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codeinabox

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London based software development consultant

  • Programming Languages in the Age of AI Agents

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  • What about developers who are required to use AI as part of their job?

  • Reconcile two conflicting LSP servers in Neovim 0.11+

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  • AI's 70% Problem

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  • His experiences reveal a pattern: AI can rapidly produce 70% of a solution, but that final 30% – edge cases, security, production integration – remains as challenging as ever. Meanwhile, trust in AI-generated code is declining even as adoption increases.

    I'm very much intrigued by this contradiction where where adoption of AI is increasing, but the trust in the code it generates is declining. Is it a case of the more developers use AI coding tools, the more they become aware of the shortcomings and problems?

  • Is in a good idea?

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  • I'm guessing that the author said this to warn people not to rely on this technique, as it's not part of the specification. Does it behave consistently across all browsers?

  • Pull Request Templates

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  • I know what you mean. Quite often when I've worked in a project where there is a pull request template, a lot of the time people don't bother to fill it out. However, in an ideal world, people would be proud of the work that they've delivered, and take the time to describe the changes when raising a pull request.

  • Small language models: Why the future of AI agents might be tiny

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  • I'm confused why people are voting down an article about AI in an AI community, discussing small language models, which are much better in terms of energy consumption and the environment.

  • Unit testing a non-abstract base class?

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  • I stumbled upon this article after reviewing a pull request, where someone was unit testing the abstract base class. I'm of the opinion that base classes should not be tested. We don't want to be testing the architecture of an application, we want to be testing the behaviour. The author sums this up nicely with this point:

    For tests, though, it shouldn’t matter whether the classes under test share the domain logic or duplicate it. Tests should view all production code as a black box, and approach verifying it with a blank slate. Otherwise, such tests will start couple to the code’s implementation details.

  • Serverless Is An Architectural Handicap (And I'm Tired of Pretending it Isn't)

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  • I'm not an architect, but I do dislike how much of development work has AWS wrangling, dealing with the architectural hoops that are mentioned in the article

  • Who on #Fediverse self-host #Indieweb static website with #ActivityPub #ActivityStream , with 3rd party webhook endpoint gateway, and use desktop client\script to send json REST POST replies in to

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  • Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to #1

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  • Why I love Neovim

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  • Oh, it's not my own blog, I just stumbled upon it, and wanted to share the post.

  • 'AI' Sucks the Joy Out of Programming

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  • Back in the day, I used CakePHP to build websites, and it had a tool that could "bake" all the boilerplate code.

    You could use a snippet engine or templates with your editor, but unless you get a lot of reuse out of them, it's probably easier and quicker to use an LLM for the boilerplate.

  • Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews

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  • I also make use of ‘⚠’ to mark significant/blocking comments and bullet points. Other labels, like or similar to conventional comment prefixes, like “thought:” or “note:”, can indicate other priorities and significance of comments.

    Thank you for introducing me to conventional comments! I hadn't heard of them before, and I can see how they'd be really useful, particularly in a neurodiverse team.

  • [Web dev for beginners] CSS layout: flexbox, grid, media queries and container queries

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  • The issue was they changed their server URL and added www, so I've updated the link accordingly.

  • [Web dev for beginners] CSS layout: flexbox, grid, media queries and container queries

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  • How strange. It was definitely working when I shared it.

  • Experimenting with local LLMs on macOS

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  • Experimenting with local LLMs on macOS

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  • Ollama uses the Metal API on Apple Silicon Macs for GPU acceleration.

  • AI and the age of probabilistic programming

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  • How does one measure code quality? I'm a big advocate of linting, and have used rules including cyclomatic complexity, but is that, or tools such as SonarQube, an effective measure of quality? You can code that passes those checks, but what if it doesn't address the acceptance criteria - is it still quality code then?

  • What's up with FUTO?

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