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New comment by kylereeve in "AI has a deep understanding of how this code works"

kylereeve — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:34:06 +0000

no clout

New comment by kylereeve in "AI has a deep understanding of how this code works"

kylereeve — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:32:29 +0000

(keep on disk, don't commit)

New comment by kylereeve in "AI has a deep understanding of how this code works"

kylereeve — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:18:02 +0000

There's a very short list of people who can get away with "Classic Torvalds"

New comment by kylereeve in "The kind of company I want to be a part of"

kylereeve — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:59:07 +0000

Reminds me of Ace Rothstein wanting the exact same amount of blueberries in each muffin.

New comment by kylereeve in "Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?"

kylereeve — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:26:26 +0000

That's how all application-specific specializations work though, take advantage of domain properties that make you need a less generic algorithm.

New comment by kylereeve in "How HubSpot scaled AI adoption"

kylereeve — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:20:07 +0000

I've never seen an IDE "mandated", I've seen officially supported development setups where you're on your own if you do anything different. Is that not the standard?

New comment by kylereeve in "The rise of async AI programming"

kylereeve — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:36:36 +0000

When this bubble finally pops, someone is going to have to clean up all the nonsense AI code out there.

New comment by kylereeve in "Reflections on OpenAI"

kylereeve — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:38:56 +0000

they might be

New comment by kylereeve in "Reflections on OpenAI"

kylereeve — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 21:25:16 +0000

I'm gonna be pedantic, shouldn't it be "bottom-up" instead of "bottoms-up"?

New comment by kylereeve in "Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators"

kylereeve — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 14:41:06 +0000

> #2 Software projects that somehow are 100% human developed will not be competitive with AI assisted or written projects. The only room for debate on that is an apocalypse level scenario where humans fail to continue producing semiconductors or electricity.

"AI" code generators are still mostly overhyped nonsense that generate incorrect code all the time.

New comment by kylereeve in "Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system"

kylereeve — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:18:04 +0000

> If one just chooses a reasonable documentclass and if need be a few packages suited to the requirements of one's document, then it all "just works" with (mostly) sensible defaults and minimal configuration.

Ironically, very similar to the story with modern C++. If you use a limited subset it can "just work" but only if you are disciplined and don't have to mix in legacy code that's pre-C++11.

New comment by kylereeve in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

kylereeve — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 15:51:47 +0000

> Does an intern cost $20/month? Because that’s what Cursor.ai costs.

This stuck out to me. How long will it continue to be so cheap? I would assume some of the low cost is subsidized by VC money which will dry up eventually. Am I wrong here?

New comment by kylereeve in "Why Property Testing Finds Bugs Unit Testing Does Not (2021)"

kylereeve — Wed, 21 May 2025 15:39:11 +0000

Assuming you're not being facetious, one of the best parts about PBT is it gets you a good percent of the value of formal proof with a lot less work. PBT at least lets you demonstrate that property is ~probably~ true, whereas traditional unit testing doesn't usually explicitly state properties.

New comment by kylereeve in "Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++"

kylereeve — Wed, 07 May 2025 15:17:42 +0000

Do you have CMake actually run `git clone`, or do you clone separately and point CMake at the `FIND_X` files?

New comment by kylereeve in "Getting things “done” in large tech companies"

kylereeve — Tue, 06 May 2025 17:33:30 +0000

On the flip side, when you have a manager who's genuinely on your side and wants to help you produce value (seems rare, I've been lucky enough to land one or two), "pleasing your manager" can accelerate career advancement and actually delivering working software you're proud of.

New comment by kylereeve in "Getting things “done” in large tech companies"

kylereeve — Tue, 06 May 2025 16:11:54 +0000

That's my experience with PMs (of all flavors of P; Product, Project, Program). A good one is invaluable and can really accelerate and unblock a project, especially one with a broad scope and many teams that depend on each other. A bad one is an active impediment and prevents actual work from getting done. I'd rather have no PM than a bad one, but a good PM is worth their weight in gold.

New comment by kylereeve in "Reasons Not to Refactor"

kylereeve — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 17:52:22 +0000

When refactoring tests, some form of mutation coverage [0] would be really nice. Verify that the tests break when the underlying code changes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_testing

New comment by kylereeve in "Francis Ford Coppola's “Godfather Notebook”"

kylereeve — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:20:05 +0000

If only I could find the perfect note taking system/app combo I could create my own Godfather! (I am 100% guilty of this type of thinking)

New comment by kylereeve in "The End of the English Major"

kylereeve — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 17:30:19 +0000

They can never back up these claims, it's always just a feeling they have based on the right wing outrage bait they consume.

New comment by kylereeve in "Be good-argument-driven, not data-driven"

kylereeve — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:26:08 +0000

Wasn't that Will Rogers?