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The problem is that hardcoded credentials is such a bad smell that we can be confident that the code quality is extremely poor.

tbh, you can't expect much from them in general

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"Nah it's fine our engineers now keep them in config files now."

You could easily imagine structural issues driving this. It's pretty unsatisfying to get refused for something that 'should' be handled and also to be dinged for doing something dangerous. You see this stuff in human organizations all the time.

A 'real' C programmer probably is fine .... but that's like 1% of the population of developers outputting C programs.

And now you have AI that's learned from the other 99% so nothing's changing anytime soon.


> A 'real' C programmer probably is fine .... but that's like 1% of the population of developers outputting C programs.

The idea that there's a small subset of C programmers who can wrangle the language into obeying them perfectly is obviously, a fantasy.


I would hope writing C code for the Linux kernel qualifies you as a real C programmer. And yet, here we are. Being good, careful, and extensively reviewed by others helps, but is clearly not enough.

The problem is most drivers believe they are above average drivers.

And almost all of them could be correct.

At least 49.999 percent of them anyway

You are confusing mean and median

Are you sure?

Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average :-)

Yeah this is the real issue. Ironically Nespresso pods are probably more environmentally friendly even if thrown in the trash and not recycled because the real environmental burden comes from the coffee itself and those pods are highly efficient in terms of how little coffee is consumed per shot.

I still drink coffee regularly so am not going to say people should stop doing what I continue to do but it's worth it for coffee drinkers to be thoughtful about the impact of their consumption.


Environmental burden of coffee: are you taking about transport costs to wherever you are, or something else?

Not OP, but coffee is really high on water use, and can be a big cause of deforestation in some cases. So they're probably getting at this.

Apparently producing coffee beans for one large coffee uses 140kg of water. Ok, that sounds like a lot.

But also apparently producing one meal worth of chicken takes 700kg of water. Over 3000kg of water for beef. So I think, in comparison, coffee water use if negligible.


The excess coffee used at home vs the precise amount in a Nespresso pod is the driver of that delta that I was referring to.

The overall issue is that coffee pod waste is de minimus compared to the environmental impact of the coffee industry at large.


I'm interested in knowing more about the company itself. How many people is/was it? Were they working all in an office together or local-remote, or fully globally distributed? Was the focus massive scale, or ultra-low latency (for agent iteration), or agent-first (but human in the loop) usecases that could be enabled by having core control of a git service and the wrappers around it?

Well Claude is French and Pierre too so....

Claude is American both in the company and in the namesake. He was born in northern Michigan.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/Claude

masc. proper name, from French form of Claudius.


Claude Shannon

You mean Jean Claude...Jean-Claude Van Damme.... https://youtu.be/M7FIvfx5J10

Also not French.

French speaking part of Belgium. The language is the most relevant factor for what is being talked about.

You’re not a very good troll huh

Username checks out :-)

You probably need admin/write concepts in order to change users, rotate keys, allow/disallow IP ranges, network setup, etc....

Still totally agree that there should be guardrails around the core functionality but it's easy to imagine that the thermostat would be something one would expect to be able to control once you implement all this remote functionality.


You need none of that if it's truly broadcast only. The network or receiving system can be configured to accommodate the device. A hardware button and screen on the device can be used to regenerate a key, although that is probably necessary.

I still wonder if AI will be designed to have flavor profiles like coffee. Right now I don't think alot of product thinking has gone into this line (maybe it has??) but I suspect that AIX (AI eXperience) design will become more and more of a thing as the space matures.

I'm sure to some degree people (and AI being used to build AI) are kind of doing this thing but I don't yet think that OpenAI has a distinct flavor profile for their models that they have standardized on and are intending to lock into over time.

When I go to Starbucks I know what I'm going to get and it's been reasonably consistent over a decade plus and similarly that's true of other coffee shops which have different profiles. I'm expecting something along those lines.


Links are almost an anti-pattern. The reader should not have to click links unless they're really interested in diving deep on that particular topic (and ideally it's more of an endnote thing, not inline)

That's always been my concern - there's just so much garbage code out there and very few signals about which of it is well written and which is not ... so LLMs will just regurgitate the good enough code that it's been trained on.

Now would be the ideal time for everybody to give it negative feedback when bad code is returned but I'm afraid not enough people care and we'll just settle with what works just like we always have.


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