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New comment by bigupthewhole in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

bigupthewhole — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:10:14 +0000

You haven't been using AI extensively I presume...

I've been programming a long time and considered myself among the top in my domain and AI agents using like GPT 5.5 etc. are much better than me.

New comment by bigupthewhole in "Commodore Releases Flip Phone"

bigupthewhole — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:53:50 +0000

What about the apps that we need but not everyone needs? Local train apps, bank identification etc.

Can't really escape it

New comment by bigupthewhole in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

bigupthewhole — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:17:13 +0000

It's not the only solution but it might reduce PRs by a decent amount I would think.

If you see a PR and the guy is verified, you can check his name, his linkedin and where he works, at least there is some accountability if he introduces malicious code.

If the goal is to reduce slop, define slop. As a maintainer of a project you should be able to tell if something is slop.

If you don't have time to read PRs (which is the real issue here) that's fine too.

My guess is they want to reduce the amount of PRs, and ensure that the quality of the PRs passes an extremely high bar.

New comment by bigupthewhole in "Changing How We Develop Ladybird"

bigupthewhole — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:22:08 +0000

We need stricter verifications / credentials behind GitHub accounts and PRs.

And this we should have had already before AI.

New comment by bigupthewhole in "Claude Opus 4.8"

bigupthewhole — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:17:21 +0000

Ive been using gpt 5.4 and 5.5 and honestly 5.4 is solving everything at the pace I need it. I'm the biggest bottle neck in terms of reviewing PRs and my own code. So having a model which can solve a complex task in 10 minutes vs 30 minutes doesn't really give me any meaningful improvement.

Also, the biggest factor is having a good planning phase. A good plan is better than even major model improvements.

New comment by bigupthewhole in "We've made the world too complicated"

bigupthewhole — Sun, 17 May 2026 07:04:29 +0000

Some of the hadza tribe left for school only to return to hunter gatherer lifestyle. Living in poverty on a farm isn't really how we used to live, that was already step 1 of industrialization. We used to live in decently large groups hunting.

New comment by bigupthewhole in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

bigupthewhole — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:16:01 +0000

Have you seen xcode? Have you seen Appstore connect in comparison to Google play console?