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50-something pale nerdy occasionally artsy he/him in Tucson. On Fedi since 2017. Not tall. Probably looking for work.

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2025-05-10 17:54:10

doing a vibe check about your vibe coding
New post on Random Geekery:
Who does your AI?
https://randomgeekery.org/post/2025/05/who-does-your-ai/
#Blog #LLM #AI #DevTools

2025-05-05 21:01:25

Sold my car, the 2003 Prius with no catalytic converter and over a quarter million miles. Carvana offered $100. Local pick-and-pull junkyard operation gave $500.
The PSA part is—if you didn't already know—Carvana's probably not a great option, even if you're desperate.

2025-04-30 00:47:36

I knew the site for Cogent Core, a GUI framework for Go, was in fact a WASM application written with the framework.
What I *didn't* realize until today is the code samples scattered throughout are live Go code, so you can edit and see the results in the sample code output space.
That's pretty neat.
https://www.cogentcore.org

2025-04-26 01:49:14

Just described model-generated code as "instant technical debt" and I have to make sure not to use that in a job interview.

2025-04-25 17:30:33

based on what I'm seeing
if employers want to do an interesting take home test for developers?
"I vibe coded this moderately complex app. Here's the code and the LLM chat log. Make it so the code is no longer an embarrassing stain on my honor."

2025-04-21 22:18:33

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@nprofile…etf0 to be fair, he was alive when he said it
almost definitely

2025-04-20 23:33:53

Well heck. I'm stumped. Let's see if a cloud LLM can refactor this 1800-line function that I'm *pretty* sure was originally written by an LLM based on the amount of code repetition.
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My track record with heavily LLM-assisted programming is intact so far.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastohackerstown/media_attachments/files/114/372/889/652/717/336/original/74c8af74abae9173.png

2025-04-20 23:33:53

2025-04-15 15:31:06

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@nprofile…t5r6 nice page, and thanks for the reminder about ko-fi (as I'm going through my own "WTF am I gonna do")