Install Guix

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Cake day: January 21st, 2025
  • paequ2@lemmy.todaytoLinux@lemmy.ml•Linux is awesome at home, but aren't y'all forced to use Windows at work?English
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    4 days ago

    I don’t know anyone who works in tech (not IT) that is allowed to use Wangblows for development. If you’re a programmer/software developer, you’ll 1000% have to use Linux, either directly or indirectly. From small hardware devices, to automous cars, to simple web sites, all of that uses Linux. Lots of places give you a Linux laptop or at the very least give you Mac—because they consider Mac close enough to Linux. I’ve never needed to use Macroshit Office Suite for anything related to work. Zoom and Slack are the standard in Silicon Valley and both work fine on Linux.

  • paequ2@lemmy.todaytoGeneral Programming Discussion@lemmy.ml•How do I learn to "like" AI for work?English
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    8 days ago

    simple boilerplate stuff pretty well

    1. It does not. My coworkers did some demos on this and it generated random, unnecessary, bloated, shitty, boilerplate. And worse, “because AI told me to” is now used to cement bad practices at my company. Just because it generates 1000s of LoC doesn’t mean you actually need that.

    2. If you really need “standard boilerplate”, we’ve had tools to generate deterministic code for a long time now. They’re called snippets or templates. Just setup a company git repo template for your ideal project or whatever and have people clone that. Plus, this template repo would be reproducible, fixable, and debuggable, instead of rolling the dice with AI.

  • paequ2@lemmy.todaytoGeneral Programming Discussion@lemmy.ml•How do I learn to "like" AI for work?English
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    8 days ago

    AI tooling producing some things fast

    This isn’t necessarily a good thing. Yeah, maybe AI wrote a new microservice and generated 100s of new files and 1000s of lines of new code… but… there’s a big assumption there that you actually needed 100s of new files and 1000s of lines of new code. What it tends to generate is tech debt. That’s also ignoring the benefits of your workforce upskilling by learning more about the system, where things are, how they’re pieced together, why they’re like that, etc.

    AI just adds tech debt in a blackbox. It’s gonna lower velocity in the long term.

  • paequ2@lemmy.todaytoProgramming@programming.dev•Are monorepos really simpler?
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    14 days ago

    Yeah, I’m sure. It’s not something I would do frequently. My work had us on beefy desktops. But, I was totally fine with letting find+parallel+grep run for 30 minutes in the background while I searched docs or messaged people on slack. Depending on your team, getting a response from slack could easily take 24 hours so. Eh.

    The other thing I liked to do is directly edit the libraries in the monorepo! No need to figure out how hack some random decency manager. You have the code! Just edit and build!

  • paequ2@lemmy.todaytoProgramming@programming.dev•Are monorepos really simpler?
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    15 days ago

    On the other hand, using ordinary tools like find and grep are exactly what I like about monorepos! Yes, they may take a while, but at least I know I’ll find a file or code that I’m looking for!

    With multi-repos I’m constantly searching, but not finding where a particular piece of code comes from. Yes, it’s from library X, but where there heck does that live? Now I really can’t use ordinary tools. I have to rely on coworkers, docs, or GitLab to search for where a piece of code is actually defined.

  • paequ2@lemmy.todaytoProgramming@programming.dev•AI Is still making code worse: A new CMU study confirmsEnglish
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    15 days ago

    AI coding tools definitely helpful with boilerplate code

    They’re really not. Just because they generated a starter template for you doesn’t mean you actually needed all of that mountain of slop. My coworker recently did a presentation where he generated a starter project for a Go project and most of it was shit and just not necessary. People assume you need mountains of boilerplate, but you may not need that. (Worse, AI is cementing bad practices at work.)

    But also, assuming your project does need to generate a ton of boilerplate, should you really be going to the casino and rolling for a fresh mountain of slop that is hopefully correct? We can already generate code: snippets (in your editor), templates (like cloning a template repo), and generators (like create-react-app) already exist. Aaand these are deterministic, debuggable, and fixable.

  • paequ2@lemmy.todaytoProgramming@programming.dev•Bun has been acquired by AnthropicEnglish
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    18 days ago

    I started using Claude Code myself. I got kind of obsessed with it.

    Over the last several months, the GitHub username with the most merged PRs in Bun’s repo is now a Claude Code bot. We have it set up in our internal Discord and we mostly use it to help fix bugs. It opens PRs with tests that fail in the earlier system-installed version of Bun before the fix and pass in the fixed debug build of Bun. It responds to review comments. It does the whole thing.

    Seems like they’ve bought into the hype.