This is an ongoing longitudinal study with inherent reporting biases and coverage limitations.
Well at least they're honest...
Readit Newsweare138 commented on We Found Zero Low-Severity Bugs in 165 AI Code Reports. Zero shamans.dev/research/ai-c... · Posted by u/dmonroy
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A society that balances cause and effect! Money is also balanced! Money flows perfectly through multiple lifetimes! Being respected ultimately leads to balance!
What?
Perl is a messy, maddening programming language
Only because people kept writing horrible code and using Perl as an excuse. Perl is like C, your code is as readable and maintainable as you choose to make it. It's like that old saying about blaming your tools. Just stop writing crap code.
weare138 commented on Proxmox Donates €10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation perl.com/article/proxmox-... · Posted by u/oalders
Are people still using Perl for new software?
I remember at a former company, we had a major migration away from Perl 12 years ago. The Perl code base was considered extremely ancient even back then.
Yes. I do. Just in case anyone doesn't know Perl has been in active development and has been adding new features the entire time. It was never 'dead'. This is Perl's new OO interface that was recently added as a stable feature in 5.40:
weare138 commented on A look at IBM's short-lived "butterfly" ThinkPad 701 of 1995 fastcompany.com/91356463/... · Posted by u/vontzy
I got ahold of one long after it was obsolete and that keyboard was awesome. Someone needs to bring back the design.
weare138 commented on Why my p(doom) has risen, dramatically garymarcus.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/NotInOurNames
I'm sorry but the whole Grok “mechahitler” thing was a feature not a bug. The timing between that and xAI announcing it's AI services for governments and subsequently being awarded a government contract was not coincidental. Elon was demonstrating that Grok 4 comes with a state propaganda switch governments can flip whenever they want.
We already paid for Firefox through decades of donations in addition to the hundreds of millions of dollars MoCo has received over the years from Google that was definitely not a bribe in exchange for sandbagging Firefox by firing most of the Firefox devs. That's what the community got in return for our decades of support because again, we've already paid for Firefox.
At this point we should just fork Firefox or focus on IceCat instead.
weare138 commented on Threads is nearing X's daily app users, new data shows techcrunch.com/2025/07/07... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute
I forgot about Threads. I'm surprised that's still a thing.
weare138 commented on Ask HN: What makes an AI system an "agent" vs. just software with if-then logic? · Posted by u/Jimmc414
Software that can screw things up on it's own.
Jokes apart, I'd rather admit we are working with incomplete data than pretend otherwise. We are probably seeing 5-10% of what's actually happening out there. Most AI code bugs die quietly in projects that never see production. And it is perhaps better that way.
[not]Fun fact: A colleague just told me how a rogue claude agent ran `rm -rf ~/` in a background process earlier today. It might become #166 in our report.