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so, they made a device that targets only a handful of people? They should stop letting copilot write their ad copy.

I haven't decided where I land on this idea of pointing llms at mature, human-crafted software projects (again, assuming they are moderately mature projects).

It's clearly a win for 1-man projects and greenfield projects, but maybe not for what's described above ...__yet__.

If it gets too expensive/time-consuming to scrape then it won't happen at scale (as much)?

Fine, we'll even call it "Elons Gambit" if that helps - in exchange for accepting AI in our lives 3 day weekends from here on out ...forever.

Found the "smoking gun"

What next? The trump phone shipping Chinese malware. Unthinkable!

What's a design an LLM would _loathe_?

Greed and spite.

1-3) my free time (too busy using Claude Code)

If your spaceship is broken, you'd still be able to fly back to the moon on your own just like our forefathers did! /s

It feels like the arguments here are very "status quo biased" - Ok, sure - I guess for some shops the code is the source of truth for the org and you really have to be prepared/equipped to deeply reason around the code and these so-called-patterns.

Really it seems to me that the era of "agentic coding" has uncovered some uncomfortable truths. This is purely speculative, but it seems like most shops maintain little-to-no specification documentation for defining the code behavior - the code IS the documentation and that feels dangerous from a software engineering / architectural statdpoint.

Did blender charge you thousands of dollars when you touched it wrong when you tried to learn to use it? /s

This is the way - lightweight build process - host it on your private tailnet to consume the document on whichever device you so choose - tablet, phone - also makes it easier to share with co-colaborstors etc. in a more secure way.

It's so funny, because I was JUST telling a colleague of mine - another librarian - this exact fact about sqlite!

This seems wildly dangerous at best and malware at worst. This should not be as high as it is on HN right now.

I wonder if it's not so much the coding that people don't want to write, but it's more about the weight of all the orchestration, data engineering and research that has to be done (or, understood in the first place) to get anything off the ground these days. It feels off the charts complicated, and of course is now shifting rapidly.

Congrats and guard your sleep hygiene as much as possible (practically impossible advice to follow in most cases).

I went through a really rough period because of the lack of sleep. I noticed that hydration during that period was also challenging, so I wonder if this is related to the brain shrink effect.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323595

The trick is to be on one of the two extremes in terms of skill. Suck harder?

In this economy, it may be sage advice.

When I first started using Claude, one of my fist big projects was tightening up my backups and planning around recovery. It's more or less inevitable if you're opening up permissions wide enough to do this without your explicit OK

As my coworker succinctly put it, "nobody uses Firefox anymore."

I don't know if hundreds of millions of people is exactly, "nobody" but I personally agree that open source software is just going to crush closed source for exactly the reasons we're seeing unfold in front of us; you can audit and correct incorrect behavior for the benefits of all.

Not far ... just the other end of Ohio (SW Ohio from NE Ohio) ... But very much on our own

We're in the same boat. Feels like mostly our society doesn't value having children - it's by and large not a very well supported activity. Even more so if you don't have immediate family to help support you.

S2

I set my dad up with a Linux box as a daily driver for him - he keeps the desktop on , and the roku jellyfin now has a clean proxy into jellyfin over the tailscale network. Giving him a desktop I can remote into was a great decision that paid dividends for him :)

It's funny, but I just encountered this for the first time the other day - feels like I had to do a lot of digging to find out how to do this so that I could add my LUKS key to my TPM... really felt like it took some doing on the HP all-in-one that I was trying to put debian on... maybe because it was debian being debian

I just started looking at the At Protocol for another side project - do you think the protocol will eventually support such privacy settings by default, or is heading in that direction?

Claude, FAIL all tests except for the one that produces a correct output _most_ of the time please."

I feel this in my bones. I had to wait for them to invent LLM agents that could reverse engineer an application to a specification before I could stat to unravel code I inherited.

Adding the agent (and maybe more importantly, the model that review it) actually seems like a very useful signal to me. In fact, it really should become "best practice" for this type of workflow. Transparency is important, and some PMs may want to scrutinize those types of submissions more, or put them into a different pipeline, etc.

<suspicious-Fry-from-Futurama meme />A little too good...