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According to the release:

Adds experimental PostgreSQL support

The code was written by Cursor and Claude

14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed

reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks

This makes me uneasy, especially as ntfy is an internet facing service. I am now looking for alternatives.

Am I overreacting or do you all share the same concern?

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[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Ai can be powerful and destructive at the same time. (note: I didn't use Ai to write this).

Ai coding can help a lot in accelerating software development. In the right hands that is. Meaning the software engineer still reviews the code. Test it. And takes responsibility. In those cases there is nothing wrong with using Ai for software development.

The problem is that some programmers are using AI without even looking at the end results. Just approves everything, commits, push and release. That approach is wrong and especially inexperience engineers might fail into this trap. So in this case the code has most likely a lot of duplicated code, full with bugs and other issues. Some issues you encounter it for the first time, since it wasn't tested etc.

In the latter story, you feel the impact. And the downsides of Ai. And only see the negatives of Ai. You might say it's Ai slop even. Or vibe coded. Which is correct.

Tldr: Ai can be very powerful in the right hands. It still requires a lot of human time and effort to get it correct. And if the engineer is too lazy then you feel the consequences. If you got an experienced software engineer that takes the responsibility of the code. Reviews it thoroughly. Test all corner cases, etc. Then AI can be powerful and helpful.

[–] ExFed@programming.dev 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Agreed. I have a sense that, eventually, development communities will figure out etiquette and policies to govern LLM usage. But how do you enforce that kind of policy? Right now, it's essentially a judgement call by the maintainers. It's hard to catch sneaky LLM usage.

On the other hand, I think there are objectively good ways to use LLMs for software:

  • High-level design and planning
  • Technical Research (although this tends towards the most popular tech)
  • POCs & rapid prototyping
  • "Textbook" solutions
  • TDD Red/Green development (where the LLM generates failing tests based on the high-level spec, and the programmer writes the implementation)
[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Indeed also read the paper called Programming as Theory building. From 1985. Which is very relevant today again. Since people lose the connection with the code due to Ai.

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[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 5 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Was this written with genAI? Even the TLDR is padded fluff of common talking points

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Well now I certainly am glad I didn't migrate from Gotify as I've been slowly planning.

[–] xelar@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago

Im quite hesistant with idea of AI writing my code. At one point your AI wont help you with fixing certain bug and you will have to go through all of this AI slop. Not to mention you deploy debt code.

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[–] abucci@buc.ci 6 points 3 days ago

Thanks for the heads up. I was considering trying ntfy for some home projects but now I will not.

[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
DNS Domain Name Service/System
Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
IP Internet Protocol
MQTT Message Queue Telemetry Transport point-to-point networking
NAT Network Address Translation
XMPP Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol ('Jabber') for open instant messaging

6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 15 acronyms.

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[–] Buage_@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago

I have the same concern..

[–] lnxtx@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago

No thumb down reaction emoji 🤔

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using PUT/POST

I'm sorry, how many lines of code for that?

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[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What's the difference between ntfy (android app) and ntfy.sh?

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ntfy.sh is the hosted version. Hosted by the author. Ntfy (android, ios) is the app that you use as a client.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've never used ntfy.sh

I've only used Ntfy app for Universal Push that some apps need, and they recommend ntfy. Does this affect the app then? Ah, if so, what alternative can I use for just that purpose?

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 3 points 2 days ago

Gotify is probably the next best thing, at least in terms of self hosted. Though doesn’t have the wide support of ntfy.

[–] newtothis3@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

In reality how big of a risk it currently is? I just started to use it just for fun and personal projects. If previous version didn't have security vulnerabilties then then there is no rush to update or am i missing something?

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 days ago

Damn, I guess I'll stick to the older release for now. Hopefully a viable alternative/fork comes around.

[–] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I meant to ask already: what is the actual technical difference between mqtt and ntfy? For me it feels pretty similar technique, just one is used for push service and the other not. So it feels like reinventing the wheel. Maybe somebody here can enlighten me?

[–] k_rol@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

I think the main difference is that services adapt to mqtt while nfty adapts to services to send the msgs. Also, nfty offers push notifications on your Android device.

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