beardbandit's comments

On: GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills

[beardbandit]

There is a human in the loop that either prompted the agent or approved the code. So it doesn't matter if the AI is accountable or not.

[the_af → beardbandit]

I hear you, but isn't the human in the loop precisely the one who should be putting their foot down and saying "no, the AI shouldn't be writing the tests to begin with", which would bring us full circle?

On: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

[beardbandit]

Author is absolutely from Microsoft

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226

https://github.com/cwebster-99

[kllrnohj → beardbandit]

The linked revert PR is not from Microsoft (and also isn't merged)

[politelemon → kllrnohj]

It is merged

[PinkSheep → politelemon]

dmitriv recreated in a separate PR and merged that. The linked revert PR by a user was closed.

[ncr100 → beardbandit]

Yep - Says he's got a Microsoft.com email address:

> "feel free to reach me directly (my alias @microsoft.com) or"

On: The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs

[beardbandit]

You don't want to live in a society where an increasingly large percentage of the population have nothing to lose.

Regardless of whether it benefits our industry or socioeconomic status, it'd be incredibly shortsighted to just do all of that at the expense of the lower classes.

[throwaway173738 → beardbandit]

Also someday you might find yourself needing things like medicaid. I once met a former SE who was on disability because he lost his sight. Protecting those things for others also protects them for yourself.

[testrun → beardbandit]

So true and so important. Hollowing out the middle class is a surefire way to destruction.

On: 4o Image Generation

[beardbandit]

The easy infographic generation scares me on the implications for society.

On: Exponentially Better Rotations (2022)

[beardbandit]

I can't describe how fast my eyes glazed over seeing all those numbers. The cow was very cute.

On: JSON Hero: Enhanced JSON structure visualization

[beardbandit]

I can think of one valuable use-case: parsing through JSON responses for APIs with poor fields/response documentation -- especially if you have to parse through a ton of information.

Still way more readable than XML.

[aembleton → beardbandit]

I think this is harder to parse than just having a well formatted structure in a text editor

[dotancohen → beardbandit]

  > Still way more readable than XML.

AJAX should have been just AJ.

On: Show HN: An app that helps engineers fight back against pointless meetings

[beardbandit]

Seriously. Its not like alternatively I can code for 8 straight hours. I treat meetings like breaks for the most part.

On: Show HN: An app that helps engineers fight back against pointless meetings

[beardbandit]

This is incredibly passive aggressive lol.

[droctothorpe → beardbandit]

I call it RDD: Rage Driven Development.

On: Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines

[beardbandit]

I agree. Its a coin flip. We don't know what the long term effects of COVID are, we don't know what the long term effects of the vaccine are. I'd argue that we know more about what COULD happen with the vaccine long term and I'd rather place my bets on that. The alternative is hiding away for 20+ years and not getting vaccinated or contracting COVID, obviously not feasible.

On: Humanity Has Flipped the Amazon Forest from Carbon Sink to Source

[beardbandit]

What good does blame do if the only thing that can potentially change the course is public policy?

I find it a lot harder trying to convince everyone to change versus forcing everyone to change through policy and enforcement through government.

[perfunctory → beardbandit]

Well, how will that public policy and enforcement come about? We live in a democratic society, so the only way the government will enforce anything is if people demand it. And for people to demand it they need to be aware of the issue and what's causing it.