Daishiman

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by Daishiman 6d ago
> And I don't think it's plausible that the gap between those two is "well you just need to use it right". But this has always been the gap between effective software engineering and garbage. When humans write softwar
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by Daishiman 6d ago
> Ive actually yet to hear an X applied to production code that doesnt make me think that. This is one of those things we value in theory in engineering but not in practice. Reducing code as an artifact might mean coming up with clever w
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by Daishiman 6d ago
> At least back in the day there weren't endless comments about how this widget is load-bearing By far the biggest problem 90% of developers have with AI is that they should be turning off comments, as it's clear that the train
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by Daishiman 6d ago
> I see AI introduce all sorts of bugs all the time in my personal projects that I would never introduce, and would never think to test for, especially around anything graphical. This is referred to in the need for E2E testing and E2E te
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by Daishiman 7d ago
Spending a week practicing leetcode puzzles is what's actually being tested, and that's actually not a bad metric for judging employability. It's a relatively trivial exercise to sit down and study. If you can't do that
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by Daishiman 9d ago
> I fail to see how they will take a significant market share or even break even on this venture. Doesn't matter. You have to start somewhere and this is a good start.
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by Daishiman 10d ago
To be fair the JS frontend communities brought this to themselves way before LLM slop.
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by Daishiman 11d ago
As long as someone knows that they're going away from the industry good it's enough for a single defection.
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by Daishiman 12d ago
So now that SSL certificates are being weaponized it now becomes a matter of national security for any country to have their own independent CA infra. Another win for the US.
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by Daishiman 12d ago
20+ years of using Python. I don't really think that lack of training data for Kotlin is a problem.
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by Daishiman 12d ago
For the customers? Yes. For engineers building tools that increase their quality of life? For sure. For removing legacy cruft? Absolutely.
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by Daishiman 13d ago
Yes, if Alex from BizDev is a scheming moron who consistently lies about the priority of features, it’s hard to keep an LLM on the loop about it when transcribing meetings and feature requests. If your boss is gonna be unavailable for a mon
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by Daishiman 13d ago
I see my org delivering twice as many features and implementing way more tools that actually solve problems. The issue is that doesn’t necessarily mean that customers will pay more, as most of the features of software are not actually core.
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by Daishiman 13d ago
People who build good software with AI don't gloat about it being built with AI because it's not the most relevant part of it.
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by Daishiman 13d ago
There's a ton of people out there in various unknown companies grinding away and managing a reasonable number of well-prompted, parallel agents with decent CI and deployment strategy making judicious use of human review. But that'
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by Daishiman 13d ago
Yes. People see orgs tackling more problems and resolving bugs faster.
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by Daishiman 13d ago
More like, not having to read the docs of a library or a domain with a million gotchas is a bummer and best avoided if possible.
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by Daishiman 13d ago
Given enough context for a business problem, sure. But LLMs are not in a condition to judge how you should pick the technical solution to a business problem with several stakeholders, risks, and so on.
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by Daishiman 16d ago
This is wildly overblown. I've been working with agents for a good while, read tens of thousands of generated Python and the language factor is actually the part they get right that humans don't.
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by Daishiman 17d ago
The way I see it the Chinese labs are optimizing for other things, including effective compact models that don't need to run on top-of-the-line nVidia hardware.
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by Daishiman 17d ago
An fun thing with all these people taking GLP-1s is that we can epidemiologically categorize the social effects of obesity using within-subject controls.
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by Daishiman 17d ago
It's not an immediate end of humanity, it's the slowly eroding collapse of institutions. We're at 1.5 anyway so it's likely not the end, but the end is there and it's within a very likely scenario.
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by Daishiman 18d ago
> But it wouldn't matter even if it wasn't, my contention is that it won't be the apocalypse it's made out to be. Against the evidence of every branch of the natural sciences that studies the problem from every concei
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by Daishiman 18d ago
> I think everything you said is true, although as an addendum I (anecdotally) often find that some poorer nations are often closer and tight knit, which does cause stigma, but also reduces loneliness and stress associated with some ment
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by Daishiman 18d ago
> Anyway this topic shouldn't even be on HN. The story will likely be flagged soon. We are building a literal surveillance state tech dystopia funded by the sorts of VCs that employ a lot of the people in this site and you think tha
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by Daishiman 18d ago
> Peru probably isn't the best place to live, but the food, weather, people, and general culture which almost normalizes suffering in an almost Buddhist way (Sufre Peruano sufre! lit. Suffer Peruvian, Suffer!) might have something t
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by Daishiman 18d ago
> Why this is, is an interesting question but it hits on too many taboo topics. Though perhaps rational discussion becoming taboo is itself a part of the reason. I'm sure you fail to see the contradiction in claiming that "rati
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by Daishiman 18d ago
Roundup, last I heard, is not a natural product and its worldwide impact in insect biomass is at the level of the largest mass extinctions in history. Likewise the biomass of humans and cattle have an impact that can definitely be considere
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by Daishiman 18d ago
Is the AfD a party in favor of liberal democracy? Enlighten us about where you'd palce their ideas in the political spectrum.
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by Daishiman 23d ago
I don't think anything that could even be mentioned as VC despises its own clients as much as a16z. Trying to sell investors on NFTs in 2026 should be criminal.

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