YHK - yet another hacker news clone

Highlights from Git 2.56

12 points soheilpro 1 day ago 3 comments

tobwen 1 day ago | parent

Some whataboutism for those, who use AI to code: Modern model will NOT know about these nice new features.

I did some intensive testing with changelogs and came to the conclusion that knowledge is partitioned and comes with variable cutoff dates.

Common tools, like GIT, have their feature cutoff in like 2023 or even earlier. Enough for a model to work with the tool when there was no groundbreaking change.

Gossip has a fresher cutoff date. People ask models like an interactive Wikipedia.

pjmlp 1 day ago | parent

Most humans don't know about these features, most of us touch the Git surface of endless command line options and get on with our actual job.

There is a reason why creating a fresh clone instead of doing a myriad of git commands to sort out a local repo going bad is such a meme worth of xckd attention.

tobwen 1 day ago | parent

"Most humans don't know about these features" - I agree with you there, but I think models should be able to do that. That's why, for the past year, I've been maintaining "changelog skills" that I feed into the models to fill in the gaps in their knowledge.

By the way, all modern models know which hospital the last pope was admitted to shortly before his death.