How do you decide to trust code you write?

How do you decide to trust code someone else wrote?

Tests. Design discussions. Code reviews. Code review questions. Design Questions. "What about this problem?" Real validation testing.

I was in a funny situation last week. Two different humans told their claude agents to fix the same bug. Claude came up with two _slightly_ different implementations.

I told _my_ claude agent to code review both implementations - using a new prompt I'm working on to try and automate away a lot of the code review value I was adding manually.

Same model; same bug, two implementations, and the code-reviewer agent found different bugs in both PRs.

We ended up blending the best things from both PRs into the one that shipped.

I am really confident that the code I ended up shipping here is better than what our specific humans would have done without using AI, and 10x-100x faster.

I am spending more of my time telling agents how to think like me, what to look for, what tradeoffs to make, etc. They wont do those things unless I tell them to. They don't always do those things perfectly.

(Neither do the real human software engineers who work for me.)

Use a paid subscription to a frontier model. Make sure it knows how to run your build and run your tests.

If you're worried, have it write tests. Look at the tests; see if they look like the right tests.

Tell it to ask you questions if it needs to resolve something ambiguous. Have it explain what it thinks it should do to the code. Ask it probing questions if you aren't sure it understands. Ask it about design tradeoffs.

I have yet to find a problem where AI generated code doesn't get me at least 90% of the way there. Multi-domain, multi-language, multi-platform. That includes stuff I was doing a year ago. It's gotten dramatically better in 2026.

If someone has an example of a software engineering problem that AI actually did really badly on, I would like to know the model and see the prompts. I'm not saying it doesn't exist. I'm saying I haven't seen it yet, and I'm really curious.

I've done software development professionally since the 1990s. I started coding on the Apple ][ in 5th grade. I've had AI do the wrong thing, or misunderstand something, or miss something that seemed obvious to me. But on all of those same criteria; I've had human software engineers do far worse, far more often.

Like a ... monitor?

Cute, but a more accurate metaphor would be that one guy is using Cialis, and the other guy is whining on Slashdot.

Hello fellow Frame owner.

I bought a Frame 65 just because of how beautiful the display was in Art Mode, and I want pretty art in my house for the 90% of the time the TV would otherwise be off.

I use the "Art Mode", but only with my own sideloaded content.

One thing that stinks is that sideloaded art doesn't support the full Art mode experience; specifically no Metadata. I seeded the display with lots of public domain images of classical and romantic european art (my taste - and why I never considered a paid art mode subscription), and I'm not cultured enough yet to just remember what all of it is. So I wish I could get the tv to show metadata sidecars for my custom images.

The Samsung firmware is garbage. I hate it whenever I accidentally hit the remote button for voice assist or AI assist or any of that garbage.

But the way the display looks when showing paintings is too good to pass up. If i could get a firmware that took out home screen nonsense and disabled 80% of what the TV did, but added metadata display for sideloaded images... it would be perfect.

Why is Palmer Luckey a "creep"?

Are you a TikTok girl or something?

Have you actually looked into his relationship habits?

He is a huge anime and retro video game nut. He married a cosplayer. (He did a little cosplay himself). They've been married since 2019 and have a kid together.

He won at life, basically.

... orange something something??

Cognitive dissonance must be painful ...

... birds are really smart ... at being birds.

I too would be tempted to riot if my government destroyed industry and caused high level of joblessness by shutting down energy production. Supposedly for environmental reasons, but only to start burning coal again. Like they did in Germany.

If your argument that your environmental solution is no better than status quo, then we agree in principle.

I don't think I have ever had or have any device that does ethernet over HDMI.

>"5. Mandatory network connections. TV won't work unless it is connected to the internet. "

That is the only problematic one.

My TV, like all the previous ones, is a display. It is connected to a single HDMI cable. I don't give a F about anything else. I don't use audio, I never connect network, or anything else.

I simply won't buy a TV that requires a network connection (or includes one inside out of my control). I assume many others would feel the same. And if this starts to be a thing, I will do my best to educate everyone I know why it matters and why they shouldn't buy that model/brand.

Independent analysis based on Starlink IPv6 traffic estimates there are 4.7 million US Starlink residential subscribers, and that about 2 million came on line in the last year.

I suspect my understanding of the situation is dead on correct; Starlink is filling the vast hole, whatever your "semi-rural" anecdote has you thinking. At an average of 2.53 person's per household in the US, this means Starlink is now the provider of 3.5% of all per capita broadband in the US, and likely to 5% or more inside another year.

Cry me a river.

Comcast/Spectrum just bought Cox. And my Cox bill is already over $200 a month for BASIC cable, downsampled to just 720p, at a low bitrate, and 300Mbs down internet for one person. And that is with their best "loyalty" discounts. So yeah, I am right on the edge of dropping cableTV, especially since the only reason I have it is because of love TiVo. TiVo is essentially dead (I still have service, but they don't sell boxes anymore). Cable TV has always been very hostile to cablecard devices, and they keep hiking prices more and more for worse service and content. It won't be long now before it goes bye-bye for me as well.

Coax/cable modems really suck when it comes to reliability. So yeah, that "fiber to home" part they are missing really does matter now. Crap, even if it was Ethernet from the pole to my house that would be much better. Numerous times I have had to get them out here, with great difficulty, to fix their crap on the poles so I can get a proper signal. Amplifier issues, water in their equipment, improper signal balancing, interference from stuff in other homes ruining things, etc.

>"It may just be me but I don't want ANYTHING to do with Elon Musk. "

It isn't just you. If you want to be an ideologue, that is your right as a consumer. And that does have power. Me, I prefer to look at what is being offered and decide if it is a service/product I need/want/like. Generally, more competition in this market would be a good thing. I have no great love of any of the current carriers. T-Mobile was my favorite for a very long time, but they have been kinda sliding downhill now.