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Reposted Glyph (@glyph@mastodon.social)
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it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive test suite written by somebody else, 5 different models, a megawatt-hour of energy, a swimming pool full of water, and a month of spare time of an extremely senior engineer

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I reached out to the author of this viral Reddit post thinking there might be a story in it. He sent me an employee badge that Gemini flagged as being AI-generated and supporting documents that I suspect were also generated by AI. Be careful out there folks! https://www.reddit.com/r/confession/comments/1q1mzej/im_a_developer_for_a_major_food_delivery_app_the/

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Listened to Cup o' Go | See you next year
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Podcast: Within Reason with Hank GreenPodcast: Within Reason with VsaucePodcast: Acquired: Microsoft Volume IFavorite Cup o' Go episodes of 2025May 17, Episode 110: Thanks, Ian. 🙏 Plus Kevin Hoffman talks about empathy and the joy of logging ⚡May 23, Episode 111: Go gets audited, and Ian Lance...

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I've blown the dust off my NAS and am upgrading it from Debian 10 (Buster) to Debian 13 (Trixie) using only an LLM (GPT-4.1 via GitHub Copilot) to help me - AMA!

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Reposted rob pike (@robpike.io)
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.