Sure, as long as it works. Software has a tendency to stop working on newer OS:es or become subject to security exploits though.

Or more generally, anything that has a beginning has an end

That sounds good on paper, but the chances that someone else will pick up the ball if they abandon it, even if it’s open source, are very slim. If you care about keeping it alive then paying them is a more effective strategy than hoping for random volunteer work by internet strangers.

You, on the other hand, have good chances of being able to learn new tools. So I think the need for this security is exaggerated.

The IntelliJ products are not exactly “buy once” - if you want updated versions you need to keep paying periodically.

Not that I think that’s a bad thing necessarily - it doesn’t make sense to expect devs to continue working on something year after year when you’re not paying them for it.

4-hour planning? I wish. Try 16-hour planning.

And also, a meeting to plan for the planning meeting.

I use it many times a day for coding and solving technical issues. But I don’t recognize what the article talks about at all. There’s nothing affective about my conversations, other than the fact that using typical human expression (like “thank you”) seems to increase the chances of good responses. Which is not surprising since it better matches the patterns that you want to evoke in the training data.

That said, yeah of course I become “addicted” to it and have a harder time coping without it, because it’s part of my workflow just like Google. How well would anybody be able to do things in tech or even life in general without a search engine? ChatGPT is just a refinement of that.

echo “Xft.dpi: 210” >> ~/.Xresources

Sure, Teams is horrible - but at least it only affects people who use Teams. Whereas the abysmal UI and worthless templates in MS Word affects every person who has to read anything produced with MS Word too. It’s designed to make documents ugly and hard to read.

I think every day about the productivity lost because people use Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint. Maybe even multiple times a day.

Amen. There were actually three Teams clients at the same time (the Windows 11-bundled Teams “personal version”, Teams [for business] and Teams [the new version]). Not to mention they also have Skype for Business (which is actually Lync rebranded, which is Communicator rebranded) which is not interoperable at all with Teams even though it’s also an Office 365 conferencing app. And of course, Skype for Business is a completely different code base than Skype. Aaand they had Microsoft Kaizala which was basically the same use case but a completely different and incompatible implementation for countries with bad connectivity.

It’s a complete and utter shitshow and I can’t fathom why heads aren’t rolling at Microsoft. Makes me think of this email from Bill Gates back in the day. If he was CEO now he would be fuming.

Can you think of any other possible and more likely explanation for them being filtered, other than “the entire EU is being filtered by Google”?

If you wanted evidence that the entire EU is not being filtered, what would that evidence look like?

So email from one EU domain got filtered for you, and you concluded that every email from the EU is being filtered for everyone, on account of being from the EU? Am I understanding this right?

“There’s more than one way to skin a cat.”

1. You have a cat.
2. You wish to remove its skin.
3. You realize there’s more than just one method to accomplish this unusual task.
4. You state this proudly as a metaphor for problem-solving flexibility.

I agree. That response made me lose any trust I had and I actually went to check that I didn’t still have Zen browser installed from some earlier test run. He sounds like a script kiddie.

Yes based on my experience with the world (and really just common sense), the most likely causal link here is that being lonely causes you to both talk with ChatGPT more and to use affective language in your conversation.

It’s weird link to this issue with that title, since the problem is only referenced in the discussion. The actual backdoor issue is here.

That’s not what is happening. The bot writes code and then I tell it what to change until it’s close enough, then I make the final touches myself. It’s like having a junior programmer do the grunt work for you.

Then try writing the code yourself and ask ChatGPT’s o3-mini-high to critique your code (be sure to explain the context).

Or ask it to produce unit tests - even if they’re not perfect from the get go I promise you will save time by having a starting skeleton.

Another thing I often use it for is ad hoc transformations. For example I wanted to generate constants for all the SQLSTATE codes in the PostgreSQL documentation. I just pasted the table directly from the documentation and got symbolic constants with the appropriate values and with documentation comments.

That seems like just wishful thinking on your part, or maybe you haven’t learned how to use these tools properly.

As an experienced software dev I’m convinced my software quality has improved by using AI. More time for thinking and less time for execution means I can make more iterations of the design and don’t have to skip as many nice-to-haves or unit tests on account of limited time. It’s not like I don’t go through every code line multiple times anyway, I don’t just blindly accept code. As a bonus I can ask the AI to review the code and produce documentation. By the time I’m done there’s little left of what was originally generated.