cartero Wednesday, August 12, 2026 · No. 25927
LLM Evaluation

A new era for software testing

Automatic programming dramatically speeds up writing software in certain use cases and in the right hands. In my experience the output does not reach the structural quality and economy of complexity of the best hand-written software. However, not all the software is stellar, and my feeling is that automatic programming surpasses most of the times (and if well managed) the quality of decently written hand-written code. So, there is a tradeoff between quality and time, in the case of writing n...

Database Administration and Tooling

Christophe Pettus: All Your GUCs in a Row: data_directory_mode

PostgreSQL 11 lets you create a data directory with group read access (0750) instead of owner-only (0700), enabling unprivileged backup processes to copy files…

Open Source

Qualcomm Linux

Clojure

I Love Lisp

Artificial Intelligence

AI Can't Care