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why dmes spacex need an ide?

and it doesn't support NTLM auth afaik! Which is an extra bonus, as I don't remember there being a way to disable it in the windows version

Are the tests testing?

Mostly yes — they were written by Claude/Gemini/ChatGPT, but they've already caught several regressions introduced by the models during later refactors; there’s a fascinating loop in letting one iteration of an LLM audit the next via a static test suite.

WDYM mostly? Did you scrutinize the tests even harder than the code?

crypto mining firms have specialized asics for mining. They are incapable of doing anything else.

I have never had it automate any tedium for me. Because if I didn't write it, I need to scrutinize all of it, but without the benefit of a prebuilt mental model. Reading through tons of similar looking code (because it's supposed to automate boilerplate) looking for subtle mistakes is mind numbingly boring. It's like looking at a wall full of periods in font size 8, and trying to find the one comma.

_Writing_ tons of similar looking code is equally error prone.

Only a complete psycho doesn't copy-paste code when doing something thats 90% repetitive.

Ironically our AI PR review has caught a bunch of those during unrelated commits :D


what i really hate is the "remind me later" buttons. I want to say a plain "no" but the app won't let me. It promises not to respect my decision right there in the popup itself!

GPUs in your average home PC has a longer lifespan. Datacenters run them at full load for very long periods of time. Some datacenters literally burn through hundreds of GPUs a day.

What will happen is that new buzzwords will be invented, and a new fad will take its place. And we will be stuck with the short end of the stick again. You can hope, but shit doesn't really get cheaper for us common folk, ever. :/

I hadn't read that one. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. I loved it

most of today's problem's in this field is because upper management got swindled into thinking that the process doesn't matter, as long as something comes out the other end. Doesn't need to work properly.

But this shitty state of software nowadays is mostly due to only caring about the result and not the process.

To be clear: this existed even before AI, and also led to the proliferation of electron and its ilk.


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