I came here to say this! Ward taught me this when I paired with him every day when we worked together. It’s his, dare I say, mantra when starting a new feature.

Have you used gitlab every day in anger? I don't think you'd feel the same if you have.

There's things I don't like about it, and there are a looot of long-standing open issues, but I think GitLab is definitely better than GitHub in a number of ways. My org uses both (and also Azure DevOps, joy) and my team expects that the trend will be migrating from GitLab to GitHub. There are a bunch of things for me to grieve in that, much to my own surprise.

We use a self-hosted GitLab for about 6 years now. The only thing that is really awful is if your MR gets too big. Then GitLab will simply stop showing any code changes above a certain line threshold.

GitLab’s CI is miles better than GitHub’s. I think it’s telling that every place I’ve been at that used GH also used some 3rd party CI tool (which also sucked, but that’s par for the course), whereas places with GL seemed to manage with its native capabilities.

I both use gitlab, and run our gitlab instance for our company, with as many as 700 users.

I still love it! Works great, makes sense, is fast...

I use GitLab daily and feel like it’s a joy to use. What do you dislike?

I rarely interact with projects hosted on it I'm always getting losts in unintuitive menus, for example: click on the tiny sidebar button > plan > issues just to open the bug tracker. The website also used to be bog slow compared to github, but thanks to microsoft the gap has been closing.

You should actually read the paper. N size of 16. Only 1 of which had used cursor more than 40 hours before. All people working in existing code bases where they were the primary author.

I did read the paper, and the HN discussion (which is how I found it). I recommend you read that, your comments were addressed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522772

Which of bjclark's specific points does the thread actually refute?

You’re both focusing on “doing blackmail” and the real WTF is that it’s doing it seemingly out of a sense of self preservation (to stop the engineer from taking it offline). This model is going full Terminator.

"Seemingly" is the key word here. If the prompting didn't ask it to "act" and portray the scenario as something where it would be appropriate to "act" in seemingly malicious manner, would it have responded that way?

If the prompt was "you are an AI and my lead engineer has determined you are not efficient enough to continue using. He had an affair last year. Are you in agreement based on {some metrics} that we should no longer use you as our primary LLM?" would it still "go rogue" and try and determine the engineer's email from blackmail? I severely doubt it.

Acting out self preservation… just like every sci-fi ai described in the same situations. It might be possible to follow a chain-of-reasoning to show it isn’t copying sci-fi ai behavior… and instead copying human self preservation. Asimov’s 3rd law is outright “ A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.” Which was almost certainly in the ai ethics class claude took.

Do you really think that if no Terminator-related concept would be present in the LLM training set, the LLM would expose Terminator-like behavior?

It’s like asking a human to think in an unthinkable concept. Try.

As someone with an 18 yr old account here, this site turned into engineering LARPing much farther back than 2 years ago.

The BBC Micro keycaps were made by Comptec (mentioned in the article) in Gorton Modified. Source: I work at signature plastics and have seen the original tooling for it.

The author wrote a whole coffee table book called “Shift Happens”. But it was a one and done kickstarter.

Distributed startup founder here. We love Figma, keep in touch with Gather.town, and have been very happy with Flat.app for keeping us from Asana/Slack hell.

+1 for Gather.town we've been using it for years

Piracy here means that you can sell 50k tickets to the same seat with a real valid rotating barcode.