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.:\dGh/:.

New problem, new library! This time, I made a small utility for Laravel to limit a group of models on the table.

github.com/Laragear/Capstone

I talked about the implementation on my Medium blog, but in a nutshell, it uses a subquery to keep only the records you don't want to delete, like the latest five.

Limit the number of model records by amount or date. - Laragear/Capstone
GitHubGitHub - Laragear/Capstone: Limit the number of model records by amount or date.Limit the number of model records by amount or date. - Laragear/Capstone
#PHP#Programming#Coding
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Aiono

lwn.net/Articles/1013776/

A really interesting article about using open source in the government. In this case it's Mexico. Nice to see that good things are also happening. Congratulations to González Waite for pushing open source software in the government!

It's crazy that when you stop using a proprietary software product you get called by the U.S. embassy with threats. Obviously it is free economy /s

lwn.netLessons from open source in the Mexican government [LWN.net]
#softwaredevelopment#opensource
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solomon42069

The benefit of #AI in #softwaredevelopment is absurd.

They want to automate junior positions, with the notion that the remaining developers will be more efficient.

This totally ignores the fact that the workforce is transient, it requires the continuous upskilling and turnover of new people.

By replacing the intake of new #developers with #software, we are foregoing the #development of more senior and advanced professionals.

The expertise AI gives is not equivalent to a skilled professional.

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Brian Greenberg

🚀 Cursor: The AI Coding Assistant With 1M Users & $200M ARR — No Marketing Required

Anysphere’s AI coding tool Cursor is redefining how software developers work — and how fast startups can scale.

🧠 Why Cursor is gaining traction:

🔹 Built on VS Code and supports OpenAI, Anthropic, and its own models
🔹 Offers context-aware suggestions, bug fixing, and chat-driven coding support
🔹 Used at OpenAI, Uber, Instacart, and even Major League Baseball
🔹 Grew to 1M+ daily users and $200M ARR with zero marketing spend
🔹 Introduced the term “vibe coding” — embracing AI suggestions to speed up the creative process

With backing from Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI, and others, Anysphere is now turning toward enterprise, onboarding thousands of companies monthly and hiring rapidly.

💬 As founder Michael Truell puts it: "We’re not trying to automate away coders — we’re giving them control."

#AI #Cursor #DevTools #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding #StartupGrowth #GenerativeAI #Productivity

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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Hacker News

Decoding the 90s: Cryptography in Early Software Development (2023)

botanica.software/post/decodin

Botanica · Decoding the 90s: A Journey into Reverse Engineering and Cryptography in Early Software Development • Intro • Getting started - QText • Reversing MS-DOS binaries • PKZip • int 3f - MS-DOS Overlays • Key expansion function • Tracing through passcode flow • Key derivation function • Reversing the key derivation • Reversing the first stage - 4 bytes to 4 printable characters • Reversing the second stage - 16 bytes to 𝟦×𝟦 byte string • Putting it all togetherIntroIn August 2020, we were commissioned by a client with a cache of locked QText documents from the mid 90s - to whic
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"You can replace tech writers with an LLM, perhaps supervised by engineers, and watch the world burn. Nothing prevents you from doing that. All the temporary gains in efficiency and speed would bring something far worse on their back: the loss of the understanding that turns knowledge into a conversation. Tech writers are interpreters who understand the tech and the humans trying to use it. They’re accountable for their work in ways that machines can’t be.

The future of technical documentation isn’t replacing humans with AI but giving human writers AI-powered tools that augment their capabilities. Let LLMs deal with the tedious work at the margins and keep the humans where they matter most: at the helm of strategy, tending to the architecture, bringing the empathy that turns information into understanding. In the end, docs aren’t just about facts: they’re about trust. And trust is still something only humans can build."

passo.uno/whats-wrong-ai-gener

passo.uno · What's wrong with AI-generated documentationIn what is tantamount to a vulgar display of power, social media has been flooded with AI-generated images that mimic the style of Hayao Miyazaki’s anime. Something similar happens daily with tech writing, folks happily throwing context at LLMs and thinking they can vibe write outstanding docs out of them, perhaps even surpassing human writers. Well, it’s time to draw a line. Don’t let AI influencers studioghiblify your work as if it were a matter of processing text. It’s way more than that.
#AI#GenerativeAI#LLMs
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Since 3.5-sonnet, we have been monitoring AI model announcements, and trying pretty much every major new release that claims some sort of improvement. Unexpectedly by me, aside from a minor bump with 3.6 and an even smaller bump with 3.7, literally none of the new models we've tried have made a significant difference on either our internal benchmarks or in our developers' ability to find new bugs. This includes the new test-time OpenAI models.

At first, I was nervous to report this publicly because I thought it might reflect badly on us as a team. Our scanner has improved a lot since August, but because of regular engineering, not model improvements. It could've been a problem with the architecture that we had designed, that we weren't getting more milage as the SWE-Bench scores went up.

But in recent months I've spoken to other YC founders doing AI application startups and most of them have had the same anecdotal experiences: 1. o99-pro-ultra announced, 2. Benchmarks look good, 3. Evaluated performance mediocre. This is despite the fact that we work in different industries, on different problem sets. Sometimes the founder will apply a cope to the narrative ("We just don't have any PhD level questions to ask"), but the narrative is there.

I have read the studies. I have seen the numbers. Maybe LLMs are becoming more fun to talk to, maybe they're performing better on controlled exams. But I would nevertheless like to submit, based off of internal benchmarks, and my own and colleagues' perceptions using these models, that whatever gains these companies are reporting to the public, they are not reflective of economic usefulness or generality."

lesswrong.com/posts/4mvphwx5pd

#AI#GenerativeAI#LLMs
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