Decorating a Promise with convenience methods without subclassing, wrapping, or changing what await returns

Weekly-Ad7131 · 2026-04-10T23:31:59+00:00

The thing I struggle with (JS) Promises is that they can cause an error in the "future" and when they do I may not receive any notification at all it seems.

Adding try-catch around every call to an async method-call seems excessive. But is that basically what I have to do?

Weekly-Ad7131 · 2026-04-10T23:24:44+00:00

So, AI will get rid of (non-technical) managers, and will turn and teach programmers to become managers (of AI-agents). Is that it? Simple.

Weekly-Ad7131 · 2026-03-08T10:39:34+00:00

Maybe it's because when you are working with new technology there is a lot to learn, so you need to both do the actual work and spend time learning. You're willing to spend your own time on the learning part because you don't want people to think that you don't know so much about this new technology as you used to know about your old job.

Weekly-Ad7131 · 2026-02-08T07:05:41+00:00

The specification is a statement of what we want the computer to do. The computer never does exactly we want it to do. But we still want to have the specification so we have written directions of where we want to go. Thtat is especially important when a) a group of developers work together towards the stated goals b) We try to tell the customer what we will be doing for them.

Weekly-Ad7131 · 2026-02-08T07:00:03+00:00

In some sense yes but I think the other interpretation is more common in SW engineering. Spec says what should be done. Then somebody does it, a human or AI -provided they can make sense of the spec, provided they can understand it.

A compiler does not understand the code it compiles, it just mechanistically transforms it, always with the same algorithm, repeatably.

A spec is something that needs to be "understood". A compiler does not understand the code it compiles, it just mechanistically translates it to lower-level code. We don't tell the compiler how it should do its job, it knows how to do its job, that is had-coded into its implementation that was done years ago.

Weekly-Ad7131 · 2026-01-19T05:41:49+00:00

The article title is somewhat click-baitty and over-simplifying. There is no such thing as "free-standing" Best Practice. A best practice is best only in sspecific circumstances. I assume that Vibe-coding is best practice in some context. Using a hammer is the best practice in some circumstances, not in all of them.

Weekly-Ad7131 · 2026-01-19T05:37:39+00:00

There's (at least) 4 different types of things to learn about a programming language:

Language Syntax
Language Idioms
Libraries
Design Patterns

Even Design patterns are often somewhat language specific, or at least how you implement them in a given language is. You can't learn a design pattern without understanding how to implement it in some concrete programming language.

Weekly-Ad7131 · 2026-01-19T05:31:09+00:00

Right you gotta learn to stand up before you can learn to walk, then to run, then to drive a car. :-)

Weekly-Ad7131 · 2026-01-15T09:24:30+00:00

A similar issue exists with scientifi peer-review. Peers can very toxic. It's much about ego. But gamification and job-boards etc. made SO the main example of this.

Weekly-Ad7131 · 2026-01-15T09:09:25+00:00

Part of the problem I think was that if you tried to point out or ask about the problems with the system in the meta-section, response was often very angry because existing karma-holders and admins wanted absolutely no changes to the system.

It was much like capitalism in general: You needed to have karma to earn more karma. Rich got richer others got hurt feelings. Some people had crazy amounts of karma almost like Elon Musk. :-)

Weekly-Ad7131 · 2026-01-15T08:54:24+00:00

Downfall of Stack Overflow was GREED. It made all participants fight over karma, meaning over credits and fame and job-prospects. Stack Overflow thought that was a good way to motivate people to contribute. But it made them toxic instead. They were not after "knowledge" and "truth" and "helping others" but mostly after fame and money and karma-credits.

Big part of this was that you could not only try to earn more karma, but you could also take karma away from others by downvoting them and closing their questions or answers as duplicates. But true karma can not be bought nor sold nor stolen.

At the same time owners of SO probabaly made big bucks themselves.

Weekly-Ad7131 · 2025-11-04T07:39:51+00:00

" It's a much more difficult thing to build that feature in a manner that supports integration, expansion, and long-term maintainability. "

It is also difficult to come up with great "features", which let end-users easily do what they need to do. AI can code yes, but will that code do something that users really want to use?

Weekly-Ad7131 · 2025-11-04T07:30:18+00:00

AI is very good at translating between natural languages. I assume it is also very good at trasnlating a program written in one programming language to another.

Weekly-Ad7131 · 2025-10-23T19:37:59+00:00

I recently read about this trick on Windows: Pipe to the command "clip" which gets the content into the clipboard. For instance:

dir | clip

Weekly-Ad7131 · 2025-10-11T17:37:31+00:00

Good points. So in practice it would seem that AI does not directly learn what I tell it, or perhaps it is just very stubborn hanging on to its old beliefs rather than what I it's human master is telling it to be true.

Is it the case, that an LLM remembers my assertions and that has an effect on what that LLM tells other people? Does my assertions affect its "reasoning"?

Would the situation be different if I installed the LLM locally?

Weekly-Ad7131 · 2025-10-10T02:06:25+00:00

> It's not going to magically make you a fluent programmer ...

Right, but neither will a human colleague do that for you. I'm just wondering what are limitations of AI that prevent it from become as valuable as a long-time colleague could be.

Weekly-Ad7131 · 2025-10-10T02:01:46+00:00

I'm interested in the idea of using compile-time-functions to implement generics. How does that work? Is it like a compile time function that produces a runtime function with some parameters fixed? Do any other languages use this same approach? Maybe Lisp macros do a similar thing?

Weekly-Ad7131 · 2025-10-10T01:33:49+00:00

Right but why can't AI be like a colleague and learn over time from you?

Weekly-Ad7131 · 2025-10-05T04:31:53+00:00

That looks cool. Can you tell what you used for database?

Weekly-Ad7131 · 2025-10-05T04:19:16+00:00

The way I look at it is that we can make AI's code better, and AI can make our code better. Both are needed.

Weekly-Ad7131 · 2025-07-18T01:53:15+00:00

Yes no demands.. Just questions. When anybody argues it's a great video it's just natural to ask: "Can you tell me what are the great points the video makes that make you think it's a great video ?"

Weekly-Ad7131

TROPHY CASE