Take a look at SQLite’s test coverage. It’s impressive: https://sqlite.org/testing.html

590x the application code

The fact that AI agents can even build something that purports to be a working database is also impressive.

A small, highly experienced team steering Claude might be able to replicate the architecture and test suite reasonably quickly.

1-shotting something that looks this good means that with a few helping hands, small teams can likely accomplish decades of work in mere months.

Small teams of senior engineers can probably begin to replicate entire companies worth of product surface area.

Apologies for the snark, but are you also impressed by `git clone` downloading a repository that is openly available on the internet?

It can even do that in a loss-less way, instead of burning a bunch of tokens to get a bad, barely working half-copy.

Don't get me wrong, I'm no AI hater, they are an impressive technology. But both AI-deniers and hypers need a reality check.

I think we are moving into a regime of really fast software iteration, but there could also be a slowing down of progress. Only time will tell

The other day I asked AI to one-shot an implementation of hyperbolic trig functions for double-double floats.

I provided a repo (mine) that already implemented double-double arithmetic, trigonometry, and logarithms/exponentials, with plenty of tests.

It produced something that looked this good. It had tests, it followed the style of the existing code base, etc. But it was full of shit and outright lies.

After I reviewed it to fix deficiencies, I don't think there was anything left of the original.

I had much more success the previous week using an AI to rubber duck the algorithms to implement trig.

I am incredibly sceptical that just adding more loops — and less critical thinking/review — to brute force through a solution, is a good idea.

I push back on loops being insufficient because algorithms such as alpha evolve have already proved very effective.

Will this work be of any use tho?

not initially, but it's the genisis

I believe so

this project certainly fails against the official sqlite test suite, so I did not bother testing

Working on NetBox Designs: https://netboxlabs.com/blog/netbox-designs-introducing-decla...

Infrastructure architects think in terms of building blocks in "high-level designs" and those building blocks are often socialised/expressed in Visio/Spreadsheets. Thinking in building blocks is now more necessary than ever because of the sheer size of the infra being designed/deployed.

This approach is problematic after the design phase because there's a lossy translation to where the low-level design lives, often referred to as the Source of Truth, like NetBox.

NetBox Designs allows users to express composable, versioned, and templatizable building blocks that can be rendered to low level designs. No lossy translations, and you can always check in the future "does my LLD still match my HLD and if not, where?"

Spoken English can easily express that meaning without the additional words by putting the stress on either “thinks” or maybe “they”.

Granted this doesn’t address the claim of the original post.

I'm not a native speaker but even for me it's obvious you can just say "naively thinks".

Curious - how do you version the config?

I'm guessing they version a SQL file

Yes. Git log is a handy thing for versioning.

I never relied on it for developer notes. Just arguing semantics in those cases.

Not exactly.

Protestors were arrested for holding “Not my king” signs, so they later adopted blank signs as a symbol of free speech.

I think the football fans you’re referring to were supporters of Shamrock Rovers, a team from South Dublin.

The Republic of Ireland is a separate country, with no monarchy and no ties to the British monarchy since the formation of the Irish Free State in the early 1920’s.

There were however reports of Dundee United fans singing the same chant. Dundee is in Scotland which does share the Monarch, so that would support your point better.

You can peruse the demo instance here: https://netbox-demo.netboxlabs.com/

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“Who knew about YouTube?” In 2016…

The best is the slide that explains what you should do in said YouTube video:

  Creating Your Own YouTube Video
  • Any Video Will Do
  • PowerPoint Put to Music
  • Picture of Your Building
  • Hire a Professional

Get that picture of your building in that video! That'll show 'em.

> PowerPoint Put to Music

  - Moonlight Sonata is ideal, but any other MIDI tune will do

A more useful measure of potential impact might be number of startups per capita, or number of people employed by startups per capita. Not in front of laptop right but might have a go later if no one gets to it first.

Total anecdata but with a combination of Duolingo and a French wife I've learned conversational French much faster (3.5 years) than I learned conversational Dutch with Dutch friends and books (5+ years).

So I guess I agree that while Duolingo alone isn't enough to get good at a language I have been frequently amazed by how it "gets" where I'm at on my learning journey.

Especially recently I've started taking the occasional tests it provides and that seems to change my learning journey in a convincing way.

I came here for the butter robot.