CharlieDigital

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by CharlieDigital 5mo ago
> Slowly your brain just gets trained to mid thinking like an LLM Regression to the mean. I am doing a lot of the code reviews on my team and I can see that LLMs have a hard time with OOP (or are perhaps specifically guided to
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by CharlieDigital 5mo ago
I'm aware of the Surface line, but 1) they don't own the hardware stack nearly to the same degree as Apple does, 2) it makes up only a small slice of the ecosystem and is a more premium product as far as PCs go. Windows ecosystem
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by CharlieDigital 5mo ago
I have been sounding the alarm on my team that the current edict to go all-in and not plan features ( "we can just throw it away and rebuild it" ), not read code ( "the agents should do all the coding and review" ) is s
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by CharlieDigital 5mo ago
Apple has the edge here since they fully control the hardware and can baseline their implementation. It feels like Microsoft's task is much harder because there's a much broader range of hardware and capabilities that they need t
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by CharlieDigital 5mo ago
Employed doing what? At some point, we'll have autonomous tractors, autonomous techs to fix those tractors, autonomous cars and delivery vehicles, robot plumbers, AI doing information work. Employed doing...what?
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by CharlieDigital 5mo ago
> ...learn how far a new technology can be trusted I think you've missed the point of this statement: > Starting with business needs first is essential This is a negative shift I've seen in product now. I
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by CharlieDigital 5mo ago
> ...but that doesn’t mean it’s generating the correct code. Something I'm observing is that now a lot of the pressure moves to the product team to actually figure out the correct thing to build. Some product teams are si
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by CharlieDigital 5mo ago
Vue single-file components (SFC[0]) still works this way. <template>  </template> <script setup lang="ts"> // JS/TS as you would expect
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by CharlieDigital 5mo ago
I'm aware; I'm Taiwanese :)
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by CharlieDigital 5mo ago
> have consistently been keeping up with (albeit a few steps behind) I mean, this sentence is self contradictory, no? > Hardware capacity is a separate issue entirely. It seems like hardware capabilities are at the
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by CharlieDigital 5mo ago
In semiconductors. Otherwise, no one would need to buy from Nvidia or contract with TSMC.
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by CharlieDigital 5mo ago
Do not have any empirical evidence, but reality is that China's semiconductor capabilities are not at par with Taiwan yet and the US is able to influence Nvidia's sales to China as well as access to other vendors (TSMC) and techno
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by CharlieDigital 5mo ago
It's funny, I've been literally trying to convey these exact sentiments to my team over the last few days down to the: > Need to build a whole new feature to test it? Have you tried putting a button in the existing UI and
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by CharlieDigital 5mo ago
I just find it very weird that there are two standards here. Express is ostensibly the analog of minimal APIs and ships with no validation. You pick your validation library and build on top of it. A less complete, less opinionated, bare-b
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by CharlieDigital 5mo ago
> It failed very often and you had to manually restart the dev process. Even when it worked, it was no where as fast as eg using Bun with TS Really depends on what you're doing. For run of the mill APIs, it works pretty f
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by CharlieDigital 5mo ago
Forget about the old stuff; just use .NET 10. It's really, really good now. DX is fantastic. Yes, the hot-reload will probably never match that of interpreted languages, but for a compiled language, it is good. File-based apps are ea
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by CharlieDigital 5mo ago
C# feels kinda nice because it's a good balance. Very good static typing, Roslyn analyzers, good tooling and decent hot reload (for a compiled language), really good ORM (EF Core) that implements UoW and reduces a lot of the need for t
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by CharlieDigital 5mo ago
This rings a bell. Now that you can just throw tokens at it, it seems like actually thinking about what is useful and productive is no longer a practical skill (it still is, just no one in leadership nor product wants to practice discipline
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by CharlieDigital 5mo ago
Rings true because now teams end up building a lot of things that may or may not have alignment to customer/business needs. The slow part has always been figuring out exactly what the customer/business actually needs, not the codi
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by CharlieDigital 5mo ago
The LLM obliges and writes a lot of useless tests. I have asked devs to delete several tests in the last day alone.
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by CharlieDigital 5mo ago
You missed the point of the question: why write Bun in Rust when CC itself can be written in Rust ostensibly for even better perf.
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by CharlieDigital 5mo ago
You might be underestimating the effect that corporate policies and culture have on the product. Some teams have a push now to go all in on AI; don't even look at the code. I've seen this in action and the results are probably wh
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by CharlieDigital 6mo ago
Constraints are underrated. The most elegant solutions typically arise not out of unbounded degrees of freedom, but building specifically with a constraint in mind. I think that this goes with point 1: composing the one pager helps define t
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by CharlieDigital 6mo ago
> The most creative act is this continual weaving of names that reveal the structure of the solution that maps clearly to the problem we are trying to solve. From Confucius, The Analects, 13.3 : If names are not rectifie
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by CharlieDigital 6mo ago
The US no longer feels like a place where the rule of law applies. For whatever you want to fault China with (human rights, personal freedoms, etc.), there is at least the facade of rule of law. US is masks off and not even a thin veneer th
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by CharlieDigital 6mo ago
> The value-add that Microsoft brings to Github Copilot is near zero You are not their target audience. The value add is the GitHub integration. By far the best. GH has cloud agents that can be kicked off from VS Code; deeply
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by CharlieDigital 6mo ago
My take is similar. Majority of the cases, I think this is harmless. In C#, for example, we have agents repeatedly generating switch expressions for file extensions to MIME-type. This is harmless since there's no business logic. But w
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by CharlieDigital 6mo ago
I have found this at a different scale in our company: agents keep writing the same private static utility methods over and over again without checking for it in existing code. Sometimes, I'll catch it writing the same logic 2x in the
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by CharlieDigital 6mo ago
Eh. The station itself is a pretty active hub. We arrived there 9:30 AM to visit teamLabs Kyoto (which is just walking distance away from the station) and it was already pretty packed in the station. But I think your observation/comme
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by CharlieDigital 6mo ago
> Scaling the workers sometimes exacerbates the problem because you run into connection limits or polling hammering the DB Design question here (not familiar enough with this approach with Pg) Would an alternative be to have a

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