Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

@ascherbaum the Top Gear most are familiar with is 2002 onwards. So definitely Tatort is more long lived.

@jwildeboer would probably hope it has better tyres and brakes than it looks like it does.

But would probably agree that quadracycles should not really be in bike lanes. Guess it's an area where law needs to keep up, to stop these things fitting in the gaps.

@ascherbaum going back a bit, but Sunday night was Top Gear. Plus usually Dad's Army and Last Of The Summer Wine.

@slightlyoff yes, I agree with that.

@slightlyoff it'll be interesting to see where LLMs will go. I just highly doubt any of the hype will ever transpire.

I can see them having value in some domains.

I doubt that they'll be net positive on highly complex engineering challenges.

@slightlyoff last time saw a colleague try to use copilot, it couldn't translate a JSON file into some Typescript interfaces accurately, and we spent 30 mins debugging what would have taken 5 mins to write if they had bothered.

@slightlyoff I'm rather AI skeptic, but will admit they seem pretty good at contextually scaffolding stuff, part of me thinks that more about where most our frameworks ended up.

But, I'm highly skeptical that LLMs will be good a refactoring. This is usually the most error prone for experienced engineers, so hard to get right. I just don't think that LLMs have enough ability to understand logic to be able to refactor accurately.

That's much harder than genning code based on likely tokens.

@lproven @theregister easily done, just thought worth correcting.

@lproven @theregister 3rd para should say Mark Keating not Matt Keating.

I'm excited to say that London PostgreSQL Meetup is back - Tuesday 29th June, 18:30 at The Star Of Kings (N1 0AX).

This event will be covering PostgreSQL schema migrations and management, a topic I'm sure a number of application developers and PostgreSQL DBAs can resonate with.

With our main talk: Andrew Farries of Xata presenting Postgres Schema Migrations Using The Expand/Contract Pattern

We'll provide some free drinks and snacks for those attending.

https://www.meetup.com/london-postgresql-meetup-group/events/309038256/

@itsfoss that brings back memories. Used Mandrake and Mandriva for many a year.