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  • Often “silent” fails are a good thing

    Silent fails have caused me to waste many hours of my time trying to figure out what the fuck was happening with a simple script. I’ve been using -e on nearly all bash code I’ve written for years - with the exception of sourced ones - and wouldn’t go back.

    If an unhandled error happened, I want my program to crash so I can evaluate whether I need to ignore it, or actually handle it.











  • you just know a company like Microsoft or Apple will eventually try suing an open source project over AI code that’s “too similar” to their proprietary code.

    Doubt it. The incentives don’t align. They benefit from open source much more than are threatened by it. Even that “embrace, extent, extinguish” idea comes from different times and it’s likely less profitable than the vendor lock-in and other modern practices that are actually in place today. Even the copyright argument is something that could easily backfire if they just throw it in a case, because of all this questionable AI training.


  • Even if you’re into AI coding, I never understood the hype around cursor. In the beginning, they were just 3 months ahead of alternatives. Today you can’t even say that anymore and they’re still “worth” billions. You can get a similar prediction quality from other editors if you know how to use them, paying a fraction of the price.

    Cursor also chugs on tokens like a 1978 Lincoln Continental, that’s how they get marginally better results, so bringing your API is not even a viable option. The first time I tried it, I asked a simple 1-line edit on a markdown and it sent out 20k tokens before I could say “AGI is 6 months away”, and it still got the change wrong.