Joe

Interesting fact: You can use an elephant’s trunk as a low-resolution 3D printing nozzle

Requiring only two out of three keys leaves the system open to straightforward collusion. A threshold like three out of four, or three out of five, would raise the bar to something more like a coordinated conspiracy. There are likely additional human roles involved in the process as well (mitigating the risk), though I’m not fully familiar with the complete setup.

My assumption is that these keys are meant solely to control the timed release of the data, not to serve as the ultimate source of authority. The encrypted ballots are probably disclosed to the keyholders at the same moment the keys themselves are published.

It reminds me of a pet project I want to complete: An automated online timed release keymaster, publishing future-dated public keys, then publishing the secret keys on that date. One day soon…

Hah, yeah. Vibe coding and prompt engineering seem like a huge fad right now, although I don’t think it’s going to die out, just the hype.

The most successful vibe projects in the next few years are likely to be the least innovative technically, following well trodden paths (and generating lots of throwaway code).

I suppose we’ll see more and more curated collections of AI-friendly design documents and best-practice code samples to enable vibe coding for varied use-cases, and this will be the perceived value add for various tools in the short term. The spec driven development trend seems to have value, adding semantic layers for humans and AI alike.

Yeah - there’s definitely a GIGO factor. Throwing it at a undocumented codebase with poor and inconsistent function & variable names isn’t likely to yield great revelations. But it can probably still tell you why changing input X didn’t result in a change to output Y (with 50k lines of code in-between), saving you a bunch of debugging time.

Most code on the planet is boring legacy code, though. Novel and interesting is typically a small fraction of a codebase, and it will often be more in the design than the code itself. Anything that can help us make boring code more digestible is welcome. Plenty of other pitfalls along the way though.

I have a suspicion that the guy took issue with my use of “one” instead of “you”, more-so than the content. Maybe it came across as uppity.

It’s a changing world, and there is going to be an ever increasing amount of AI slop out there, and even more potential programmers who won’t make the leap due to the crutch.

At the same time, there are always people who want to and will learn in spite of the available crutches the latest tech revolution brings.

There will also be many good engineers who will exploit the tech for all its worth while applying appropriate rigour, increasing their real productivity and value manyfold.

And there will be many non-programmers who can achieve much more in their respective fields, because AI tools can bridge gaps for them.

Hopefully we won’t irreversibly destroy ourselves and our planet while we’re at it. 🙈

Hm? Oh, I obviously misread the room. It seems I interrupted a circle jerk? My apologies.

No, but it can help a capable developer to have more of those moments, as one can use LLMs and coding agents to (a) help explain the relationships in a complicated codebase succinctly and (b) help to quickly figure out why one’s code doesn’t work as expected (from simple bugs to calling out one’s own fundamental misunderstandings), giving one more time to focus on what matters to oneself.

deleted by creator

It’s not perfectly aligned with your comment, I’ll give you that.

The republican party is still the best fit for space laser lady, only because it is the only party where conspiracy nutjobs stand a chance.

She doesn’t give a flip about fixing the republican party, but purely about her polling and chances in the future. That she is capable of this pivot suggests that there is more sleazy politician to her than nutjob. Neither is praiseworthy.

I did … and I am aware of additional reporting outside this article, that suggests she has ambitions beyond her current station.

Nah… she wants a future political career outside the house, but apparently the crazy laser woman game only works in her current district of burn-the-world-down rednecks…

Now that she helped set the world on fire and the polls are in, she’ll change tack like an everyday boring sleazy politician.