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New comment by plmpsu in "Back end is full of hidden workflows"

plmpsu — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:03:50 +0000

I'm willing to bet that many start off without any notion of workflows thinking they're not going to need that or not thinking at all, and then add complexity step by step until it's an unimaginable tangled mess.

New comment by plmpsu in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

plmpsu — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:30:17 +0000

Maybe OP is a dualist.

New comment by plmpsu in "Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute"

plmpsu — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:11:10 +0000

Quoting:

In addition, Alphabet has reached an agreement to sell $10 billion of stock to Berkshire Hathaway Inc. in a private placement, comprised of $5 billion in Class A Common Stock at a price of $351.81 per share and $5 billion in Class C Capital Stock at a price of $348.20 per share.

This investment by Berkshire Hathaway adds to the position it has built since Q3 2025.

New comment by plmpsu in "Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetitive in Aedes aegypti"

plmpsu — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:02:04 +0000

Yeah, I would not be surprised if this learned behavior is passed on epigenetically. This is almost like gain of function research potentially.

New comment by plmpsu in "Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets"

plmpsu — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:06:57 +0000

Pretty much anything for which you'd need intelligence of any kind. Questions such as: Do these two paragraphs have the same semantic meaning? Do they have the same sentiment? Do these two methods have the same contract? etc. Not all documents our code and even with code deterministic tools gets you only so far.

New comment by plmpsu in "Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets"

plmpsu — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:13:36 +0000

AI can do things around semantic analysis that a deterministic diff tool cannot.

I understand and agree with your point though.

New comment by plmpsu in "Microsoft data suggests using AI is more expensive than hiring people"

plmpsu — Fri, 29 May 2026 10:37:08 +0000

Right.

Give incompetent people tokens, and they become 10x better at their incompetence.

New comment by plmpsu in "Orchestrating AI code review at scale"

plmpsu — Fri, 29 May 2026 10:25:31 +0000

I built a more naive version for our team using Copilot and GitHub actions and it works quite well (wish I had metrics too). The team loves it.

The ROI here is so high that I don't mind using the strongest model available for the actual code review. I don't trust Sonnet and such. Just let Opus or GPT 5.5 do the whole thing and pay a bit more for less complexity.

New comment by plmpsu in "Gradle Is Javamaxxing"

plmpsu — Fri, 29 May 2026 10:11:08 +0000

For simple use cases, sure. But when you start to have to build artifacts with different dependency versions, JDK versions, architectures, etc., then this complexity has to be somewhere, and Gradle can do that for you if you know how to wield it.

We are a large enterprise shop with many projects being built on different machines, architectures, technologies, etc. We took the time to become decent in Gradle, and it works great for us.

New comment by plmpsu in "Gradle Is Javamaxxing"

plmpsu — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:50:35 +0000

Gradle is really powerful if you know what you're doing and you take the time and effort to keep your build optimized, sane, and working. I recently built a Gradle plug-in that allows us to build native components on a remote system (z/OS) and integrate these tasks and artifacts with the native Gradle model so that Gradle takes care of caching and parallel task execution. I'm sure this is possible with other build tools as well, though, but the Gradle model fit our use case nicely.

I think any complicated build system will eventually devolve regardless of the build tool if it's not properly maintained; the variability of the required tasks is just too high.

Gradle does seem to be moving fast with regards to Java support in general changes and improvements in the build tool. It takes effort to keep up, but it's worthwhile.

New comment by plmpsu in "GitHub Source code leaked. Be prepared"

plmpsu — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:31:30 +0000

And what about copilot?

New comment by plmpsu in "Samsung Overtakes Apple for Top Smartphone Customer Satisfaction"

plmpsu — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:28:02 +0000

I agree. Bet apparently most other people don't.

New comment by plmpsu in "Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API"

plmpsu — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:48:38 +0000

Going for a walk is a good idea even when there's no outage.

New comment by plmpsu in "Yann LeCun says Dario Amodei "knows nothing about AI effects on jobs""

plmpsu — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:49:02 +0000

Honestly, I can say the same thing about some of my coworkers.

New comment by plmpsu in "How Complex is my Code?"

plmpsu — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:32:52 +0000

Sonar and PMD also have the notion of Cognitive Complexity for code.

https://www.sonarsource.com/docs/CognitiveComplexity.pdf

New comment by plmpsu in "Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom"

plmpsu — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:03:49 +0000

That's what I would say regardless of if I was considering paying or not.

New comment by plmpsu in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"

plmpsu — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:54:48 +0000

it makes sense to keep track of what model wrote what code to look for patterns, behaviors, etc.

New comment by plmpsu in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

plmpsu — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:32:32 +0000

I wish I could use Thunderbird at work now that it has Exchange support . Unfortunately we're mandated to use Microsoft Outlook. Outlook feels like it has completely been forgotten by Microsoft. I don't recall the last time they updated anything meaningful in the product (at least on macOS), it's quite a mess of a product. Wishing Thunderbird all the best it's the competition we need.

New comment by plmpsu in "No Pills or Needles, Just Paper: How Deadly Drugs Are Changing"

plmpsu — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:32:05 +0000

As in The Name of the Rose.

New comment by plmpsu in "Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver"

plmpsu — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:00:07 +0000

I loved it.