As someone whose employer is strongly pushing them to use AI assistants in coding: no. At best, it’s like being tied to a shitty intern that copies code off stack overflow and then blows me up on slack when it magically doesn’t work. I still don’t understand why everyone is so excited about them. The only tasks they can handle competently are tasks I can easily do on my own (and with a lot less re-typing.)

Sure, they’ll grow over the years, but Altman et al are complaining that they’re running out of training data. And even with an unlimited body of training data for future models, we’ll still end up with something about as intelligent as a kid that’s been locked in a windowless room with books their whole life and can either parrot opinions they’ve read or make shit up and hope you believe it. I’ll think we’ll get a series of incompetent products with increasing ability to make wrong shit up on the fly until C-suite moves on to the next shiny bullshit.

That’s not to say we’re not capable of creating a generally-intelligent system on par with or exceeding human intelligence, but I really don’t think LLMs will allow for that.

tl;dr: a lot of woo in the tech community that the linux community isn’t as on board with

RPN Gang unite!

releasing a new kernel, re-written entirely in Golang using Copilot

I just got so mad.

I can’t stop laughing. Did you tell him, or did he just sit there grinding more and more pepper into your lap?

My wife and I went to an Italian restaurant in Vegas a few years ago. The waiter asked if we wanted Parmesan, pulled the tiniest cube of cheese out and held it up like a magician, and then never broke eye contact while he grated it. It was unnerving.

A tuna sandwich?

There it is.

That utter bastard made one side of Lazaretto play backwards: you have to put the needle in the center of the record and it spins out to the edge. First time I tried to listen to it I was very high and it was hell.

“I should make sure my software architecture mirrors our org’s communication structure.”

Conway’s law exists

“Holy shit I am already so good at this.”

I’ve set the gas grill on fire three times now. Once was because I had the dumb idea to put wood chips in a smoker box while I was doing high heat stuff. I pulled the (metal) box off the grill wearing a pair of welding gloves and realized that they only gave me about 3s of protection. Ended up with a cool burn on my finger and steaks that looked like footballs. The other two times were because I said “I’ll clean the grill out after this cook.”

So far I’ve set the Kamado on fire zero times.

I do most things on the command-line and for me, the trick is not having a lot of scripts laying around. If it’s a common action I do a lot (like running the local test bed), I rely on shell history. Beyond that I just start chaining stuff together on the fly. It forces me to keep knowledge of the utilities fresh, and also keeps me from having a ~/bin folder full of outdated crap that almost does what I want.