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AI-assisted development is now the norm - 78% of survey respondents currently use AI in software development or plan to in the next two years, up from 64% in 2023. That's strange, measuring developer productivity has always been so easy in the past
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That's strange, measuring developer productivity has always been so easy in the past
They now have the logs of the LLMs
M.D.V. 
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My internal metric is always "Plaid." Not that hard to measure. 
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New paper counts "excess words" that started appearing more often in the post-LLM era. Death to meatbags?
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In modern software development, immutability is a powerful concept. "I can't change, I can't change. But I'm here in my mold."
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Quote: She said, "You're strange, but don't change, and I let her"
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I can't change, I can't change.
Thanks - now I've got Saddam from "South Park - The Movie" singing in my head! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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May I suggest as a replacement “Kyle’s Mom”? 
TTFN - Kent
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After recent updates, Microsoft Photos on Windows 11 takes longer to launch, but Microsoft has a solution. Latest from the rocket surgeons
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Microsoft: I have a few ideas for you. Send me money, and we'll get right on them! We'll make things faster!
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Great, one more thing to slow down Windows startup.
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What do a decompression ans BitBlit have to do to become slow? How much litter do they have to add to their malware?
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Full system takeovers on the cards, for those with enough patience to pull it off Well it is called OPEN SSH
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Well it is called OPEN SSH
and all the eyes are closed (or looking elsewhere) as it seems.
M.D.V.
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But, I was assured that open software solved security problems (that didn't exist on Linux anyway.)
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In a survey conducted earlier this month of firms using AI since early 2022 in the Richmond, Virginia region, 45 per cent said they were automating tasks to reduce staffing and labour costs. Try not to be shocked
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Not all, but many will end having big problems and let see if they survive the next 5 years.
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1790: so what this new machine going to do?
I will allow 1 person to make fabric as fast as 10 people
oh, what will the other 9 people do?
I don't know, but I will pay you 1.2% more
1980s: what do you mean we don't need the lino type machines any more.
Oh we also only need like 1 out of 5 people to do this new machine and get even more newspapers made
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Computer scientists: We've invented a virtual dumbass that is wrong more often than not.
Tech CEOs: Great, let's replace our staff with it!
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Probably says as much about the current staff as it does the CEO, right?
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I'm probably just getting old and crotchety but I am not a fan of this whole AI hype thing.
There are arenas where it's surprisingly useful, but people want to employ it everywhere.
Fortunately, if it's anything like other tech bubbles it will eventually burst and at least some sanity will carry the day.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I don't disagree. I think AI is in it's infancy and the hype is off the charts and ridiculous.
That being said... I'm probably just getting old and crotchety but my opinion of my cow-orkers (to borrow a Scott Adams term) has been plummeting lately. Seems like the average work ethic and IQ have dropped significantly. It's doubtful, but maybe the threat of being replaced by AI will trigger a response.
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In recent times, open-source developers have been met with an uptick in receiving debatable or, in some cases, outright bogus CVE reports filed for their projects without confirmation. Are read-only bugs still bugs?
Posted not so much for this particular incident, but how it seems to be an example of a new attack on projects: file a security report on them. Like swatting, but for code.
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If they can't hack it, better "take it down" by all necessary means, so that people download another one that got hacked
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A modern 8 bit design, built using 1950s thermionic valves that glow and heat the entire room. Feel the burn of power!
Why bother with baseboard heaters? They can't calculate the Fibonacci sequence
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