- It sounds stupid but it works. I've seen it. I put Copilot on AI-generated slop PRs and hit refresh until it stops commenting. It's great seeing it take out all the dead code.
- We do this at work and it's amazing.
- Many are just doing SWE for the money.
Their goal is to pass the hot potato to someone else, so they can say in the standup "oh I'm waiting on review" making it not their problem.
- Embedded systems that EEs code for are like this. I have to explicitly opt into processes and objects in Keil RTX. I also get to control memory layout.
Abstraction layers are terrible when you need to understand 100% of the code at all times. Doesn't mean they're not useful.
Heck, the language for just implementing mathematical rules about system behaviour into code exists. It's called Matlab Simulink.
- I would accept this because it'll increase demand for SWEs and prevent us from losing our jobs.
- The original comment said:
> an article that claims AI is oddly not as bad when it comes to generating gobbledegook
Ironically, Coderabbit wants you to believe AI is worse at generating gobbledegook.
- Coderabbit is an LLM code review company so their incentives are the opposite. AI is terrible and you need more AI to review it.
fwiw, I agree. LLM-powered code review is a lifesaver. I don't use Coderabbit but all of my PRs go through Copilot before another human looks at it. It's almost always right.
- I went to a school in downtown Toronto and we had 10 minute breaks every hour in lectures. I also knew a ton of classmates who smoked.
Starting to wonder if the two are correlated.
- Week 1: 64 interns
Week 2: 32 interns
Week 3: 16 interns
Week 4: 8 interns
Week 5: 4 interns
Week 6: 2 interns
Week 7: 1 intern
Week 8: 0.5 interns
Is it possible to make it to the end of the summer without getting sliced in half?
- I'm replying to the comment saying "you need glasses" to say that the best font for people that need glasses is free.
- The most legible font is Atkinson Hyperlegible, which is free and developed by the Braille institute.
https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/
I never see people using it because it's a weird hybrid between serif and sans serif, breaking many traditional design rules.
- The folks with big titles need to determine if the company's technical strategy is cloud-agnostic and whether 1000x growth in Q4 is a legitimate concern.
If Big Title wants to own the schedule impact they can make these demands.
Maybe I'm not read into the secret deal with Microsoft for next quarter that'll require all 3 of these.
- > I find it confusing when Unicode "shadows" of normal letters exist, and those are of course also dangerous in some cases when they can be mis-interpreted for the letter they look more or less exactly like
Isn't this why Unicode normalization exists? This would let you compare Unicode letters and determine if they are canonically equivalent.
- Does Czechia really have 4 million square miles and NaN population?
- I don't understand why anyone would use auto and a trailing return type for their functions. The syntax is annoying and breaks too much precedent.
- Carbon fibre has poor compressive strength and good tensile strength.
That makes it inherently bad at holding pressure from outside in a submarine and good at holding pressure inside a spaceship or airplane.
- Selinux and AppArmor?
Android has it figured out too.
Copilot code review is amazing. I use it all the time.