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Bane Mask

Can someone, anyone, tell me where it is that you work where input speed is the bottleneck in software development?

Because I have genuinely never worked at any company where the main thing holding up development was that developers weren’t typing fast enough.

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Linux lays down the law on AI-generated code, says yes to Copilot, no to AI slop, and humans take the fall for mistakes — after months of fierce debate, Torvalds and maintainers come to an agreement

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Yeah, that’s also my question. Partially because I am a former-lawyer-turned-software-developer… but, yeah. How are the kernel maintainers supposed to evaluate whether a particular PR contains non-GPL code?

Granted, this was potentially an issue before LLMs too, but nowhere near the scale it will be now.

(In the interests of full disclosure, my legal career had nothing to do with IP law or software licensing - I did public interest law).

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wait what...

This happens all the time with TypeScript. The transpiled JS that actually runs will naturally have different line numbers than the TS you wrote!

To be fair, the reported line number is usually close enough that I can find the issue without much trouble.

It’s not my favorite back end language, but it’s what everyone on my team knows…

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Data is becoming too smart for his own good

Surely I can’t be the first person to point out that Data is not the “driver” in the sense that he is not at the helm, right? Right???

Data is at Ops - the closest thing the TNG show had to a science station - because he was the Spock-analog.

Basically what I’m saying is that Geordi/Wesley/Ro/unnamed officer (depending on the season/episode) gets to pick the music, not Data!