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Woah
Probably burnt out when they took it to IETF
Ah yeah, expected
What was the reason?
Overall. Although probably biased by the work I've been doing recently. A combination of greenfield work, integration work, and more complicated refactors.
Each time I have used a plan and TDD approach using a cursor agent
I've simultaneously been working less (less active participation from my brain during working hours) while working much more (evenings and weekends).
It's easy to fire a quick prompt before you go to eat dinner, then you quickly review and prompt again, then you clean up dinner and prompt again
I haven't written a single line of code in the past two weeks.
It's definitely helped me so far. But it's also incredibly addictive. I fire off the prompt, wait, review the plan, wait, build the plan, wait, review the code/test, wait for fixes.
Brain will probably explode soon.
I'm pretty deep in the LLM psychosis right now. It started from ADHD induced burnout for a project I really wanted to work on but I just couldn't get past the mental block. I was able to throw cursor at it and make very solid progress.
Now it's also my notes and research assistant.
I suspect the gryoscopic forces of any significant flywheel wouldn't be desirable in a car
Looks at me
I am the terminal now
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Yeah. I think it's pretty neat. It's unfortunately not privacy preserving but that can be potentially resolved with enough fake load
DOMinating your reviewers
What's wrong with negative durations? 👀 I think a signed duration can be useful sometimes
Working on an absolutely cracked project idea involving zero-trust federation, MLS, paxos, @iroh.computer and CRDTs 👀
I hope this works out because the idea is really really cool
"time for lunch"
It's 8pm
Yeah. When I last looked, none of the listed software could reasonably be called slop by current usage of the term
There definitely needs to be an overhaul of the technology and the society, but it's definitely not gonna go away because you make a list of shame.
Social media lowered the bar for misinformation on the internet. LLMs lowered the bar for slop on the internet. But neither inherently cause them
Don't get me wrong. Plenty of LLM produced code is slop. And I hate the companies behind the current wave. I'm definitely staying away from depending on them until we get more access to local hosted models. The incestuous nature of current training is also unlikely to end well.
Calling any LLM assisted development tainted slopware is definitely a take.
I have played around with LLMs in software to help with accessibility (incase I have to stop using a keyboard). It was interesting but I didn't enjoy it, but not because it produced slop.
Slop is purely what you make of it
I'm pretty against using AI in my own software but this latest wave of discourse is very 🍿
It misspelled rust evangelism 😉
What changed?
Sorry for the confusion. I meant "CI is just a build system". Essentially you take a build system, eg bazel, and all your CI does is just run `bazel test`.
CI=build system is great because it means you can always run CI locally. And you can often use remote build/cache servers natively.
At work we use bazel. It's ok. Maybe I'll invest some time into learning it. Alternatively buck2. But definitely not nix.
