NichoPaolucci

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by NichoPaolucci 3mo ago
I was specifically mentioning the verbiage of the release. I am aghast, just aghast that their marketing lead let this one out the door. These companies have been trying to convince everyone that flagship models can do “high value productio
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by NichoPaolucci 3mo ago
Smaller pieces, probably
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by NichoPaolucci 3mo ago
“The challenge for enterprises is no longer proving that AI agents can work, it’s making them reliable enough to do high-value work in production.” This reads poorly to me. So they’ve proven the models CAN work, but they also say in the nex
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by NichoPaolucci 3mo ago
I wonder if this points at a “shared” future (or at least things will eventually converge there whether companies like it or not). Ultimately, if you’re going to release these models that are fundamentally built on shared data - it’s pretty
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by NichoPaolucci 3mo ago
Yes - precisely what I was getting at with the childish comment. It felt a bit surreal to see a machines rendition of something that very closely maps to a younger human as they explore + understand more about the world. Scary, even (to me)
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by NichoPaolucci 3mo ago
I'm still hopeful that this ends up being mostly "normal" technology. Time will tell!
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by NichoPaolucci 3mo ago
As I looked through the images I was unimpressed entirely, at first. But, then I started thinking, these look a little... "childish" to me. Childish as in... A newish artist who is drawing a concept rather than light / forms
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by NichoPaolucci 3mo ago
5-10 feels like a lot. I can reliably maintain hands on 2-4 separate work streams. I still need to maintain a pretty close eye on changes to our system, as I’m one of 2 devs. I’ve tried doing 5+ things at once and I just cannot get it to wo
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by NichoPaolucci 3mo ago
I’m surprised people reach for plex, not sure what I’m missing - but a Jellyfin container set up has been fantastic for strictly at home usage (running on an old gaming PC). It’s fantastic software - the cross platform applications are pret
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by NichoPaolucci 3mo ago
Definitely cheating. I’ve taught my mostly-non-technical gf how to to load up sonarr and add something to the library. Anything we can do to avoid the hodgepodge of 8 different streaming services and rotating availability…
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by NichoPaolucci 3mo ago
Man we were scrambling this morning - intermittent issues, reports of all sorts of wonkiness. Still can't verify it was related to this but it was one of the last things we looked at (because they didn't update their status page e
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by NichoPaolucci 3mo ago
I drive a "Victory Red" 2005 Chevy Silverado. I always thought it was a "safer" color for a vehicle. I have always assumed that, being in a larger vehicle that is bright red, people would be more likely to spot the vehic
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by NichoPaolucci 3mo ago
This is why I feel prompt injection is going to continue to be an issue. Fantastic that “Hi we are Cloudflare, give us your personal data” works. Either we stunt the models to the point where they are not useful, or we allow things like thi
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by NichoPaolucci 3mo ago
“Cloudflare, love you guys, but this needs to stop” I’m not sure I get the pushback on the robots file. Shouldn’t the robot prevention be ON by default?
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by NichoPaolucci 3mo ago
Well - I think that’s a natural assumption but I’d say it’s probably not true. I’ve talked to who are fully enveloped in the AI buzz. Ask it everything. Claude can plan your day, strategize your roadmap, make your pitch deck, draft your ema
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by NichoPaolucci 3mo ago
I had a VP of engineering that loved to use “abstracty” engineering terms like Claude uses. Perhaps he was operating one level above what everyone else was doing. Loved to use fancy words, speak at a “conceptual” level. Unfortunately it was
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by NichoPaolucci 3mo ago
Recently read some LLM generated output that mentioned the “center of gravity” within a codebase. Also have read the term “seam” dozens of times by now, when previously I saw it maybe once or twice over years. Very abstract term.
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by NichoPaolucci 3mo ago
Your most expensive users consuming $1,000 dollars a month doesn't matter in the budget? That seems like FOMO activity or something, I feel like even big teams require proof of ROI for an investment like that (1M). BTW, the ROI of toil
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by NichoPaolucci 4mo ago
FWIW I purchased one at the beginning of this year, secondhand, for about $250. It's been fantastic for me. I used to keep physical notebooks - but I was just taking small notes or keeping a running list (I still do this, just better n
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by NichoPaolucci 4mo ago
These are probably mostly the enterprise customers - they may use the same amount of tokens as you do, but they have to pay the API price. From my experience the API is significantly more costly. We had one user ask for and receive usage cr
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by NichoPaolucci 4mo ago
I agree with this sentiment. Many folks have touted the "calculator" similarities as an argument, saying it's more of an efficiency gain / productivity enhancer. To me, LLMs are far more involved than this. Now, unknowin
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by NichoPaolucci 4mo ago
I understand they put "normal" person in quotes, probably to reference the HN crowd or other computer enthusiasts - but it is very funny to think of my Uncle Rick (No smartphone, no computer knowledge), a "normal" person
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by NichoPaolucci 4mo ago
I saw a team build some payment software a while ago that had a similar, if not exact, vulnerability. If someone had enough time / effort to figure out a not-super-unique ID (Something like 2456733), they could acccess the payment port
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by NichoPaolucci 4mo ago
I agree with a lot of this. Sometimes it is easier to scan a code, zoom until the text is at the desired level, and scroll around the menu rather than opening a large leather book with tiny writing in a dimly lit restaurant. Going to PAY wi
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by NichoPaolucci 4mo ago
I think a lot of developers probably FEEL like they are in super mode, but in reality they're just letting Claude drive the boat and they get to wear the captain's hat. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe AI Natives will be faster in the
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by NichoPaolucci 4mo ago
I sometimes end up at or near this conclusion when considering the future. Consider some software that was written by AI purely using markdown files. The spec was sufficient enough to classify all of the business logic, conditionals, etc...
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by NichoPaolucci 4mo ago
I bought an M4 Air about a year ago for under 1000$, it beat out my 2019 Intel MBP by quite a lot. I fully expect the air to last me at least another 6 years or so for my use case. The thing is a beast. Compare this to a Dell laptop I bough
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by NichoPaolucci 4mo ago
I think I’m on this side. I find it exceedingly unlikely that we just start producing “perfect” software all the time for everything, and at the same time start generating an order of magnitude MORE software.
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by NichoPaolucci 4mo ago
When people finally offload 100% of their brain and forget how to use their creative reasoning abilities my guess is we’ll just all use Tailwind defaults across the board. No need to try new things, nobody will experiment because it’s so ea
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by NichoPaolucci 4mo ago
Man - what a ride this last year and a half has been. I feel for the juniors or newer developers, who really haven't had time to get into the seat. I don't see a great place to really "settle" into right now, as the fiel

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