Code must not be written by humans
Code must not be reviewed by humans
Readit NewsAlexeyBrin commented on Software factories and the agentic moment factory.strongdm.ai/... · Posted by u/mellosouls
AlexeyBrin commented on Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science (1999) people.eecs.berkeley.edu/... · Posted by u/AlexeyBrin
If anyone wants to try the flavour of Scheme used in the book, install Racket and use:
#lang simply-schemeAlexeyBrin commented on FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap gyptazy.com/blog/fosdem-2... · Posted by u/yannick2k
It was fun but indeed, I spent a lot of time waiting in line for talks and in some rooms I couldn't even enter at all.
Not the same experience of course, but I think you can watch the presentations you've missed https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/streaming/
AlexeyBrin commented on FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap gyptazy.com/blog/fosdem-2... · Posted by u/yannick2k
While tools and software itself is not political, the people behind it are. eg. When CEOs and founders and project leads leverage their audience for politics, then their tools are absolutely a political choice. Be it DHH’s latest fasho ramblings or every time you do ‘swift build’ - Tim Cook takes a selfie with a sex offender.
But let’s refocus on FOSDEM and the mission of libre software to allow us to exist without “corporate oversight” or to just build, with tools made by other humans.
> When CEOs and founders and project leads leverage their audience for politics, then their tools are absolutely a political choice. Be it DHH’s latest fasho ramblings or every time you do ‘swift build’ - Tim Cook takes a selfie with a sex offender.
I don't follow. Are you implying that by using Ruby on Rails or Omarchy one is fasho aligned ? Or that people that use Swift somehow support sex offenders ?
How does it feel to see all your programming heroes turn into Linkedin-style influencers?
I feel slightly disappointed. At the same time nobody is obliged to live like the public (or his "fans") think that person should live.
AlexeyBrin commented on Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT openai.com/index/retiring... · Posted by u/rd
What's the default model when a random user goes to use the chatgpt website or app?
On the paid version it is 5.2.
I can take some C or Fortran code from 10 years ago, build it and get identical results.