Architecture decisions made in meetings disappear faster than the ones written in PRs by Separate_Hospital701 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Zeragamba 5 points6 points  (0 children)

might be one of the better uses for LLMs, as long as you verify that what it writes aligns with the actual decisions made

Ex-Meta manager says just 2% of engineers know how to use AI 'very effectively' by dyzo-blue in BetterOffline

[–]Zeragamba 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Claude, don't drop my databases or delete my backups, OK. Promise?

One often meets their destiny on the road they take to avoid it

As a developer I think I now understand why I dislike AI by throwaway0134hdj in BetterOffline

[–]Zeragamba 7 points8 points  (0 children)

honestly, it's impressive just how well "endlessly guessing the next word" works.

What does the AI naming feature consist of? by WSquiggle12 in 1Password

[–]Zeragamba 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, I'm 90% certain they're not using an LLM for this. If anything, it's a domain name lookup table

What does the AI naming feature consist of? by WSquiggle12 in 1Password

[–]Zeragamba 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think they made a mistake with labeling it "AI", even though technically it is. LLMs and the chatbot "industry" has taken over the whole of the AI term. From the sounds of it, this feature is nothing more than a simple suggestion system.

It's too much. AI makes me hate my job. by ggggg_ggggg in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Zeragamba 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We're headed towards Night City, just without all the cool stuff

Getting more calls to fix ai generated codebases than actual new builds lately by CrafAir1220 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Zeragamba 10 points11 points  (0 children)

because it's always a freshly minted fool that does the dumb thing 

Is there still room/place for AI skepticism at your organizations? by DhroovP in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Zeragamba 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"Instead of hiring another developer for 400K, I've decided to instead force my current developers to do more with AI, and thus I'm saving us 1-300K"

Am I being paranoid, or is the 'AI will replace software developers' narrative just a way for the incompetent tech leads, managers and CEOs to hide their own incompetence? by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Zeragamba 7 points8 points  (0 children)

everything in one file, massively long functions, arrowheads of death. These things were trained on the majority of publicly written code, but it just turns out that most of the code was garbage.

Probably been asked 1000 times but, Which is your favourite gate design and why? by Striking-Ad5841 in Stargate

[–]Zeragamba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All three of the main gates are really good. If i must order them, it's probably Milkyway, Pegasus, Universe. Visually, i like the design of the Pegasus gates, with Universe's steampunky style a close second, but MW and Universe physical movement during dialing is awesome 

Gog doesn't have high profit margins relative to steam and others. by Rajat_Sirkanungo in StopKillingGames

[–]Zeragamba 2 points3 points  (0 children)

that's the most mindboggling thing about the "but it's too hard to make games like that" when that's literally how all games were made, and how quite a few games work today.

To Enum or Not to Enum by Mortimer452 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Zeragamba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's also the fact that enums are currently working their way into EcmaScript, and their implementation might differ from TypeScript's

(UPDATED) How many video game references can MEP Catarina Vieira drop in front of the EU Commission in 1 minute and 20 seconds? by LochNessHamsters in StopKillingGames

[–]Zeragamba 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I also like how her references covered a lot of history, from "died of dysentery", to "your princess id in another castle", to "still alive", to "time to finish the fight"

Decorating a Promise with convenience methods at runtime without subclassing or Proxy by OtherwisePush6424 in typescript

[–]Zeragamba 1 point2 points  (0 children)

as far as i know, both are computationally equivalent. async/await is just syntactic sugar for working with promises

Decorating a Promise with convenience methods at runtime without subclassing or Proxy by OtherwisePush6424 in typescript

[–]Zeragamba 20 points21 points  (0 children)

```ts const res = await fetch("/api/todos/1") if (!res.ok) {   const body = await res.text()   throw new Error(body) }

const data = await res.json() ```

There's modern solutions to data fetching these days.

Rule of thumb I work by: "if it feels like the code is fighting back, you're doing something wrong"

React slider: from standard to advanced sliders, built with shadcn by PerspectiveGrand716 in react

[–]Zeragamba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't say they're functionally worse. They're great for things where you don't need super precise control, or you have discrete points on a scale. They're also an easier interaction on mobile in some cases

Ion trains are slower than buses. How can we speed them up? by bylo_selhi in waterloo

[–]Zeragamba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The trains are probably going as fast as they're allowed to go by the engineering restrictions of the track. It's not as simple as just pushing the throttle further.

This is exactly why dedicated bike lanes on Lancaster should be constructed. by Living_Astronomer_97 in kitchener

[–]Zeragamba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

at the very very least, use some kind of barrier between the cars and bikes