what in fresh hell is the world coming to
Devs are just being trolled into documenting their code. But because it's AI they are hyping it
Readit Newswitx commented on AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents agents.md/... · Posted by u/ghuntley
> we've been building the world's fastest IDE
Any data to backup this?
Just to clarify: I'm not saying I doubt they are the fastest, I don't know and I don't care. What I do care is that a company (a VC backed one specially) that markets their product like that follows the statement with proof, otherwise we should call it BS
Well, last year, Nikita Tonsky measured it and it did worse than Sublime: https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/112146684329230663
It's funny how often people buy into the marketing and say "blazing fast" without actually questioning it. FWIW, I still prefer Zed because its LSP integration and vim mode are better than Sublime's.
Yes if a software markets itself like this without backing up I smell BS.
Like any company now is "global leader in X market".
> we've been building the world's fastest IDE
Any data to backup this?
witx commented on AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents agents.md/... · Posted by u/ghuntley
> that's just called documentation.
Ironically you sound very optimistic about AI capabilities here. This implies that an AI is just as capable as a human because all they need to contribute is what a human needs to contribute.
Alternatively if you think AI is useless trash then clearly they need more than a human readme to do anything?
You're putting a whole lot of words in my mouth, I didn't say
witx commented on AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents agents.md/... · Posted by u/ghuntley
This is a sad timeline.
"AI is going to replace engineers.. but first please fill this human-readable markdown file to help it understand your code". What a bunch of morons, that's just called documentation.
Instead of using AI where it can actually have positive impact on human lives like medicine, biology, et al. we're wasting huge amounts of resources and generating tons of pollution to teach it to program and steal art and books so Aunt Lily can generate a video of a dog.
witx commented on Fun with C++26 reflection: Keyword Arguments pydong.org/posts/KwArgs/... · Posted by u/HeliumHydride
I just don't understand why some people are so fascinated by this. Can you all admit that this is not at all practical? I swear C++ folks like it for the sake of it. No other engineer do this. Only antiques people or whatever.
Can you imagine an engineer that is adamant on using his mystifying bespoke tool instead of just using a ruler. "But what if I have to measure it in the 4th dimension!?".
I was expecting something simple but good Lord, its kwargs. Not some magical asynchronous runtime.
inb4 there are still corner cases so you can't just say "users don't have to know the implementation details so only one person has to suffer". I bet money this abstraction is leaky.
Why can't you just do this at the language level like any sane person?
It feels to me that C++ has long become a language for "academic" or compiler-minded people to try yet another thing just for the sake of it or because its fun. Yes reflection eases some issues we have on C++ but the syntax is horrible and clutters the language
These are some really weird arguments against RAII. First and foremost it is not only used for memory allocation. Second the fact that we have RAII doesn't mean it is used like "std::lock_guard" to acquire and free the resource in the same "lifetime", always. Actually in 10+ years of c++ that's like 1% of what I use RAII for
The only point I agree with is the deallocation in batches being more efficient.
> Lack of predictability. It usually is impossible to predict up-front how much resources will the program consume. Instead, resource-consumption is observed empirically.
I really don´t understand this point.
witx commented on Working from home is powering productivity imf.org/en/Publications/f... · Posted by u/rwmj
I love working from home and I plan to keep doing it.
But I can't deny that when a coworker needs help, rolling my chair next to theirs in office allows for a much larger bandwidth of knowledge sharing.
On the other hand my production skyrockets at home.
How is that different from just making a call? It's much faster and you can both be looking at your respective screens with the same information
witx commented on Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment? · Posted by u/jack_riminton
yes
> blacklist pcspkr