oh, and the application process is frustrating _on purpose_ to ensure that the tool is actually needed.

Is it about as awkward telling people their PR sucks and stinks of AI as telling somebody that their bad breath bothers you? For me it is, and it sucks, but telling them is the only way to stop the stink.

Like any slob in the past. We can not avoid it, but we can contain it. Focus on API surfaces that impact the whole.

It is Groundhog Day, but we forgot all the previous days. Sisyphus was happy this morning, will not be tonight.

Sisyphean and aware. 😱

maybe a fire? lot's of fires in the states apparently
www.mapofire.com#7.78/47.493/...

Try disabling Dolby Atmos on the Apple TV, or try to find an audio "pass-through" setting on the TV.

Want to send mail? No SMTP for you!

The Architect's API that does SMTP for you, with added features like email templates and security. It might even add a non optional signature to the e-post message.

Oh, and everybody must use that API from now on.

But when I receive that empty string in other languages, it really isn't the same, because we treat them as distinct.

A string is clearly defined, but because we use IsNullOrEmpty everywhere our code does not care. It does not matter if the default value in a class is the empty string or null, because we check both always.

Oh, I very much agree if we talk about valid strings in the context of a domain. Valid strings within a programming language on the other hand should be pretty strict.

Problem is, .NET and C#, has in practice made the line between null and string fuzzy, making interop hard. As your example shows.

String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace or String.IsNullOrEmpty? that's the question.

myString == null isn't a thing.

"But who would do such a thing?" 😅

Fantastic blog post.

I'm pretty sure that by having C# anywhere in your stack you will inevitably end up treating empty strings as null everywhere.

God awful førrbanna sjit.

(whitespace is empty? probably)

I'm not using LLMs at all, but I'm considering writing the llm-context file for people that do to get higher quality PRs.

Juniors next week: pipe your talk into whisper and place the transcript in a llm-context.md file for that sweet sweet LLM dopamine.