vultour

1,852 karmajoined 11 jaar geleden

comments

3 dagen geledendiscuss

The link talks about more than just SQL injection. SQL injection can be fully mitigated using prepared statements. They were the solution 15 years ago when I was getting started with PHP in high school and it's still applicable today. The fact that SQL injection remains an issue speaks volumes about the general quality of software engineers.

8 dagen geledendiscuss

Do you need a 7-second TikTok summary?

vorige maanddiscuss

The GitHub statistics for the project this website represents are insane. It has a sole author that has averaged approximately 20,000 lines of code every week in the past month. How do you even maintain that alone?

2 maanden geledendiscuss

I’ve never gone through a paid training course that wasn’t a complete waste of time. It’s at the point where people at work know there isn’t even a point in offering these to me. “But why don’t you take the Terraform training?” Because I’m not going to waste my time with a 3-day course where it takes the first day to install and configure Terraform. I can install it on my computer in 5 minutes. I think people usually see these as a paid vacation, but I find them so insufferably boring I’d rather just work.

2 maanden geledendiscuss

I'm going to be honest with you, I never even considered that the pinnacle of enterprise software would have a public issue tracker (do they?). If something doesn't work the way I expect I just accept it and move on.

2 maanden geledendiscuss

No, just relative within the repo. Some repositories just happen to have a very deep folder structure.

2 maanden geledendiscuss

GitLab could be the perfect case study on AI-powered efficiency improvements. I have never interacted with a piece of software that, for every single problem I found, there was an open issue always at least 4-7 years old that was just being shuffled around by managers adding and removing random labels.

Surely with all of these ridiculous developer productivity gains enabled by AI, they should finally be able to fix all of these ancient issues quickly and clean up the backlog.

Nope, “workforce reduction” thanks to AI again. This charade is getting boring.

2 maanden geledendiscuss

My colleague had a problem with commit messages, so now they're all written by AI. I don't know what depth of hell he managed to get the prompt from, but they're all now in the format "Updated /path/to/file: fixed issue in thingamabob", which means they're all at least 200 characters long and half of it is the file path, an absolutely pointless thing to put in a commit message. The best part is that whenever you look at GitLab or GitHub, instead of seeing the commit message next to the file you just see the file name again, then the message is cut off.

2 maanden geledendiscuss

There is simply no chance that LLMs are saving you 30 hours of work a week, especially if they're doing something where you'd have to do the research yourself. Either you're just simply wrong, or you went from understanding the code you were writing to skimming whatever the magic box spits out and either merging it outright or pawning off the effort of review on someone else.

2 maanden geledendiscuss

Are you ashamed of other people finding out you used Claude? I think the co-authored-by bit should not be a setting at all, AI-generated code should be clearly identified.

3 maanden geledendiscuss

I'm sorry but none of this sounds in any way exciting or like a breakthrough. There are ASML machines that hit microscopic tin particles with a laser 50,000 times per second, but it's somehow an achievement we've managed to create a ping pong paddle that's fast enough to hit a ball? Precision robotics have been used in manufacturing for decades.

3 maanden geledendiscuss

Is this a joke? You proclaim your support for a party that proudly posts AI-generated pictures of Obama as a monkey, shits out vitriol-filled messages on literally every holiday, and sends the gestapo to execute American citizens in the streets, and then you demand civil discourse? I'm sorry but that ship has sailed, there is no reason why someone should maintain a civil discussion with you.

4 maanden geledendiscuss

Because if it’s not an LLM it’s not good for the current hype cycle. Calling everything AI makes the line go up.

4 maanden geledendiscuss

These have been popping up on all the TeamPCP compromises lately

4 maanden geledendiscuss

A bunch of AquaSec stuff has been getting compromised since the initial incident at end of February. Apparently in the latest attack they managed to compromise their internal organisation: https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/teampcp-aquasec-com-githu...

4 maanden geledendiscuss

I spend probably thousands of hours in Firefox every year and I don't think I've ever had it crash.

4 maanden geledendiscuss

The comment perfectly exemplifies the kind of person that would work at OpenAI. Government AI drones could be executing citizens in the streets but they’d still find some sort of cope why it’s not a problem. They’ll keep moving the goalposts as long as the money keeps coming.

5 maanden geledendiscuss

Considering the things he is directly responsible for, he might as well be.

5 maanden geledendiscuss

Right, that's why they have massive churches adorned with gold and intricate sculptures. Just because it technically isn't required to pay does not mean that years of brainwashing won't condition you to give your money away. I've only been a few times, but seeing old people queue up to give a sizable part of their pension to the church just made me sad.

5 maanden geledendiscuss

This is such a hilarious out of touch SV techbro comment I can't believe it's real. You're a monkey with a computer that knows how to Google, there's an endless amount of people who can replace you.