pizauth-1.0.11 is out, and ensures it keeps retrying in the face of transitory HTTP errors https://tratt.net/laurie/src/pizauth/
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Laurence Tratt
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Shopify / Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Language Engineering.
Sometimes the best way to predict the future is to wait and see what happens.
One of the interesting consequences of LLMs/agents is that the short-term costs of boilerplate in code have plummeted. An interesting question is whether those costs are simply shunted to the future or whether they are permanently reduced.
It seems that I have been blessed with my first clawdbot (or similar) interactions on one of my repositories. I really hope this sort of noise doesn't end up (a) wasting maintainer's time (b) putting people off trying the underlying technology where it's actually useful.
Max BLoad-store elimination, now with type-based alias analysis (TBAA)
In the futurementary Terminator, I don't remember Skynet starting off with open-source repositories https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/ (I also strongly suggest following the link to the GitHub PR, because it makes much more sense with that as context).
In the past fortnight, 50% of my conversations have seen me say "today's AI cannot do that and we have no idea if and when it will".
In the other 50% I've said "today's AI can do that, really, and you just need to try it".
Our collective calibration is currently very wonky!
Scratched a Rust itch with an experimental new crate `test_stubs`. I have traits with lots of methods. "Proper" code should implement all methods, but test code need not. `test_stubs` means that test code doesn't have to manually create `todo!()` methods.
This has saved me 950LoC in one Rust program alone. Comments welcome -- I definitely consider this experimental right now! https://github.com/ykjit/test_stubs
There's nothing more surprising than an agent, in the middle of doing some useful refactoring, asking if it can run a Python script which solely prints "HI" (yes, in uppercase) to stdout.
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