JeremyNT

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by JeremyNT 7mo ago
> That’s ultimately why Ted Cruz spoke out about the Kimmel cancelation. It doesn’t take long until those powers are turned against you. Meh, I think it's entirely asymmetrical in this era. Democrats aren't good for much, but
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by JeremyNT 7mo ago
Listen, I did try to understand, but I don't know what I don't know, and I'm not an expert like you. It's why I'm asking you for help in this thread. I'm a layman - I read up on the tools that existed and obvio
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by JeremyNT 7mo ago
> Yeah, I'm going to continue to disagree with you as I'm actually a litigator. OK, can you explain to me why this is a disaster for a vibe-coded SaaS? Why are computer access and/or contract laws insufficient and why wo
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by JeremyNT 7mo ago
> Your point being? You're just rambling assumptions about copyright and other things, which don't even track the actual law. I'm replying to the post that claimed: > If that’s how the court interpreted it, then the
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
The idea of copyright is to prohibit unauthorized use and reproduction, but none of this actually happens with a proprietary software SaaS backend. You don't actually give anybody the code - they connect to the service. Access to the s
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
I'm not sure this is really true, since copyright applies to distribution. If you have a substantial amount of backend code (as with most SaaS projects) you're never actually distributing the code, and copyright is never at play.
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
But AI can just read the diff. The natural language isn't important.
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
I think this too. I use the initial spec from the issue tracker as the prompt and work from there. The missteps the agent takes and the nudging I do along the way are ephemeral, and new models and tooling will behave differently. If you hav
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
I think the issue is they used to make progress at a snails pace and you had plenty of teachable moments. Now anybody can vibe code something that seems to work with a million landmines. How can they develop the intuition around this given
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
Is our memory so short? Regime change in Iraq destabilized that region for 2 decades.
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
Everything is political. All of our tech exists within society, and the actions of the government shape the incentives of every actor and the framework we exist in. HN likes to pretend otherwise, especially when it's inconvenient.
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
I'm curious what "logic board production" really means. My suspicion is it means "soldered a thing onto a motherboard" where all the individual pieces were shipped from Asia and the soldering is done by robots.
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
Not parent, but, depressingly: 1. Signal 2. BlueSky 3. Discord 4. WhatsApp 5. SMS This list is presented in order of preference, and in reverse order of prevalence.
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
Or hey, the VCs can self-deal by funding new startups that buy bot time from AI firms the same VCs already fund. No pesky developers siphoning away equity!
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
I think this is basically the only SWE-type job that exists beyond the (relatively near) future: finding the right spec and feeding it to the bots. And in this way I think even complete laypeople will be able to create software using the bo
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
I feel like you could have correctly stated this a few months ago, but the way this is "solved" is by multiple agents that babysit each other and review their output - it's unreasonably effective. You can get extremely good r
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
There are a lot of people, including (but absolutely not limited to) RFK, who are mentally incapable of proper research on their own. He (and similarly poorly informed people) would be better served by delegating the research task to somebo
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
Still a massive vehicle! Bulky electric cars make so little sense, because then you need bigger batteries, which... further increase the weight. The upcoming R3/R3x is likely to be a way more practical vehicle for most people, unless
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
This is a part of it, but I also feel like a Luddite (the historical meaning, not the derogatory slang). I do use these tools, clearly see their potential, and know full well where this is going: capital is devaluing labor. My skills will b
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
> The question really is what you think the long term direction of SWE as a profession is. If we need juniors later and senior's become expensive that's a nice problem to have mostly and can be fixed via training and knowledge
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
Their valuation is dumb no matter what but you've got to think it's based off of the potential for B2B / gov revenue, not monetizing the consumer facing stuff directly. Which is to say I feel like they're going to use ad
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
I have this problem too. I try to fix it by having multiple opencode instances running on multiple issues from different projects at the same time, but it feels like I'm just herding robots. Maybe I'm ready for gastown..
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
I see what these can do and I'm already thinking, why would I ever hire a junior developer? I can fire up opencode and tell it to work multiple issues at once myself. The bottleneck becomes how fast you can write the spec or figure out
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
I did similar with incus! I'm convinced that VMs are the right primitive here, for now. Being able to give an agent full root and passing it in just the stuff you want it to have is super easy and it's extremely foolproof . I hav
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
> Why does that make sense at all Parent said it would make more sense. I guess in terms of the relative level of stupidity on display, it would be slightly less stupid to build huge reflectors in space than it is to try to build spa
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
> Allowing states to differ wildly was what let bygones be bygones, but no we can't have that anymore, everything nowadays seems to need to be imposed on everyone via 190,000 pages of federal regulations and 300,000 federal laws.
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
> I think just as hard, I type less. I specify precisely and I review. Even if you "think just as hard" the act of physically writing things down is known to improve recall, so you're skipping a crucial step in understan
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
It's such bullshit that we've decided this moron and others in his cohort can unilaterally reallocate such vast portions of humanity's labor at their whims. This is an extremely stupid idea, but because of our shared delusion
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
We have so much excess land with no real use for it that our government actually pays farmers to grow corn on it to burn in cars. Availability of land for solar production isn't remotely a real problem in the near term.
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by JeremyNT 8mo ago
They jumped the gun really. The way the code assistants like opencode / claude / etc are improving with good models, I could easily see some kind of Copilot-like utility driving the whole OS in a pretty useful way to automate all

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