Hi! I'm the one running this clown-car. You can find the source code here:
https://github.com/johnHackworth/goblin

Soft. dev by trade, all opinions my own, etc.

Pronoums: He/Him

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This week I saw the first instance of someone almost pushing a (partly) AI-generated piece of code that would have broken production. It was the kind of thing AI agents are supposed to be safe for (a piece of code manually written and tested in a browser, use the agent to add multi browser support). A very good, very senior engineer realized about the issue when reviewing the pull request. "Very good, very senior" as in "there are probably less than 100 people in the world that knows more about this" kind of senior.
I don't think I would have catch it if I was the one reviewing that code. I also don't think it would have happened to begin with if the author of the PR would have spent 10 minutes looking for that info manually instead of asking the agent to polyfill their code.
Future is scary, y'all.

2025-02-21 20:38:25 UTC

"The US taxpayer has been subsidicing the defense of europe"
Look at me in the eyes. Look at me while I say this:
Bollocks.
BOLLOCKS.
BO.
LLOCKS.
The US 'defense' of Europe is carried out by around 65k US soldiers based in a couple of dozen US military bases in EU territory. The combined armies from the EU countries (and this is not even counting non-EU european countries, like the UK or Norway) have something between 1.5 and 2 million active troops. It doesn't feel those 65k USians are the ultimate line of defense of Europe.
Do you know for whom those soldiers and military bases are crucial, instead? For THE FUCKING US OF AMERICA.
Because, hear me out, WITHOUT EUROPEAN BASES THE US CAN'T PROJECT POWER INTO THE MIDDLE EAST NOR NORTH AFRICA. Yeah, sure, a carrier group is very impressive and the ultimate modern weapon yadda yadda. Good luck sending it to them to the persian gulf straight from the US East Coast. And even better luck trying to supply them without airbases in Europe. Ane even better than better luck putting troops on the groups anywhere in the old world without those bases.
Without their European military bases, the US is no longer a global military power. A major one? sure. But one that's MUCH more local than they have been until know, more similar to Russia or China.
So honestly, maybe it's time to get them to fuck off of our continent.