I'm trying to use #Mistral vibe to automate a first review on PR from my students (mainly to see if they follow the style guide). However, the results I obtain _not_ convincing: wrong line number, incorrect comments about missing docstring that are there, propose to add type annotation that already exists...Did anyone manage to get good results?#vibe_coding #llm #code #codereview #github #pr

"Code is a liability (not an asset). Tech bosses don't understand this. They think AI is great because it produces 10,000 times more code than a programmer, but that just means it's producing 10,000 times more liabilities.#Code is a #liability. Code’s capabilities are #assets. The goal of a tech shop is to have code whose capabilities generate more revenue than the costs associated with keeping that code running. …that's the thing: any nontrivial code has to interact with the outside world, and the outside world isn't static, it's dynamic. The outside world busts through the assumptions made by software authors all the time and every time it does, the software needs to be fixed." @pluralistic https://pca.st/episode/ff6c7462-2117-43c9-8b45-8829b0d6e5b2

blog! “Should HTML's code blocks be translated?”I was recently prompted to test my blog's layout when rendered in right-to-left text. Running a website through an automatic translator into a language like Arabic or Hebrew will show you any weird little layout glitches which might occur.But mechanical translation is a bit of an unthinking brute. In this example, I had a… Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/01/should-htmls-blocks-be-translated/⸻#code #HTML #languages

The above blog post was cited in:"Diversifying Open Source: An Open Standards Playbook for Inclusive and Equitable Tech Projects"https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/979-8-8688-0769-5