of their technical writing, see Write Like an Amazonian: https://medium.com/@apappascs/write-like-an-amazonian-14-tip...