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That's based, too bad I don't write internship reports anymore

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

In the end, LLM coding agents are pretty much like those RPG genies: they will make your wish come true, but careful what you wish for "Me: I want my unit tests to pass Genie: Great, I've commented out all the failing lines"

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Variation on a classic!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

If I could get a super-power it would be to never be to never make off-by-one errors 🫠

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

That's funny because nazis and commies are famous in pop culture for their advanced crazy science

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Trends – Artificial Intelligence by Mary Meeker and Bond Cap (www.bondcap.com) www.bondcap.com/report/tai/0

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

What's for sure is that if AI is credibly going to be able to replace junior web developers at a 5~10 years horizon, niche fields are absolutely safe. LLMs fucking crumble in lots of "offroad" tasks.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Bookmarked for later

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Being 30 starts by complaining that plants give the same signs if they have too much water or too little

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

This HN post is probably the single best text on self-made success

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

There is not enough thanking for that. It's the most magical sci-fi object you can own. You wouldn't download a car? WELL YES I FUCKING WOULD

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

It's a bit annoying how these days if you want to do anything you apparently need a whole-ass Kubernetes cluster. Those "Quick start" tutorials are blowing a bit of proportion

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

pytest-asyncio just hit 1.0, congrats to the team 🎉 That's a very long fucking way from when I started working with asyncio in 2017 and it was barely usable 🥲

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

When you write an abstraction layer which makes it easy to use a quirky low-level system with decades of technical debt in it (currently working on a pure-Python libfuse)

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

If AI is trained on publicly available data from the Internet but we consider it's stolen, then why someone going to read the same data isn't stealing it? Because AI isn't smart enough yet? Because humans can't read enough of it?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Once I got a customer very confused because my health check endpoints returned "418 I'm a teapot" and they didn't seem to know it's a valid HTTP status

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Google in a bold move added Drive notifications to Google Chat. It's not gonna make me use it guys, you're wasting your compute.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Am I the only one that is always unsure of the precedence of await in Python?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments