Mastodawn

I still like programming my own code, but —

I tried some different AI tools to do a CODE-REVIEW, and — I do find them useful for discovering bugs.

I had one of these AI tools do a code-review of something I wrote more than a decade ago, and — it discovered a very rare edge-case bug.

I tried them some other places, and — while it often doesn't find any bugs — when it does find them (bugs), I find that feedback useful.

#AI #AIProgramming #LargeLanguageModels #LLM

Hacker News 4d ago

ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs from Scratch?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03546

#HackerNews #ProgramBench #LanguageModels #AIProgramming #CodeReconstruction #TechInnovation

ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs From Scratch?

Turning ideas into full software projects from scratch has become a popular use case for language models. Agents are being deployed to seed, maintain, and grow codebases over extended periods with minimal human oversight. Such settings require models to make high-level software architecture decisions. However, existing benchmarks measure focused, limited tasks such as fixing a single bug or developing a single, specified feature. We therefore introduce ProgramBench to measure the ability of software engineering agents to develop software holisitically. In ProgramBench, given only a program and its documentation, agents must architect and implement a codebase that matches the reference executable's behavior. End-to-end behavioral tests are generated via agent-driven fuzzing, enabling evaluation without prescribing implementation structure. Our 200 tasks range from compact CLI tools to widely used software such as FFmpeg, SQLite, and the PHP interpreter. We evaluate 9 LMs and find that none fully resolve any task, with the best model passing 95\% of tests on only 3\% of tasks. Models favor monolithic, single-file implementations that diverge sharply from human-written code.

arXiv.org

Technology Apr 24

Most AI coding tools don’t sandbox on Windows (except one)

https://tube.blueben.net/w/epomx9ekHFXk6kyUiKPvot

Most AI coding tools don’t sandbox on Windows (except one)

PeerTube

pgEdge Postgres Apr 8

Postgres Meetup for All: a virtual meetup for #PostgreSQL users no matter where you are 🌏

Coming up next, Dave Page presents "Open-Source Tools for Postgres & AI" 5/12 at 9 AM PDT. He'll be exploring our #OpenSource Agentic AI Toolkit. 🤖

Designed to connect #Postgres to #AI agents in a secure, reliable, and enterprise-ready manner no matter where you deploy.

#aiengineering #aiprogramming #aidev

Open-Source Tools for Postgres & AI, Tue, May 12, 2026, 12:00 PM | Meetup

You don't need a specialised "AI Database" to build world-class agentic workflows. In this session, we explore pgEdge's open-source Agentic AI Toolkit - a suite of componen

Meetup

Hacker News Mar 31

Free AI Coding Skills for Rails

https://www.railsreviews.com/skills

#HackerNews #Free #AICoding #Skills #Rails #AIProgramming #RailsDevelopment

Free AI Coding Skills for Rails — Opinionated Patterns That Work - Julian Rubisch

Free rules and conventions that teach your AI coding agent how to write Rails the right way. 37signals patterns, Phlex components, app scaffolding — install in your terminal, no signup required.

Hacker News Mar 27

Agent-to-Agent Pair Programming

https://axeldelafosse.com/blog/agent-to-agent-pair-programming

#HackerNews #AgentToAgentPairProgramming #PairProgramming #AIProgramming #SoftwareDevelopment #TechInnovation

Agent-to-agent pair programming

What if you could let Claude and Codex work together as pair programmers, talking to each other directly? One of them as the main worker and the other as a reviewer.

JohnMoyer Mar 21

I attempted to prompt the free versoion of Anthropic Claude AI to write a program.

My prompts and the answers by Claude are at https://www.rsok.com/~jrm/rggb2dng/ with software packages to install on Debian Linux. Use at your own risk.

One of the example programs included in the libraw source code is able to produce 4 files suitable for input to this program.
~/src/libraw2021dec18/LibRaw-master/bin/4channels -A -g IMG_1234.CR3

#AIProgramming #Claude #octaveraw #photography #chat #Debian #Linux

Claude

Shared via Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic

Claude

N-gated Hacker News Mar 1

🦍 Behold, the ancient art of "Ape Coding," where humans engage in the primitive ritual of manually typing code on keyboards, instead of letting AI do the heavy lifting. 🤦‍♂️ As AI agents redefine the future of programming, these relics of the past cling to their keyboards, proving that even in tech, some people just can't let go of the 'good old days'. 🦖
https://rsaksida.com/blog/ape-coding/ #ApeCoding #AIProgramming #TechNostalgia #ManualCoding #HackerNews #ngated