Comment Are comms encrypted? (Score 2) 123
Comment Show me an example (Score 2) 39
Comment Bigger attack surface but could be ok (Score 1) 17
Comment Re:Don't be stupid, people (Score 1) 47
Well, most of us don't have the specific experience to know whether AI is useful enough for Chris Mason's specific use case, but we have enough from our own.
I have found that AI is good enough for a first draft of code, or for providing comments on existing code
I have no idea how good AI is right now for this task, but presumably existing off-the-shelf dedicated s/w for doing code inspections will use way less resources than an LLM. Regardless of the inspection tool, human review after the code has passed that inspection is always helpful, if for nothing else than maintaining styles, standards, and for awareness of what is being done. Awareness is important until we turn the whole shebang over to the LLMs when we are enslaved.
It will be interesting to see the point where code audit standards and procedures (e.g. PCI DSS) allow AI inspection to be used in place of dedicated off-the-shelf s/w tools.
Comment 50+ years hunting and pecking and coding (Score 1) 191
Comment I grew up at a gas station and sniffed leaded gas (Score 1) 212
Comment Large drop with WFH for me (Score 1) 83
Comment Keep the brain in sync (Score 2) 88
Comment Bad memories of Autopia (Score 1) 99
Comment Not available outside of USA? (Score 1) 28
Comment Re:NIST lied with Dual EC DRBG (Score 1) 78
Comment Worst crap I saw in 40 years in the business (Score 1) 293
Scrum stuff was just astonishingly bad in my experience. As I told my company via feedback surveys, of all the bad ideas I saw in 40 years in the business, on a scale of 100 (100 being horrible), prior to Agile/Scrum, nothing else was worse than say 40. Scrum was 95.
Biological organisms route around damage. Agile/Scrum is damage, and we programmers routed around that damage as best we could. Only cults should have ceremonies.
The concept of using a piece of software to record the work to be done is good. How you define that work and how much work you put into it is the crux of the issue.
Instead of Agile/Scrum I always advocated a method I called Common Sense.