Because long lines are bad for splits and/or vertical monitors. You don’t know the viewport the code will be read in, so keeping to a conservative width is helpful. If things wrap or require scrolling, that’s a lot worse for legibility, whereas having lines limited to 80 has minimal impact on legibility.

I personally format all comments to 80 (using vim’s gw command) and never touch LLMs.

Nope, he’s based as fuck. And I don’t even like Zig that much.

Sweet justice.

Am 35, just started getting into birdwatching. Weird how true this is.

How is this a response to a comment about AGI?

LLMs are not currently, nor ever will be, anything remotely resembling AGI. AGI is still entirely within the realm of science fiction, like teleportation or time travel.

Red flag right there. Devs can and should be able to make tickets.

It doesn’t need nearly as many. AI inference is orders of magnitude more expensive than a single search query (ignoring the fact that Google does it’s own inference with search queries now). And that doesn’t even include training, which is stupidly expensive to do.

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I’m a senior engineer of 10+ years. I do not, nor will I ever, use AI to write code. Fuck that shit. It makes everything worse in countless ways. So much garbage I have to deal with at work now because of it, and it absolutely has made no difference in velocity. I take that back actually, it’s slowed things down because now there’s a lot more “what the fuck is this shit” reviews I have to do now, which just slows everything down. Like just the other day where someone on my team submitted a MR where the AI wrote a pre-commit hook that ran a script to parse the source code of our entire monorepo to scan for occurrences of a few functions to make sure they weren’t used.

I have to deal with so many “ideas” now that no sane person would ever come up with, because they are fucking stupid.

Oh, and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to tell people to remove absolutely useless tests from MRs. It’s almost a joke at this point.

The good news it’s already starting to get way too expensive to keep on like this and management is finally starting to feel the pain, so I doubt it really has much legs left. It always comes down to money, in the end, and this shit isn’t cheap and will only continue to skyrocket in price as the wildly unprofitable AI companies run out of money and need to start showing profitability.

That’s not lying. There’s nothing linguistic about numerical computation.

What, praytell, is this supposed syntax? A curl invocation? Including a link to a CDN resource in an HTML <script> tag?

A URL on the web is not what anyone would call a framework, I’m sorry to say. Is www.google.com a framework? Google programmed the server serving the content at that URL, right? Or what, is it only special URLs that only programmers use? Is your operating system a “framework”? Someone programmed that too, right? How about your coffee maker? That’s also something someone programmed.

Maybe, just maybe, it has a more narrow definition than “someone programmed it so you don’t have to”.

As someone that grew up in a Christian household and wasn’t allowed to listen to non-Christian music, I listened to a LOT of Skillet as a teenager. It was one of the few bands I could listen to that I actually liked. I also liked DC Talk as a kid.

Just because code is open source doesn’t mean shit code can’t be called out. Shit code is shit code.

Don’t worry, cult membership is flexible.

Not sure what you’re trying to say. Are you saying this is a good thing?

Because people want to be free from being bombarded by AI slop.

What are you talking about? What citations?

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