The main thing that AI has shown, is how much bullshit we subconsciously filter through every day without much effort. (Although clearly some people struggle a lot more with distinguishing between bullshit and fact, considering how much politicized nonsense has taken hold.)
I’ve found it’s pretty good at refactoring existing code to use a different but well-supported and well documented library. It’s absolutely terrible for a new and poorly documented library.
I recently tried using Copilot with Claude to implement something in a fairly young library, and did get the basics working, including a long repetitive string of “that doesn’t work, I’m getting error msg [error]”. Seven times of that, and suddenly it worked! I was quite amazed, though it failed me in many other ways with that library (imagining functions and options that don’t exist). But then redoing the same thing in the older, better supported library, it got it right on the first try.
But maybe the biggest advantage of AI coding is that it allows me to code when my brain isn’t fully engaged. Of course the risk there is that my brain might not fully engage because of the AI.
If you know what you want, its automatic code completion can save you some typing in those cases where it gets it right (for repetitive or trivial code that doesn’t require much thought). It’s useful if you use it sparingly and can see through its bullshit.
For junior coders, though, it could be absolute poison.
Sounds like vibecoders will have to relearn the lessons of the past 40 years of software engineering.
Cool. A couple of decades ago I read about former astronaut/physics prof Wubbo Ockels working on something like that but with kites. I’ve never heard of any production version of that coming off the ground. I hope this does better.
Ah, it’s just a fancy ad. That explains the poor writing.
VS is itself short for Visual Studio, the first IDE I ever used, and the first MS product I liked. So VS Code Studio means Visual Studio Code Studio.
Why Visual? Because 25 years ago MS was pushing Visual C++, where you would drag and drop visual components together and then figure out where to put the C++ code to make them work.
Yeah, real shame Maemo never got anywhere. I really liked the idea.
All these tech giants have their own area where they are the absolute worst, and other areas where they’re not as bad as some of the others.
Apple sucks on app store restrictions, but on the desktop OS, the respect user privacy more than Google and MS do. Google is the absolute worst on ads, tracking and using search to leverage their monopoly, but they’ve also made a ton of cool stuff, including Android. MS makes the worst piece of shit OS and forces everybody to use it while they make it worse, but I’m sure there’s also something they do right.
I like the idea, but I’m annoyed by the inconsistency.
The þ is the th sound in “both”, but not the th sound in “the”; that’s a ð.
Ðough, ðat, ðere
Þorough, boþ, þree
Dude, if you’re going to do this, you should really be spelling ‘that’ like ðat.
Why?
This is exactly it. It has always been up to the browser to decide how to render a website. There have always been differences. The idea that a browser can honour or ignore parts of the content has always been part of it.
If anything should be illegal, it should be websites 's constant attempts to bypass user preferences. Some of that shit is plain malware.
We need to get the right to privacy and control over our own devices enshrined as fundamental rights, like so many other rights the EU protects.