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Brett Estrade

  • About: PAUSE Id: OODLER Co-Founder of the Science Perl Committee Co-Editor of and regular contributor to The Science Perl Journal Co-Organizer of the Perl Community Conferences in Austin, TX. Lives in Houston, TX and is runner of the Houston Perl Mongers. The Perl Community is a 501(c)(3) organization based in Austin, Texas, USA. It is dedicated to the advancement of Perl 5 through its committees, including AI Perl, Perl::Types, and the Science Perl Committees, as well as publications like the Science Perl Journal. (Registered DOI Prefix: 10.63971)

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  • Tom Wyant commented on 575 Pull Requests in Three Weeks: What Happens When AI Meets CPAN Maintenance

    I don't know how development releases would help you. I do know that just because one of my modules passes all tests on my box does not mean it will pass everywhere. If the problem is truly only downstream failures, maybe development releases wouldn't help.

    But maybe what this means is that we need more testing infrastructure -- something analogous to "Blead Breaks CPAN," but for CPAN itself, not perl.

  • Robert Rothenberg commented on 575 Pull Requests in Three Weeks: What Happens When AI Meets CPAN Maintenance

    I have a lot of concerns about using LLMs.

    The sheer volume of code changes they can submit seems overwhelming. That's a lot to review, and it seems that bugs can slip through. I've seen some daft changes show up in codebases due to AI.

    There has also been some research in poisoning LLMs so that can insert security holes in code, not to mention years of badly-written/insecure code posted online that they have been trained on.

    There are also some serious legal and ethical concerns about using them:

    Do the PRs contain code snippets from other code with incompat…

  • Todd Rinaldo commented on 575 Pull Requests in Three Weeks: What Happens When AI Meets CPAN Maintenance

    > I do know that just because one of my modules passes all tests on my box does not mean it will pass everywhere.

    One of the critical pieces we learned about rapid development was assuring a complex CI workflow. If you review one of the actions for XML-Parser at https://github.com/cpan-authors/XML-Parser/actions/runs/24453321541, you'll see we test, all versions of perl, with/without LWP, 3 downstream packages, fedora, macos, ubuntu, and 3 flavors of bsd. There are minor things we cannot get without c…

  • Mohawk commented on The AI Revolution is Validating 40 Years of Perl Philosophy

    The AI-generated image of an "AI & Science Reception" could be worse, but the person who generated it had no idea about personal space, which leads to some of the figures standing so close to each other their hands have merged.

    Not the best sign.

  • Aristotle commented on The AI Revolution is Validating 40 Years of Perl Philosophy

    Also in at least two cases the wine glasses are in an ambiguous position in space, both in someone’s hand and in front of that hand simultaneously, or possibly having some fingers fused with the stem.

    Also, if you zoom in you will notice that basically no two people are looking actually at each other – almost everyone is looking just past the temple of the person near them, as if they are all standing staggered by half a shoulder width. (Maybe that is why they seemingly need so little personal space, because they’re not in fact up in each others’ faces?)

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