Tag: coding
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Hacker News: AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths
Source URL: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-ai-will-change-software-engineering Source: Hacker News Title: AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides an in-depth analysis of the impact of Generative AI (GenAI) on software engineering, emphasizing its strengths, limitations, and future implications. It presents nuanced perspectives on how AI tools…
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Hacker News: The day I taught AI to read code like a Senior Developer
Source URL: https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-senior-developer Source: Hacker News Title: The day I taught AI to read code like a Senior Developer Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text explains a transformative approach to AI code analysis that mimics the thought processes of senior developers, emphasizing context, pattern recognition, and impact analysis. This method…
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Hacker News: GPON FTTH networks (in)security (2016)
Source URL: https://pierrekim.github.io/blog/2016-11-01-gpon-ftth-networks-insecurity.html#introduction Source: Hacker News Title: GPON FTTH networks (in)security (2016) Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text delves into the (in)security of GPON FTTH networks, particularly focusing on vulnerabilities inherent in devices like the Optical Network Terminal (ONT) used by major ISPs in France. It uncovers significant threats, including…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Using LLMs and Cursor to become a finisher
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/4/llms-and-cursor/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Using LLMs and Cursor to become a finisher Feedly Summary: Using LLMs and Cursor to become a finisher Zohaib Rauf describes a pattern I’ve seen quite a few examples of now: engineers who moved into management but now find themselves able to ship working code again (at…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: What we learned copying all the best code assistants
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/4/what-we-learned-copying-all-the-best-code-assistants/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: What we learned copying all the best code assistants Feedly Summary: What we learned copying all the best code assistants Steve Krouse describes Val Town’s experience so far building features that use LLMs, starting with completions (powered by Codeium and Val Town’s own codemirror-codeium extension) and then…
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Hacker News: What we learned copying all the best code assistants
Source URL: https://blog.val.town/blog/fast-follow/ Source: Hacker News Title: What we learned copying all the best code assistants Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text provides a historical overview of Val Town’s journey in developing LLM-driven code generation tools, highlighting innovations and challenges faced in the evolving landscape of AI-powered coding assistants. It…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/3/asking-them-to-write-better-code/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”? Feedly Summary: Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”? Really fun exploration by Max Woolf, who started with a prompt requesting a medium-complexity Python challenge –…
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The Register: Boffins carve up C so code can be converted to Rust
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/mini_c_microsoft_inria/ Source: The Register Title: Boffins carve up C so code can be converted to Rust Feedly Summary: Mini-C is a subset of C that can be automatically turned to Rust without much fuss Computer scientists affiliated with France’s Inria and Microsoft have devised a way to automatically turn a subset of C…
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Hacker News: Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to "write better code"?
Source URL: https://minimaxir.com/2025/01/write-better-code/ Source: Hacker News Title: Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to "write better code"? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Short Summary with Insight:** The text presents an extensive exploration of using large language models (LLMs), specifically Claude 3.5 Sonnet, for code optimization. It discusses various…
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Hacker News: Notes on the New Deepseek v3
Source URL: https://composio.dev/blog/notes-on-new-deepseek-v3/ Source: Hacker News Title: Notes on the New Deepseek v3 Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the release of Deepseek’s v3 model, a 607B mixture-of-experts model that showcases exceptional performance, surpassing both open-source and proprietary competitors at a significantly lower training cost. It highlights the engineering…