Back when I had to do frontend the AI did use create-react-app. No idea about angular. If it’s on stack overflow, the AI knows about it (even if it doesn’t always use it).

Even if you ask to create a one shot PoC, sometimes it will use Maven, sometimes Gradle. If you want something specific you include it in the prompt or preferences.

Depends what you consider as a service. Anthropic and OpenAI will only offer their own stuff, but if you go for AWS Bedrock you have plenty of open source ones. Probably similar for Vertex on GCP. God only knows what Microsoft is doing over there.

I don’t see it that bad. Specially open source models. Agree to disagree I guess.

What do you mean by scaffolding something new? If it’s writing all the boilerplate for the framework and dependencies, that’s exactly what I don’t care about. I use AI now and copy paste in the past.

The ethics are debatable, but there’s not turning back, there’s plenty of open source models even that do a very decent job, so we will need to learn to deal with the reality. We never hired juniors anyway, but companies that did apparently have stopped, that can’t be good.

It’s been more than 3 years since we started, and the metrics are stable, slight improvement even but that could be more experience or better models or anything. No apocalypse.

Points per sprint, features shipped, test coverage. Defects remain unchanged.

I mean, I do leet code semi-regularly, so I’m not too worried about getting rusty. Writing tests is boring as hell, the AI does a decent enough job for at least 90% of them.

Yeah, I understand that, but I kind of enjoy some lively discussions. Plus I want to avoid creating my own echo chamber.

I very much enjoy using AI for all the biloilerplate, test cases, suggestions, etc. It really makes me more productive, hard metrics behind it. Nobody is forcing me to, they just provide the license and let us use our judgment.

I honestly can’t think of a project where 0% AI would be better. For 100% maybe a very trivial PoC, but even that would require at least a code revision.

So, as with many things, use in moderation is fine.

I don’t recognize anyone, I don’t focus on who says stuff but what is said. I ignore the user and the instance (like ignoring ads on websites) and read the content. Only when it’s uncanny pro Russia I check if it’s an ml user. I never block or tag, too much work.

Doesn’t stackoverflow do that? Or some other popular website… Slashdot?

Same here. And the same for reddit, I was surprised when I learned reddit had avatars. I’m surprised that lemmy has them, too.

That ship has sailed. The question is how to use AI to code, for every project there’s a sweet spot and it rarely is 0% or 100%.

Hard disagree on the first two, a maybe on the kitchen appliances.

Smartwatches are awesome. I can read a notification without getting my phone. Activity tracking. Sleep analysis. Payments. Music. GPS. Phone calls. Messages. All for under 200 euros new (I just upgraded to a refurbished Samsung Classic 6 this week for 110 euros including shipping). A basic Chinese one with a a bit fewer functions can be found for 20.

Smart Lightbulbs have allowed my family to not touch a light switch for the last 5 years. Every room turns the lights on based on presence, time of day, day of the week, air quality or status of the garbage bins or what’s playing on the TV. Took a few weeks to get it dialed in to the preferences of everyone and has been running reliably since then. Bright white during the day (where needed), cozy warm dim in the evening, red in the middle of the night when you go to the bathroom, unicorn vomit for the kids birthday party. They are like 10 euros a piece, I don’t have dumb Lightbulbs anywhere. Led strips add for fun effects like sunrise, aurora or fire.

Kitchen appliances are a bit more convenient. I can start the dishwasher when there’s excess solar, preheat the oven when heading home with frozen pizzas or blink the whole house lights blue if someone left the fridge open. Definitely nice to have, probably not life changing. Fridges with screens and AI and shit, or anything that REQUIRES an app… yeah, pass.

Unfortunately none of the above.

Very boring. I have 10kwh of battery in the basement, another 4 under my desk, and 77 and 30 parked in the garage.

Even then on sunny summer weeks everything is full around 11am. I use some to cool down the house for extra comfort and just export the rest to the grid, around 1.4MWh per year (out of 7.3MWh produced). At 8 cents per kWh it’s about 115 euros… not great but not bad either.

My homelab consumed about 1.1MWh last year.

I’m installing more solar this year, to have higher production in winter. Will result in even higher export in summer, probably.

Thanks, I was imagining some kind of high tech lab setup.

Spanish Head of State looking nervously around the room right now…

Those that people around me do not approve:

• Die Antwoord - Doosdronk
• Afroman - Randy Walters is a son of a bitch
• A capella science - rolling in the Higgs
• Tom Cardy - Je suis fatigué
• Dale Mehndi - Tunak Tunak Tun
• Keddi Kosár - Mi Vagyunk Magyar Peter (Mulatós version)