I find getting the LLM to either generate or rephrase documentation gives a distinctly worse result than doing it myself. I was in a hurry to document a new API from scratch recently and thought I’d try Copilot, but the results were overly verbose and sometimes inaccurate so I ended up rewriting all of it.

The LLM is best for boilerplate code that is easily predictable and verifiable. Beyond that it’s sometimes good for initial suggestions if you don’t know where to start with a tool, after which you can go to the actual documentation. But you’ll need to do that, because half the time the suggestions use nonexistent APIs and methods.

I have always thought that writing code is the easy part of being a developer. The hard parts are the parts management doesn’t appreciate: clarifying requirements, architecting new systems, translating business goals into something codable, letting egotistical know they’re not making sense without offending them, designing effective testing processes, persuading management to prioritize reducing technical debt, and integrating and maintaining existing systems. Maintenance is a huge part of the job that no one gives you credit for. Oh, and if you ever touch the front end, CSS.

Watts confirmed New Zealand had exited the group after the move was reported by Carbon News.

He said he did not think it would have a significant impact on New Zealand’s international reputation.

Reputation among rich assholes? Because it certainly makes NZ look worse to the rest of us.

We can attend to both. Genocides are important too.

It’s good that so many people want action, but we have to remember some are feckless liberals who desperately want action right up to the moment it starts to inconvenience them. A poll about specific actions and their consequences would be more informative.

Some things are never forgotten.

I ran mine like this for years. Then a few weeks ago I installed Immich so we can browse photos directly from the NAS on our phone. That’s how it will stay. I don’t want it to turn into an application server.

Yeah, and this particular vulnerability is pretty obvious for even a moderately experienced developer. You’d really have to be pasting without thinking to let this one slip by.

That’s the point though: LLMs recycle junk information, including some potentially dangerous information, without any indication of the context. In a regular search of the web or of Stack Overflow, you’d probably see people commenting on how the code is vulnerable, but when you ask an LLM it doesn’t necessarily communicate that while still delivering the code.

Rust’s compiler is more picky than most, but is really impressive in how it explains the errors and advises on how to fix them. It’s a really good feature of Rust.

It usually works, but it takes a few minutes to reprocess the files if your project or solution is big.

In the JetBrains IDEs (which, relatively speaking, I like), I have to use “Invalidate caches and restart” several times a day just to get past all the incorrect error highlighting.

You should refer to Visual Studio by its full title: “Visual Studio (not responding)”.

For personal use? I never do anything that would qualify as “auditing” the code. I might glance at it, but mostly out of curiosity. If I’m contributing then I’ll get to know the code as much as is needed for the thing I’m contributing, but still far from a proper audit. I think the idea that the open-source community is keeping a close eye on each other’s code is a bit of a myth. No one has the time, unless someone has the money to pay for an audit.

I don’t know whether corporations audit the open-source code they use, but in my experience it would be pretty hard to convince the typical executive that this is something worth investing in, like cybersecurity in general. They’d rather wait until disaster strikes then pay more.

The family was presented with a document informing Armstrong that she had been suspended after the school got access to the privately shared message. The school alleges that Armstrong’s post was a “disparaging remark reflecting people at Tennessee Christian.” Referring to the message, the suspension document states, “The comment reflected on the institution, faculty, staff, alumni, and students in the most negative possible way.”

Not to reflect on them in a negative way, but it kinda sounds like they’re a bunch of bible-bashing assholes.

Obsidian’s only downside is that it’s closed source, but this is a big downside for some people.

Yes, Joplin achieves everything this proposal does and more.

I think you accidentally dropped your mic.

I know journalists need to get people’s attention, but I wish all these stories about the closure of one of the USA’s leading science institutions didn’t have to go so hard on the angle of “it’s above a diner that was in Seinfeld.”

Republicans are going to kill so many of us with their absolute dedication to greed and stupidity.

This would also create employment, to which the current regime is also actively hostile.