pacifika
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Guilty until proven otherwise?
LLM harnesses haven’t retired the feature
You’re missing out on people getting better at working with ai to improve better long term goals, like testing suites and guardrails, velocity is inconsistent in my experience.
And vibe coding apps in the gym, is like playing a game by typing a cheat code, honestly it’s not satisfying
Try and export a few thousand Notes entries with images.
Change how you like your day to day workflows in terms of window management
Share a home made app with some friends without helping them install it
Fix a bug in the vendors software by writing a patch
Lock-in: ownership over user choice and data
I thought our climate survival would have been that.
If you don’t understand how the sausage was made you have made legacy sausage.
You wouldn’t want to run it without instruments and effects I’d imagine.
Posted by
pacifika on Friday August 21, 2026 @07:47PM
from the github.com dept.
I've been building diagnostic tools for identifying and correcting errors with the syncing and backup process of the JottaCloud backup solution. This is its operational lore described as it might be told by firelight three hundred years on, when nobody remembers what a daemon was.
Key points only.
Anything written for humans should be written by humans.
Mainly I’m concerned about shortcut conflicts such as command q
You rather open the server up to security issues than have software where the developer has been assisted by ai which you feel decreases the quality of the code or is it for moral reasons?
Rsync is not being vibe coded, and it’s not become slop so would love to understand the position.
That’s not how LLMs are used by experienced engineers.
Reminds of the days when windows and macs folks were debating each other, made it impossible to announce Mac software on a software forum with windows users.
The significant thing that will result from this is private issue lists and disabling open PRs. and then you’re worse off as an ai sceptic.
Adding a subscription form at the end of the article when the user is ready for the next task always made more sense to ne
Funny edge case when you can’t read the password because you need it for access
Flagged for this particular description. Could have said stupid.
People just have disliked computing in general as a result of their Windows experience.
I’m not seeing any brick and mortar stores selling Linux laptops or any mindshare for any Linux brand. Maybe if Ubuntu started selling hardware in supermarkets Linux would have a chance of capturing people’s consciousness outside of the power user / professional circles. But they’re years too late now.
> I can't remember the last time I had an issue
Depending on your workflows the comment just described three issues
That’s confusing a webpage that’s rendered by the user with a pdf
A bad apple spoils the bunch
And where does Google map get it’s information?
Select your location, if NY etc.
This is very cool and replaces a whole class of applications on iOS in terms of networking tools and web development.
Saw the docs are still minimal so understanding high level usecases is still a challenge for me.
The docs should at least evidence that I can use this securely. Can I verify the customisations to the base alpine Linux somewhere? Tech is great just wonder about the trust issue.
Posted by
pacifika on Thursday February 19, 2026 @01:29PM
from the xn--gckvb8fzb.com dept.