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isodev commented on I tried Gleam for Advent of Code blog.tymscar.com/posts/gl... · Posted by u/tymscar

One thing im wondering with the LLM age we seem to be entering: is there value in picking up a language like this if theres not going to be a corpus of training data for an LLM to learn from? Id like to invest the time to learn Gleam, but I treat a language as a tool, or a means to an end. I feel like more and more I'm reaching for the tool to get the job done most easily, which are languages that LLMs seem to gel with.

isodev · a day ago

Claude reads and writes Gleam just fine. I think as long as the language syntax is well documented (with examples) and has meaningful diagnostics, LLMs can be useful. Gleam has both brilliant docs and diagnostics rivalling Rust. Gleam is also very well designed language wise, not many reserved words, very explicit APIs… also something that helps LLMs.

Contrast with the likes of Swift - been around for years but it’s so bloated and obscure that coding agents (not just humans) have problems using it fully.

isodev commented on Security issues with electronic invoices invoice.secvuln.info/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

VoidWhisperer · 2 days ago

Aside from the security issue, it seems like an awful idea for a government (or governments, in this case) to say 'hey, you need to follow this standard for invoicing. But also, you have to pay to see the entire standard'.. almost feels like extortion a bit

isodev · 2 days ago

> it seems like an awful idea for a government

You mean the government that’s already the tax authority for which you create and report invoices? I can promise you it’s a good thing. Electronic invoices are a lot easier for us (obviously since it’s just a click instead of a whole PDF operation). It also removes a whole bunch of possibilities for mistakes.

> you have to pay to see the entire standard

The article is wrong about that though, all technical docs are available via the europa portal and reference implementation examples.

isodev commented on CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotechu... · Posted by u/rguiscard

notepad0x90 · 3 days ago

meet tastes great and all, but I wonder where science is at (if at all) on making original food that tastes good. How about food that doesn't taste like any natural food we've had, but still tastes really good?

Jell-o (gello?) is a good example, nothing tastes like it naturally. Why aren't there tasty food that are original in terms of taste and texture but good for health and the environment? I suppose part of the struggle is that food is entrenched into culture so much. burgers and bbq are inextricable from july 4th and memorial day for example.

isodev · 3 days ago

> doesn't taste like any natural food

Remember the target audience - people would rather drink and die from raw milk than get a shot for a completely preventable sickness.

isodev commented on Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components react.dev/blog/2025/12/11... · Posted by u/sangeeth96

rickhanlonii · 3 days ago

fwiw, the goal here wasn't to downplay the severity, but to explain the context to an audience who might not be familiar with CVEs and what's considered normal. I moved the note down so the more important information like severity, impacted versions, and upgrade instructions are first.

isodev · 3 days ago

> an audience who might not be familiar with CVEs

If there are so many React developers out there using server side components while not familiar with the concept of CVEs, we’re in very serious trouble.

isodev commented on Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI mistral.ai/news/devstral-... · Posted by u/pember

andai · 5 days ago

So people have different definitions of the word, but originally Vibe Coding meant "don't even look at the code".

If you're actually making sure it's legit, it's not vibe coding anymore. It's just... Backseat Coding? ;)

There's a level below that I call Power Coding (like power armor) where you're using a very fast model interactively to make many very small edits. So you're still doing the conceptual work of programming, but outsourcing the plumbing (LLM handles details of syntax and stdlib).

isodev · 5 days ago

I know tech bros like to come up with fancy words to make trivial things sounds fancy but as long as it’s a slop out process, it’s vibe coding. If you’re fixing what a bot spits out, should be a different word … something painful that could’ve been avoided?

Also, we’re both “people in tech”, we know LLMs can’t conceptualise beyond finding the closest collection of tokens rhyming with your prompt/code. Doesn’t mean it’s good or even correct. So that’s why it’s vibe coding.

isodev commented on Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI mistral.ai/news/devstral-... · Posted by u/pember

pluralmonad · 5 days ago

I'm sure I'm not the only one that thinks "Vibe CLI" sounds like an unserious tool. I use Claude Code a lot and little of it is what I would consider Vibe Coding.

isodev · 5 days ago

If you’re letting Claude write code you’re vibe coding

isodev commented on Modern Walkmans walkman.land/modern... · Posted by u/classichasclass

StrangeSound · 6 days ago

Believe it or not the iPod community is alive and well! There are plenty of people buying them, replacing the battery and hard drive, performing some cosmetic mods, and daily driving them (me included)

It's popular enough that if you look on eBay, the price of an old iPod has become majorly inflated

isodev · 6 days ago

isn't that just because it's an Apple device? I mean, there are people buying those old Macs that shipped with System 7 or 9... it's a fun hobby I guess. But there again, fast forward to 2025, you download a 17GB OS update so it can tell you which apps you can and can't run on your computer (in a barely readable messages because transparent backgrounds are a thing now)

isodev commented on Modern Walkmans walkman.land/modern... · Posted by u/classichasclass

isodev · 6 days ago

I wonder why in every movie about Steve Jobs, he is somehow "inventing" the mp3 player / iPod as a better alternative to the walkman, only to find ourselves in 2025 wanting to buy a walkman and not even knowing what iPod is?

Same for vinyls and CDs btw. Maybe music is more than just a fancy animation of album arts.

isodev commented on Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products windowscentral.com/artifi... · Posted by u/mohi-kalantari

btbuildem · 6 days ago

> lack of real integration is basically the core design of most Copilot products

I would wager a month's wages that this is the doing of some internal Security Review, wherein a bunch of out-of-touchers decided that the customers will want to prefer to be Safe and Secure instead of getting some actual value from integrating copilot into shell workflows.

Meanwhile people are yolo'ing it with various janky DIY wires and duct-tape githobbits that mash together whatever open weights model and user-level access to the system (or worse).

isodev · 6 days ago

> a bunch of out-of-touchers decided that the customers will want to prefer to be Safe

You mean the other way around, right? Because what could possibly go wrong when we let a language model hallucinate its way through which terminal command rhymes best with your prompt according to that SO comment from training data.

isodev commented on EU hits X with €120M fine for breaching the Digital Services Act dw.com/en/eu-imposes-120-... · Posted by u/vincvinc

Longlius · 9 days ago

I mean, is there really any reason to continue offering the service in Europe? I highly doubt the revenue is really worth the trouble.

isodev · 9 days ago

It’s an effective tool to influence less informed people. How else would they make Farage/Brexit/FN/VB/Orban/… things relevant in public discourse?