LeafItAlone

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by LeafItAlone 5d ago
> Plumbing pays pretty well Plumbing does not pay well for the average plumber. Not doctor-well at least, which is what you are responding to. Can some plumbers make good money? Absolutely. But you need to do dirty, body-breaking work fo
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by LeafItAlone 7d ago
LLMs can provide the intentions of the code they write. To say they can’t is saying that they can’t fix bugs, which they very obviously can do effectively. So, just tell them to write the intention in the way you want it. If you are implici
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by LeafItAlone 7d ago
Fix your harness. Provide rules, format, and good examples. You probably had those for the humans in your team for when new hurts join, right? Just direct your LLMs to them and you’ll have a much better experience. Just like you can’t expec
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by LeafItAlone 8d ago
A big win of LLMs in my book is the absolute reduction of commit messages with just “fixes” or “updates”. Commit messages have become more meaningful and useful, even if far from perfect. We have one dev who uses LLMs to write the code, but
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by LeafItAlone 20d ago
This is certainly a problem with out-of-the-box usage. But easily overcome. Spend time updating your harness. This is not a hard problem to solve and there are many helpful guides out there. We basically took our documented (human) SDLC pro
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by LeafItAlone 20d ago
You need a better harness. LLMs are significantly better at this than humans. Add it as a step in your LLM process and your documentation will always be up to date.
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by LeafItAlone 21d ago
I personally find it unbelievable that you have access to all of the public GitHub projects available and still think the typical developer writes good code.
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by LeafItAlone 21d ago
We’ve been tracking performance and bugs for years. Including commits those bugs were introduced in. So when LLM-generated code started working its way into our codebases, we have the before and after. And even comparing human generated cod
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by LeafItAlone 21d ago
Depends on the prior state. For one codebase I work in, LLM written code is noticeably and measurably (we have literally measured it for bugs, performance, etc.) better than what existed before. So the LLM code is a welcome change.
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by LeafItAlone 22d ago
Dude, just be nice and let people have fun. Raspberry Pi’s have made it possible for people to do things they never otherwise would have done! It is pretty amazing!
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by LeafItAlone 22d ago
That seems a little unfair. 1. It’s so much easier using RPis for that work. It can be done with no soldering at all and there are tons of easy to use libraries. Not having to solder is a huge plus IMO and I have a workstation with iron, ho
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by LeafItAlone 1mo ago
That page is… a lot, on mobile. Here’s the tech specs page, which is also busy: https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/press-kit/
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by LeafItAlone 1mo ago
Interesting how all of the replies so far to your comment assume we’d just release the existing animals into the wild instead of just not breeding more.
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by LeafItAlone 2mo ago
This is such an ironic blog post it hurts.
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by LeafItAlone 6mo ago
What is snarky about that? The answer is so that they can charge different prices per credit. If you buy low amounts, they can charge one price. If you buy in bulk, they can offer a discount. The usage is the same, but they can differentiat
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by LeafItAlone 7mo ago
I would love to hear more about this!
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by LeafItAlone 7mo ago
Don’t worry. This advice has been going around for much more than 2 months, including links posted here as well as official advice from the major companies (OpenAI and Anthropic) themselves. The tools literally have had plan mode as a first
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by LeafItAlone 8mo ago
>what's the value of paying someone for a product like this vs just building it myself? Same thing it’s always been. Convenience. Including maintenance costs. AI tools have lowered the bar significantly on some things, so SaaS offer
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by LeafItAlone 8mo ago
I lived in such a place and never had power outages. Mostly because the power company came through on a regular basis (two years or so) and chopped down and trees that could cause problems. Some areas definitely looked terrible from a beaut
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by LeafItAlone 8mo ago
Who paid the $20k?
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by LeafItAlone 8mo ago
I’ve had a cheap (was $15) single salad spinner, for about 15 years. Decent amount of usage in that time, but not professional level. So my question to you is: what the heck are you doing to your salad spinners?
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by LeafItAlone 8mo ago
All of this was on a Bambu A1 Mini? These are the types of things I want to print. My Ender 3 was so finicky, I only got a few out before I gave up.
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by LeafItAlone 8mo ago
>simply moving to greener pastures, whether that be NC, TN, NV, or FL Yeah, but then they’d be in NC, TN, NV, or FL which, frankly, sounds absolutely miserable. They made the right choice by being in NYC. Adafruit seems to be doing very
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by LeafItAlone 8mo ago
I’ve tried most of the coffee making tools and fads, including the above mentioned recipe. I’ve spent thousands and hours and hours of time chasing the feeling others like you describe. It was so easy for me to go back to a cheap drip coffe
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by LeafItAlone 8mo ago
I wish I could read like you then because it’s distracting to me, and clearly many others, when people write like that.
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by LeafItAlone 8mo ago
I really wish your comment also had some capitalization and punctuation so it was easier to parse. Even ChatGPT had different interpretations. But PT (sorry, I guess it’s stylized, pt) has written like this for years, long before the recent
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by LeafItAlone 8mo ago
This is not acceptable behavior on this forum.
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by LeafItAlone 8mo ago
None of it is reasonable. This is an online version of a schoolyard tiff. Neither side in that email chain is reasonable or mature.
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by LeafItAlone 8mo ago
This is all just very disappointing. SparkFun filled a very important gap for me during the downfall of RadioShack. Their Free Day was a source of excitement and goodies. Around the same time they realized the legal implications of Free Day
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by LeafItAlone 9mo ago
What! How can you be so insecure with your data?! You’re willing to upload a file you downloaded from a cloud service to a different cloud service? The horror!! This is exactly what I expect out of… Sorry, got interrupted by an email saying

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