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Jev-Leftpad

https://github.com/f/jev-leftpad
51•fka•2h ago

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Topfi•57m ago
Man-made horrors beyond my comprehension, neat.
jojobas•11m ago
I have no mouth but I must pad.
serious_angel•53m ago
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/
fumblebee•47m ago
Can someone ELI5?
sklivvz1971•40m ago
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.
grokkedit•32m ago
why useless? it did one thing that js didn't natively do
jagged-chisel•25m ago
It did one thing that you could write in one line of code. But it wasted space as a packaged dependency instead.
intothemild•35m ago
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.

r34ct0r14•47m ago
why
applfanboysbgon•46m ago
> 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.

sparrowidle•45m ago
On the npm doomsday thing, the scarier version is someone vendoring it and the padding silently drifting between runs.
frangonf•40m ago
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');
    });
raahelb•36m ago
> 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

Tepix•23m ago
I thought you were doing a PR to add an 11th space.
w-ll•34m ago
im so confused about what i should bring up at the 10am today
sethaurus•27m ago
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.
meowface•26m ago
But is it Web Scale.
yitchelle•22m ago
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.
rw_panic0_0•17m ago
what if 11 spaces are needed
freakynit•15m ago
Would be fun to have a test runner that uses Jev for assertions.

Btw, this model also has very tiny inherent bias: https://jev-bias-analysis.stupidlabs.lol/

speedping•13m ago
Flaky tests by design is a diabolical idea
mawadev•14m ago
This needs an SBOM and a SonarQube Qualitygate pass to be considered production grade code
fwlr•13m ago

    The tests mock Jev. 
10/10 no notes
speedping•12m ago
How did this guy get a single-letter GitHub username?
azatom•4m ago
i maintained a system where for .. reasons (like other systems) from early days have users with id: null "null" "" and some i do not even know how to write here

so probably early bird

tesnorindian•5m ago
Jev mania at its peak? HN is full of Jev like today.
larnon•3m ago
I already have Jev fatigue.

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