Michael Westphal michaelwestphal

Regarding AI...

As a Developer and as a human being, it feels important to have a stance, or at least the start of one, regarding AI and myself. (I start with myself as I believe you should have your own affairs in order before you "criticise the world".)

There is an aspect of programming, perhaps to be defined more solidly one day, which should be hard. The impediment to action advances action. This is how we learn.

Defining terms, acronyms, and initialisms

AI := Artificial Intelligence
LLM := Large Language Model

YouTube link of the talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSaAMQVq01E Robert C. Martin aka Uncle Bob

(Items contain direct links into the relevant section of the video.)

We Will Not Ship Shit Do a good job.
Do not be lazy.
Do not be lousy.

A Yubikey, the commandline, and easily generating and copying a One-Time Password

Install ykman via homebrew on the Mac.

brew install ykman

Create bash/zsh function somewhere in your shell rc files

function otp() {
 code=$(ykman oath accounts code  -s)

	//
	// For when those pesky sites decide that you shouldn't be allowed to paste into an input...
	//
	// https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/paste_event
	document.addEventListener('paste', (e) => {
	e.stopImmediatePropagation();
	return true;
	}, true);

	// Ditto: copy