Sharing some of my journey with AI coding agents for robotics applications.
What is your experience? what works? what is not? any tools you recommend?
Readit Newsgbin commented on Maybe comments should explain 'what' (2017) hillelwayne.com/post/what... · Posted by u/zahrevsky
I also do that but I’d argue that business rules/quirks count as a “why”
I agree it is about "what the code is technically doing" vs why which is "what external factor you need to understand to read this"
gbin commented on If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C? stephenramsay.net/posts/v... · Posted by u/sramsay
Lately I have learned assembly more deeply and I sometimes let an AI code up the same thing I did just to compare.
Not that my own code is good but every single time assembly output from an optimizing compiler beats the AI as it "forgets" about all the little tricks involved. However it may still be about how I prompt it. If I tell it to solve the actual challenge in assembly it does do that, it's just not good or efficient code.
On the other hand because I take the time to proof read it I learn from it's mistakes just as I would from my own.
Shouldn't we try vibe coding on IR then? Basically assembly before compiler optimizations?
gbin commented on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental lwn.net/Articles/1049831/... · Posted by u/rascul
> Embedded - This will always be C. No memory allocation means no Rust benefits. Rust is also too complex for smaller systems to write compilers.
Embedded Dev here and I can report that Rust has been more and more of a topic for me. I'm actually using it over C or C++ in a bare metal application. And I don't get where the no allocation -> no benefit thing comes from, Rust gives you much more to work with on bare metal than C or C++ do.
In robotics too.
Make a fake profile with basic AI generated fake content?
Feels like a startup idea: "where do you want to go?" And it generates a virtual life for you compatible with the current despot.
gbin commented on After my dad died, we found the love letters jenn.site/after-my-dad-di... · Posted by u/eatitraw
Is the capitalization of the quote your own doing or was it displayed like it for you?
There isn't a single uppercase letter when I open the article, it's impossible to me to read it because it feel like a single sentence and I can't breathe
It doesn't improve readability for sure but for me it comes across way worse as "I don't have time for this, deal with it" because all of the people I know doing that are self-important executives.
English is a second language for me and I feel really bad when I impose a grammar mistake or a badly put together sentence to my readers!
So for me pushing that on purpose is borderline insulting to the reader ie. suffer so I don't have to press the shift key, this extra effort is below me.
gbin commented on Homeschooling hits record numbers reason.com/2025/11/19/hom... · Posted by u/bilsbie
My kids are not school age yet, and I am not sure on if I will home school or not. But I do think its possible to get good socialization exposure while homeschooling. There is the neighborhood kids, you have sports and clubs kids can join, religious groups.
Plus not all homeschooling is just a student staying at home all day. Some people "homeschooling" I know are groups of parents getting together to educate their children together in small groups of ~5 kids to share the responsibility, and hiring a tutor to fill in the gaps. Monday they go John's house, his mom has a philosophy degree and teaches them. tuesday they go to Janes house, her dad is a Mathematician and teaches them. etc.
Yeah but this is basically people with the same social circle and religion etc...
gbin commented on We should all be using dependency cooldowns blog.yossarian.net/2025/1... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Feels like the tragedy of the commons: I don't want to look at the change, I don't want to take responsibility, somebody else will take care or it, I just have to wait.
Ok if this is an amazing advice and the entire ecosystem does that: just wait .... then what? We wait even more to be sure someone else is affected first?
Every time I see people saying you need to wait to upgrade it is like you are accumulating tech debt: the more you wait, the more painful the upgrade will be, just upgrade incrementally and be sure you have mitigations like 0 trust or monitoring to cut early any weird behavior.
If I cannot follow what the thing is doing the tool becomes useless and expensive.
I use Kitty + zellij, I love TUIs and use them all over the place, this is the only tool I know with this issue.