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AI Coding Tools: A Paper Hammer?

2025-08-10

The author expresses frustration with AI coding tools after trying them out. Blog posts and news articles often hype AI's ability to automatically write code and even build entire libraries, but the author's experience is drastically different. While the author finds AI tools helpful for simple tasks like completing sentences or finding type annotations, complex problems result in useless or buggy code, often introducing new bugs. The author likens this to a cool-looking but fragile 'paper hammer' incapable of real work. This leads to a reflection on the discrepancy between the perceived usefulness of AI tools and the author's own negative experience. This falls under the Development category.

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Man Page Links: It's Not the Man Pages, It's the Readers

2025-04-09

Common complaints about man pages include the lack of inter-page links and reflow on window resize. However, the mdoc(7) format used by man pages actually supports these features, using macros like `.Xr` and `.Sx` for creating links. The problem lies with man page readers (like `man(1)` combined with `less(1)`), which fail to implement this functionality. We need better man page readers that natively support links and reflow, rather than simply formatting the man page and piping it to `less(1)`.