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Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online

· 7mo ago

Today we had a fire alarm in the office. A colleague wrote to a Slack channel 'Fire alarm in the office building', to start a thread if somebody knows any details. We have AI assistant Glean integrated into the Slack, and it answered privately to her: "today's siren is just a scheduled test and you do not need to leave your workplace". It was not a test or a drill, it was a real fire alarm. Someday, AI will kill us.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@mhd reminds me of https://youtu.be/1EBfxjSFAxQ

The IT Crowd - Series 1 - Episode 2: Fire!

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Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online

· 5mo ago

Thanks to https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8369517, I can now close several long-standing issues in #IntelliJIDEA bug tracker as 'third-party issue'. People reported that IntelliJ erroneously highlights compilable code as red. But it was not our mistake. The code in question should not be compilable, according to the specification! This is fixed in Java 26, so your code may become broken there.

bugs.openjdk.org

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Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online

· 3mo ago

Single log formats time in four different ways. Computers were a mistake.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@nd of course, the employee wrote this while already staying at the meeting point outside the building. I did not say that she wrote this before the evacuation.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@metacosm@mastodon.social nobody asked the AI input at all. It just was configured in the particular channel to answer automatically if it thinks it can help faster than fellow humans (sometimes people actually ask something which was asked before, so AI could be helpful). The configuration will be adjusted after this incident.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online

· 7mo ago

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@betalars @daniel_bohrer @Matt_999 the 'siren test' AI referring to is exactly that. It's not a drill. The planned siren test may take several hours of occasional alarms, and it doesn't mean that you should leave the building every time you hear it. We had one a few months ago. Probably AI found that announcement in the chat history and assumed that it is related to today's alarm.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online

· 6mo ago

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Now, you'll get an inspection warning with a quick-fix proposing to use the deconstruction pattern! void print(List list) { for (Point(int x, int y) : list) { System.out.println(x + ":" + y); } }

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Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online

· 7mo ago

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@TerryBTwo there's no 'instead of' in my post. Please read carefully.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online

· 7mo ago

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@TerryBTwo @nd I'm not saying it's killing already. It will be worse.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@stuartmarks @TheDonRaab definitely we'll have to update our IntelliJ as well!

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Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online

· 5mo ago

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@TheDonRaab @stuartmarks I was going to advice you to do this, but you have found it by yourself 🙂 On our side, it's a heuristic, an assumption that all the anonymous classes are named using ever increasing sufficient. So we just look for a second anonymous class.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@majick well, in our case there were definitely cases of 'scheduled alarm maintenance'. In that time, random alarms occurred many times during two or three hours. Evacuating after every single of them would mean nobody is doing the actual work during the good part of the day.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online

· 8mo ago

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@the_moep @taschenorakel I've seen a backend Java project importing javafx library. The sole reason was that it contains a Pair type, and somebody depended on it when JavaFX was a part of the platform. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/javafx/api/javafx/util/Pair.html

docs.oracle.com

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Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online

· 8mo ago

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@taschenorakel it's Kotlin, but your question is very valid. Declaring a custom data class is a one-liner, but people still use the Pair class from the standard library, because it's already there. Generic Pair class is a mistake. It promotes lazy programming. Luckily Java doesn't have it.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online

· 6mo ago

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LLMs can replace a human translator in many cases, but this level of quality is still impossible for LLMs out-of-the-box 😄

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Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@bercut2000 мартенички 🥰

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Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@enqueue @taschenorakel @the_moep Scala programmer spotted!

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Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online

· 6mo ago

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Fun fact: #IntelliJIDEA still supports this feature! Use language level 20 (Preview) (which is not officially supported anymore). Write code like: import java.util.List; class Test { record Point(int x, int y) { } void print(List list) { for (Point point : list) { int x = point.x(); int y = point.y(); System.out.println(x + ":" + y); } } }

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Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online

· 6mo ago

RE: @JRuby@ruby.social

My favorite kind of bugs!

ruby.social

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Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online

· 6mo ago

For #IntelliJ plugin writers. https://blog.jetbrains.com/platform/2026/03/ui-freezes-and-the-dangers-of-non-cancellable-read-actions-in-background-threads/

mastodon.online

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Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@odrotbohm you may not have every possible algorithm available directly as a record member. Sometimes, you need something new right here.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@rail sometimes, it's helpful when asked explicitly. Automatic answers are indeed annoying. But it looks like it's getting better, so we are still evaluating.

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Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online

· 7mo ago

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@katzenberger @rail the incident was reported to the vendor, and they are looking at it. Of course, such things should be taken seriously.

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