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by 59nadir 6mo ago
Cursor seemingly went out of their way to not mention that they were actually running Kimi K2.5 and essentially by that omission made it seem like they had made their own model. They added a note to a blog post about using it at some point
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
> Claude can so the expert stuff with a non-expert (at least in their mind) Opus is far better at most surface-level tasks than it is at tasks that require deep knowledge and understanding of domains; someone who is a complete generalist
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
> > But for the other 95% of people, being able to just say "ok can you make it look more modern" and have 4 variants in 5 mins, (like me) Figma will lose users like me. This does not describe thoughtful, good work. At best,
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
LLM auto-complete is the most useful experience I've had with LLMs by quite a margin, and those were the early GitHub Copilot versions as well. In terms of models and cost it overperformed. It wasn't always good but it was more im
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
Yes, what the LLM providers did was worse and impacted people financially a whole lot more in lost compensation for works as well as operational costs that would never reach the heights they did solely because of scrapers on behalf of model
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
LLMs do not have trouble reading, it didn't make the mistake you made and it wouldn't. You missed a word, LLMs cannot miss words. It's not even remotely a human mistake.
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
> So Apple won in some strange way again? Heh, what did they win exactly? This is just a way for another company to extract value out of the single region of the world where Apple is a relevant vendor, and it happens to be the one where
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
One example of this would be that it's better to go over to your buddy in QA to talk about the feature you just pushed instead of jumping into Jira and activating your overwrought, weirdly scripted kanban flow that requires 3 asynchron
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
Fossil is delightful and definitely nails a feeling of decentralization that I think we ruined completely with `git` by constantly centering around centralized repositories. I also find it interesting that so many people want to switch to s
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
s/RoE/RoI
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
If you're doing it specifically for inference (or in most other situations) a Mac(book) represents very low RoE.
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
> it was hard to be dynamic in the country with the stubborn labour laws It's hard to read this as anything other than "It's hard to treat your employees like shit when countries have strong labor laws and that just won&#x
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
Hang on, isn't this more a question of minutes if you know exactly what you're setting up and can throw some Ansible at it? What am I missing?
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
It's funny, we're now trained to see these things where they can't possibly ever have been (like in this case with the 11 year old blog). It's as if we all collectively forgot that whatever the LLMs are doing comes from
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
LLMs can really only mostly do trivial things still, they're always going to do very bad work outside of what your average web developer does day-to-day, and even those things aren't a slam dunk in many cases.
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
CTO is in many cases a rank more than a role, and given out accordingly. You should never take someone seriously based on their rank alone, much less a CTO.
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
Can you imagine paying the actual cost of it, or a subscription cost that at least ballpark matched it? I don't think I have a single friend or acquaintance who realistically would.
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
Bad for business and probably unwise for the type of product people will pop their head in to check on, then stop paying and return much later to see whether it's still not much more than a parlor trick for them.
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
An LLM finding problems in code is not the same at all as someone using it to contribute code they couldn't write or haven't written themselves to a project. A report stating "There is a bug/security issue here" is
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
Because you don't want to deal with people who can't write their own code. If they can, the rule will do nothing to stop them from contributing. It'll only matter if they simply couldn't make their contribution without L
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
I can assure that it's not. What makes you think I'd waste my time writing HackerNews comments using LLMs? Take a look at my post history and tell me honestly that you believe that to be the case. No, I just used a phrasing that r
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
In all fairness, 30+ years of web development is exactly what would convince you that shipping 1+ MB of JS is fine, no? I'm not really kidding... Web development is where all of the worst practices in programming thrive and come from.
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
Why not just use the actual logos? It's not as if you *have* to generate them.
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
> And the ease at creating a simple app that would be beyond 99% of the people in my company gives way too much confidence. And with misplaced confidence comes poor decision-making. I 100% agree. I heard via a CTO I've worked with b
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
Maybe I misunderstood the purpose of your post...? It seemed to me like you were arguing "Hey, what about me? Why shouldn't I vibecode since it enables me to do things that I couldn't before?" and that's what I wrot
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
> I certainly wouldn't call Claude Code "trivial" - it's by far the most sophisticated TUI app I've ever interacted with. I'll be honest, I think we just come to this from very different perspectives in that
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
Honestly, I think it's great that you could get the thing you wanted done. Consider this, though: Your anecdote has nothing to do with software engineering (or an engineering mindset). No measurements were done, no technical aspects we
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
Do you not think that ~400k lines of code for something as trivial as Claude Code is a great indication that there is an immense amount of bloat and stacking of overwrought, poor "choices" by LLMs in there? Do you not encounter th
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
> I think the same is currently happening with coding, except it will allow single builders and designers to do the same thing as an entire team 5 years ago. This part of your post I think signals that you are either very new or haven&#x
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by 59nadir 6mo ago
Because despite what HN users seem to think, HN is a LLM-infested hellscape to the same degree as Reddit, if not more.

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