fuck that shit!

ctrl+z, kill %1

we don’t need ai at all, imho

isn’t that exactly what i said? Betacam (studio) vs betamax (consumer)

betacam was better than vhs, and was used in the broadcasting industry. It was better than vhs.

Betamax, which is the one you’re talking about, is not the same format, and actually equal to or slightly inferior to vhs.

the most important thing then is to make a flashy website, and try to unleash that monstrosity unto the world

mandrake was my first. Good memories

just this weekend my wife and I wanted to have a barbecue. We packed everything, food drink, tools, barbecue set, charcoal, firestarter etc.

Everything except a lighter

so no. Before llms came around, lots of people were hobby programmers. We learned. Sorry to be blunt, but being a hobbyist is not an excuse. The best programmers I know are hobbyists

i haven’t come across many. But i have written a lot.

by “completing it” do you mean having something that seems like it works? Or something that you know works? If it’s the former then you’ve just had the computer do the easy part (creating something) and skipped the actually hard part (making it robust).

Are errors handled properly, is all input being validated? If using https, are you actually verifying certificates? This sort of thing

cryptic != complex. Are they cryptic? yes. Are they complex? not really, if you can understand “one or more” or “zero or more” and some other really simple concepts like “one of these” or “not one of these” or “this is optional”. You could explain these to a child. It’s only because they look cryptic that people think they are complex. Unless you start using backreferences and advanced concepts like those (which are not usually needed in most cases) they are very simple. long != complex

yes, “complex” regexes are quite simple too. Complex regexes are long, not difficult. They appear complex because you have to “inline” everything. They really are not that hard.

does the regex search for what you wanted to? Does it work in all cases? Can I be confident that it will find all instances i care about, or will I still have to comb the code manually?

tests can never prove correctness of code. All they can prove is “the thing hasn’t failed yet”. Proper reasoning is always needed if you want a guarantee.

If you had the llm write the regex for you, I can practically guarantee that you won’t think of, and write tests for, all the edge cases.

yes they can. I regularly do. Regexes aren’t hard to write, their logic is quite simple. They’re hard to read, yes, but they are almost always one-offs (ex, substitutions in nvim).

1% slowdown is pretty bad. You’d still do better just not using it. 19% is huge!

yes, but that doesn’t help if the software refuses to run on modern java

when I need to type a dangerous command, i prepend it with #, so it’s just a comment.

Only when I’m really sure do i go back to the start of the line and remove the #

“i don’t care about that. Hhit was working and now it’s not” - the users