I use AI for small, atomic, stuff that don’t bring any intellectual value to spend time for.

Like “Typescrit. Find smallest element in an array”. “Python. Simulate keboard event to avoid computer going to sleep mode”. Or copy/past error message because I missed an import and I just want to know which one.

I also use it sometime for well identified algorithm that could be interesting but are not the core of the problem. Like “C#. Clustering algorithm to group points together in a point cloud”.

The generated code is catastrophic in term of performances/memory, but it’s good enough 80% of the time.

But eveytime I tried to use AI for higher level stuff, or that require several interdependant concepts, it ended up into hallucination pit.

• I have this problem
• Cool ! Use solution A !
• Doesn’t work
• My Bad, use solution B !
• Doesn’t exist
• Indeed ! For this problem you should apply method A which will work !
• (-_-)’

In this case, I don’t think silverbullet is the right tool. It’s not like if an “admin” can hide all the complexity for end users by creating its own frontend. The complexity will still be visible to end users. As long as someone can edit a page, he will see the lua script behind.

If readonly, it just look like other wiki. The https://silverbullet.md/ site is itslef written in silverbullet. You can have a look to video to see how it works: https://silverbullet.md/Manual

Out of the box, there is no really “Admin” portal and “User” portal. It may be doable, but I cannot describ a workflow. I use it as a small wiki for my homelab because I like overcomplicated tool. I’m on neovim btw 🤣

It can. Silverbullet can do quite anything, that’s where it’s name comes from. You can code your own logic directly in markdown through lua like code, get pages tags, generates tables etc… but the tool is very “hacky”. Either you love it, either you hate it. And if you are not a hairy nerdy guy, you will hate it.

“Bad abstraction is worse than duplication”

Oh shit, thank you so much for this part ! I don’t even count number of time I had to face enthusiasts developers saying "These lines of code are very similar, let’s factorize them ! "

And that’s how MathManagerHelper class is born…

I gave a try to jj. It’s fine for personal projects or small team and make the workflow a bit easier. No more “git add; git commit; git push” each time you do a modification. You just “jj git push” and everything will be automatically pushed.

However, the biggest criticism I have is that he doesn’t encourage to push every time. It really encourages you to keep your modif locally and push only to create a PR, and that’s not a good approach.

Even if you code is WIP, even if everything crash, you really should push your code to backup it. Who cares ? As long as it is not on master branch, it’s your own mess.

Yes, unfortunately, we don’t have time to learn everything, we have to choose. Sys engineer is a rabbit hole which is too deep for me, I prefer spending time on other things.

Currently, I’m into quantum computing. I’m configuring the uConsole so I can easily edit my blog on the go.

No, I have a uConsole on which I experiment various things: WM, kernel, tray bar, etc… So yes, when I want a quick and dirty solution to see if it work, I just ask mistralAI for a command. I have a rough idea of what’s going on, but I’m not a sys engineer and I don’t care about all the subtilities of using systemd, init.d, cron, xinit or whatever solution to run a driver at startup.

I don’t care about stability or integrity, as it’s just a toy and I just wipeout the system when it become too unstable 😉

I’ve installed several windows managers, bash, kernel, etc… without really knowing what I’m doing. It help me quickly check on which config I am.