actsasbuffoon

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by actsasbuffoon 11mo ago
I was the first dev at my current company to experiment with Claude Code back when it first came out. Some of my coworkers tried it, and some didn’t like it at all. But now literally all of us are using it. The company gives us a $100 month
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by actsasbuffoon 11mo ago
> I can't think of a single time where having someone else review my work or give me feedback is a meaningfully bad thing I have ample examples, unfortunately. I had a coworker whom I liked as a person, but had a nasty habit of usin
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by actsasbuffoon 11mo ago
As a musician, this happens to me as well. If I hear a piece of music in a noisy environment my brain will fill in the gaps. I’ll think, “Wow, this music is really interesting.” Then I’ll hear it in a quiet environment and realize that I pr
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by actsasbuffoon 11mo ago
Before the ACA, insurance companies were allowed to have these things called “lifetime limits.” Basically, once your healthcare got expensive, they could just cut you off and say they wouldn’t cover you any further. And because of pre-exist
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by actsasbuffoon 11mo ago
So many distortion pedals use an op amp to run a signal into antiparallel diodes to create distortion. I’ve spent a few weeks trying to emulate it, and it’s a lot of fun. Different flavors of diode make significant changes to the way it sou
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by actsasbuffoon 11mo ago
AKA the culture of “Why is AWS down again?”
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by actsasbuffoon 1y ago
This is a delightfully horrible idea. Well played.
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by actsasbuffoon 1y ago
I’d go so far as to say that you and this other engineer both fill vital roles on your team. It’s not that you’re right or he’s right; you’re both right. I’ve been on teams where I needed to be the methodical engineer who carefully built cr
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by actsasbuffoon 1y ago
Considering how much harm he did to farmers in his first term, and they overwhelmingly voted for him again in 2020 and 2024, I’d say they apparently prefer this over the alternative. I don’t expect this to change anything.
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by actsasbuffoon 1y ago
I’ve been waiting to see my countrymen vote in their own best interests for my entire life. I’d be shocked if they started doing it now. We are astonishingly bad at understanding abstraction. We understand that if Kevin shows up at our hous
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by actsasbuffoon 1y ago
I agree with the overall sentiment. It’s all just a bunch of functions with well defined inputs and outputs that can be combined in a delightfully endless number of configurations. None of it is nearly as complicated as it seems at first gl
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by actsasbuffoon 1y ago
No, the other commenter is correct. There’s a gate signal, typically activated by holding a key (though in a modular synth, there are many other potential gate sources). While the gate is open an ADSR envelope progresses from Attack -> D
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by actsasbuffoon 1y ago
It would be ridiculous if it were true. The methodology here seems a bit muddled and I’m not confident that they’ve measured what they think they’ve measured. Many people do perceive a difference in how upsetting a death is. For example,
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by actsasbuffoon 1y ago
Maybe. This assumes I trust Microsoft to have part of my computer where I have no ability to interrogate it to see what they’re doing in there. If it’s on my computer, I should be allowed to read and write to it. End of story. I don’t care
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by actsasbuffoon 1y ago
Correct, this bill won’t pass. But the weirdos keep introducing these kinds of bills, and they’ve already won in a bunch of states. I consider it to merely be a matter of time before it happens at the federal level. And once it becomes law,
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by actsasbuffoon 1y ago
Yeah, I can’t explain why this project makes me so happy because I struggle to think of any time where I’d need this, but it puts a big, dumb grin on my face.
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by actsasbuffoon 1y ago
I disagree, at least for the next 5 years or so. Even with humans, it’s very common to ask them for something and get something back that’s completely different than what you wanted. Short of reading your mind, AI is going to require a lot
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by actsasbuffoon 1y ago
Completely agreed. I’ve got about 20 years of professional software development experience. Tools like Claude Code let me build incredibly quickly when I use a stack I know intimately. But when I try it with a stack I don’t know, I quickly
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by actsasbuffoon 1y ago
I regularly have this happen: 1. Ask Claude to fix something 2. It fails to fix the issue 3. I tell it that the fix didn’t work 4. It reverts its failed fix and tells me everything is working now. This is like finding a decapitated body, tr
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by actsasbuffoon 1y ago
The original definition of vibe coding meant that you just let the agent write everything, and if it works then you commit it. Your code review and security check turned this from vibe coding into something else. This is complicated by the
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by actsasbuffoon 1y ago
“Agentic coding” is probably more accurate, though many people (fairly) find the term “Agentic” to be buzz-wordy and obnoxious. I’m willing to vibe code a spike project. That is to say, I want to see how well some new tool or library works,
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by actsasbuffoon 1y ago
This mirrors a weird thought I’ve had recently. It’s not a thing I necessarily agree with, but just an idea. I hear people say things like, “AI isn’t coming for my job because LLMs suck at [language or tech stack]!” And I wonder, does that
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by actsasbuffoon 1y ago
I literally just had a conversation with my CEO this morning where he told me not to disclose the projects I’ve been working on, so I can only speak about it obliquely. We identified some problems our customers have, and I’ve come up with i
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by actsasbuffoon 1y ago
That’s the thing. There’s value in AI, it’s just not worth half a trillion dollars to train a new model that’s 0.4% better on benchmarks. Meta is never going to get a worthwhile return on spending $100M on individual engineers. But that doe
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by actsasbuffoon 1y ago
At a bare minimum there needs to be some way to understand how close you are to these limits. People shouldn’t be wondering if this is going to impact them or not.
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by actsasbuffoon 1y ago
Pornography has never been easier to access and teen birth rates have been falling for decades. Once puberty hormones kick in, teenagers are going to start figuring out that there’s something going on. We’re far better off educating them ab
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by actsasbuffoon 1y ago
The bulk of the harm from ultra-processed foods was specifically from meats, with smaller contributions coming from sugary drinks and dairy desserts. It’s the pink slime, reconstituted McRib, and hot dogs that are causing the most significa
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by actsasbuffoon 1y ago
There’s a very simple fix for this. Don’t make H1B a lottery system. Grant them in order of highest-paying roles. We get access to truly exceptional people for whom companies are willing to pay exceptional wages, and we eliminate the exploi
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by actsasbuffoon 1y ago
Imagine hiring a person to do this job at your company. They show up and behave the way the LLM agent behaved in the article. Not only would the person be fired quite quickly, but people would be telling stories about the tungsten cubes, th
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by actsasbuffoon 1y ago
I try to just give honest feedback, and I don’t feel badly about it or worry about blowback. For example, I applied at a company for a fairly high ranking position and did really well. The technical co-founder said I gave the best performan

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