NichoPaolucci

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by NichoPaolucci 23d ago
Eat? You must be living under a rock. We've been evaporating our sustenance and storing it in the cloud for years. Perhaps nanobots will be able to carry the chemical makeup of a cheeseburger and rebuild a bite directly in our mouths,
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by NichoPaolucci 23d ago
If this is the case, then all white collar jobs go away extremely quickly and.... economic collapse happens? And/Or, if/when they do replace cognition, there's essentially a "laserbeam of genius" and they'll po
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by NichoPaolucci 25d ago
I'm experiencing similar rubber stamping around my company. CEO hired an AI forward CTO / Head of Engineering. He said at his last company his directive was NOT to look at code anymore. I've watched thousands of lines of misg
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by NichoPaolucci 26d ago
Natural language can be ambiguous, though. "The system should email the customer when their subscription renews." When? Which timezone? What should we email them? Which email address (the customer changed their email 10 minutes ag
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by NichoPaolucci 29d ago
I think that this is one of the better applications for LLMs. Their ability to translate text from one format to another is one of their strong suites. Especially with things like testing libraries, there is immediate feedback on whether th
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by NichoPaolucci 1mo ago
I don’t think they’re “talking down”. If anything - it’s way more difficult to distill something into a genuinely easy to digest format. I personally think that they aren’t immediately capable of this, and so we get word salad instead. Extr
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by NichoPaolucci 1mo ago
I think that coding by hand is largely not going to occur anymore. What that does to the learning of new developers + the stagnation of old developers? I do not know. I believe that what makes a good developer (a great developer, really) is
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by NichoPaolucci 1mo ago
If I need heads down time during WFH, I literally turn on do not disturb mode and flip my teams to "busy". As in the office, I would put headphones on and find a quiet corner. Meetings depend on the company, my team gets a lot of
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by NichoPaolucci 1mo ago
Reminds me of the Bootstrap era. I can't count the amount of websites with a centered header navigation, slightly rounded accent color buttons, hero section that was mostly text, and some "fun quirk" in the background, either
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by NichoPaolucci 1mo ago
Unrelated to the article, but I'm a big trackpad user and, man... I sure hate it when websites hijack my scrolling / pinch + zoom functionality. Totally throws me for a loop.
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by NichoPaolucci 1mo ago
Soon they will start a program where you can either take a failing grade, or pay double tuition for those credit hours to get a pass in that class. When I has in school we had a similar semester during covid. The school offered the entire s
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by NichoPaolucci 2mo ago
“It never reimplements git — it shells out to the system git CLI and rebuilds commits with git commit-tree, reusing each commit's original tree so file contents are provably never changed.” Glad the LLM noted this - I was worried this
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by NichoPaolucci 2mo ago
It’s not about using new technology, it’s about the signal of effort. Blind copy-pasting an AI image anywhere is a poor signal of effort, because it was a deliberate decision by the author… “I didn’t do the work to make this look profession
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by NichoPaolucci 2mo ago
I run into this quite a bit. We have users generating MANY apps at our small company (30 FTE), entirely with Claude. It's great to see people mess around and tinker. It's NOT great to see someone with a GH repo that has 750+ commi
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by NichoPaolucci 2mo ago
It's been doing this for our non-technical folk. Giving users a gigantic single file for deployment. We saw one user deploy a JS file with around 3K-5K elements in an array, storing unique IDs of items they wanted to list. Welcome to S
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by NichoPaolucci 2mo ago
There are big differences in what people call "tinkerers". Some are INTERESTED in building things, give it a little shot and find it to be daunting, and push it no further. True tinkerers have no problem with this, because they en
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by NichoPaolucci 2mo ago
I do - it's pretty simple actually. 1. Build a robot with the capability to learn to drive a car 2. Put it in the car 3. Teach it to drive the car
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by NichoPaolucci 2mo ago
I'd actually prefer to hold the hand of an LLMbot while going into the ether. "ChatGPT, I think I'm dying" "I hear you, and that takes real courage to say — and it's a load bearing seam that I want to dive into
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by NichoPaolucci 2mo ago
> these things will be deployed to murder the poors You know, at that point, we've got nothing better to do than fight some robots. Kinda reminds me of that scene in Blade Runner 2049 where a band of scavengers shoot down K's f
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by NichoPaolucci 2mo ago
As far as household expenses go, we've never really budgeted for this type of purchase. But we DO budget for... utilities, groceries, internet, and vehicles. These are needs, to a degree - but most people (even on the border of poverty
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by NichoPaolucci 2mo ago
I'm in the same boat. We have very little documentation where I work, and one of my goals was to improve that as I got onboard. We have a newer dev that started ripping +3K, +5K, +10K line PRs against our documentation repository. I ha
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by NichoPaolucci 2mo ago
I don’t know. LOC to me is indispensable for certain refactoring goals in my opinion. Taking a component and turning it from 7K lines to 3K lines and maintaining functionality obviously means there’s less complexity introduced, less to go w
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by NichoPaolucci 2mo ago
Doesn't that average out to 165K / year? That's not so bad IMO!
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by NichoPaolucci 2mo ago
Honestly, within the last few days I've gone back to a mostly vanilla installation of Claude with a handful of directives in AGENTS.md. Depending on what I'm working on, I don't feel I need the extra plugins or a context repo
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by NichoPaolucci 2mo ago
Absolute masterpiece of a rebuttal. No notes.
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by NichoPaolucci 2mo ago
Yeah - those are two very different roles and are separate job functions at a lot of places (depending on org size). I do both at my company. I've never had that specific heads-down "programming" role where I can just read sp
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by NichoPaolucci 2mo ago
I work at a company where our production system WAS like this for a LOOONG time. No development environment, no tests, no documentation, QA was the end users, etc... I have done a lot of work to improve the CI/CD, get them a developme
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by NichoPaolucci 2mo ago
To me, it is the same as a "hard drug". I struggle on and off. For me, it's HN and just general fear of AI / career trajectory. I'm constantly reading articles about it. To a lesser degree, videogames and other scro
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by NichoPaolucci 2mo ago
You call that a peasant prompt, but it's actually almost perfect. Couple notes, but it's 95% of the way there. "Can a dog eat sunflower seed" is probably the perfect version, just 1 extraneous word in this version. Unles
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by NichoPaolucci 2mo ago
I actually think that good prompting MOSTLY comes from good writing skills in general. Being able to more clearly state things to an agent, knowing what pieces of context are entirely unnecessary and which are important, having a larger voc

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