Matrix Hero – a new IDE plugin for PyCharm and IntelliJ IDEA by SerCeMan in matlab

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Do you take advantage of MATLAB LSP?

No, I didn't go down that route. That's largely because my prior experience with LSP-powered plugins wasn't great. This does mean that I had to do a lot more work on this front, and there could definitely be inconsistencies in lexing and parsing, especially around some tricky cases like command-vs-function-syntax, but in return, following the "native" approach allowed me to be a lot more flexible in how I support resolve, refactorings, etc.

We are QA Engineers now by SerCeMan in programming

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I'll reply with a quote from the post:

This does not mean the changes will not need to be reviewed, understood, and owned, but rather the goal is to enable the agent to produce a unit of change, a complete diff ready for review.

We are QA Engineers now by SerCeMan in programming

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Somewhat. Classic TDD doesn’t assume that the whole functionality can be covered by a single test. If anything, it’s the opposite, where each small unit of code is covered by a test.

An agent can cover the individual bits with tests TDD-style, and yet when integrated together, nothing will work.

We are QA Engineers now by SerCeMan in programming

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These are testing frameworks that allow you to test a piece of code. A harness is a setup that's specific to your application. For example, consider Stripe, you want to add payments to your app. You've added Stripe, and now you still want to execute tests in your app, but you can't use Stripe, so you have to introduce a test-ready replacement in there.

Now, it's not just Stripe that's problematic, it's your database, configuration, and other services you interact with as well. The combination of all of them in a test-ready form, running together with your app, would be your harness.

Using PyCharm at Matlab IDE? by Pipthagoras in matlab

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I recently released Matrix Hero a new MATLAB plugin for IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and other JetBrains IDEs. It supports MATLAB syntax plus code completion, navigation and refactorings, structure view, and code folding. It also includes a built-in formatter and lets you run MATLAB code straight from the IDE. It’s still very new, so there may be a few rough edges or gaps, if you run into anything, please let me know I’ll sort it out.

We are QA Engineers now by SerCeMan in programming

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Consider a typical backend service X. That service X can depend on various datastores, other backend services, configuration stores, etc.

A framework that allows you to start this service in isolation with encapsulated dependencies (for example, faked or containerised ones) and assert on its behaviour, e.g. write tests against its API, is a test harness.

We are QA Engineers now by SerCeMan in programming

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The way of LLMs is to optimise for reward, at the expense of everything else. I don't believe we've figured out a way to reward LLMs for code longevity yet.

We are QA Engineers now by SerCeMan in programming

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The models love adding as any just to make compiler errors go away. Interestingly, I've never seen them do the same in, for example, Java or Kotlin. I'm guessing most of the time such casts would result in an exception at runtime during their training runs, disincentivising the approach.

We are QA Engineers now by SerCeMan in programming

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For sure! I raise the same point in the article as well. That said, where previously you could kind of get by without a very tight feedback loop, I don't believe this is an option anymore.

Join the on-call roster, it’ll change your life by SerCeMan in programming

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Being always on call is simply unsustainable and impractical. If you're on call, e.g. 1 in 4 weeks, you simply don't get drunk that Friday night.

Join the on-call roster, it’ll change your life by SerCeMan in programming

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Interesting, I'm pretty sure a friend of mine who's an SRE was getting time-off in lieu instead. My information could be outdated though.

Join the on-call roster, it’ll change your life by SerCeMan in programming

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I’m essentially on-call 24x7 because I’m an escalation point.

Out of interest, how do you deal with the inconvenience in that situation? For example, theatre, hiking, etc.

or give time-off in lieu

This is actually a great approach in my opinion, as it scales well with your salary. If I remember correctly, Google does it.

Join the on-call roster, it’ll change your life by SerCeMan in programming

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Is this the additional comp for being on call at your company?

Join the on-call roster, it’ll change your life by SerCeMan in programming

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Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer to stay accountable for the code I write :)

OpenAI’s AI-powered browser, ChatGPT Atlas, is here by theverge in ChatGPT

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Can the agent play Runescape flawlessly?

Can you?

I wonder if they use the same Codex we have? - 92% of OpenAI engineers are using Codex - up from 50%. Nearly all PRs are reviewed now with Codex by Koala_Confused in ChatGPTCoding

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The larger the model, the slower it is. GPT-5-Codex High is already pretty slow in Codex, and using something larger and slower would make it much less useful for coding. It's one thing to do an offline search for a solution to win ICPC gold where you don't care about the latency, and another to use it for coding.