AOC is a programmer?

“If I need to write boilerplate and learn a new skill, is it really worth it?”

That’s a good question I dont have an answer to. Maybe there are ways to short where you can just hold, but I dont know how. Maybe there’s a way to borrow lots of RAM and GPUs, sell them, then buy them back when the price drops and sell them for cheap back to whom you borrowed. But I dont know who would make that deal.

Please be a nice bubble and pop soon, AI.

Javascript just made it very easy to add libraries. I bet you if it C++ had an ecosystem as easy to use as Javascript, it would be the wildest mess you could imagine. Someone would create a package chock full of generics that sends your credentials to a foreign server during compilation but output a completely fine binary. But making dependency management easy in C++ would kill the elitist allure to the language and we can’t have that now, can we?

That’s a meme response. I can snicker, but it really doesn’t solve anything.

Development should really happen more in containers but I hate devcontainers. It’s very VScode specific and any customizations I made to my shell and environment are wiped away. It has trouble accessing my ssh keys in the agent, and additional tools I installed…

I just wish nix/nixos had a safer solution for it. Maybe even firejail or bwrap or landlock or something.

We laugh about AI deleting all the shit, but every day there’s a new npm package ready to exfiltrate all your data, upload it to a server and encrypt your home. How do you protect yourself against that?

Every month I hope to read an article about some bug name using RISCV in consumer hardware as a flagship chip, but alas, it’s ARM again.

Sure, if you compare it to a thinkpad for 1k. M1 Macbook pros cost how much when they were released? 2.5k? 3k? Of you’re going to get reduced compilation times. But what exactly is it “paying of”? How is the calculation from time to money done?

“I can store so much stuff in my RAM, it’ll pay back in 6 months”. Such a random metric.

I learned to hate the Mac forced upon me for the time I used it, thank you very much. Fuck everything about those boots from the fruit store. Especially in a multi-architecture team, fuck macs.

That explains it, yeah. Companies of that size often aren’t open for change unless it is top down.

Good luck with the fur trapping. Not sure if there’ll be less bugs though ;)

I was told the same at multiple jobs and just asked kindly that they spend the money on a linux compatible laptop. I had arguments to back my statement up too. It worked out.

YMMV

Good luck (if you want to go down this path and haven’t become a farmer yet).

Rght? "I want something shiny to write my code on because it makes me look cool and costs a lot " is not ether sign of seniority.

Why do you think it’s AI?

Tainted and unsigned module it says. Have you tried undoing some of your modifications? They might be the root of your problem.

If they are going chronologically, the 4channers and other right wingers only got their claws into the project in the last week. So hopefully they didn’t cause too much havoc.

No way… Are you serious?

That video showed him saying that it’s good for autocomplete. But speaking from experience testing it on Rust, Python, JS, HTML and CSS, it performed the worst on Rust. It wrote tests well, but sucked at features or refactoring. Whether the problem is between the chair and the screen, I don’t know.

Whether AI will be able to write secure code, I dunno, I haven’t tried. It could be put into the rules to consider security and add tests relating to security or add an adversarial agent that tries to find flaws in the code which can be exploited. That could probably do more than a developer who has no time assigned to care about testing, much less security.

What it does to the IT sector in the long run - who knows…

Agreed. Things are moving so quickly, it’s impossible to predict. There are lots of people on LinkedIn screaming about obsoletion of humans or other bold claims, but to me they are like drunk fortune tellers: tell enough fortunes and one is bound to be right.

You won’t get laid more, that’s for sure!

I tried using AI in my rust project and gave up on letting it write code. It does quite alright in python, but rust is still too niche for it. Imagine trying to write zig or Haskell, it would make a terrible mess of it.

Security is an afterthought in 99.99% of code. AI barely has anything to learn from.