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Nat Pryce 1d ago

Reginald 1d ago

As we speed-run the history of software engineering via trying to make AI coding reliable, repeatable, robust, and resilient...

We sometimes (re)discover something useful for software engineering in general. Checking architectural decision documents, requirements, constraints, and other artefacts in with the code ensures we have the reason for every fence close at hand when we consider removing it, and we have the history of those reasons alongside the code we wrote according to that history.

Nat Pryce 6d ago

Ketan Joshi 6d ago

Spoke to the Guardian about the idea of quitting LLMs for climate: -“I see this all as very much part of the tactic of trying to embed these systems into society and instil dependency in a fashion similar to the growth of single-use plastics in the 1970s.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Nat Pryce Mar 15

Brianna Townsend Feb 19

from @castpixel on bsky, a free tool for taking a circuit diagram and creating the model for a 3D-Printable mold that you shove copper tape into to create homemade electrically-sound PCB's for dirt cheap with no chemicals, really really really cool

https://castpixel.itch.io/pcb-forge

PCB FORGE by castpixel

3D printable Circuit Boards

itch.io

Nat Pryce Mar 15

𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e Mar 14

the version of me from 2008 would hate me for saying this but i wish all the attention currently applied to language models was instead applied to constraint solvers

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Nat Pryce Mar 13

@jasongorman I think it was when Babbage stopped working to complete his Difference Engine to noodle about designing his Analytical Engine.

Nat Pryce Mar 13

Christine Lemmer-Webber Mar 13

Don't use LLM generated code in your projects yet! If for no other reason than that the legal case law is NOT ESTABLISHED YET.

I know there was the "copyright laundering" thing that went around a lot, but we actually don't know.

You'll see commenters everywhere on the internet say that "the US Supreme Court ruled that AI generated output is in the public domain". That's misinfo: they *declined to take on* a case from a lower court coming to that conclusion. The US Supreme Court hasn't yet ruled.

And this hasn't shaken out in an international setting yet either.

You may be surprised to hear: I actually think it's more dangerous and empowers centralized AI companies even more if it *isn't* the case that AI output is in the public domain (I'll follow up about that), but regardless, right now we just don't know.

But despite that, I'm STILL saying that you're putting yourself in legally dubious territory right now if you include LLM generated code, for now. We don't know yet.

Nat Pryce Mar 13

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Ruth — of systems & design Mar 13

“The Core Laws of the System are simple:
-> Dynamics over Statics: Systems are living things, not fixed diagrams.
-> Separation in Space and Time: Cause and effect are rarely neighbors.
-> The Trap of Local Optimization: Improving one department often destroys the performance of the whole.
-> Structure Drives Behavior: If a problem persists, the system is literally designed to produce it”

Nat Pryce Mar 11

Thayer Mar 11

[EDIT: now sorted thank you SO MUCH!]

Heads up my dudes, my son needs to do work experience this summer and he's a programmer. Nearly 15, can do 3 decent languages, main in Java, been programming since 4. All he wants to do is be a developer. Anyone offer work experience these days? Two weeks in July. London or Dartford way or anywhere in between. Ta! Retoots appreciated!

#workexperience #help

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Nat Pryce Mar 6

@samir what I find amazing about Kubernetes is the terrible developer experience — multiple tools for local testing all official Kubernetes projects, none of them working properly, all with bugs that are automatically closed because the Kubernetes project is understaffed, and yet the biggest tech companies in the world sell Kubernetes as part of their cloud offering. They have no developers to spare to work on making their users jobs easier?