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  • That’s a terrible take and its desperately trying to draw an equivalence where there isn’t one.

    I’d argue that the slop code creates more drudgery with having to constantly babysit the LLM. Never mind a new blog post every week about how your “agentic workflow” from last week is all wrong and you need even more infrastructure to wrangle the LLM. It’s worse than the way the JavaScript ecosystem used to be!

    Reading someone else’s code is challenging, but at least with a person you can ask them questions or debate.

    I guess I’m just someone who finds reviewing someone else’s work tedious, though a necessary part of the job.










  • I’m not going to touch the “Blue Toyota” point. It’s such a weak argument that’s been debated to death and back.

    And I’m someone who does enjoy target shooting (I’m actually rather proud of myself for a bullseye across the rifle range with a rather decent grouping. Sorry if my vocabulary is incorrect… I don’t go often). I have friends who own firearms. All of us are think the debate is overblown and want less guns in Canada. We don’t want to see us become like the USA.

    doesn’t matter if most of his day job before politics was flipping patties

    And yet conservatives were constantly ragging on Trudeau for being “just a drama teacher”. I still hear about it!!

    I do think that people from all backgrounds should be allowed into politics. Frankly, we need more of that! Haha, or maybe some sort of anarcho-syndicalist commune, where people each take it in turn to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.

    I’m also happy to see politicians who can admit to not knowing something. But, then it’s their responsibility to get someone who does know to make informed decisions. Don’t stand there and tell me you don’t understand something, then deliver a speech, which I must assume is uninformed because you just told me three times you don’t understand. I’d respect him a lot more if he said this wasn’t his area and allowed an expert to speak instead. Without that understanding, this comes off as just rabble rousing.










  • I wonder how many of these folks just don’t know about the alternatives. I’ve come across otherwise capable developers who think git and GitHub are the same thing. People come to software from all sorts of backgrounds so I can’t blame anyone for not knowing.

    I also imagine that if people are aware, the activation energy of switching is too high. It’s more than just setting a new remote and pushing. You have to learn the new system, maybe migrate tickets, wrestle with CI, etc. For a hobby project it’s probably easier to shut it down and just go do something else. I also don’t blame them here. There’s more to life than open source, and its amazing people are able to contribute when they can.