[–] 8 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Anything works really. Mint, Gentoo, Fedora, Arch all work - usually just need to install Steam and done, possibly install drivers using your package manager if it doesn't come pre-installed. Hell, you can even do SteamOS or something like Bazzite or Nobara if i remember correctly.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This 1000x. I am a PHP developer, I found out about two months ago that the AI assistant is included in my Jetbrains subscription (All pack, it was a separate thing before). And recently found about Junie, their AI agent that has deep thinking (or whatever the hell it is called). I tried it the same day to refactor part of my test that had to migrated to stop using a deprecated function call.

    To my surprise, it required only very minor changes, but what would've taken me about 3 hours was done in half an hour. What I also liked was that it actually asked if it can run a terminal command to verify thr test results and it went back and fixed a broken test or two.

    Finally I have faith in AI being useful to programmers.

    For a test, I took our dev exam (for potential candidates) and just sent it to see what it does just based on the document, and besides a few mistakes it even used modern tools and not some 5 year old stuff (like PSR standards) and implemented core systems by itself using well known interfaces (from said PSRs). I asked it to change Dependency Injection to use Symfony DI instead of the self-made thing, and it worked flawlessly.

    Of course, the code has to be reviewed or heavily specified to make sure it does what it is told to, but all in all it doesn't look like just a gimmick anymore.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yes, he has some good points that I agree with - like the bot takeover, and some other ones. However, he is a narcissist and know-it-all. He took SKG to the extreme, assumed it will be reality, and then bashed it to end. That is not how you do it. And you don't say "eat my whole ass" to someone trying to keep games playable after sunset - especially as a gamer and a game developer. It is not a law, it is an incentive to show support and let legislators handle it, so they know we want it. The guy is not a lawmaker, he is a YouTuber and a gamer, ofc it is not gonna be worded like law.

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