Everything is a compiler to those with eyes to see. Doing cool stuff (mostly not compilers) at @render.
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(Dr.) Eric Fritz retweeted
The talk about AI making professionals obsolete needs to stop. It is hype, dangerous hype that is causing unnecessary fear.
I keep hearing smart people say that translators are made obsolete by AI.
There is no evidence to support this claim.
1. Translators have been using translation software for two decades. They have been using machine learning tools for years. LLM are a useful addition, but no more. It improves the productivity. Does not replace.
2. Translation is not unlike software programming. Even if AI can do the boilerplate work… People pay professional translators to get a flawless translation. Clients do not pay professional translators for “vibe translations”: these have been available in automated form for many years.
So yeah, if you have a passing knowledge of a foreign language and you want to use AI to translate your business site… it will work. But this contract in a foreign language you are about to sign? Nope. Get a translator.
(Dr.) Eric Fritz retweeted
In case you're the kind of person heading into the weekend and thinking to yourself "gosh, I wish I had a 15K+ word blog post on error handling to mull over", I've got just the thing for you.
typesanitizer.com/blog/error…
(Dr.) Eric Fritz retweeted
Coders love vibe coding because it’s just gambling:
You give Claude code something you worked on for a long time, it takes some money, the little Claude asshole spins, and either your repo got a shiny new feature or it is fucked beyond repair.
But the next prompt could fix it
(Dr.) Eric Fritz retweeted
Hope the guys making this thing are recording a bunch of increasingly ominous audio logs about the process onto individual USB sticks and scattering them around the facility
(Dr.) Eric Fritz retweeted
Some companies are positioning their coding agent as a human replacement. We think that's wrong.
In our view—and actual experience—agents are far more useful for automating away the soul-sucking toil that takes up 99% of your time as a developer, enabling you to focus on the fun parts of creating software and improving the lives of your users.
sourcegraph.com/blog/introdu…
(Dr.) Eric Fritz retweeted
how come nobody is talking about how much shittier eng on-calls are thanks to blind integrations of AI-generated code? LLMs are great coders but horrible engineers. no, the solution is not “prompt the LLM to write more documentation and tests” (cont.)
(Dr.) Eric Fritz retweeted
Last week, OpenAI experienced an hours-long outage.
In their incident writeup, we recognized a story we've heard and lived before.
If OpenAI's setup is like ours, there may be a key detail they missed in their otherwise excellent writeup.
With a couple lines of K8s configuration, they could have significantly reduced the severity of this incident.
In a new blog post, engineer @mauskop explains how two simple Kubernetes config changes might save you from the same grief.
Get the link in the comment below 👇
(Dr.) Eric Fritz retweeted
Driving around SF. Omg this is crazy I can't believe there's billboards advertising cloud GPUs on the streets of SF, the hype is totally out of control. That said, actually I would like some more GPU and I haven't heard of this company yet this looks interesting.
(Dr.) Eric Fritz retweeted
Struggling with slow queries in PostgreSQL?
The fix might be simpler than you think.
In his new blog post, engineer @ericfritz dives into the most-fixable cause of slow queries.
(hint: it's related to foreign keys) 🧵
(Dr.) Eric Fritz retweeted
Wiggling your mouse speeds up your computer.
There's a joke in the Win95 era that wiggling "makes the sand fall faster in the hourglass".
The crazy part? It's sort of true.
With the right mouse input, an hour-long install could be reduced to 15 minutes. Why?
(Dr.) Eric Fritz retweeted
Why does every project feel like it's never delivered on time based on initial estimates?
Dave Stewart explains the hidden work within the work in an excellent visual.
The entire post can be found at davestewart's blog post "the work is never just the work"
(Dr.) Eric Fritz retweeted
very, very cool
petevilter.me/post/datalog-t…
(Dr.) Eric Fritz retweeted
Amen! It’s easy to build from scratch. Much harder to build in an existing codebase. And that’s what 99.9% of devs do.
