Why “code” is being discussed
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This type of whack-a-mole approach is akin to "fixing a bug" by hardcoding a special code path for known-buggy inputs. It doesn't address the root problem of AI misalignment, an…
by 0xDEAFBEAD · Sep 26, 2026
> Nothing about what the government has said suggests any reason that Claude Code is a risk. So why are you insisting that it is and that the government is justified in banning…
by firesteelrain · Sep 26, 2026
If all you do is write requests and then have the LLMs spit out the code then you're not a programmer, you're a middle manager. So maybe you never actually wanted to be a progra…
by daemin · Sep 26, 2026
Photoshop 1.0 was written mostly in Object Pascal with some 68000 assembly language; source code is available: https://computerhistory.org/blog/adobe-photosh…
by alwillis · Sep 26, 2026
At our company (big Rails/React monolith) all PRs do get a human review. Now, I use LLMs to accelerate my reviews, but there's still a lot of space for humans. - LLMs strug…
by booty · Sep 26, 2026
Yeah IMO there's two entirely different traps I've seen in startup codebases in the last year or so: 1) "Maybe waterfall works now" - plan mode, take care of all the nits and is…
by majormajor · Sep 26, 2026
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In communications and information processing, a code is a system of rules to convert information—such as a letter, word, sound, image, or gesture—into another form, sometimes shortened or secret, for communication through a communication channel or storage in a storage medium. Read more on Wikipedia