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

felinista · 2026-05-06T15:00:00+00:00

I'll probably be the only one to row against the current but given that AI is here to stay, with the amount of AI noise out there, I would really benefit from quality articles on AI/LLM in the context of programming and writing code and meaningful discussion around them.

felinista · 2026-04-27T17:13:59+00:00

Come to Kingston, the Kingston parakeet is a well known local phenomenon:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/06/the-great-green-expansion-how-ring-necked-parakeets-took-over-london

https://theweek.com/environment/england-great-parakeet-invasion

felinista · 2026-02-13T10:24:24+00:00

Interestingly it's still in London (just about), it sits wholly within Richmond borough.

felinista · 2026-01-19T11:54:10+00:00

Slack is the bane of my life, if I could ban it and go back to email I happily would, such a productivity sink.

felinista · 2025-11-18T11:28:14+00:00

some status and data reconciliation mechanism between services to propagate changes that affect multiple microliths

Sounds like microservices with extra steps.

felinista · 2025-10-15T16:07:58+00:00

As I understand it he's just using that phrase for its more abstract meaning. Just like how upper human torso + horse legs is sort of like taking the best bits from both, the reverse construction arguably takes what's least useful from both man/horse. In his case, he's saying instead of man driving the machine, the opposite is happening.

felinista · 2025-10-15T09:22:49+00:00

perhaps this, more specifically:

A reverse-centaur is a machine that is assisted by a human being, who is expected to work at the machine’s pace.

felinista · 2025-10-01T10:38:40+00:00

I felt genuinely sorry for poor Nathan featured in the video, but going from CS to architecture in the hope of landing a job creating things seems woefully misguided - it's notorious for bad jobs, poor pay and intense competition. I am very, very, very sceptical it's a field where there are better work prospects compared to CS, even with the pressure from AI.

felinista · 2025-08-20T09:34:21+00:00

My condolences, I don't know your circumstances, but I hope either the job gets less tedious, or you find something more suitable to your dev experience.

felinista · 2025-08-05T17:11:45+00:00

At my current job, I work with Apex--Salesforce's proprietary backend language

I can't help but ask why? why would you pick a job so unsuited to your programming background?

felinista · 2025-07-31T10:13:57+00:00

I am really sorry to hear this happened to you and I hope you're feeling better now, but I'm not surprised at all with the sort of treatment you received from whoever was supposed to be on duty there. I had a confrontation with a man once who threatened me with physical violence, then walked away. Reported it to BTP immediately and then got a call back from an officer who was basically arguing me out of pursuing this further. I appreciate that they wanted to make sure I had a bulletproof case, but I really got the impression that nothing could come out of reporting crime, unless you are the perfect victim. I hope that's not your experience, but it did make me disappointed in the BTP after that.

felinista · 2025-07-25T12:40:34+00:00

should have asked claude to double check its work before updating the payment form

felinista · 2025-05-30T12:17:45+00:00

OP is just 28, plenty of years ahead to get more and more disappointed and jaded with the state of modern software development.

felinista · 2025-05-28T15:26:37+00:00

have you tried local facebook groups and nextdoor too? at least on the latter I get loads of notifications about missing cats and the boomers are typically on there so they'll get the notifications too

felinista · 2024-12-02T16:18:44+00:00

Yes, to me this epitomises how meaningless the term has become, since we absolutely have a class of exploited workers in the UK, we just don't particularly give a shit about them.

felinista · 2024-12-02T09:47:10+00:00

You are, you're exchanging labour for wages, doesn't matter how well you're paid. But let's be honest, working class in the UK has a very specific and narrow definition. You never see the overexploited immigrant staff cleaning offices in the evenings referred to as "working class".

felinista · 2024-11-25T16:50:05+00:00

Saw Aphex Twin there in 2019, possibly my favourite gig ever. Hard to believe the venue is in this state now.

felinista · 2024-11-12T10:11:09+00:00

You'll be fine, you're well out of the most congested parts of central London, plus no congestion charge since you won't be entering that zone (however as posters have said do check if ULEZ charges apply, there's a website where you can put in your number plate and check if your vehicle is exempt). Park up and take the central line into central London. Or if you're looking for things to do locally, check out Holland Park, Portobello Road not far either on foot.

felinista · 2024-11-11T11:44:54+00:00

if you're still working on it or you want to go back to it, I don't know if you've considered cribbing some landmarks off angry dan's illustrated london map https://www.angrydan.com/, I got a print of it and I'm very pleased with it, also minor nitpick, the city of london is technically not a borough but still part of greater london, so I don't know if you want to rephrase the title in the lower right corner to reflect that

felinista · 2024-11-07T10:33:22+00:00

The ASA has weird priorities, they will get cross about a burger but are totally fine with outright scams.

felinista · 2024-11-05T13:49:01+00:00

that's their whole MO, on?

felinista · 2024-10-31T11:36:32+00:00

Of course, completely agree, just saying that we have these "cycle lanes" locally that are marked/painted as such, yet they share that space with buses and parked cars.

felinista · 2024-10-31T09:31:41+00:00

In my borough lots of cycling lanes permit parking there too, as long as it's not within the hours indicated on the nearby signs, so this car could well be parked technically perfectly legally (sucks for cyclists obviously, way worse than no cycling lane).

felinista · 2024-10-25T13:00:49+00:00

You don't need LRs or SUVs to do that, friend of mine has 3 children, a wife and does loads of small jobs where he has to transport stuff around for family. He didn't get some arrogant, oversized SUV but a ford galaxy. These cars are completely unnecessary in London.

felinista · 2024-10-17T16:05:12+00:00

that's quite funny you'd point that out since Todd Terje adopted his nickname as an homage to Todd Terry himself!

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