Compulsive comment editor. All in good faith.

#Sorry not sorry

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Cake day: August 13th, 2023

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  • I mostly use it to do a kind of automated code review

    Same here, especially when I’m working with plain JS. Just yesterday I was doing some benchmarking and it fixed a variable reference in my code unprompted by commenting the small fix as part of the answer when I asked it something else. I copy-pasted and it worked perfectly. It’s great for small scope stuff like that.

    But then again, I had to turn off Codeium that same day when writing documentation because it kept giving me useless and distracting, paragraph-long suggestions restating the obvious. I know it’s not meant for that, but jeez, it reminded me so much of Bing’s awfully distracting autocomplete.

    I’ve never felt this sort of technology before that, when it works, it feels like you’re gliding on ice, and when it doesn’t, it feels like ice skating on a dirt road.
















  • I agree that the UI is largely functional first (with no bugs since I started using it, which is hella cool), but it’s a bit unfriendly to new users. For example, it breaks from convention when replying to a comment, and the themes need a better separation between posts, and it needs to expand on existing features. All it needs is a little TLC, but it’s been almost the same for over a year. I’ve only noticed subtle changes on Lemmy UI and none on Mastodon that have any impact.