Hi all. It's been a while since I've asked, but I'm here again asking for you to support your local fediverse instance. I know many instance operators struggle to make ends meet each month, and there does seem to be a downward trend on donations across the board. If you love this place and are in a position to and your instance supports it, please consider supporting them.
Thank you!
Help request. My brother has Stage 4 colorectal cancer.
His life insurance has refused to pay out on a technicality, meaning he and his loved ones cannot afford the mortgage on their home.
I've never asked for anything in return for infosec stuff, but if you have anything spare, please chuck it this direction instead:
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Last night's thought as I'm trying to get to sleep:
Vibe Coding is just a modern-day seance. "Oh great computer spirits, will you guide me to getting this API working?"
i heard there was a secret ooze
that turned four reptiles into dudes
but you don't really care for turtles do ya
they battle crime throughout the night
as splinter taught them how to fight
and from the sewers came a cowabunga
cowabunga, cowabunga
cowabunga, cowa-buuu-ngaaa ~🎵
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Lmao.
@nixCraft had a similarly positive experience recently
i think i had my first truly positive #AI experience... i asked it to write code comments that could be transformed into API documentation for #Fedialgo, and other than the part where it repeatedly and strenuously suggested deleting all the most important parts of the code, it actually did a pretty good job. https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/fedialgo/index.html #activitypub #algorithm #algorithmicFeed #algorithmicTimeline #Fedi #FediTips #FediTools #Fediverse #Feed #FOSS #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #mastohelp #nodejs #nod #opensource #SocialWeb #timeline #TL #vibecoding
I was asked to join forces by someone that was working on a similar idea. Mine is interfacing to a higher resolution device that I have already created a board for so they decided that part would be from my code. Or so I thought, the self proclaimed leader ran it through Gemini to interface it with their code that is being written by Gemini.
Apparently it is not familiar with 3 wire SPI or the particular chip I am working with so it rewrote all the code. Told him it will not work and his reply was it compiles. So I said give it a try when the sensor board I sent to you arrives.
Got back you are right it did not work could you look over what it wrote to see what is wrong?
Nope
In hindsight would not have sent the board or further communication when I found how he did not know to to code and used AI to write .
But you are right it did look impressive.
I recall that, while taking my one COBOL course, I conceived a tactic that almost made my COBOL code elegant, but it still got the job done and just as efficiently. The teacher was impressed and dumbfounded; he'd never seen anyone else construct COBOL that way.
Claude 4 wouldn't have replaced even the me from 42 years ago.
@nixCraft I think the big problem is monolithic spaghetti code. There are probably globals thrown around and implicitly instantiated stuff like crazy.
Stick with the modular code and fix it! If you were to do it as a human, I guarantee you’d break it too, but it would take weeks or months to refactor. Been there.
Use the AI for more than just *one call*… at this point you could just tell it what the problem is and since it already has scanned your code base, betcha it could find and fix the issue.
I have many decades of coding experience and I 100% can do what I do without AI. However, it can be a revelation if you do it right.
But the memes. I get it.
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