Robert Lofthouse

Husband, Dad, Runner, software developer, Starship watcher. Family, friends and health come first, work a distant #4,5 or 6.

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@danzbyrd21 I bet that’s not the first time he’s ever heard that either. His parents though - they are legends 👍

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@danzbyrd21 I refuse to believe nobody got it - where do you work, Marvel Studios? 😜

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@AlfieJCarter SKILLS

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@PythonPr The difference (in answer to the question) is that one creates a copy and one creates a reference. However the only thing that is wrong is the graphic, because neither of the pieces of code are wrong.

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Is it just me (ok, I know it isn’t) but killing Homelander might not have been the worst punishment. Keeping him alive without powers would have been so much worse for him. I think he got off light.

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@DevLeaderCa An expert (or at least decently good) in one AND decent (or at least proficient) in many.

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@DevLeaderCa I use them, but 1) the read-only thing is annoying - not that I’ve encountered any negative impact mind you and 2) sometimes you need a normal constructor to do some specific class startup stuff. This results in a mix of constructor styles in the codebase, which is also annoying

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@draginol @davidfowl Yes yes, holy moley, a thousand times yes. I can’t understand in this ai assisted climate why my team members are still resisting using these tools.

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@davidfowl I’ve steered away from doing something in the past because it’s been too much to take on. Now those things are quite achievable and a whole new world of deliverables has opened up.

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@_sorrengailll lol, good luck with that. Your post might as well be 15 years old.

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@flowersslop I would have agreed previously, but since edge switched to chromium, I actually find it a better experience than chrome. Haven’t used chrome in years though, so it might be different now.

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So markdown has quietly become the standard for AI based systems, from prompts to skill definitions to knowledge repos. Cool.

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@sesigl I wish more software engineers, junior and senior, would see it this way instead of panicking about becoming irrelevant. Compare it to today’s generation that have always known there to be a smart phone and the internet.

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@sesigl It has to be integration tests. Unit tests are great and everything, but that don’t test the real life scenarios that actually occur when the api is called.

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@IamEmily2050 Thanks for this. I’ve been seeing links to the post from Andrej linked all over my timeline and kept thinking “isn’t this what NotebookLM is built for”. Not being clued up enough on all these things, I thought maybe I was getting the wrong end of the stick.

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You literally have to be unemployed just to keep up with Anthropic.

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Where I work we don’t have access to Claude Code or Codex, but we do have access to @GitHubCopilot and after using it to do some pretty good stuff for most of the day yesterday, I must say I’m impressed and can say it’s decent enough to do what needs to be done.

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So my finger was hovering over the subscribe button for @claudeai pro, when I see all the posts about tokens being eaten up at alarming rates. Guess I’ll be waiting a bit then.

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@ErnestoSOFTWARE @SaveToNotion #Thread

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@Erdayastronaut @andyweirauthor @RyanGosling Well, looks like I have to watch it now, doesn’t it 😄