The external side-effects also need to support idempotency keys, which you propagate. Then you use something like a message queue to drive the process to completion.
and when one is a third party service that doesn't?
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plaguuuuuu commented on `satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024) sjer.red/blog/2024-12-21/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
The every day practice of software engineering has little to do with the academic discipline of computer science. What makes a good software engineer is not usually the same thing that makes a good CS major
but then you wind up with an entire repo, or an entire engineering team utterly hobbled by a lack of expressive typing (or advanced concepts generally) and debased by the inelegance of basic bitch programming.
plaguuuuuu commented on `satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024) sjer.red/blog/2024-12-21/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
TypeScript isn't primarily meant to be enjoyed.
It is meant to be a much better alternative to Javascript while dealing with the fact that the underlying engines use and existing programmers were used to Javascript.
That said I absolutely enjoy TypeScript, but that might be because I suffered from having to deal with Javascript from 2006 until TypeScript became available.
As a C# dev, backend typescript is fantastic and the type system is light years ahead of C# in expressivity.
But the learning curve... no shit.
I'm probably one of the least educated software engineers on LLMs, so apologies if this is a very naive question. Has anyone done any research into just using words as the tokens rather than (if I understand it correctly) 2-3 characters? I understand there would be limitations with this approach, but maybe the models would be smaller overall?
presumably anyone tokenizing chinese characters, which are basically entire words.
Not 1000 but Star Wreck, iron sky and Kung Fury are pretty good.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5P_LAqiVg
Im sure more wil follow.
I'm partial to this music video by Car Bomb, which is AI generated, but somehow manages to be fantastic.
(loud music warning)
> Version Control
> github.com
pour one out for the GitLab hosted projects, or its less popular friends hosted on bitbucket, codeberg, forgejo, sourceforge, sourcehut, et al. So dumb.
If they made Git decentralised, so that you could mirror stuff on github, it might solve that issue!
plaguuuuuu commented on A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code sanity.io/blog/first-atte... · Posted by u/kmelve
Preventing garbage just requires that you take into account the cognitive limits of the agent. For example ...
1) Don't ask for large / complex change. Ask for a plan but ask it to implement the plan in small steps and ask the model to test each step before starting the next.
2) For really complex steps, ask the model to write code to visualize the problem and solution.
3) If the model fails on a given step, ask it to add logging to the code, save the logs, run the tests and the review the logs to determine what went wrong. Do this repeatedly until the step works well.
4) Ask the model to look at your existing code and determine how it was designed to implement a task. Some times the model will put all of the changes in one file but your code has a cleaner design the model doesn't take into account.
I've seen other people blog about their tricks and tips. I do still see garbage results but not as high as 95%.
I've been using a few LLMs/agents for a while and I still struggle with getting useful output from it.
In order for it not to do useless stuff I need to expend more energy on prompting than writing stuff myself. I find myself getting paranoid about minutia in the prompt, turns of phrase, unintended associations in case it gives shit-tier code because my prompt looked too much like something off experts-exchange or whatever.
What I really want is something like a front-end framework but for LLM prompting, that takes away a lot of the fucking about with generalised stuff like prompt structure, default to best practices for finding something in code, or designing a new feature, or writing tests..
plaguuuuuu commented on Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers pistachioapp.com/blog/cop... · Posted by u/Sayrus
"Fun" Fact: ServiceNow simply passes this problem on to its users.
I've seen a list of what was supposed to be 20 items of something, it only showed 2, plus a comment "18 results were omitted to insufficient permissions".
(Servicenow has at least three different ways to do permissions, I don't know if this applies to all of them).
I'm not sure if enumerating the hidden results are a great idea :0
It's not the same as an online store. There is a way for people to know kids are in a place they shouldn't be or to deny them access to adult content in real life. In Steam, there isn't
If kids are on steam they're also on... ya know... the internet.
It's not complicated to realise that this achieves none of the stated objectives
My point is: the chemical-attack portion of perfumes can far exceed the scent component. So even a modest application that most people can't even smell still counts as a targeted assault against some of us.
If I have my inhaler at hand, that feels like pulling knives out of my lungs - better than before, but the wound remains. But we don't expect people to get much work done if they've been stabbed today.
Sounds pretty messed up, from memory there are some new meds for allergic/immune things, I remember looking at one for my eczema but its not that severe so the sid-eeffects weren't worth