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@miiko@social.darxxide.eu well don't apologize for having a life 😂 Will probably do this some more again 😁
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mastodon 4.7.3Android, music and random stuff. I worked on the Dutch CoronaMelder app in the past. Now working on Lees Simpel and potentially other apps that help people. New admin of androiddev.social 👋 Not interested in your agentic workflow, but we can still be friends.
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AI in the hands of a professional would be good use and more productive. But I seriously doubt it. Reviewing slop code is not fun for anyone and the urge to just accept whatever is generated is strong.
Also why do we need to be _more_ productive? How is that serving really? The whole premise of wanting or being more productive is a fallacy. I'm sure we are just producing massive amounts of tech debt, feeling super productive because we don't really look at what the token machine is spitting out
Did a release for the version catalog update plugin again :) Mostly minor bug fixes and one quality of life improvement so that IDE noinspection tags work like keep and pin options in the version catalog.
https://github.com/littlerobots/version-catalog-update-plugin/releases/tag/v1.1.1
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@jasperamorgan@mastodon.social @s1m0n4@ohai.social @lehtimaeki@snapp.social When the code is defective because you didn't look at it or understand it, how does that help users? It doesn't. And now it's harder to fix because the code that is produced is truly a black box and all you can do is roll the dice and hope the LLM will fix it.
I can see a world where we generate a bunch of mediocre code and it keeps working, heck that's probably a lot of software already, but I still think you need to understand and reason about the code.
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@mahryekuh@hachyderm.io I've been thinking of these old ladies I overheard at the supermarket saying that we always had hot summers and that climate change is just a bunch of BS...I could not help but laugh at the time but it's really sad if you literally see the world burning 🥲
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@lehtimaeki@snapp.social I get that and I'm glad it's working for you. For me though it isn't really. I'm confronted with slop PRs and folks that can't explain what "they" did. I use AI to explain me code because there is no process to talk about what the thing should do. When I try AI to solve a problem it usually leads to a bunch of fluff that I need to extract the solution from. On the internet I'd read that I'm holding it wrong, that I made a mistake using the tech. I'm worried about the social aspects
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@lehtimaeki@snapp.social The future must be local models (or, you know, figure stuff out and learn shit yourself). I really don't understand how we are all OK with sending massive amounts of our business data data to any company for perceived productivity.
And are they going to hike the prices because the economics of running AI models are not there.
I keep coding until late so that I can throw away that code the next day after I have come up with a much simpler solution under the shower
I should know better and go to bed on time 😬
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@lehtimaeki@snapp.social I think what gets me is not "why would I use a hammer" it's the nature of having a LLM do all the hammering without understanding why the nails are needed (I'm stretching the metaphor 😁). LLMs seem to have an appeal because they produce results. To some only the outcome matters. "It works" or "it sounds good". I personally enjoy learning, creating and understanding. I do not want a world where we race towards outcomes without understanding what we are doing or struggle to get there.
Fuck it, release it. Fun little track :)
https://soundcloud.com/botteaap/stuck-in-the-past
I haven't worked for NRC in about 10 years or so but great that they are keeping my Slack account around 😂
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@msfjarvis@fantastic.earth I think we can keep androiddev.social going but out of curiosity did you export your archive and can you import it on your new server?
It's called skills.md but it's actually patterns in baby language. Again smart naming from the ai folk. In the real world me reading an Ikea instruction manual doesn't give me any skill as a carpenter either.
Oh look it's Cloudflare this time firing 1100 employees because AI adoption increased after forcing everyone to use AI 🙃
https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/
I'm sorry if you're affected by this big tech cost cutting playbook.
You'll have to wait longer to be allowed to side load an app the first time than my bank makes me wait after increasing my spending limit (4 hours for that before you can trick me into sending you all my money)
There's this VIES API to check EU VAT numbers. It's free and supplied by the EU.
There's also viesapi.eu that calls that API and made some wrappers around it and offers a subscription. It ranks #1 on Google.
I'm pretty sure their business model is people that cannot find the free API. It has a EU-like logo, .eu domain etc etc
Some would call that smart, but it's just very scummy to me.
People should stop asking a question followed up by "this is wat ChatGPT/Claude says" (followed by a wall of text).
Sure, ask an AI, try to figure out if it's correct or not, but don't put the burden on those you ask the question.
Also answering with "this is what the AI says about it"...don't, it's rude and I can do that myself if I want. Just assume I already did do some Googling/AI-ing/whatever-ing.
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@Tijn@dosgame.club now post on linked in and say how everyone is missing out when asking a shop to do this and go on about how car mechanics will be obsolete within the next six months 😂
It's one of those days where work setting up things in the past week now makes everything just click into place 🎉
We all love to hate the Play Store, but I just submitted an app update, it ran automated tests and reported a crash on older devices that I missed. That's pretty awesome.
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@daniel I have a bunch of these in my project folder, need to think about mankind though, I have to be responsible.
Unless someone pays a lot of money, because people and companies with a lot of money only want the best for the world.
Rocky times at the gig so I went out for dinner
De PostNL pakket bezorger legt tegenwoordig mijn pakketjes als vondelingen voor de deur en belt dan aan 🤷♂️
Misschien leuk voor mijn ex-collega's die ook via Head First ooit bij de overheid zaten: Ik heb mijn account lang geleden verwijderd. Ze zeggen dan dat je profiel anoniem gemaakt wordt, want wettelijke eisen voor bewaren van data etc. Vandaag krijg ik opeens vacatures in m'n mail.
Ik bel om opheldering te vragen. Aan de hand van mijn naam hebben ze in 1 sec m'n bedrijfsnaam en email erbij, maar mijn profiel staat écht op anoniem hoor
Lijkt er dus op dat er heel weinig anoniem is aan anoniem 🙃
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@Sh41 hehe I mean these Google TV streamer boxes, but I've taken out what makes them Google TV by replacing the launcher :)
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@Tijn even in environments where I worked that really wanted metrics they only looked at a fraction of it or not at all on a regular basis
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Oh wait there seems to be another maplibre-compose that's also KMP. That sounds more promising....
NOS zo: ja de brand ontstond bij een oefening van defensie met schieten enzo maar er wordt nog onderzocht of dat ook de oorzaak is...🤡
yesterday in overengineering was me having my two Android TV boxes with my custom launcher and some other tidbits sync the apks I installed manually over to the other box so that I don't have to adb twice 😬
Have a song^H^H loop and a sample singing "calling me". Put the sample in the thing and all of a sudden it sounds like "come in me" 🤦♂️ It wasn't meant to be a song I guess
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That was fun again, thanks all for tuning in ❤️
Je mag een vegaburger of worst dus geen burger of worst noemen want dat is verwarrend voor de consument, maar je mag wel tuinbonen in je vlees stoppen en het dan gewoon vlees noemen? 🙃
Two annoying bugs that I was chasing today and no closure...sad 🐼
as we say in the Netherlands: agentic workflow in je broekje
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Het enige doel is maximaliseren van de winst. Je profiel anoniem maken is dus blijkbaar letterlijk je naam van het profiel halen wat de recruiter ziet, terwijl ze de rest van je gegevens gewoon (waarschijnlijk voor eeuwig) opslaan. Hoewel ze het nu écht gingen verwijderen. De bewaartermijn is blijkbaar niet meer van toepassing 🙃
Second time that I'm trying to have a composable draw outside of its bounds but not working. Last time it looked like it was clipped, but now the "clipping" is at a weird place...the layout inspector shows that the thing is laid out correctly 🤷♂️
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Also interesting that code from that lib is forked from another lib that is MIT but that code is clearly using and inspired on the Google Maps compose lib without attribution...or they moved that code in later...I can't tell but doesn't inspire confidence