Comment Re:False alarms (Score 1) 20
Yes Android's alerts
That is a misquote. I didn't say that. So nice job attacking a strawman.
Comment Re: bruh (Score 1) 105
You've also not seen rot13 ruled as an invalid protection measure.
No one has ever used rot13 to protect their copyright.
Comment Re:more is less (Score 0) 91
Humphrey Democrats thought such a guaranteed income would fundamentally change America
Who disagrees?
Comment Re:False alarms (Score 1) 20
Not really false. Just a poor estimate of the location and energy of the quake.
Your honor! I didn't steal anything!
I just mis-estimated where my gun was and where his wallet should go! I thought it belonged in my pocket.
Comment Re: bruh (Score 1) 105
I've never seen any court rule that compilation is a copy protection.
Comment False alarms (Score 1) 20
Sometimes these alerts don't work. A 9.9 earthquake and there would be no buildings left. It was a false alarm, but all the trains and such had to stop.
Comment Re:The code generators work because they save work (Score 1) 100
If you're going to make the reviewer responsible for quality, then you need to give them time to do a proper review. And a full review takes about as long as writing the code in the first place (you have to test every line, look for edge cases, negative tests, etc), so you need to schedule time in your budget for developers to do that.
And no one schedules enough time for a full review.
And no one schedules enough time for a full review.
Comment Re:The code generators work because they save work (Score 1) 100
Competent programmers can work without really competent code review. They prefer to have code review, but if it's not present, their output is still consistently high quality. It's a multi-step process to ensure quality.
Comment Re:I'm not good at lovely documents (Score 1) 100
I found this other article that talks in more detail about what he's been doing with it.
I still just don't understand what Torvalds is saying here. It doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement of AI.
You are right. Maybe Linux Foundation members have been pressuring him to use it for something in the kernel. They pressured him successfully in the past.
Comment Re:Good for the US as well... (Score 1) 169
... buying CBS and CNN?
No one else wants them.
Comment Better article (Score 3, Informative) 100
Comment Re:I'm not good at lovely documents (Score 1) 100
“So, I use AI to do the things that I’m bad at,” Torvalds went on,
I guess the key is to use AI to do something you're bad at. Apparently you are good at making lovely documents, so that wasn't effective.
Comment Re:I'm sure AI is great (Score 1) 100
It's far from perfect, but it's better than many a junior dev at this point.
People who talk about "junior devs" don't know much about the software industry.
Comment Re:Good thing (Score 1) 86
Unit tests are generally a mechanical translation of the requirements into software that verifies each requirement has been met.
Those are functional tests, not unit tests (unless your specification was so detailed it was written in UML).
Comment Re:Complexity is cancer (Score 1) 86
We need better tools to understand, manage and reduce complexity, not tools that allow us to create more.
That is begging the question. What I mean is, a lot of people want more complexity, because they want things to take longer, because they make more money. Middle managers want programmers to be busy but go slowly so they can justify hiring more people. There was an interview with Marc Andreesen about that, and Bjarne Stroustrup earlier.
Bottom line: faster isn't better.
