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They also introduced a critical security vulnerability into notepad where they just had the markdown links shell execute open link which allowed just installing arbitrary software as long as the link was valid instead of just opening a browser.

If you managed to get the file onto a person’s you could execute it by having the person click on the link.

I got a hot take on this. People are treating AI as a fire and forget tool when they really should be treating it like a junior dev.

Now here’s what I think, it’s a force multiplier. Let’s assume each dev has a profile of…

2x feature progress, 2x tech debt removed 1x tech debt added.

Net tech debt adjusted productivity at 3x

Multiply by AI for 2 you have a 6x engineer

Now for another case, but a common one 1x feature, net tech debt -1.5x = -0.5x comes out as -1x engineer.

The latter engineer will be as fast as the prior in cranking out features without AI but will make the code base worse way faster.

Now imagine that the latter engineer really leans into AI and gets really good at cranking out features, gets commended for it and continues. He’ll end up just creating bad code at an alarming pace until the code becomes brittle and unweildy. This is what I’m guessing is going to happen over the next years. More experienced devs will see a massive benefit but more junior devs will need to be reined in a lot.

Going forward architecture and isolation of concerns will be come more important so we can throw away garbage and rewrite it way faster.

The turtle A’Tuin swims through space, it doesn’t need to stand on anything unlike the world and the elephants.

I came to the same conclusion, Nobara for would have been best.

Steam UI uses chromium embedded framework which saves 50% of the ram and startup time.

Webapps are in general badly written and inefficient.

Good for stability, bad for flexibility for when the homelab grows more complex.

At the start I just wanted a desktop machine that runs Steam through sunshine/moonlight so hardware support and gaming stuff such was very important.

My homelab used to run on my laptop when it could all fit within a couple 100s of GB and I was the only user but moving it was tricky. Since I’m a programmer I’m not afraid of this stuff so I just spent the hours to figure out one problem at a time.

I ended up figuring out adding HDD whitelist in SELinux, make it accessible in podman, manually edit fstab because tools didn’t work, systemd service for startup, logging in automatically where I already forgot everything and would have not had to do any of this on a bog standard Ubuntu server.

I set my homelab up on Bazzite immutable with podman and SELinux. It took a while to work everything out and have it boot up into a valid state hahaha

As much as I don’t like AI I don’t blame him for using it. Opensource is a thankless sector where maintainers put in massive amount of work for nothing in return. If AI is helping him then all the power to him.

That being said we don’t know how AI code generated currently will age. We know how the code 3 years ago ended up being slop of hard to maintain code but modern models are a lot more competent. Maybe he shouldn’t have removed the coauthored by Claude thingy but in the end it’s him using a tool and verifying it’s output.

I used lutris back in the day for playing rocket league and I’d also use it today. I feel we should give this guy the benefit of the doubt for now. If in the future Lutris becomes less stable we should absolutely blame AI but until then I’ll hold off on my judgement.

My coworker added issuer and validate issuer in the same PR

I like the one about eggs and milk.

My wife says “Bring liters of milk, if they have eggs, bring 12” and gets upset when I bring her the 12 liters.

I got another bad one I just made.

A programmer of a fishing app had a rough break-up but all is well because there are plenty of fish in the C.

Java is for kids and C# is for adults because you don’t want the kids to C# edges.

print("I got a funny joke for you, just give me a couple of tries.") 
chars = string.ascii_lowercase + " " 
while true:
    l = random.randint(20, 50)
    print("".join(random.choice(chars) for _ in range(l)))
    print("Ok, the last one maybe wasn't funny but give me one more try")

They drill down to the root of the problem.

He probably assumed it’s an OS based on react js

Depends on how long you’ve been working. After some amount of time like a year or two you can drop it into a conversation when helping a person “oh, I actually use libre office so I’m not sure where MS put that, let me check” and if they want more info they’ll ask. Sometimes they might be surprised that you can actually do this stuff on Linux.

In software as long as its not rushed you can quote something, fix it in 10 minutes and deliver it the next day and people will be amazed you finished it in under a day.

First pick a desktop environment, currently KDE, Gnome and Cinnamon are the best.

• Gnome: Opinionated design like apple
• KDE: tons of options.
• Cinnamon: A bit fewer options than KDE but still a lot.

All of them are very robust and have a massive user base.

Then pick a base to operate on. Fedora, Ubuntu and Mint are all good options.

• Fedora and Ubuntu are good for newer hardware and 99% of the time just works.
• Mint just works all the except for newer hardware.

Nvidia GPUs are not a big issue but you have to install the proprietary driver yourself for best performance and fewest bugs.

My pick for you is something your friend uses if you have a friend on Linux otherwise Fedora KDE or Kubuntu.

It’s not about knowing what stuff to touch, it’s about knowing what not to touch. -Buddha Linux

Or like having to login to a microslop account to use offline tools

Iceland mentioned 🇮🇸