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Cake day: March 22nd, 2025

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  • Yes, sometimes it’s the opposite. I guess the issue is simply that AI can’t tell between those two. It’s great a big rewrites because it has such a huge context but it will often try to sneak in some things you didn’t ask for or skip some parts because… no one knows why. Then on other occasions it will add tons of code to fix a bug in some extremely unlikely path. It’s very smart and very stupid at the same time.



  • About 25 years ago there was this ad in TV that went something like “Do you know what car brand was voted best of 2001? Not Mercedes, not Saab, not even BMW. Mitsubishi!”

    To this day I keep thinking how some writer fucked up because all it made me think was that BMW was a great brand. “You’re not going to believe it but they didn’t vote for BMW…”. It should have said “obviously not BMW…”.

    That’s it. I just wanted to share my thoughts on an ad that aired 25 years ago.










  • This whole argument usually goes something like: once upon a time, open source was a pure, objective meritocracy. Code was just a utility. Tools were neutral, like hammers or electricity. But now, the SJWs (there’s always venom in the way they say SJW lmao) are making software political and ruining the careful meritocracy by bringing in things like codes of conduct and bringing attention to problematic individuals within the projects.

    I stopped reading here. Codes of conduct are not code - you don’t compile it and run it on your CPU. I can download and use software and never know anything about it having CoC or not. The code is neutral.

    What’s not neutral is people and the way they organize. People can have agendas and opinions. Don’t join, contribute or donate to projects run by people you don’t agree with. That’s it. The rest of this discussion is just silly.