AstroBen

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   by AstroBen 1y ago

   only 10x? I'm at least 100x as productive. I only type at a measly 100wpm, whereas Claude can output 100+ tokens a second I'm outputting a PR every 6 minutes. The reviewers are using Claude to review everything. It used to take a
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   by AstroBen 1y ago

   I don't think this could even be called an improvement? It's small enough that it could just be random chance
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   by AstroBen 1y ago

   The performance degradation started before the AI boom imo
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   by AstroBen 1y ago

   Being forced to type in trivial boilerplate means you're very motivated to abstract it. Not saying this'll offset anything but I can see AI making codebases much more verbose
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   by AstroBen 1y ago

   It's quite possible changing plans to something that's enough to make them profitable would push everyone to a competitor Slowly bringing up prices as people get dependent sounds like a pretty decent strategy if they have the mone
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   by AstroBen 1y ago

   This is one of the least elegant ways to scope CSS though.. you may as well just write inline CSS I like BEM personally. "navbar__item" scopes the styling to the nav item > Once you're well familiar with your toolset, you
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   by AstroBen 1y ago

   I just can't fathom how someone can look at this and think "yeahhhh thats some good clean code". How did tailwind get so popular? Learn plain CSS. It's really good now
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   by AstroBen 1y ago

   How do you know the test suite is comprehensive if you don't have a grasp on what's happening? Not a gotcha I'm just extremely skeptical that AI is at a point to have the level of responsibility you're describing and hav
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   by AstroBen 1y ago

   Just started, super easy to set up
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    by AstroBen 1y ago

    > Is it really value add to my life that I know some detail on page A or have some API memorized? yes, actually. Maybe not intimate details but knowing what's available in the API heavily helps with problem solving
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    by AstroBen 1y ago

    Is working this way actually faster, or any improvement than just writing the code yourself?
12. 522.▲
    by AstroBen 1y ago

    I'm secretly hoping my iPhone will spontaneously explode so I can justify buying a pixel for this
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    by AstroBen 1y ago

    For sure. The biggest advantages of static types I see is the better tooling + faster feedback for type errors. They're advantaegs but not that big of a deal and they're equal to the tradeoffs you're making to where it does
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    by AstroBen 1y ago

    This has nothing to do with OOP. A class with a single static method isn't OOP You can use the 'class' keyword and write your program functionally, or procedurally
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    by AstroBen 1y ago

    Anxious about what? What's your issue with dynamic typing? Thorough tests of the behavior of your system (which should be done whether the language is dynamic or not) catch the vast, vast majority of type errors. "More runtime err
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    by AstroBen 1y ago

    I've been diving into a (new language to me) Swift codebase over the last week and AI has been incredibly helpful in answering my questions and speeding up my learning But meaningfully contributing to a complex project without the skil
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    by AstroBen 1y ago

    They've built 12+ products with a full time job for the last 3 years Something seems off about that...
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    by AstroBen 1y ago

    server-side templating languages solved this decades ago
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    by AstroBen 1y ago

    I wonder how much of this is driven by Linux gaming performance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44560913 I've used all three OS's for many years and I really just.. don't care which one I'm on anym
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    by AstroBen 1y ago

    It's a new category of tool and they're all competing for it
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    by AstroBen 1y ago

    Isn't that competing directly with JetBrains themselves?
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    by AstroBen 1y ago

    OpenAI is above 10 billion ARR and still growing fast.. this seems tiny in comparison?
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    by AstroBen 1y ago

    I'm really happy with Fluent Reader - it's available on all of Windows/Mac/Linux https://github.com/yang991178/fluent-reader
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    by AstroBen 1y ago

    Same. It's not going away though unfortunately - clickbait works
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    by AstroBen 1y ago

    This is good if front end is something you just need to get through. It's terrible if your work is moving to involve a lot of frontend - you'll never pick up the skills yourself
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    by AstroBen 1y ago

    Congrats! Wondering if you have any tips for what worked well with marketing?
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    by AstroBen 1y ago

    100%. LLMs aren't good engineers. They're mediocre, overengineering, genius, dumb, too simplistic, clean coding, overthinking, underthinking, great but terrible engineers rolled into one. You can get them to fight for any viewpoin
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    by AstroBen 1y ago

    The market supremacy came afterwards, not before. Most people don't want the expensive premium version - they want good enough at a low investment. And that's fine There's also a segment of the market that wants the FLAC, pre
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    by AstroBen 1y ago

    What would happen if Microsoft Office started to charge $250/mo tomorrow? My guess is you'd very quickly get a bunch of teams scrambling to produce something to compete and capture a huge market by charging a tenth the price. Fund
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    by AstroBen 1y ago

    The lowest cost (either purchase price, or to produce) products don't create a monopoly $30 blenders that break in 3 months haven't bankrupted Vitamix