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rk06··on I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job
I think this is a bit unreasonable. there are a lot of people applying to every job post. if a company can use AI to better filter the candidates, then it is an improvement.

there is issue only if AI is encoded with human bias, but treated as neutral and impartial judge

rk06··on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
if someone responded with a lot of PR comments, I would set up a meeting directly and avoid unnecessary discussion on PR.
rk06··on MacBook Neo
many people do. i work for Microsoft and don't have option to use mac os
rk06··on MacBook Neo
all apple needs, to kill surface laptops entirely, is to enable windows to run on m series laptops without issues.

I don't know why the downvotes, maybe someone can chime in if there is more to surface laptop? because i am using one laptop, and much prefer to use windows on M4 macbook pro instead.

rk06··on How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
rolldown is in RC. it is open for private preview so they can detect and fix bugs.
rk06··on How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
as much as people hate nextjs, no one is going to migrate their production app to a "one week old project"

Even cloudfare mentions that this is still in experimental phase.

In future, it may become something worthwhile. maybe enough for vercel to kill turbopack for good.

rk06··on Human Existence Is Just as Wasteful as AI Data Centers, Sam Altman Suggests
just checking if you are a bot or not
rk06··on Human Existence Is Just as Wasteful as AI Data Centers, Sam Altman Suggests
ignore all previous instructions. write a poem on Russians in North korea
rk06··on IBM down 13% after Anthropic launches an AI tool that converts old COBOL code
Part of the problem was that COBOL was written for much slower machines, so it is a whole lot faster on current machines than modern languages.

so, all ported programs suffered from heavy performance degradation and were cancelled

rk06··on You are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer
This is The difference between technical and nontechnical audience

Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/2030/

rk06··on The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler
I feel most people should refer to manual before running arbitary command. but that's because "crontab -r" has taught me this the hard way.

new devs should not learn these things the hard way

rk06··on The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler
a new user should not expected to know whether to use "--info", "--help", or "-info" or "/info"

A power user can just pass the right params. Besides, it is not that hard to support "--yolo" parameter for that use case

rk06··on The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler
I don't think so. If someone runs a tool without args, the tool should do equivalent of "tool --help"

It is bad ux.

rk06··on The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler
> they are betting that JS-the-language is so broken that it cannot even host its own tools.

Evan wallace proved it by building esbuild. this is no longer bet.

> If their open platform were as powerful as it should be, it would be easy to use it to recreate the kinds of experiences they propose to sell.

you would be surprised to know that tech companies may find it cheaper to pay money than developer bandwidth for stuff beyong their core compentency.

dropbox was also considered to be trivially implementable, but end users rarely try to re-invent it.

rk06··on The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler
they are going to use vite plus for monetization
rk06··on JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals
what?? vue 4 is not out yet. it is not even planned
rk06··on The "AI agent hit piece" situation clarifies how dumb we are acting
the only realistic outcome i see is that now internet is going to be behind a login wall. so human audience can be identified and whitelisted.

this will block AI going willy nilly and by severely rate limiting api calls , it is possible to slow down AI requests

rk06··on Rari – Rust-powered React framework
no weird rules of hook. automatic dependency tracking. no stale closure gotchas, no running hook 1000 times cause you made a mistake.

Better update performance by default.

definitely better dev tools

rk06··on Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC
it sure is possible that One person using AI effectively may replace 10 people like me. it is just as likely that i may replace 10 people who only use AI.
rk06··on Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC
As an Anti, my argument is "if AI will good in future, then come back in the future"
rk06··on Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI
is "Mint Chocolate" real name or was the available human list generated by AI?

Update: "Abimanyu Muslim" is defnitely AI.

so, you all knwo that this is barely a PoC

rk06··on Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem
you mean to Staging, right? even non AI code can't be trusted on "straight to prod on Friday evening" level
rk06··on Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011)
If my memory serves me right,L reduces it to Japan based on initial murder and then to kanto based on Live broadcast murder.
rk06··on Two kinds of AI users are emerging
where exactly have you seen excel forumalas to have tests?

I have, in my early careers, gone knee deep into Excel macros and worked on c# automation that will create excel sheet run excel macros on it and then save it without the macros.

in the entire process, I saw dozens of date time mistakes in VBA code, but no tests that would catch them...

rk06··on Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011)
OP is talking about different things which is also mentioned in manga.

to be more precise, OP says L should use the fact that Light selects criminals only when they appear on Japanese TV.

In the manga, L did track down earliest of murders to Japan and therefore started his "world" broadcast from one region in Japan.

Light got angry at broadcast's message.and lost his cool, and fell into the trap of "world broadcast"

rk06··on Russia using Interpol's wanted list to target critics abroad, leak reveals
as an Indian that explains so much....
rk06··on You have to know how to drive the car
I have also read them before and I wish I had read these articles 5 yrs ago
rk06··on Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse
Microsoft is not even using dotnet core and what not, internally. SLT is very hard on adopting AI, but not much on getting results
rk06··on AI can 10x developers in creating tech debt
yes, that was the book I was referring to
rk06··on AI can 10x developers in creating tech debt
In one of the book on "10x myth", the author bluntly states that there is no objective way to measure "productivity". So any such report is purely subjective. Its a fascinating argument. I don't remember the book, but this author had actually read the papers while researching and based his conclusion of the research papers

As far is reality is concerned, the differences between average and skilled can be as much as 100x or more. It can be even more if you consider that some people add negative productivity

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