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  Reasons you still need a human in the loop: "Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100 https://share.google/6GPUoUdIMJG8EFPWh" Besides the occasional hallucinations, the lack of creativity, and an inability to encode certain types of info into the models (at least for now), #security is a huge issue. A #developer experienced in spotting malicious code and exploitable patterns can catch this sort of issue as often as in regular code reviews. #softwareDevelopment #AI #soft...

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  https://raccoon.land/posts/technical-excellence-is-not-enough/ I had boosted the post for this, but I feel tagging the author on the fediverse would be better: @avi absolutely brilliant post.

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  I always love finding out a feature isn't being used by discovering it was completely borked 3 months ago and no one noticed. #softwareDevelopment

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  If anyone is interested in contributing to #NuGetDefense I just opened an issue for moving the OSS Index source to their new compatibility endpoint ( #sonatype will continue to offer free usage via Sonatype Guide or the compatibility API). I'm going to look into creating a proper source for the newer Sonatype Guide API but it will not be soon unless someone wants to take on something a little more challenging. #FOSS #security #vulnerabilityscanning #nuget #dotNET

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  Working on optimizing a route where the first instinct was concurrency but it blows up and a deeper inspection finds hundreds of repeated queries. The fun part is using the repository pattern here has led to a legacy code issue where the slice doesn't line up with what the business logic needed and without rewriting an entire layer 😱 the only option is drilling the results of shared queries down N-layers of functions or finding some way of caching these queries that can be shared.

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  Friendly reminder to those who chose a career in #softwareDevelopment Adding or subtracting a time zone offset is not the same as converting a date/time to a timezone. It works for now, but not reliably for historical dates. And the day after a Daylight Savings change, yesterday becomes a good example of a problematic date.

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  When I switched jobs ~5 months ago I thought I was going to significantly increase my open source contributions with the time I've gained. Now I found myself using that time embedded with a youth program and trying to learn how to counsel teens for depression, conflict resolution, etc. If you can't contribute to #OpenSource or don't want to evangelize #FOSS, remember the whole point is people and there's plenty of need that you can help with if you open your e...