Yeah ironically growing up this was the argument. I closed the toilet lid and my sister was outraged. She eventually went to my mother and asked her to talk to me about the toilet. So my mom brought us together and said “lengau, you need to stop leaving the toilet seat up.” I looked confused and my sister said “no, he keeps closing the lid!”
My mother burst into laughter and told my sister that she should do so as well.
Not sure that’s a good analogy…
Microservices can be useful, but far too many companies take a poorly designed monolith and split it into poorly designed microservices.
I maintain several small open source projects. I sometimes use AI for my own PRs, especially ones that are almost mechanical but not quite. A great use for AI is “fix the new listing issues from this litter update.”
I’ve been getting a moderate amount of AI slop PRs recently, though it has also coincided with a similar increase in PRs that are probably written by (or an least partially written by) AI but are actually useful. The ones I’d call “AI slop” tend to be huge, change a lot of tests, and may or may not even achieve their goal. A recent AI-written PR I got from an external first-time contributor fixed a bug by refactoring some code into a function, ending up with 4 calls to that function, of which 3 of the previous implementations had been correct and one had missed a step back in 2021. Net code added? 1 line, and only because it added a test.
The main problem is how much time I end up spending on these slop PRs. It can take a while to even describe why you’re rejecting the change, though ironically AI has made this easier too.
I do not believe that they are doing a proper clean room implementation, but I do think it’s possible to do with an LLM.
Let’s say for the sake of argument that the model used on the clean room side is a fully self-hosted version of Nemotron. One of the characteristics of Nemotron is that it’s not just an open weight model, but from my understanding the training set is open, too. So, at least in theory, Nemotron can be proven to be free of any of Adobe’s intellectual property.
Because they’re a popular distro from a comparatively small company, so people who want to attack things rather than build things see them as an easy target?
Ive done a few of those, but they were all preparatory refractors, pulling out bits of code to turn them into standalone functions that are only used once because my next PR uses them, and then adding unit tests for those new functions. -100 or so lines of code, +300 or so when you take into account the new docstrings, etc.
(The secret to doing these preparatory refractors is to actually do them after writing the “next” PR so you’re not unnecessarily refactoring stuff you’re going to touch.)
Dat hourglass figure
So it doesn’t count as coding “from scratch” if you already know the language?
I don’t understand. That’s compatible with all my devices.
Most of the coffee shops in my city were closed yesterday. Only the big corporate ones were open, and they were pretty empty.
No you didn’t. I saw on TV that everyone in McKinney is dead.
“Don’t even bother looting up there” slayed me.
Depends which 120
Neither of them have anything left to lose so it’s fine.
No matter how niche the topic, there will always be at least one person willing to gatekeep it.
“Tech company creates keylogger, promises it’s not for logging keys”
Also like… If you’re gonna splatter all over your own bathroom, please clean it before you have guests.
Signed,
A person with a filthy bathroom BUT AT LEAST IT DOESN’T HAVE GROSS SHIT ALL OVER