Remember: if you're using AI/LLMs to help with software development, you need to take the cons along with the pros #FFSClaude
Matt Lacey
@mrlacey.bsky.social
Writer of code and words. Military husband. Clergy spouse.
I'm starting to see YouTubers (who have been around a long time and so definitely didn't start as AI) but are beginning to sound like it.
Will there be a point when the weather forecast stops describing the warmest temperatures as "the best"?
Today I went past Venn House. Do you think their garden overlaps with their neighbour's garden?
How long before describing a new technological/software product as "modern" becomes widely understood to mean "vibe coded"?
I hardly ever check my blog stats any more. Looks like I missed crossing a milestone at the start of last month
Eek. Using Claude to help me understand the options when building a custom pc. It feels both helpful and risky. How much do I trust that it's correct???
I need a new windows dev box. Any thoughts, suggestions, or recommendations?
Why does clicking the "Join" button for a meeting still require clicking several more buttons before actually being able to join
At some point early this morning I passed 3.5 million views on my blog. Not bad as I only write it for me. Surprisingly, views have gone up in recent months, which counters the expectation that AI answers are replacing all web search traffic
is CoPilot messing with me? Is alphabetical order harder than maths and counting letters in a word? #ai
I'm going to my first Hackathon in a couple of years next week. Today I've watched some project demos from a recent Hackathon. They had 10 mins each and just gave a really bad presentation. I'm looking forward to giving a 90sec summary of what I do next weekend
Ooh, just found some early POC videos from a project two and a bit years ago. Some of that functionality still isn't in the released product. There's probably a reason I'm not a Product manager/owner...yet!
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TIL: GitHub lets organizations prevent accounts accessing some data via API that those users can get via the UI. I can see how that might be useful or necessary but it also stops some of my automated tools from working with some repos.
I wish there was an easy way to reclaim disk space taken up by old, unneeded NuGet packages. Does anyone have a better solution than deleting them all and redownloading them again when needed?
Congrats to all involved. (especially Michael) I never imagined I'd be considered a 4-time hall of famer in anything.
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The next incremental improvement I'd like to see in LLM software creation is models based on quality over quantity. That it generates code that is insecure or inefficient or unnecessarily complex or doesn't test the thing it claims to test hurts everyone, regardless of experience or level of "vibe".
I asked Microsoft Copilot a question in the desktop app but when it tries to display the response it generated it causes the app to crash. Repeatedly. Even in different machines. Fortunately, I can view the response in a browser ok.
You started "this is more of a comment than a question" But you actually made an unjustified and unsubstantiated statement of you opinion.
Is [new] 'sample code' more for people or for LLMs to use as training data? Does it matter? What differences are useful or needed for these different audiences? #ThinkingOutLoud
Grrr. I wanted to try something out. I assumed "even if it doesn't work it'll make a good blog post" I assumed wrong. The blog post would just be complaining about how hard something that should be simple is and how Copilot couldn't help. Not blogging it to avoid upsetting people. :/
If you needed another reason to get off Windows 10, how about app launch performance--specifically for apps built with WPF Surprisingly, running on ARM isn't a guaranteed way to ensure that everything is faster. (But, ARM-based devices do have other benefits)
