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by abustamam 5mo ago
I don't think free/open model necessarily means local. I use open code Go for $10/mo for pet projects and deepseek v4 pro is largely comparable to my workflow at work using Claude code. Obviously this wouldn't work for s
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by abustamam 5mo ago
I was on-boarding to a new company/project about a year ago. Had a bunch of questions about the system architecture and such, but everyone was firing on all cylinders and couldn't spare much time to answer all the questions. One c
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by abustamam 5mo ago
> iOS is not delivering a decade of features and fixes on each yearly release This is insinuating that code was the bottleneck in the first place, or that every line of code is to build a new feature and not fixing existing bugs, or that
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by abustamam 5mo ago
I tie my shoe laces with Ian knot. I know it by muscle memory. But when I try to tie something that isn't facing me (like my daughter's hat) then suddenly I completely forget how to tie any knot except good ol square knot.
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by abustamam 5mo ago
I like this. I don't know what postcard etiquette is, but when I send a postcard it's just to show that I'm thinking of someone while I'm traveling. If the recipient doesn't travel or finds other ways to express tha
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by abustamam 5mo ago
Yeah that's the iffy part tbh. I have a oneplus phone and watch and it is per-app on the watch. So in the app I have to configure which lines of comms are important (so like Signal is how my wife and I communicate so I get watch notifi
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by abustamam 5mo ago
Having used Webpack since 2016... Vite was amazing. Few years ago I migrated a rather complex project (monorepo with a Rust wasm binding) from Webpack to Vite (before the LLM days!) and dev builds and real builds went from minutes to second
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by abustamam 5mo ago
As an aside to this I mute ALL notifications on my phone. I still get notifications of course, but they never ping or vibrate. For important threads like calls or messages from important people/group chats, I have my watch vibrate. Oth
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by abustamam 5mo ago
This, I will use Obra Superpowers brainstorming skill to propose/refine a few viable solutions for a feature or bug I'm trying to solve. After it asks me clarifying questions and presents a spec, I will say "well what about X
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by abustamam 5mo ago
I've been working with typescript for the past ten or so years. A couple of years ago I did some contract work for a client who used Javascript. I did some basic smoke testing to understand the state of the app and I was able to get lo
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by abustamam 5mo ago
I have never worked in Java. But you can certainly ship TypeScript code that does not pass typecheck and it'll run fine in the browser because the browser runs Javascript, not typescript. Obviously a decent build process will prevent c
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by abustamam 5mo ago
How does qwen compare to deepseek or kimi? I haven't spent much time with qwen but I find deepseek to be mostly comparable to opus for my pet projects. Kimi k2.6 did a lot of stupid stuff and talked to itself a lot "let me do X...
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by abustamam 5mo ago
Sorry you're going through this Ilya. I hope things improve for you and your family. As an aside, I'm kinda curious what the intent of these spammers is. Do they really think they're going to get a rockstar employee using the
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by abustamam 5mo ago
Congrats on the launch! Best of luck. Seems like a neat idea
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by abustamam 5mo ago
I use LLMs daily for coding. That said, I agree with your sentiment. Super strong bricks, poorly put together, makes a bad building. Another analogy I like is a beginner playing a $100k Stratavarius probably can't produce anything near
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by abustamam 5mo ago
Yeah you can't expect employees who maybe have a 0.1% stake in the company if they're lucky, to put in 65h+ a week.
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by abustamam 5mo ago
I consider myself to be very privileged to be a SWE. Yeah maybe it's not as great as it used to be as our capitalistic overlords rain down ever increasing workloads on us in an era of almost limitless productivity. That said, I would l
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by abustamam 5mo ago
If you don't mind sharing, what's your product? I found that ideas are a dime a dozen, but finding the people who will pay for it is the hard part. AI will more than happily suggest terrible ideas no one would pay for.
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by abustamam 5mo ago
I enjoy playing with Lego. I would never use automation to do that for me. But, I wouldn't look down on someone who just wants pretty finished lego sets on their shelf without having to build them, and used automation (or hired someone
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by abustamam 5mo ago
I agree. I use the grill me skill and superpowers brainstorming to learn different methods of building stuff as far as architecture goes. Stuff I wouldn't normally think of if I just continued being "just a FE engineer"
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by abustamam 5mo ago
I enjoyed writing code because it felt like playing Lego. Just putting stuff together. Now I do let AI code, and it's like putting together different Lego. That said, I wouldn't let AI build my Lego sets for me because the point o
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by abustamam 5mo ago
Agreed but "it's always been shitty" isn't a reason to do nothing about it. For much of human history slavery was fine too, but thankfully that's been dealt with in many nations. I know some folks argue that capital
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by abustamam 5mo ago
I'm curious — how do non-techies know? During stand-up the other day I was making small talk like "hey did you guys know that Google search is dead" and everyone was like "it is?" and I had to link to the Google IO
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by abustamam 5mo ago
I can't see how that can ever backfire /s
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by abustamam 5mo ago
Two things can be true. A shitty thing can prevail for a long time and still be shitty.
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by abustamam 5mo ago
Kinda reminds me of when Burger King had a 1/3 lb burger and a 1/4 lb burger and more people bought the 1/4 lb because they thought it was more burger than the (rightfully) more expensive 1/3 lb burger. The average consu
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by abustamam 5mo ago
That's fair. Personally I wouldn't mind, but when you put it that way it makes sense people would be wary. Kind of reminds me of the series Pantheon, which is amazing but also kinda disturbing for similar reasons.
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by abustamam 5mo ago
I've encountered large party service charges and that makes sense because it usually requires staff to do stuff they wouldn't normally do for smaller parties. I'm talking about restaurants that just add service charge to ever
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by abustamam 5mo ago
I'd recommend at least doing a short spike to see if you can build your own in some way. We did that for the purpose of experimentation and now we've built our own metrics platform that we completely own.
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by abustamam 5mo ago
Off topic but I'm curious what's evil about that article. Bizarre, sure, but evil? They took a brain (an organ) from a dead person who had previously given consent to use their organs for that purpose.

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