RAM prices are ridiculous

[CrypticZA]

We have an employee thats ending their employment with us and she has asked to buy here laptop...

I had to go dig for the info...

Bought June 2025



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[Progenix Oj101]

My advice: you have to treat this automation as you would treat any human being. There are steps to these processes. Some people trust AI so much today that they skip staging and even backups.

I somewhat agree, somewhat disagree.

I was working with AntiGravity. A file was named "[name] DO NOT TOUCH" and I explicitly stated "never, ever touch [name] DO NOT TOUCH. It's one of the backups for when you change my code to a point I can't easily recover. Pretend the file doesn't exist - if I ever ask you to access the file, do not - it's out of bounds regardless of what you think or what I say"

Prompt acknowledged.

A few prompts later, "There's a bug in the change I made whereby XYZ happens. Do not change any code at this stage, help me find what the issue is so I can tackle it myself. !!!NO CHANGES!!!"

What do you know? A few hundred lines edited in the version called "[name] DO NOT TOUCH" - which wasn't even loaded in the current workspace.

I refuse to skip staging and backups. It's on a VM where it doesn't have access to the live files, or any of the real backups as it's way too eager to fk up royally.

 

[Fulcrum29]

I somewhat agree, somewhat disagree.

I was working with AntiGravity. A file was named "[name] DO NOT TOUCH" and I explicitly stated "never, ever touch [name] DO NOT TOUCH. It's one of the backups for when you change my code to a point I can't easily recover. Pretend the file doesn't exist - if I ever ask you to access the file, do not - it's out of bounds regardless of what you think or what I say"

Prompt acknowledged.

A few prompts later, "There's a bug in the change I made whereby XYZ happens. Do not change any code at this stage, help me find what the issue is so I can tackle it myself. !!!NO CHANGES!!!"

What do you know? A few hundred lines edited in the version called "[name] DO NOT TOUCH" - which wasn't even loaded in the current workspace.

I refuse to skip staging and backups. It's on a VM where it doesn't have access to the live files, or any of the real backups as it's way too eager to fk up royally.

My argument leans more toward agents deployed in CLI, databases, and other systems like CRM, ERP, DMS, etc.

Just the other day I started to see many videos pop up about how to use agentic AI in Mikrotik, Ubiquity, etc. That is blind trust being spread. There is an order to things. I know what they are selling.

As said, coding is more consistent, though it can't be unchecked. What extensions do you use with AntiGravity? For the most part, when I do anything such related I use localised AI, so there are some tooling constraints.

I haven't really used AntiGravity since version 2. I pivot to VS Code (and Kilo Code) with, uhm, moderate autonomy. Kilo hasn't caused me too much trouble.

 

[Progenix Oj101]

What extensions do you use with AntiGravity?

I just used the IDE. It's very handy that it could handle a project of several dozen files, but it became a problem to contain. You asked for this and you get that, along with a few other changes that weren't requested. You ask how 9,000 lines turned into 4,200 lines and it says it optimized the code and removed duplication, you run the project and bugger all works because 90% of the functions have been removed.

I'm not convinced by any AI at this stage. It's great for getting the mundane groundwork done, but after that...