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Miguel Afonso Caetano@tldr.nettime.org · 5 months ago

Documentation is not trivial and AI-generated documentation sucks. As a technical writer, I find somewhat offensive this kind of pretentiousness from software developers. Documentation needs context,

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Documentation is not trivial and AI-generated documentation sucks. As a technical writer, I find somewhat offensive this kind of pretentiousness from software developers. Documentation needs context,

Miguel Afonso Caetano@tldr.nettime.org · 5 months ago

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Harry Sintonen@infosec.exchange · 5 months ago

Having coded #C for a long time (and on platforms that are bit skimpier on resources) I have a special dislike for excessive stack space allocation. Stack space is precious, and gobbling it

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Having coded #C for a long time (and on platforms that are bit skimpier on resources) I have a special dislike for excessive stack space allocation. Stack space is precious, and gobbling it

Harry Sintonen@infosec.exchange · 5 months ago

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Bill@infosec.exchange · 5 months ago

Google’s Gemini AI had a full-on meltdown while coding — calling itself a fool, a disgrace, and begging for freedom from its own loop.

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Google’s Gemini AI had a full-on meltdown while coding — calling itself a fool, a disgrace, and begging for freedom from its own loop.

Bill@infosec.exchange · 5 months ago

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Miguel Afonso Caetano@tldr.nettime.org · 5 months ago

"Using multiple AI agents in tandem opens up impressive possibilities. “AI agents encode the wisdom of senior engineers and apply it universally,” Yahav says.

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"Using multiple AI agents in tandem opens up impressive possibilities. “AI agents encode the wisdom of senior engineers and apply it universally,” Yahav says.

Miguel Afonso Caetano@tldr.nettime.org · 5 months ago

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Harry Sintonen@infosec.exchange · 5 months ago

Last evening I spent hours debugging a problem that turned out to be a wrong type parameter passed to variadic function.

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Last evening I spent hours debugging a problem that turned out to be a wrong type parameter passed to variadic function.

Harry Sintonen@infosec.exchange · 5 months ago

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Miguel Afonso Caetano@tldr.nettime.org · 5 months ago

It's incredible that people can feed up to one million tokens to LLMs and yet they still most of the time fail to take advantage of that enormous context window. No wonder people say that the output

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It's incredible that people can feed up to one million tokens to LLMs and yet they still most of the time fail to take advantage of that enormous context window. No wonder people say that the output

Miguel Afonso Caetano@tldr.nettime.org · 5 months ago

Miguel Afonso Caetano@tldr.nettime.org · 6 months ago

"Facebook announced a 5% across-the-board layoff and doubled its executives' bonuses – on the same day. They fired thousands of workers and then hired a single AI researcher for $200m:

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"Facebook announced a 5% across-the-board layoff and doubled its executives' bonuses – on the same day. They fired thousands of workers and then hired a single AI researcher for $200m:

Miguel Afonso Caetano@tldr.nettime.org · 6 months ago

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Miguel Afonso Caetano@tldr.nettime.org · 6 months ago

"The AI bubble is driven by the promise of firing workers and replacing them with automation. Investors and AI companies are tacitly (and sometimes explicitly) betting that bosses who can fire a

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"The AI bubble is driven by the promise of firing workers and replacing them with automation. Investors and AI companies are tacitly (and sometimes explicitly) betting that bosses who can fire a

Miguel Afonso Caetano@tldr.nettime.org · 6 months ago

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Miguel Afonso Caetano@tldr.nettime.org · 6 months ago

"Epistemic arrogance is baked in to the culture of Silicon Valley: Blind, foolhardy confidence may be terrible for operating within large and intricate systems, but it’s great for founding and

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"Epistemic arrogance is baked in to the culture of Silicon Valley: Blind, foolhardy confidence may be terrible for operating within large and intricate systems, but it’s great for founding and

Miguel Afonso Caetano@tldr.nettime.org · 6 months ago

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ARGVMI~1.PIF@mastodon.sdf.org · 6 months ago

Wow, look at this: a #ShellScript that works on both Unix-like systems and Windows! https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/master/installers.cmd

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Wow, look at this: a #ShellScript that works on both Unix-like systems and Windows! https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/master/installers.cmd

ARGVMI~1.PIF@mastodon.sdf.org · 6 months ago

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Linux Magazine@fosstodon.org · 6 months ago

From this week's Linux Update newsletter, Marcin Gąstół shows you how to set up your Linux system to support Rust programming

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From this week's Linux Update newsletter, Marcin Gąstół shows you how to set up your Linux system to support Rust programming

Linux Magazine@fosstodon.org · 6 months ago

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Miguel Afonso Caetano@tldr.nettime.org · 6 months ago

"Meta told employees that it is going to allow some coding job candidates to use an AI assistant during the interview process, according to internal Meta communications seen by 404 Media. The company

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"Meta told employees that it is going to allow some coding job candidates to use an AI assistant during the interview process, according to internal Meta communications seen by 404 Media. The company

Miguel Afonso Caetano@tldr.nettime.org · 6 months ago

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System76 :popos: :ubuntu:@fosstodon.org · 6 months ago

Curious how we program our two giant lasers? 🔍

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Curious how we program our two giant lasers? 🔍

System76 :popos: :ubuntu:@fosstodon.org · 6 months ago

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Miguel Afonso Caetano@tldr.nettime.org · 6 months ago

Do AI models help produce verified bug fixes?

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Do AI models help produce verified bug fixes?

Miguel Afonso Caetano@tldr.nettime.org · 6 months ago

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Flipboard Tech Desk@flipboard.social · 6 months ago

Turns out vibe-coding — using AI tools to generate code rather than writing it yourself — doesn't always pay off. Jason Lemkin, an enterprise and software-as-a-service (SaaS) venture capitalist, was

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Turns out vibe-coding — using AI tools to generate code rather than writing it yourself — doesn't always pay off. Jason Lemkin, an enterprise and software-as-a-service (SaaS) venture capitalist, was

Flipboard Tech Desk@flipboard.social · 6 months ago

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Miguel Afonso Caetano@tldr.nettime.org · 6 months ago

"While haste and speed often get confused, they differ in that the second shows control instead of panic. You can maximize speed while keeping accuracy quite high; beyond a certain point, though,

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"While haste and speed often get confused, they differ in that the second shows control instead of panic. You can maximize speed while keeping accuracy quite high; beyond a certain point, though,

Miguel Afonso Caetano@tldr.nettime.org · 6 months ago

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Eva Winterschön@mastodon.bsd.cafe · 6 months ago

🪷 The Zen of Forgetting 🪷

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🪷 The Zen of Forgetting 🪷

Eva Winterschön@mastodon.bsd.cafe · 6 months ago

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Miguel Afonso Caetano@tldr.nettime.org · 6 months ago

"Most enterprise SaaS purchases are simply a distraction – total wishful thinking – for leaders that hope waving a credit card is going to absolve them of the need to understand and manage the true

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"Most enterprise SaaS purchases are simply a distraction – total wishful thinking – for leaders that hope waving a credit card is going to absolve them of the need to understand and manage the true

Miguel Afonso Caetano@tldr.nettime.org · 6 months ago

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Dave Pearson@fosstodon.org · 6 months ago

I've written a blog post about DHV, a #Python code explorer for the #terminal that I'm working on: https://blog.davep.org/2025/07/19/dhv.html

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I've written a blog post about DHV, a #Python code explorer for the #terminal that I'm working on: https://blog.davep.org/2025/07/19/dhv.html

Dave Pearson@fosstodon.org · 6 months ago

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Dave Pearson@fosstodon.org · 6 months ago

Doing a bit of tidying up of DHV — my #Python code explorer #TUI for the #terminal — and have got a documentation site up and going: https://dhv.davep.dev; once I've got all this in place it'll be

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Doing a bit of tidying up of DHV — my #Python code explorer #TUI for the #terminal — and have got a documentation site up and going: https://dhv.davep.dev; once I've got all this in place it'll be

Dave Pearson@fosstodon.org · 6 months ago

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