If it's bad at python the most popular language what language it's good at? If you see the other comments they're basically mentioning most programming languages

Pretty good at Java, the verbose language, strong type system, and strong static analysis tools that you can run on every edit combine to keep it on the tracks you define

Maybe I should have made it more clear, but it's pretty good if you know how to work with it. The issue is that it's usually faster to just read the documentation and write the code yourself. Depending on what you're working on of course. Like with the yaml, a LLM can write you an ingress config in a second or two from a very short prompt. It can do similar things with Python if you specify exactly how you want something and what dependencies you want.

That's being bad at programming in my opinion. You can mitigate it a lot with how you config you agents. Mine loads our tech stack. The best practices we've decided to use. The fact that I value safety first but am otherwise a fan of the YAGNI philosophy and so on. I spent a little time and build these things into my personal agent on our enterprise AI plan, and I use it a lot. I still have to watch it like a hawk, but I do think it's a great tool.

I guess you could say that your standard LLM will write better Python than I did 10 years ago, but that's not really good enough when you work on systems which can't fail. It's fine on 90% (I made this number up) of software though.

I've had good results with TypeScript. I use a tested project template + .md files as well as ESLint + Stylelint and each project generally turns out pretty clean.

But that was a huge assertion in itself. I’m personally having amazing results with Python in Opus 4.5, so this is very contextual.

Agree. It’s excellent at python all round. If it lays out things how you want it to is a matter of preference and usually requires prompting it to restructure. That’s the standard way you work with AI code gen though, it’s iterative and requires testing. If you do it well it can be specified up front as a style guide set of instructions

One thing copilot seems to be good at for me is python. Other, older languages like VB.NET I found it struggled with.

I did find (weirdly) that it improved when running on WSL rather than windows.

However I did get it to code a script for downloading SharePoint files and even got it to reduce the dependencies down to built-ins which was a massive time saver

It's kinda okay at JS + React + Tailwind. (at least, for reasonably small / not-crazy-complex projects)

Pretty darned good at C++ and typescript too.

Well, OP bar seems super high. Because it isn't entirely perfect in order to allow a non-dev to create apps that doesn't make them "pretty bad" imo.

It's terrible. The biggest issue is dependencies, but we've solved it by whitelisting what they are sllowed to use in the pipelines along with writing the necessary howtos.

The thing I should have made clearer is probably that I think the horrible code is great. Yes it's bad, but it's also a ton of services and automation which would not have been made before LLM's, because there wouldn't have been enough developer time for it. Now it being terrible code doesn't mean the sollution itself is terrible for the business. You don't need software engineering until you do, and compute is really cheap on this scale. What do we care their code runs up €5 a year if it adds thousands of euros worth of value?

It's only when something stops working. Usually because what started out as a small thing grows into something where it can't scale that we take over.

Something interesting happened, this is the first time I read him and just after I finish the article and I get into YouTube YouTube recommends me a video from the author with the same title

Advertise their solution? Now astro can put them into the main deploying option and that's a good way for cloudfare to acquire new customers

They did just after the protest started, and there is no evidence that's actually happening but it's kind of the point since we are not receiving information from Iran since the government blocked them out from the internet

There are alternative explanations. For example, foreign agents may have been using Starlink, and the security services may have used the shutdown to find the Starlink terminals.

Wow, are there actually people on here shilling for the Iranian government? Recent reports have as many as 12,000 Iranian civilians gunned down by their own government during this blackout.

They are attempting to find the Starlink terminals so they can machine gun protesters without accountability or documentation, not because they have a regulatory issue with SpaceX.

Is this similar to what happened in Spain?

Is this similar to what happened in Spain?

yes, it's quite similar. They blocked some lawful services too such as google drive (yes, really) and a TON of sites behind cloudflare by blocking some of its IPs (it happened a while ago, it's not directly related to this).

It's in a way related because this is also meant to combat "football streaming piracy", the same as in Spain. Idiot moves.

At that point why not just use the bank's website?

That's what I do. I don't install apps for stuff I can just do on the web.

Because that needs 2FA to login and guess what the only way to get the code is.

Does the government ban getting SMS messages on your rooted phone?

It's not considered secure enough.

Not that I'm aware of but if banks don't offer it, which most dont, good luck.

I remember learning to code with replit, the people from the course recommended replit because there was no setup to do

I used to teach with it - at classroom-scale it was really good. Unfortunately they shut all that down a little while back, and there wasn't really a good replacement. Which was a shame.

Seems to have worked out for them, mind!

Such a shame, it was really good for that

Some criticize that approach, suggesting that you're not learning important skills, but I applaud that approach. Anyone who's ever been in a workshop at a conference, where you have limited time to learn a topic, knows how much time is wasted doing initial setup.

yes this is such a good point, the OG replit could've been the perfect conferencing / classroom tool

Running an IDE in a browser like that is not something I'd ever want to work with long time or experimenting on my "own" computer - maybe it's just me being weird but running the code on the metal I'm holding is much more satisfying.

I'm not sure what features / tools replit had in this regard, but I could easily see it dominating CS education and conferences as the go-to IDE. (then making the real money by monetising the students in the future, i.e. other tools you can sell - even something like replit as a cloud provider), by having features like

  - templates you could share (i.e. one per lesson)
  - live sessions (where the professor could log into many students replit instance and demonstrate)
  - videos built into the editor / streaming / conferencing
  - "homework had-in" features, automated test sharing, etc.

I remember that was like workshop, something like learn to code in 20 minutes, and after learning the concepts and realizing you can control all those devices that power the world, just with code was magical.

I think that it had a big potential for that.

You also forget how panama Germany, Japan, South Korea are better now after removing their authoritarian regimes.

You're conveniently leaving out the other 80% of cases, which were failures.

A failure can simply try again (and again, and again...)

Unfortunately, that was 75+ years ago and all the more recent examples were disasters as of my knowledge.

Panama was on 1989 and Venezuela situation it's closer to that, than the middle East countries, We are united in this, more than 80% are against the current government and we even voted him out. There is not religious divide as it happens in those countries, even by ethnicity most people are just mixed.

Just go there, live there if you think that's true. It isn't it's the same argument that communist believers do about Venezuela, Cuba and North corea they will support those government but they won't move there or even ask the people there how they actually live.