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Jev-Leftpad

39 pointsby 1h agogithub.com
17 comments
41m agoHN ↗

Man-made horrors beyond my comprehension, neat.

37m agoHN ↗

Now that's a rare GitHub Username!

Though, again, a yet another project for a yet another "AI" to make someone else more dependent on it...

Related:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jev_(AI_model)  
    https://typesafe.ai/
24m agoHN ↗

Uses JEV to do something that's one line of code. Also, "leftpad" was a useless package from years ago that many important packages used instead of writing the code themselves. Its outage at some point broke a lot of packages.

16m agoHN ↗

why useless? it did one thing that js didn't natively do

9m agoHN ↗

It did one thing that you could write in one line of code. But it wasted space as a packaged dependency instead.

19m agoHN ↗

Jev is a new type of model that just makes decisions based on given options. It's small and really really fast.

Leftpad is a npm package that chooses if it should or shouldn't pad the left side of a string. It was famous for bringing down everyone's npm installs a few years ago.

This combination is a double joke. Put something stupid in something stupid.

30m agoHN ↗

Please don't use this in production. Or anything important.

5 to 10 years from now, after this has worked itself deep into the npm dependency chain, we'll be lamenting how Jev-Leftpad is causing outages in critical services.

29m agoHN ↗

On the npm doomsday thing, the scarier version is someone vendoring it and the padding silently drifting between runs.

24m agoHN ↗

Make sure to vendor this package if you want reliable operation.

    it('trusts Jev when it chooses the wrong amount', async () => {
    answer('space_2');
    await expect(leftPad('jev', 8)).resolves.toBe('  jev');
    });
19m agoHN ↗

This means the package can add between 0 and 10 spaces. If more than 10 spaces are needed, Jev has no correct option. Which feels appropriate for this project.

I'll raise a PR which uses Jev to check if the target length is beyond this range

7m agoHN ↗

I thought you were doing a PR to add an 11th space.

17m agoHN ↗

im so confused about what i should bring up at the 10am today

10m agoHN ↗

I have to be honest. While this is obviously a smart and useful idea, it misses one of the core features of Jev: its confidence scores. Partial confidence could easily be mapped to fractional spaces, using unicode characters like U+2009: THIN SPACE. As it stands, this package is not harnessing the full power of Jev.

6m agoHN ↗

wait.. is it just me or are we going overboard? I am waiting for jev assistance to exit vim, no wait.. a decision if we should exit vim or not.