the world hasn’t figured out yet that you can literally just fix everything with a Nix overlay
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There are many things that are uncertain in our industry right now, but one thing I am certain about, and have been for almost 13 years, is that Nix is a terrible programming language. I remember when I first learned it, it felt like pushing shit uphill. The learning cliff
  • lobsters__k749g_10b6@crustaceanson.theshelf.topM
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    8 days ago

    What if I told you that when I’m doing agentic development, I develop on NixOS and I explicitly prompt my agents to use sudo as part of my loop engineering, and it is safe because NixOS is designed to make it nearly impossible to break a machine, and if it does, you can instantly roll back that change.

    As a Nixpkgs committer, I do not recommend taking this as a serious suggestion.

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