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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
Wow. This is hilarious.
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
What is apparent to me is that we are moving towards dark factories if the promise of LLMs writing most of the code is fulfilled. So this means that it is less about conversations and it is more about iteration.
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
I think the math is pretty clear. Today AI is 100% automating the software engineering market. We all know it and it is not evenly distributed with some fields being more impacted than others. However, what is not mentioned anywhere is for
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
It is surprising! I would have thought it is at least 6 hours per day.
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
I don't know. This is a very naive version of what reliable AI agents are all about. Reliable means "can it finish the job that was tasked to do". It certainly has nothing to do with state machines.
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
We looked into it but it id not quite fit what we wanted. Other than that I think it is great software.
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
I can only speculate why this is possible but if I had to guess it is due to the fact that the external messages are effectively added as "user" type thus appear as direct instructions. And this is far much common then one might t
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
Haha, we don't use Kubernetes. It is a single large server with plenty of space for runners. It is as simple and boring as it gets. The only fun part is that we use Firecracker for the actual runners. It is provides nice isolation and
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
The landing page for our latest tool is a static website (exported from nextjs). It has no marketing on it. It just has simple instructions to copy a prompt into ChatGPT / Claude. That's it. I will report back if it works.
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
Thanks. I did not know.
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
I am sure Blacksmith is the easy path if you don't want to do any extra work and I am also sure their solution will scale much better as this is what they do full-time. However, I can share what we did to ease on our GitHub Actions bil
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
This is not going to fly in EU.
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
I tried to give it something challenging but not something that is too much and it ate the entire session budget on this task alone.
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
If grep were enough, SQLite wouldn't exist.
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
That is the problem. You outline perfectly how a developer sees the situation. On the other hand ephemeral cloud environment with proper security controls makes a lot of sense if the goal is to isolate and control. If everyone was following
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
In this scenario the malware will not be on the device but in an isolated dev environment on a remote machine. So it will have access to whatever was configured in that repo but hopefully the project is isolated enough to ensure containment
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
I think web-based IDEs like GitHub Codespaces (but even VSCode with tunnels) is part of the solution because at the very least you can get an isolated dev environment per project. I've been advocating for this for as long as I remember
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
You can vibe code safely for sure. I am not saying vibe coding is the issue. The issue is that a typical developer might be working on a lot more projects that run concurrently then they used to. And because of the various nature of the pro
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
What follows next is purely speculation and it is based on my own observations and thoughts but based on what I've seen the old RBAC models, while being almost broken before, now it is fully broken, with the fact that now coding assist
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
We used AI to build our AI platform and now we are using the AI platform to build the tools that we need for AI. :) But no honestly, unfortunately most tools I did for myself are not for hobbies but something that I needed for work... like
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
Do you know what will be cool? It will be cool to measure models based on their RAW performance and measure them in terms of ROI - not some benchmark but something meaningful like we used this model to solve X. That will be a massive mind s
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
10 years of software development is still young and inexperienced.
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
I don't read anywhere how much code they are talking about and what programming language. I think those are useful metrics.
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
Try then and report back.
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
The way you contain LLMs is the same way you will contain anything else - give it less permission and less scope. Here. I saved you some time reading the article.
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
Some thoughts on the same subject: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/reflections-74496371947...
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
I made a tiny ai bug hunting harness (<4MB) that has everything (except the model obviously). It was designed for pentesting purposes where the tiny size matters to make it more portable between environments. The intended purpose is not
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
AI agents don't need RSS. What they need is some representation in text. The XML/RSS markup is completely unnecessary.
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
It is nice. But! The reason these tools exist is not because of non-professional developers, but quite the opposite. A lot more professionals are now working on more projects simultaneously- something that was not practical just a year ago.
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by _pdp_ 4mo ago
As usual the more options the better for everyone. While this is not a direct replacement it is good that it exists.

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