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Cake day: April 27th, 2024

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  • Lmao. Lmfao, even.

    Here, I’m gonna save you some time and summarize the article for you:

    • everyone is talking about how good LLMs are [citation missing], but they’re missing the point!
    • because really, we’re already so much further ahead! There be magic tools out there!
    • wait, you want to know which ones? Uuuuh sorry, the people building then are keeping them a secret…
    • …because they are just THAT FRIGHTENINGLY GOOD! [citation missing]
    • seriously, I used one of them to build a 30k/month product in 2 hours with zero coding!
    • I mean… A subset at least. Oh I also did not do any review, so no idea just how badly fucked it is. Ah, and I guess the price tag comes from the existing reputation and legal guarantees provided by the original tool, which obviously I also couldn’t replicate.
    • but worry not! I’m sure I’d be able to build the full tool in DAYS!
    • I won’t though. Even though it could TOTALLY make me 30k per month per user. Totally.
    • instead, I’ll PROVE to you JUST HOW GOOD these SECRET TOOLS are! Checkout this GitHub repo!
    • …ah, no, sorry, I misspoke. I’ll obviously NOT be using the secret, but TOTALLY REAL [citation missing] tools that this entire article is about. For some reason. They’re totally real though bro. Trust me bro. I’m sure one more data-center will fix it bro. Just need to prompt right bro. Like bro, people don’t realize how gooooooood LLMs are bro. I swear bro. My prompts are so good I need to keep them secret because it’s SCARY bro. Bro.

    Ahem. Maybe I editorialized a tiny bit. Not much though, trust me bro.



  • Fair. Don’t take this as pressure to watch this. But for what it’s worth, “Harry Potter but horny” is exactly what I grew tired of after S1, and they drop that hook pretty thoroughly.

    S2-5 is more like “there’s no such thing as a chosen one. We’re all just fucked up in different ways, and the only way to get meaningful change done is if we try to be better, together - regardless of if we ever manage to grow past that damage”.

    Except Alice. Fuck Alice, she never not sucks.







  • Because a commit should be an “indivisible” unit, in the sense that “should this be a separate commit?” equates to “would I ever want to revert just these changes?”.

    IDK about your commit histories, but if I’d leave everything in there, there’d be a ton of fixup commits just fixing spelling, satisfying the linter,…

    Also, changes requested by reviewers: those fixups almost always belong to the same commit, it makes no sense for them to be separate.

    And finally, I guess you do technically give up some granularity, but you gain an immense amount of readability of your commit history.


  • Same. And even if you were to fuck up, have people never heard of the reflog…?

    Every job I’ve worked at it’s been the expectation to regularly rebase your feature branch on main, to squash your commits (and then force push, obv), and for most projects to do rebase-merges of PRs rather than creating merge commits. Even the, uh, less gifted developers never had an issue with this.

    I think people just hear the meme about git being hard somewhere and then use that as an excuse to never learn.






  • Yeah. Once you get used to the (verbose, but by no means unergonomic!) syntax, you’ll probably never be happy with another language again. Job-wise, I am currently mostly using Go, and while also a nice language, I miss the confidence and security I took for granted with rust.

    Not to mention just how goddamn expressive rust can be. Let bindings like if ok/err, else return? Assign from a match on Some(Ok(x))? Filter, map, and friends on any iterator? Oh my GOD the error handling with the question mark iterator? 100% confidence that if it compiles, no error, possible null value, or case is unhandled.

    And all this WHILE giving you the amazing security benefits!

    Ah, damn, caught me proselytizing again.