Incipient

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by Incipient 2mo ago
It's not the readme that gets me. It's the damn "chasing loc" KPI in the industry that continuously drives Claude to spout entire essays of docstrings and comments that make code unreadable that infuriates me!
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by Incipient 2mo ago
I find agents are definitely useful as a blind audit/adversarial attack on a set of changes. A more comprehensive prompt, but in essence "go come up with a set of changes you'd make to achieve -set of requirements and then co
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by Incipient 2mo ago
Nitpicking - I'd argue the title is spot on! It's a new source of energy. Not a new type . But yeah, I clicked expecting a research article. Not a deep hole.
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by Incipient 2mo ago
I'm genuinely curious how you can do this - with limited context tokens, I find the output is often inconsistent with the project, or recreates functionality it missed, if I forget to point it at every pertinent object/library&#x2
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by Incipient 2mo ago
Publishers don't care if rare books get shredded?
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by Incipient 2mo ago
I personally find react overly engineered for my projects - vuejs (+quasar on top) is just great. Granted a little boring perhaps, but it just works, behaves as you'd expect, and doing anything just isn't that difficult.
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by Incipient 2mo ago
I'd say you have to have a really solid/creative (ingenious?) plan beyond "just nationalise it and she'll be right" - otherwise yeah it'll just be heavy and a drain on the economy.
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by Incipient 2mo ago
Varta has moved (outsourced?) pretty much all consumer batteries we get in Australia to China.
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by Incipient 2mo ago
Wait this is new? Large context models figure out the architecture of the request. Miss sized models plan out each requirement, and smaller models implement a tightly detailed task? Isn't this the standard approach?
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by Incipient 2mo ago
But can it, really? It takes a huge amount of time, resources, and knowledge to train a highly capable model. It also takes a huge amount of the same to run them. Is it ever going to not be centralised?
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by Incipient 2mo ago
$200/mo for 20x Max is great value - but it's not sustainable and won't last forever. Microsoft gave up. Anthropic will too. I use roughly $10k/mo - at that price it's absolutely not worth it. I'm genuinely not
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by Incipient 2mo ago
I mean Claude IS replacing people. Even in Australia - Claude + postgres mcp is replacing data/bi people in even small and medium businesses.
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by Incipient 2mo ago
Blimey there is always a new thing to learn/use/know with AI - keeping up is getting tiring.
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by Incipient 2mo ago
Is there a viable alternative to the sync clients - pc/android with cloud/ghost files etc?
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by Incipient 2mo ago
I wish I never thought of it. Just had a recent Samsung TV update, and now it has to sign in EVERY TIME it turns on. I'm considering how to frame it as a warranty job.
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by Incipient 3mo ago
My current approach which I've been testing on two MVPs with what I would call 'moderate success' (but hey, actual success!) 3 tier, philosophy-spec-design. Increasing detail. Design files include db model explanations and ps
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by Incipient 3mo ago
I had to do the same. I expect everything will go token pricing, and at that point a LOT of small/mid businesses will drastically change how they use code. I've swapped to the 20x Claude plan for a month or two to knock out two id
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by Incipient 3mo ago
I have spent a SOLID 3 full days 8h/day (plus long running tasks overnight) thrashing out a random idea for a Web application using purely Opus (mostly Max, sometimes ultracode version). I'm not a project manager, but I genuinely
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by Incipient 3mo ago
Unless the token estimates I get from using Claude are wayyy out, I burn through 5m+ tokens/day, and I'm not doing a lot of time. 500k tokens in a 24h period for $5k of hardware seems quite poor?
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by Incipient 3mo ago
Hey I mean we've been using a fairly basic mssql box for years in a organisation of about 300 and it humms along nicely - granted we have 2 'materialised' aggregate tables/views (done in Python) but the TCO is tiny, and
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by Incipient 4mo ago
Everyone knows a philosophy comes before a spec. Claude has to write your applications philosophy first, then you write your spec. But a philosophy is crap without a values statement, so Claude has to actually write that first.
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by Incipient 4mo ago
I'm really annoyed at github for only allowing export of a single month of usage. There were a lot of people (here included) that were absolutely abusing github - getting Opus to generate its own subagents for days on end with a single
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by Incipient 4mo ago
I've so far been anti-chinese memory in my recommendations, not because it's Chinese (I don't really trust any big organisation/govt other than the EU?) but because they've been very new, and it's not worth PC
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by Incipient 4mo ago
It absolutely is in Australia, and I suspect Europe (from when I went 5 or so years ago). Even mostly possible in Houston when I was there 15 years ago. The US is even more cooked than I thought if you can get a bunch of fresh veggies from
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by Incipient 4mo ago
I think art/music is in a weird dichotomy of sorts, for me at least. It's both the most and least impacted by AI. It's trivial to go "hey suno give me music" but I refuse outright to listen to AI music as knowing it
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by Incipient 4mo ago
I'm confused how the world itself works - or would work - at scale. Taking that minecraft clip on the link, if I jump down a cave first, and the model decides the cave goes off to the left. A few hours later I come back, and this time
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by Incipient 4mo ago
Outputting video of that quality/consistency at 1 minute, for a 2.6B model seems insane?
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by Incipient 5mo ago
The only way you can get away with creating an application without touching sql is of you offload the logic to your backend language, and then I don't think you'd be efficient enough to scale. Also can someone actually understand
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by Incipient 5mo ago
Sorry there should have been an 'and/or' clause in there. Reputational I was thinking leaking data, or generating wrong information for users etc
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by Incipient 5mo ago
I'm sure a vibe coded internal or external application WILL break a company. The thought process is however, out of 10 companies: - 2 won't use AI at all and simply be left behind and stagnate (or go bust) - 2 will partly use AI,

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