For your database test data, I usually write a helper that defaults those columns to base values, so I can pass in lists of dictionaries, then the test cases are easier to modify and read.
It's also nice because you're only including the fields you use in your unit test, the rest are default valid you don't need to care about.
I don't know basic solutions that are super good, but whisper sbd the whisper derivatives I hear are decent for dictation these days.
I have no idea how to run then though.
One word of caution with AI searxh is that it's weirdly vulnerable to SEO.
If you search for "best X for Y" and a company has an article on their blog about how their product solves a problem the AI can definitely summarize that into a "users don't like that foolib because of ...". At least that's been my experience looking for software vendors.
It's a bit frustrating that finding these tools useful is so often met with it can't be useful for that, when it definitely is.
More than any other tool in history LLMs have a huge dose of luck involved and a learning curve on how to ask the right things the right way. And those method change and differ between models too.
It is truly terrible marketing. It's been obvious to me for years the value is in giving it to people and enabling them to do more with less, not outright replacing humans, especially not expert humans.
I use AI/LLMs pretty much every day now. I write MCP servers and automate things with it and it's mind blowing how productive it makes me.
Just today I used these tools in a highly supervised way to complete a task that would have been a full day of tedius work, all done in an hour. That is fucking fantastic, it's means I get to spend that time on more important things.
It's like giving an accountant excel. Excel isn't replacing them, but it's taking care of specific tasks so they can focus on better things.
On the reliability and accuracy front there is still a lot to be desired, sure. But for supervised chats where it's calling my tools it's pretty damn good.
we could go home now, but then ensign Kim will get promoted to captain. I can't allow that.
Not disagreeing the Trudeau jr years were awful financially, but not all spending is future austerity.
If spending results in higher revenue or higher income for Canadians, then that does pay a return. Infrastructure is expensive but it’s a great enabler of other commerce and economic activity.
But when the government takes on debt it does need to take that seriously for exactly the reasons you mention
The full Seven of Nine treatment.
That’s why I pour it into the jar in the sink.
That and I’m really messy and the sink is the easiest place to clean up spilled grease.
I don’t know how many of these disasters happen in Texas, but this guy manages to dodge them with stunning accuracy.
If he weren’t in a leadership role it would be amazing.
How does a man with a tattoo like that not get constantly interrupted by women propositioning him?
So today I discovered that there's a cron job that holds non-reproducible state that died, and now our system is fucked.
The cron job doesn't live inside any source control. This morning it entered a terminal state, and because it overwrites its state there's no way to revert it.
I'm currently waiting for the database rollback and have rewritten it in a reproducible/idempotent way.
Definitely, I'm just trying to share a foot gun I've accidentally triggered myself!