There was a time when I worked in an office where I had a door and a 15 minute commute. I preferred that over working at home for the social aspects, but longer commute eating into my free time and and the stress of trying to focus while working in open floor plans make WFH way better than the average office

With music “sounds good” is a sufficient judgment for completeness. With generated code, someone that is an expert has to review it to make sure it does what it’s supposed to, covers edge cases, doesn’t have any security flaws etc. Only an expert is capable, and it is generally faster and produces better quality for the expert to just write the code instead of fixing up what the slot machine dispensed. It’s a cute analogy but all it does is make it obvious that you have no idea what you’re talking about.

I always wonder this as well… I will use tools to help me write some repetitive stuff periodically. Most often I’ll use a regex replace but occasionally I’ll write a little perl or sed or awk. I suspect the boilerplate these people talk about are either this it setting up projects, which I think there are also better tools for

Rules can be more specific than just “allowed to access any address”

Tells you and prompts you to make a rule when an application makes an outbound connection

For the future, it’s a pain in the ass but I think opensnitch is well worth the peace of mind

LOL

Then you’re just wrong. Clean Code directly tells you to make the mistakes the author of the article points out. The absurdity of the examples in the book should be evident enough.

https://github.com/johnousterhout/aposd-vs-clean-code

The problem is that people recommend clean code to junior developers all the time. Clean Code is full of terrible advice and heuristics over critical thinking throughout, and is usually foisted on burgeoning juniors when they don’t know any better.

In other words, you’re correct that adherents of clean code are thinking like junior developers, because that’s what clean code tells you to do.

It seems that way, but they smell awful to me and at best taste neutral

Yeah it increases my work when I’m responsible for quality. The most frustrating is when someone asks me for help because they’re stuck then hits me with a barrage of “chatgpt said xxx” complete nonsense while I’m trying to assess the situation

My company was pushing AI tools aggressively but people embarrassed themselves in chats with managers where I corrected them by actually knowing things enough they let off the gas. I wouldn’t be surprised if they still do to some degree but not with me in the room lol

Yes. And using the LLM to generate then developing the requisite understanding and making it maintainable is slower than just writing it in the first place. And that effect compounds with repetition.

✨ especially this one ✨

These numbers are always shitty napkin math that assumes every pirate would be a paying customer even though a lot of them don’t have the money to even spend as much as they calculate, would just skip jumping through all the hoops they’ve created or don’t even have a legal way to purchase in their country. Completely brazen lies every time

The reason we use it is to tell non-technical management people why implementing a simple feature might take an hour on a fresh project and a week on an old legacy project.

Yes, thank you. It’s really as simple as that

A client recently approached me with the need to measure technical debt.

The writer made the whole essay because saying “just ask your engineers what they need to improve” wouldn’t make him money.

It’s very important. I use KDE. Historically I’ve used xfce and lxde. I want something with sane defaults that will let me tweak things. I very much don’t want something that wants to limit you by pretending you’re on a touch device when you’re on mouse and keyboard, or insists it knows better than you what you want

I think posts about LLM technology itself can be interesting, but random self promoting blogspam from founder types and tech bros about how they’ve found the secret to using “agentic programming” responsibly is the most boring thing imaginable. So yes, if it has to exist please put it somewhere else.

Proton is a combination of technologies. The main ones are wine and dxvk

To paraphrase, “I’m seeing negative effects from using LLMs. For some reason I apparently think simply not using the tool producing negative effects is an option so I’m going to make a bunch of rules that amount to balancing out any supposed productivity gains with more human work and invest in even more slop tools”

Insane