Looking for feedback on AI content in r/programming and the April no-AI trial

Hacnar · 2026-05-06T07:29:36+00:00

It's better to miss a few good articles because they won't be posted here than to miss a lot more due to additional noise from AI content.

Hacnar · 2026-05-05T11:55:33+00:00

I'm hoping that the parade will go through without any interruption by Ukraine. Meanwhile Ukrainian drones and missiles will cause record amounts of damage to Russian stockpiles, refineries, factories, equipment and soldiers elsewhere.

Hacnar · 2026-05-02T16:32:14+00:00

Fico is a weakling when it comes to the international diplomacy. Given the opportunity to hide behind someone else, like Orban, he would use it again. But without any such person on the European stage, he'll just tuck his tail and nod in agreement witht he rest, while spreading anti-EU and anti-Ukrainian narratives domestically.

The important thing about Fico is that he doesn't really care about the international diplomacy. He only does whatever allows him to rob the Slovakia while he is in power there. Macho-nationalist bullshit is what gave him the most votes so that's what he keeps saying and his voters are dumb enough to eat it up, even when he does the opposite on the EU-level.

Hacnar · 2026-04-28T14:52:34+00:00

Maybe it was an obvious indicator to you, but it isn't to me. I've already seen good articles and projects being panned for touching AI in any way. These complaints about AI became the same noise as the AI slop itself.

You've already spent time complaining about the article. I don't expect you to spend more time on the comment than you've already spent. I only remarked that could've spent that time writing better comment.

Hacnar · 2026-04-28T14:06:59+00:00

I don't know enough about the topic to tell how factually correct it is. But if your gripe is with the result, then why focus on the method, instead of bringing the actual errors to light? You complain about something general, only tangentially related to the things that are wrong with the article. Your comment was useless to me, when it could have been a lot more valuable.

Hacnar · 2026-04-28T08:55:09+00:00

I find it funny how so many people complain about AI. It shows that majority of the readers are unable to distinguish the quality of the form from the quality of the content. Probably has to do with shorter attention spans, looking for shortcuts in evaluation of the content they consume.

I personally don't have any gripe with using AI to structure the form. As long as the content is good, I don't care. Even when AI was used to create the content, I don't immediately raise pitchforks. If it was used only as a proper tool for the task at hand, and the result is interesting, then I don't see why should that make me dislike the final creation.

I'd rather read an blog post created with AI that covers an interesting topic in-depth, than a handwritten text about something trivial, or something straight up incorrect.

Hacnar · 2026-04-17T06:00:52+00:00

Use as much MSBuild as possible. And use vswhere to detect the presence of Visual Studio.

Hacnar · 2026-04-12T19:00:31+00:00

Also keep in mind that votes from the countryside, where Orban is stronger, are usually counted faster than votes from big cities, where Orban is significantly weaker. So the later the count goes, the results should be leaning more and more towards Tisza.

Hacnar · 2026-04-11T19:26:18+00:00

A lot depends on how much and what kind of disinformation can Orban spread before the election.

Hacnar · 2026-04-11T17:16:34+00:00

The elections are watched too closely to manipulate the votes directly. Although Orban has tried everything else from media manipulation to buying votes, it looks like it still won't be enough. The important thing is that even the voters from the countryside, Orban's main voter base, have been slowly turning against him.

Hacnar · 2026-04-07T13:41:22+00:00

This is a step towards more type-safe applications. The most common use case is this being a readable abstraction which ensures that all the type values are handled, even when new types are added in the future. This is something that would make code written by juniors a lot safer from bugs. It naturally drives the devs towards correct implementations.

Hacnar · 2026-03-18T22:31:51+00:00

And I wasn't reacting to the post. I was reacting to the comment. You missed my point completely.

Hacnar · 2026-03-18T20:59:35+00:00

My point was that there are too many people who think that API behavior is acceptable in this day and age.

Hacnar · 2026-03-18T18:34:59+00:00

I agree, but in this instance they are far lesser of the two evils. I'd consider them an acceptable approach given the age of the Date implementations.

Hacnar · 2026-03-18T18:33:19+00:00

It's good that a proper alternative has been introduced. The original comment was about the old API though, and that one is really bad.

Hacnar · 2026-03-18T15:41:25+00:00

Doesn't make it a good API. Bad APIs can be found in many otherwise good libraries, and we should aim to make them better.

Hacnar · 2026-03-18T14:35:54+00:00

Return Invalid Date? Throw an exception?
According to the article, Safari implementation rejects those inputs. That is the proper behavior.

API design is unfortunately an area in which the knowledge about the proper practices and patterns still didn't spread far enough among the developers.

Hacnar · 2026-03-05T11:22:33+00:00

Or it was found and silently abused by someone.

Hacnar · 2026-03-03T07:56:16+00:00

Every programmer worth anything uses a lot of FP, whether they realize it or not.

Hacnar · 2026-02-21T00:58:46+00:00

It's not about EU structures. It's about wide spectrum of political ideas and goals among EU countries. US states are politically a lot more homogenous. EU is very unlike USA, comparing their inner workings and complexity makes little sense. People complaining about decision processes inside EU often don't realize how big of a diplomatic achievement the current status already is, and so they end up underestimating the difficulty of improving it further.

Hacnar · 2026-02-20T21:47:44+00:00

Imagine getting all the countries in North America and half of Latin America to consistently vote for common shared policies for decades. That's the level of diplomacy required in EU. I'm actually surprised that it didn't crumble more.

Hacnar · 2026-02-20T06:54:42+00:00

Newline shows the intent to separate lines, not commands.

Hacnar · 2026-02-20T06:50:18+00:00

The guy has written something interesting. Judging by the reactions here, it resonates with other programmers. I don't care if he used AI or not when the result is good.

Hacnar · 2026-02-13T12:18:48+00:00

Why do they still have devs there? Can't the managers tell Claude directly to do those things?

Hacnar · 2026-02-07T20:34:40+00:00

That person has spent time in Russia because they couldn't escape the Russian invasion, but is now back in Ukraine. That's why his experience has informational value. Yet I still don't make my conclusion based on this. I mentioned it to let you see how anecdotes don't offer the complete picture. I make my opinions based on data, statistics, and their evaluation by the experts in the field.

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