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New comment by __float in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

__float — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:10:19 +0000

You can set a minimum age for packages (https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/reference/supply-ch...), though that's not perfect (and becomes less effective if everyone uses it).

New comment by __float in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

__float — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:06:33 +0000

Sometimes code generation is a useful tool, and maybe people have read and reviewed the generator.

The difference here is that the generator is a non-deterministic LLM and you can't reason about its output the same way.

New comment by __float in "Android Developer Verification"

__float — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:34:58 +0000

They may want proof that you, the human filling out this form, are authorized to publish apps, communications, etc. as the company you say you represent.

New comment by __float in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

__float — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:02:02 +0000

"uv" is a very widely used tool in the Python ecosystem, and Python is important to AI. Calling it "a random Python packaging org" seems a bit unfair.

New comment by __float in "Glaze by Raycast"

__float — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:43:02 +0000

While I don’t think the new meaning is incredibly widespread yet, it’s not uncommon for words to change meaning over time. I wouldn’t be surprised if a decade or two from now, the original meaning has been mostly forgotten.

New comment by __float in "Code has always been the easy part"

__float — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 03:58:07 +0000

Err, what do you mean they cannot do anything? Where are you meeting these programmers??

New comment by __float in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

__float — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:26:21 +0000

I mean, two of them are cloud vendors. The rest just seem like very boring components of a (somewhat) modern data pipeline.

New comment by __float in "Minions – Stripe's Coding Agents Part 2"

__float — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:06:04 +0000

What are the common terms for those? (I have heard "devbox" across multiple companies, and I'm not in the LLM world enough to know the other parts.)

New comment by __float in "OpenAI should build Slack"

__float — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:11:22 +0000

I've worked for years at companies that only use Google Sheets.

For 99% of people (sometimes we let Finance folks have an Excel license), it's more than enough. Google Apps Script is also reasonably useful, and the newer Smart Chips are a nice addition.

New comment by __float in "Switzerland to vote on capping population at 10M"

__float — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:22:46 +0000

It's not, because it's a conspiracy theory. They'll make tenuous connections between unrelated things and extrapolate some grand scheme to match their fiction.

New comment by __float in "Vouch"

__float — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 03:25:10 +0000

Sometimes political views should actually get you shunned.

You're always free to create a fork.

New comment by __float in "Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub"

__float — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 02:48:38 +0000

That's part of my problem. I actually don't love how many billion options Anki has, and I'd love something with a more opinionated UI.

(I think the data model underneath Anki is...showing its age (and lack of explicit design) and building that on top of it would not be too easy. I've thought about it a few times.)

New comment by __float in "Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub"

__float — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:15:24 +0000

The (paid!) iOS client has always been a disappointment to me, and I've long been jealous of the open source Android one.

I don't mind so much that it's paid, given how much use I get for the price, but it sucks knowing it sucks and not being able to help make it better.

New comment by __float in "Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking"

__float — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:56:05 +0000

This is kind of a weird request, IMO.

If you're a homelab NixOS user, isn't it on you to try to answer these questions? A home lab is for learning, and if you don't want to do that, what's the point?

New comment by __float in "JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back"

__float — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:32:36 +0000

The second paragraph explains this: they already have paid, and some people have paid [again], but their purchase is not accepted.

New comment by __float in "A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch"

__float — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 02:28:15 +0000

Maybe this is a naive take, but I don't really think LLMs have done that much to change the actual situation around ability/outcomes. If you are actually a very good C# programmer, knowing Swift and searching some Apple documentation seems very reasonable.

It might help "unstick" you if you aren't super confident, but it doesn't seem to me like it's actually leveling up mediocre programmers to "very good" ones, in familiar or unfamiliar domains.

New comment by __float in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

__float — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 03:38:46 +0000

There's a huge amount you're missing by boiling down their complaint to "bubble sorts or inelegant code". The architecture of the new code, how it fits into the existing system, whether it makes use of existing utility code (IMO this is a huge downside; LLMs seem to love to rewrite a little helper function 100x over), etc.

These are all important when you consider the long-term viability of a change. If you're working in a greenfield project where requirements are constantly changing and you plan on throwing this away in 3 months, maybe it works out fine. But not everyone is doing that, and I'd estimate most professional SWEs are not doing that, even!

New comment by __float in "Understanding SQL parsers"

__float — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 04:46:15 +0000

> That turned into about 10 hours of conversation with Claude to pull it all together.

Did the author write an actual parser, or does this mean they spent 10 hours coaxing Claude into writing this blog post?

There's not a lot of depth here, and this doesn't really feel like it says much.

The blog post mostly compares Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server... and then flips between comparisons to BigQuery occasionally, and Snowflake other times. Is that intentional (and is it accurate?), or did the LLM get confused?

New comment by __float in "The future of software development is software developers"

__float — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:00:13 +0000

You're counting the cost of running the model, but what about training it? You can't count the compute and data costs at $0.

New comment by __float in "Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”"

__float — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:52:49 +0000

Trump was never debanked. To my recollection, no protesters in the trucker convoys were either.

Some social media accounts were suspended and fundraisers were stopped.