Florian Haas

@xahteiwi
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Humanism, open source, some music, art, and nonsense.

Account is locked; a significant fraction of what I post is followers-only. Got a blank or nonsensical avatar, no visible activity, no pointers to your identity? I'll ignore your follow request. I might choose not to accept it for other reasons, too. 🙂

Sometimes I ask questions here. When I do, I would ask you to please reply with your own thoughts, not an LLM's.

Tröts auf Deutsch derzeit unter @xahteiwi.

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Florian Haas11m ago

I find it appalling that I'd never heard of this woman before today. What a life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Shirley

Steve Shirley - Wikipedia

Show threadFlorian Haas5h ago
What am I missing/misunderstanding?
Show threadFlorian Haas5h ago

To clarify what I mean: the vendor has chosen not to put its software under a copyleft license, which means they have not undertaken a legal obligation to give you source code that matches your binary.

They're also not giving you a means to verify the binary that's in that Google Storage bucket, except using a checksum that is *also* in that bucket. So it would seem like you have no way to tell that the software in the binary has anything to do with the code in the repo.

Show threadFlorian Haas5h ago
... in combination with the fact that https://claude.ai/install.sh installs an opaque binary from a Google Storage bucket and executes it?
Florian Haas5h ago

I seem to glean that most of you who do use GenAI coding assistants appear to prefer Claude, even those of you who work professionally in free and open source software.

How does your organisation look upon this...

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/LICENSE.md

claude-code/LICENSE.md at main · anthropics/claude-code

Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflo...

GitHub
Florian Haas14h ago

Those of you who work in an organisation that makes heavy use of GenAI coding assistants: how did you educate your developers that if they automate sweeping changes to user-facing code, they MUST also automate the corresponding sweeping changes to user-facing documentation?

Or have you identified a strong correlation between embracing GenAI coding assistants and not giving a flying fuck about user-facing docs?

Florian Haas14h ago

Yesterday, I asked an LLM to help me solve a JavaScript issue (I am no expert at JavaScript; far from it).

It got me 90% of the way there. The remaining 10% were a hallucination that rendered the other 90% useless, so I used a completely different approach (suggested by a human on Stack Overflow, found via a Google search with AI results ignored) and now things work the way I want them to.

Florian Haas1d ago
Who's looking forward to the next @bagder talk slide that compares "celestial bodies where curl runs" to "celestial bodies where Outlook fails"?
Florian Haas1d ago

TIL: the athlete in the Apple "1984" commercial and the East German border guard in Elton John's "Nikita" music video from 1985 are the same woman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anya_Major

Anya Major - Wikipedia

Florian Haas1d ago
Glass lids on cookware are just another form of planned obsolescence, aren't they