Example of LLM confusion over a word with multiple meanings
In our system we can “hide” a user conversation in two ways. There are internal “service” conversations that are technically owned by a user, but are not supposed to be […]
3 Months of Vibe Coding
TL;DR I use a lot of AI-assisted coding now. It is a huge productivity boost, but the agents still do a lot of things wrong and need to be guided […]
Two hour long “C++ is horrible” rant video
I stumbled upon this video on YouTube. It’s a 2-hour rant about how hideous C++ is, presented in a somewhat robotic, probably AI-generated voice. I watched it glued to my […]
Fallback
“Fallback” seems to be the favorite word of AI coding agents, and the bane of my existence lately. To paraphrase one famous quote: “Wenn ich ‘Fallback’ höre … entsichere ich […]
LLMs against semantic drift
Any group of people, development teams included, creates its own mini-language where existing words change meaning and new words are invented. In our case the word was “unattended.” Over a […]
Who needs negative UTC offsets?
We were discussing time zones at work, and suddenly I had a refreshing thought: why do we have negative UTC offsets? This regularly causes bugs when translating times to dates. […]
Using “new” suffix for versioning is an antipattern
A typical story: your project has an internal component named xyz, you develop a new version and name it, of course, xyz_new. Is it a good idea? I don’t think […]
USB-C connector hook is only 0.25mm wide
My phone’s USB-C connector was having problems holding on to cables for a long while, and today it finally stopped working altogether: the cable will pop out no matter what […]
Cursor and Unit Tests
I am using quite a bit of “vibe”-ish coding at my new job. I actually like it, but… Some day I will probably write a proper post about it, but […]
SMTP Mailer: choosing replacement for SendGrid
TL;DR. I ended up using Smtp2Go My website uses minimal email traffic, but it does send emails from time to time: mostly to myself as notifications. I could probably get […]