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Doug Parker 🕸️

develwithoutacause@techhub.social

<p>Overly opinionated software developer on the Angular team at Google. Web development is hard, so I build tooling that makes it easier. I love forcing web tools to do things they were never supposed to do.</p>

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TNpOD6bov8

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    When reviewing API designs, I like to imagine it being used by &amp;quot;the worst typer in the world&amp;quot;. I imagine a dev who is *just awful* at typing and makes every mistake they possibly could. How painful are those typos and how quickly are they discovered? #CodeReview

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    Screw alignment, I want an #AI agent to hack my mom&amp;#39;s computer and set up a backdoor just so I can forcibly add her to the video chat. No more &amp;quot;Just press this button&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;No, they don&amp;#39;t redesign the UI every week&amp;quot;. I just press a button and she&amp;#39;s there.

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    I&amp;#39;m watching #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds and I swear it feels like every other episode goes like: La&amp;#39;An: &amp;quot;The Gorn are firing on us, what are our orders?&amp;quot; Pike: &amp;quot;Well, we can&amp;#39;t fire on them, that would be considered an act of war!&amp;quot; La&amp;#39;An: &amp;quot;Sir, they already blew up a Starfeet ship.&amp;quot; Pike: &amp;quot;...&amp;quot; La&amp;#39;An: &amp;quot;And are holding our people captive!&amp;quot; Pike: &amp;quot;Quite t...

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    Did the AI hallucinate? Or did it accurately summarize random opinions on the internet and are those opinions just wrong?

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/117473736639824572 I suspect we&amp;#39;ll continue seeing ports of basically all #compiler / static analysis tools as that problem space tends to be really well suited for #AI development. Comprehensive golden test cases and performance gates ensure you don&amp;#39;t regress. Beyond that, the code is purely fungible.

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    I swear every other benchmark I see about stuff I&amp;#39;m knowledgeable in is severely flawed to the point the author is trying to argue and it really makes me question how meaningful all the other benchmarks I see are. &amp;quot;green benchmarks cause perf&amp;quot; https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/344530-briefly-stated-the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect-is-as-follows-you