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> what works best with AI-coding: a strong and thorough idea of what you want, broken up into hundreds of smaller problems, with specific architectural steers on the really critical pieces As a tech lead who also wears product owner hats
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I think we are violently agreeing. Think of frameworks as "distilled experience". They help the next "generation" go faster because they don't need to make all the same mistakes. This is awesome. But it is not magic
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That is the point I was making: HTMX is just a flavor of the component model.
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> Does this not scream "just the distribution of outcomes can drastically differ" at you? Yes. My argument is that outcomes depend more on the people than tools.
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> it seems to be dismissing the possibility that some tools are better than other tools for a particular job I think these are 2 dimensions. Great engineer + right tool is obviously the best combination. Great engineer + wrong tool can w
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I know the HTMX guy has opinions on this, but I also like how React (and similar frameworks) give you locality of behavior. <button onClick={() => fetch(‘/clicked’)}> To me that feels like less magic to remember tha
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> each independent agent tends to have completely different ideas on absolutely every detail, leading to inconsistent user experience > The design consistency is not there, not just visually, but architecturally. Seniors always gonna
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I agree it’s not hypothetical and also as a layperson I don’t know how much impact on cognition has been studied. Would be cool if it has! I do know of studies that showed blind people start using their visual cortex to process sounds. That
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> any evidence that a brain couldn't exist or develop in a jar The brain could . Of course it could. It's just a signals processing machine. But would it be missing anything we consider core to the way humans think? Would it s
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> The real frontier of AI lies in the messy, rich, sensory world where people live. We’ll need new hardware (sensors), new data representations (beyond tokens), and new ways to train models that grow understanding from experience, not ju
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Hopefully if you’re doing something that actually needs that much RAM you’re also making 6-figures per hour in revenue. I’ve heard that some companies spend hundreds of millions per year on cloud hosting and it’s still worth it. I can’t eve
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> The key is to understand the impact you CAN have, and what the business value of that impact is. :) Like I tell everyone in system design interviews: AWS will rent you a machine with 32TB of RAM. Are you still sure about all this extra
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Amdahl’s Law is the single best thing I learned in 4 years of university. It sounds obvious when spelled out but it blew my mind. No amount of parallelization will make your program faster than the slowest non-parallelizable path. You can b
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> In the bay area, most of the mothers I've met were around that age, and my friends are having their kids at the same age San Francisco has the highest rate of geriatric pregnancies in USA. We are in a statistical bubble where havi
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Toy Software is a lot like working on your bike/car/boat/whatever. Working on your bike is fun. Working on the bike you need to ride to work tomorrow is stressful. I miss writing toy software. It’s fun. But inevitably I want
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I think you would enjoy reading up on the Gartner hype cycle. It’s basically what you’re describing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle Web and possibly mobile are deep into plateau of productivity
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> We still get the occasional "Wait. What? You can do that?" 1. From the perspective of a kid, everything is like that. At 17 I was amazed by all sorts of things that my older peers yawned at and said "Yeah we could do t
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> a casual dismissal of the original claim without anything of substance to back that up I am not dismissing it. I miss the old internet too. But what I’ve found is that I miss the free time to explore a lot more. When I find that, there
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Whenever you pine for the old internet stop and think: Do I just miss the freedom of childhood? For me the answer invariably comes out as Yes. Mom filled the fridge, homework wasn’t that hard, and I could spend hours upon hours just exist
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> Why do CS doctoral candidates have such a fascination with typesetting? Same reason wantrepreneurs have a fascination with adding dark mode to their CSS. It feels productive while you avoid the real work.
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> A few months ago I vibe-coded a prototype that would locally cache everything, and use cached versions primarily and update the cache in the background. Essentially local-first apps. Have a local database with all the info, use straigh
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The difference is that a therapist works with you for years, takes notes, and builds an actual working model of your psyche. They may start with generics but build towards an actual understanding. A lot like an engineer building a domain mo
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> Magicians use this effect I believe: They basically project a choice onto you. Also great for kids. Bad: “It’s chilly. Do you want to wear a sweater?” Good: “It’s chilly. Do you want the blue or green sweater?” But I think that’s diffe
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Anyone who goes to an LLM for spiritual enlightenment and self-understanding, should first read about the Forer/Barnum effect. Yes that means you too. The Forer/Barnum effect is why horoscopes, myers-briggs, enneagrams, fortune te
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> Like humans talking about weather. As someone who was always fascinated by weather, I dislike this characterization. You can learn so much about someone’s background and childhood by what they say about the weather. I think the only pe
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I really like the Economist as a source of weekly news. Somehow I’ve ended up primarily reading their daily recap in the app. They already have a full article on this crash. That usually means it’ll be in the magazine next week.
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> you could "just ask the question yourself." Just like googling, AIing is a skill. You have to know how to evaluate and judge AI responses. Even how to ask the right questions. Especially asking the right questions is harder t
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That’s the point: AI is a marketing term and always has been. The underlying tech changes with every hype wave. One of the first humanoid robots was an 18th century clockwork mechanism inside a porcelain doll that autonomously wrote out “Co
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> We have been through several "AI Winters" before Yeah, remember when we spent 15 years (~2000 to ~2015) calling it “machine learning” because AI was a bad word? We use so much AI in production every day but nobody notices b
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I'd prefer swearing over a robot who says " Per my last email , ..." But let's be honest: The thing we're both afraid of is a robot who can get impatient and emotional.

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