Where the gems are in plain sight!

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_of_May_1808

The reason why he is influential and not forgotten is that he took painting in an entirely new direction and was able to convey emotion and philosophical ideas (like in Guernica, for example) in a completely different way than what was typical at the time. In a lot of his work he strips things down and distorts them on purpose to show multiple perspectives, which isn't something that realism usually tries to do.

Maybe the takeaway is that I was born to be a programmer, and this was my fifth grade version of the old joke where the programmer's wife asks him to "get a gallon of milk, and if they have eggs, get a dozen."

> If you do not understand the ticket, if you do not understand the solution, or if you do not understand the feedback on your PR, then your use of LLM is hurting Django as a whole.

> Django contributors want to help others, they want to cultivate community, and they want to help you become a regular contributor. Before LLMs, this was easier to sense because you were limited to communicating what you understood. With LLMs, it’s much easier to communicate a sense of understanding to the reviewer, but the reviewer doesn’t know if you actually understood it.

> In this way, an LLM is a facade of yourself. It helps you project understanding, contemplation, and growth, but it removes the transparency and vulnerability of being a human.

> For a reviewer, it’s demoralizing to communicate with a facade of a human.

> This is because contributing to open source, especially Django, is a communal endeavor. Removing your humanity from that experience makes that endeavor more difficult. If you use an LLM to contribute to Django, it needs to be as a complementary tool, not as your vehicle.

I am going to try to make these points to my team, because I am seeing a huge influx of AI-generated PRs where the submitter interacts with CodeRabbit etc. by having Claude/Codex respond to feedback on their behalf.

There is little doubt that if we as an industry fail to establish and defend a healthy culture for this sort of thing, it's going to lead to a whole lot of rot and demoralization.

Parasocial itself means “one-sided” in a relationship [1].

0: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/para-#English

1: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/parasocial

Definitely not. “Terminally online” is as deleterious as it sounds.

And sadly the infamy continued into the prior Trump administration. In 2020 Trump pardoned all four employees who had been convicted in 2014.

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I had an idea earlier this week about this, but haven’t had a chance to try it. Since the agent can now “see” the whole stack, or at least most of it, by having access to the repos, there’s becoming less of a reason to suspect they won’t be able to take the whole stack into account when proposing a change.

The idea is that it’s like grep: you can call grep by itself, but when a match is found you only see one line per match, not any surrounding context. But that’s what the -A and -B flags are for!

So you could tell the agent that if its proposed solution lies at layer N of the system, it needs to consider at least layers N-1 (dependencies) and N+1 (consumers) to prevent the local optimum problem you mentioned.

The model should avoid writing a pretty solution in the application layer that conceals and does not address a deeper issue below, and it should keep whatever contract it has with higher-level consumers in good standing.

Anyway, I haven’t tried that yet, but hope to next week. Maybe someone else has done something similar and (in)validated it, not sure!

I'm being a little facetious, but I don't think it's far off the mark from what TFA is saying, and it matches my experience over the past few months. The worst architects we ever worked with were the ones who couldn't actually implement anything from scratch. Like TFA says, if you've got the fundamentals down and you want to see how far you can go with these new tools, play the role of architect for a change and let the agents fly.