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orwin commented on The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in USA   theguardian.com/sport/202... · Posted by u/treetalker
inemesitaffia · 2 days ago
Someone in the US says they heard it. Another watching Eurosport said they didn't.

Who to believe?

orwin · a day ago
Both? It is very likely the 'booh' were cut by the broadcaster filters. Each broadcaster (at least in my country) has a 'sound identity' (it's a literal translation, sorry) and use filters during live shows. It originally come from AM radio where your sound is _very_ compressed, to FM radio where you still have to compress it, but with more range. My state radio would have captured and diffused the 'booh' while on the music radio I used to listen to as a kid, they definitely would have been dampened (most of them would have been caught by the 'passe-haut/coupe-bas').

I listened to the US broadcast, definitely dampened, I'm not sure if it's a default filter or one that triggers with the broadcaster, it is extremely likely it isn't intentional. My Bayesian ass is 95% sure.

orwin commented on We mourn our craft   nolanlawson.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/ColinWright
throwup238 · 3 days ago
Loop it. Use another agent (from a different company helps) to review the code and documentation and call out any inconsistencies.

I run a bunch of jobs weekly to review docs for inconsistencies and write a plan to fix. It still needs humans in the loop if the agents don’t converge after a few turns, but it’s largely automatic (I baby sat it for a few months validating each change).

orwin · 2 days ago
That might work for hallucinations, that doesn't work for useless verbose. And the main issue is that LLM don't always distinguish useless verbose from necessary one, so even when I ask it to reduce verbose, it remove everything save a few useful comments/docstring, but some of the comments that were removed I deemed useful. Un the end I have to do the work of cutting verbose manually anyway.
orwin commented on The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in USA   theguardian.com/sport/202... · Posted by u/treetalker
orwin · 2 days ago
I'll have to ask my brother but that might be NBC's audio engineer decision, or even his default settings (depending on the broadcaster voice).

I'm as critical as the US as they come, in fact I just cancelled my summer trip to the Appalachia, but seeing this as censorship is reading a bit too far, simpler explanations exist (crowd noises are dimmed by audio filters)

orwin commented on We mourn our craft   nolanlawson.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/ColinWright
HoldOnAMinute · 3 days ago
Have you tried using GenAI to write documentation? You can literally point it to a folder and say, analyze everything in this folder and write a document about it. And it will do it. It's more thorough than anything a human could do, especially in the time frame we're talking about.

If GenAI could only write documentation it would still be a game changer.

orwin · 3 days ago
But it write mostly useless documentation Which take time to read and decipher.

And worse, if you are using it for public documentation, sometimes it hallucinate endpoints (i don't want to say too much here, but it happened recently to a quite used B2B SaaS).

orwin commented on How to effectively write quality code with AI   heidenstedt.org/posts/202... · Posted by u/i5heu
bornfreddy · 4 days ago
Isn't that a losing proposition? Or do you get 50 times the value out of it too? In my experience the more verbose the code is, the less thought out it is. Lots of changes? Cool, now polish some more and come back when it's below 100 lines change, excluding tests and docs. I don't dare touch it before.
orwin · 3 days ago
I agree, but i'm shouting at the cloud. Stuff needs to be done, it seems to work at first, so either i just abandon quality and let things rot, or i read everything and underline each time the code smell.

I too use AI, but mostly to generate scripts (the most usefull use of AI is 100-200 line scripts imho), test _cases_ (i write the test itself, the data inside is generated) and HTML/CSS/JS shenanigans (the logic i code, the presentation i'm inferior to any random guy on the internet, so i might as well use an AI). I also use it for stuff that never end in repository, for exploration/proof of concept and outside of scope tests (i like to understand how stuff work, that helps), or to summarize Powerpoint presentations so i can do actual work during 60-person "meetings" and still get the point.

orwin commented on A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content   niemanlab.org/2026/02/a-n... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
charcircuit · 4 days ago
I found it fine to read and it handled controversial subjects much better than Wikipedia.
orwin · 4 days ago
I don't care about that, that wasn't the point, no one truly care about that. I wanted to know if the feeling of reading meandering writing that can't go to the point when reading AI-generated content was only mine, or if other people who "wiki walk" a lot did the same on Grokipedia (basically spend hours clicking on links and reading random pages). I didn't manage to do it because the writing was too "bad" for me (and i was taken by wiki walk on wookiepedia once, so my tolerance is high). I just wanted to know if it was shared. Did you wiki walk on grokipedia, or do you just use it for "controversial subjects"?
orwin commented on How to effectively write quality code with AI   heidenstedt.org/posts/202... · Posted by u/i5heu
krashidov · 4 days ago
> Use strict linting and formatting rules to ensure code quality and consistency. This will help you and your AI to find issues early.

I've always advocated for using a linter and consistent formatting. But now I'm not so sure. What's the point? If nobody is going to bother reading the code anymore I feel like linting does not matter. I think in 10 years a software application will be very obfuscated implementation code with thousands of very solidly documented test cases and, much like compiled code, how the underlying implementation code looks or is organized won't really matter

orwin · 4 days ago
That's the opposite. I've never read and re-read code more than i do today. The new hires generate 50 more code than they use to, and you _have_ to check it or have compounding production issues (been there, done that). And the errors can now be anywhere, when before you more or less knew what the person writing code is thinking and can understand why some errors are made. LLMs errors could hide _anywhere_, so you have to check it all.
orwin commented on How to effectively write quality code with AI   heidenstedt.org/posts/202... · Posted by u/i5heu
orwin · 4 days ago
First article about writing code with AI i can get behind 100%. Stuff i already do, stuff i've thought about doing, and at ideas i've never thought doing ("Mark code review levels" especially is a _great_ idea)
orwin commented on Product and design are the new bottlenecks   jampa.dev/p/the-rise-of-o... · Posted by u/jampa
hamdingers · 4 days ago
> In most teams, coding - reading, writing, and debugging code - used to be the part that took engineers the most time, but that is no longer the bottleneck.

Do most engineers find this to be true? For me the balance switched within a few years of being a senior (nearly a decade ago). Writing code is easy, negotiating over what code to write takes time.

orwin · 4 days ago
Really depends on the company. For me it isn't true, but it used to be when i worked at a bank with terrible management. Nowadays i'm in a tooling team (for Network and security teams), where my "clients" are other devs from the same company. Of course we still have negotiation, but i'd say 60-80% of my time is spend coding, and that's with me being basically a "senior".

And by the way, one thing is missing from the OP graph: i now spend maybe 50% less time writing my own code, and 100% more time fixing my juniors PRs and fixing production issues after my reviews miss issues...

orwin commented on A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content   niemanlab.org/2026/02/a-n... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
charcircuit · 4 days ago
Yes I did go immediately on release. I was finally able to correct articles that have been inaccurate on Wikipedia for years.
orwin · 4 days ago
So you noticed how poor the prose was? Really unbearable to read.

u/orwin

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