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Shane Smith

@shane-smith

Developer / Product Owner. Organiser of @PHPxADL (PHP & Laravel meetup) in Adelaide. I enjoy writing code, science fiction, long roadtrips, and good coffee.

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Mon, Nov 9

Shane Smith@shane-smith
As a developer, are you for or against AI and LLMs?
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MoPoquoted
I didn't like to use them for everything all the time, but a few days ago I noticed I can't claudemaxx when playing WoW; so built (claude built) a hub with voice overlays. Now I can manage multiple projects all at once.
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Alris
I like the efficiency idea, but I find programming fun, I'm against slop and ruining the environment, and I'm also a bit annoyed at the ai CEOs and them shoving it down our throats. So I'm still unsure.
Shane Smith@shane-smith
Exactly. Even if an LLM wrote part (or all) of the code, we are still 100% responsible for what we commit and merge. If I make a typo due to auto-complete, that's still on me for not properly re-reading the message before I hit send. If I copy/paste a code snippet from Stack…
QuotingFCFaris Chtatou@farischt
"The AI wrote it" is a strange defense for a bug. I still want to walk through the failure path. We own what happens when that code runs.

Sun, Nov 8

Shane Smith@shane-smith
I love the "Related commits" on /dev/null Sometimes it's simple (e.g. when the commit is "good morning" or "hello world" and the related list is simply other people writing the same a few weeks ago - not actually related per se). Other times it is genuinely useful - for more…
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Younes
thank you, i built the feature initially & @paulinevos also helped with more improvements & refactors; maybe also other people contributed; i'm glad it is not "boring" lol and this is what is "related" to your commit:
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Shane Smith@shane-smith
My first takeaway from Laracon AU was this: I need more sleep. Averaging 5 hours a night isn't going to cut it. Thanks Jaz MacDonald for the nudge to bump that number up a bit higher. #LaraconAU @Laravel
Jaz is on stage at Laracon AU presenting her talk, and the screen is visible. It asks: "What is coder's block?", then answers: "Stress, Sleep deprivation, The kind of problem"
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Nick Woodhead
It def catches up with you after a while. I’ve been though projects where I was only sleeping 3-4 hours a night for almost a year straight. These 2 pics of me were taken less than 12m apart 2016-17. I knew last year while I was building GPTree that I had to prepare to not fall…
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Fri, Nov 6

Shane Smith@shane-smith
I have heard that it can be good to immerse yourself in a language and to listen to audio of the language before you properly understand it. Has it worked well for you? I suppose if you didn't understand English well it would be easier to tune it out and focus on the task in…
QuotingRRookieToNinja@iamcelestino
I started doing when I felt that my English wasn't good enough, just put podcast on the speakers while working, I put total focus on the work while the audio is playing.
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WilliamShakesGibson
Even if one doesn't understand what is heard in a new language, there can nevertheless be a sense of immersion into its flows and intonations before grasping what's really being said. Honestly, from what this lad knows of Japanese it seems well suited for a coder's brain. So…
Shane Smith@shane-smith
A customer reported a frustration: Their requests were timing out for the last two weeks. But when investigated, they found their slowest request to them was 4.7 seconds. The problem? It was the network. There was a bad hop along the way from the USA. They fixed it with a load…
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