There’s enough people who drink the koolaid.

I helped this one as guy use an LLM to migrate his test suite to java21. It did help him incorporate some new language features but I don’t see how it made up for my time sitting with him

…… yet to management he saved 20% time. They trust that number despite no actual measurement, and hold it up as efficiency we all need to find.

But certainly if a 20% efficiency gain were real, that would be well worth $100

Unfortunately for me it’s a kpi so I need to figure out how to do something useful with it.

LLM is good for

• temporary scripts like to export data
• boilerplate for new code
• simple or repetitious code like unit tests

But just in time for my performance review, I spent a week ignoring my work to set and tweak rule sets. Now it can be noticeably more useful

• set context so it understands your code better. No more stupid results like switching languages, making up a new test framework, or randomly use a different mocking tool
• create actions. I’m very happy with a code refactoring ruleset I created. It successfully finds refactoring opportunities (matches cyclonatic complexity hotspots) and recommends approaches and is really good at presenting recommendations so I can understand and accept or reject. I tweaked it until it no longer suggests stupid crap, although I really haven’t been able to use much of the code it tries.
• establish workflow. Still in progress but a ruleset to understand how we use our ticketing system, conventions for commit messages , etc. if I can get it to the point of trusting it, it should automate some of the source control actions and work tracking actions

While I also don’t see how it’s productive, it can be useful for certain things, certain steps. But it really seems like you need to have the knowledge in question to help it do a good job.

People underestimate how much handholding it needs. You can tell it to do something and it might but you may not like the results. However with a bit of interaction or setting context, it might. The pretentious are calling it “prompt engineering” but it’s a combination of asking ai questions and modifying your terminology until it does what you want

People also don’t seem to understand ai really puts a premium on evaluation. You don’t see it being written but you own it, so you really need to look through the result in detail to understand whether it’s what you wanted. I see this in code a lot where the LLM produces something but a junior developer doesn’t have the skill to evaluate it before committing to source control

I tried once, and I don’t get it. Maybe I wasn’t fillowing the tradition closely enough? I nice hazy ipa ….

I’m looking at mango wheat beer at the beach and would certainly also enjoy a mango lemonade!

The sitting in the sun at the beach after a long miserable winter beer

I wish, but who has standing to sue? A company can’t be forced to develop a wind farm. This is the regime admitting they can’t legally stop it so they are bribing the company to choose to stop

Tax payers might sue for “waste fraud and abuse” but that never seems to work

Seems like a lot of stories recently about government services quietly resuming after going through the court system. Maybe there’s hope for us yet.

Of course then there’s the offshore wind fiasco. After losing in court, the current administration want to pay $1B for the developer to not develop approved wind farms? How is that anything other than wasting our tax money for personal spite, just to make lives more difficult?

Key west has been a tourist area for a good hundred years. Are you really excusing her that she had no time to move out, nor did the last three generations of her ancestors?

The anticorruption policy where I work requires me to disclose anything more than $50. But I guess there is no morality standard here

I still say he could never win. No one in their right mind would vote for him. Any party that nominated him can only blame themselves for losing. But of course I voted. Always vote.

And he’s been even worse than the unelectable fooli thought he was, so WTF, people. But always vote

Nice. I have those “souvlaki in a pita” ingredients waiting in my fridge but have been putting that off all week

I miss this - when my kids were at home I was always so motivated to do a good job, to find and make new things, to spend extra tine. Cooking was interesting.

Now it’s just me at home and it’s really not a motivation anymore

I wish I could boycott them, but haven’t gone there in years

But seriously, they’re not talking about price segmentation, just a more efficient way to update their prices

Horrible article and worse headline, that trivializes a serious issue.

1. There is no “insolvent”. There really isn’t even the concept
2. There is a serious increase in debt that we ought to do something about (like by cutting the recent tax breaks for wealthy)
3. Social security and Medicare are underfunded, but it’s stupid to add a “75 year liability” to the current year and complain about how big it is. It’s like 80% funded by tax revenue over that 75 years and certainly not due this year

That may be true and is certainly a well known concern …. Yet given the US government’s recent history, I have a hard time believing much of what they say

Cheap Chinese routers as a risk being true doesn’t prevent it from also being true that the current us administration is full of shit and likely more concerned about enriching someone connected to them, or tilt at windmills

And yet your reading comprehension leaves a lot to be desired. If English is your second language, I’m sorry some meaning was lost

Bs. Feel free to be as judgmental as you want, to jump at false scares, to reduce grey issues to black and white, to be unable to distinguish differences in degree

Not at all. I’m a sheltered white dude, oblivious in my security. But it’s important to point out that ignorance is a thing: we should know better but didn’t always.

Using offensive/insulting terms ignorantly may be wrong but it’s not the same as intentionally

All true, but where are the headlines of Chinese companies setting up second and third shifts to crank out as many as possible solar panels and EVs to take advantage of this? Good for their profits == good for our environment