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tfarias | 1 month ago | on: There is an AI code review bubble

My experience with code review tools has been dreadful. In most cases I can remember the reviews are inaccurate, "you are absolutely right" sycophantic garbage, or missing the big picture. The worst feature of all is the "PR summary" which is usually pure slop lacking the context around why a PR was made. Thankfully that can be turned off.

I have to be fair and say that yes, occasionally, some bug slips past the humans and is caught by the robot. But these bugs are usually also caught by automated unit/integration tests or by linters. All in all, you have to balance the occasional bug with all the time lost "reviewing the code review" to make sure the robot didn't just hallucinate something.

tfarias | 1 month ago | on: Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API)

Was CONTRIBUTING.md also authored with the help of AI tools?

I can see a "YOUR_USERNAME" placeholder was removed in this commit: https://github.com/whispem/minikv/commit/eda60aa154a1293d981....

tfarias | 5 months ago | on: Mass phishing emails pretending to be Y Combinator right now

I got it too from yccombinator/-notification. They keep trying with different account/repo names.

tfarias | 8 months ago | on: uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust

I switched to uv in an open source project I maintain as our builds were taking dozens of minutes to resolve dependencies using Poetry. The migration itself was pretty easy as both tools use pyproject.toml, so it was a matter of changing headers and minor adjustments.

After the switch, the same dependency resolution was done in seconds. This tool single-handedly made iteration possible again.

tfarias | 1 year ago | on: CodeWeavers Hiring More Developers to Work on Wine and Valve's Proton

How would one go about acquiring the skills for this job? I have experience in other languages and stacks but never worked much with C beyond educational level.

I am plenty interested in learning more, so I'm wondering if anybody has any recommendations beyond diving into wine/proton and looking for low-hanging fruit.

tfarias | 3 years ago | on: Portmaster 1.0 – Open-Source Network Monitor and Privacy Firewall

Any plans to support SPN installation on an edge router?

I have a VPN configured in my pfSense router so that I don't need to run it in each client. I guess this would make it easy to go over the 5 device limit though...

Regardless, I'll try out for the firewall and network monitoring.