And the answer to why the LLM generated something is usually not a short or easy one, and needs a lot of 'sculpting'

Oh I agree, it's just that the whole conversation around productivity gains often forgets to focus on the reviewing that is necessary, and where assistance is still the same as it used to be, deterministic tooling usually inside IDEs and eyeballs.

It's very difficult though, unless you really 'micromanage' it can be very random in style it writes for example. And why did it take a mutable style now and more immutable yesterday?Unclear. I think it'll take a lot more reviewing from the writer before real review, but then the gains are smaller

Error 403,5 is a new one tbh

The service then also becomes super rushed (or 'only slightly slow' from the POV of the Americans)

Early returns from outer space (in Kotlin) by Alejandro Serrano Mena YouTube video by Devoxx

Nice! My talk at @amsterdam.voxxeddays.com is already out!

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I think there were old c-compilers that tripped up when you didn't have that newline and next stop this was a requirement in all style guides for all languages no matter how useless, for a while at least. Doesn't die off easily.

Feel like this is a great moment for that 'why not both' meme

New article: this one's about the application of Clausewitz's concept of friction to software engineering.

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CSS is DOOMed!

I've build DOOM in CSS and every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms.

cssdoom.wtf

Try it out! But... not every browser can handle it. This is taking the browser to its limit. Chrome has some issues. Safari too. Bugs will be filed.

The reasoning is because it costs more than the face amount in the coin to create the coin, right? I always wonder whether that's relevant, you use that coin several years and it allows for small payments. Is the price when compared to face value then really relevant?

Maybe you are but they're also angling for your co-conspirators, ever considered that?

And also, to your other point, not enough of my peers seemed to care

Problem is made worse by the fact that B2B software gets sold to people who are not its users. Worked for a company who sold B2B software, product was painful to use for me, not even the smallest of error handling was done well, users got used to it cause they didn't have a choice.

True, I can't find the article anymore, and cannot recall the name unfortunately. I did think it was based in EU but that maybe doesn't mean anything

I'm also a bit surprised at this, because I thought during his election campaign his biggest financial backer was rumoured to be deeply invested in military production. Can't recall the name anymore. So I always thought this attitude was for show.

I can assure you that this is not how the 'tech' sector thinks. If you're lucky the AI got tested with a different AI

It indicates the average travel time between Gent and Brussel I think.

I've always found it amazing how musical a howl can be. I once recorded my dog's howl cause it sounded so beautifully undulating.

No but people who cannot recognise complexity anymore, usually because they (just) wrote it and it's currently (maybe) clear to them how it works. Example, large loops that do a lot of different things. LLMs also tend to produce lots of code that tends to get complex -> insensitive to that problem.

I think I agree, but at the same time it's also not the full price, it's already subsidized. Why not 100%, don't know whether there's a good reason except sometimes people hate poor people over here as well

I know that's a touchy subject but most European countries have an identity card for these purposes, where the picture is provided digitally by the government, they just snap you when you pass by town hall. Think I paid 12 euro for mine a year back. Of course then no pure mail in of cards.

Indeed, it got a lot worse when people stopped using the term machine learning and started calling everything AI because there's money in doing that, that's for sure.

Still not totally clear to me how the software industry is so chill with the approach the LLM companies have taken wrt IP. All while sending their own IP to those companies through eg Claude code. What holds them back in training on that code too and likewise leaking it to competitors.

Moh! It looks a lot like Sint Pieters in Gent, even comparing it from my window right now. Admittedly a bit further away

I think I have never seen SintPietersabdij from inside the abbey garden. It is Sint-Pieters seen from the garden isn't it?

Likely smuggling a masterpiece by Von Klump out of the country

Had a similar argument once with somebody who came to the conclusion that Albert Einstein was not a refugee. I think that this might mean the definitions weren't great.

I thought these things didn't 'keep' long, reasonably short shelf life, so is all of that inventory meant for the war in Ukraine then? Don't know a lot about it, but if seems like a lot of grenades.

He always looked happy and carefree. Enjoyed a good, healthy year after his back surgery iirc. I suspect he went without regret. Sorry for your loss, it's always terrible.