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by adamddev1 4mo ago
This is quite a nice idea and works well, but I think I would rather spend the time listening to and imitating real Miles Davis solos etc.
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
Excellently built, no nonsense site. Refreshing to see a site that just loads instantly without spinners. The exercises are also well thought out.
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
There's an excellent little book in German called "KI und der Neue Faschismus" [1] (AI and the New Fascism) where the author (Rainer Mühlhoff) tries to warn about the dangers of decisions based on opaque statistical models (l
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
I am watching websites and Microsoft apps get slower and buggier before my eyes. We are defending into vibe-psychosis and chaos.
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
Do https://htdp.org and follow all the exercises carefully (yes, it will feel like baby work at first) - you will retrain your brain for functional stuff. :-)
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by adamddev1 4mo ago
What a beautifully designed website. Everything is thoughtfully set-up and well placed. A great example of a well curated digital garden. It feels well kept and very human crafted.
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by adamddev1 5mo ago
I also really like the distinction between a function and procedure. The function is a pure mathematical function. The procedure is a series of instructions.
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by adamddev1 5mo ago
I was a few years into amateur self-teaching at that time. It helped me think through problems recursively, which was a lot of fun, but my biggest takeaway was learning to think of problems by representing the data with types, then stubbing
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by adamddev1 5mo ago
I was just remembering https://htdp.org fondly yesterday. Working through that book was one of the most wonderful and transformative experiences I've had in programming. I owe so much of my problem solving skills today to t
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by adamddev1 5mo ago
Haskell thriving in the wild!
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by adamddev1 5mo ago
That's so sad. Presumably they won't also be asking, "why is this breaking so often?"
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by adamddev1 5mo ago
Honest question: if you didn't enjoy using AI, why not just write code without using AI?
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by adamddev1 5mo ago
> "To combat this we need to write a security context file to guide the AI, be cautious with AI permission requests, create a daily security intelligence feed, and provide builders with a secure-by-default harness and templates.&quo
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by adamddev1 5mo ago
Education systems and cultures that value "sounding" correct, repeating patterns and information, and immediate practical gain appear to like AI more that the cultures with a strong tradition of critical thinking. The cultures tha
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by adamddev1 5mo ago
How's the AI generated code running for ya?
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by adamddev1 5mo ago
I enjoyed my foray into trying FreeBSD for my personal server. There's something cool, clean, simple and "punk rock" about it. But I gave up as my main pain points were: - PM2 was buggy on FreeBSD, which I used to manage my p
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by adamddev1 5mo ago
I've really enjoyed using CloudFlare and I've been impressed, but I'm afraid it will descend into a broken mess as they enthusiastically use more and more vibe-coding.
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by adamddev1 5mo ago
> I am under the impression that I can’t “take my time” to think about a problem anymore. It almost feels wasteful now. I have to “just do it”. This exactly, has been the problem in cultures that have produced broken, lower quality thing
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by adamddev1 6mo ago
What are the big benefits of the runtime (BEAM) that are drawing people?
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by adamddev1 6mo ago
I'm so glad I switched to NeoVim. I've got the good LSP and auto-complete stuff, a nicer grepping experience, semantic moving and selecting with treesitter textobjects, and absolutely ZERO LLM AI stuff. (I still use LLMs outside m
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by adamddev1 6mo ago
This is not just another abstraction. It is something fundamentally different because it is a jump away from deterministic, transparent processes to a probabilistic black box. It's not like a jump from orality to books to digital media
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by adamddev1 6mo ago
I was talking to a teacher and she was explaining how everyone is reaching for AI to have everything explained to them. "I'm too dumb to understand things," is the basic assumption people are now growing up with, reaching for
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by adamddev1 6mo ago
All those examples are fundamentally different because those are hard-coded, deterministic programs/algorithms/libraries.
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by adamddev1 6mo ago
> The problem is a management pattern: removing people and organizational slack because they don’t generate immediate profit, and then expecting the knowledge to still be there when it’s needed. Exactly. In direct contrast to this would
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by adamddev1 6mo ago
> It is like hiring an army of accountants that have never done math on paper and exclusively let turbotax do all the work. It's not though. It's fundamentally different because TurboTax will still work with clear deterministic
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by adamddev1 6mo ago
I don't know how many times I've seen some Google AI summary or ChatGPT with references that, when I checked, did not say what what the AI summary said. If a high school student falsified references in a paper like this, they woul
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by adamddev1 6mo ago
It's almost like people don't actually want LLMs all over their core tools...
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by adamddev1 7mo ago
I lived in Calgary for 4 years before we had smart phones w/ maps. The grid system was amazing, it was like being able to give easily processed human GPS coordinates. "Let's meet at 7th Ave and 9th Street." Done!
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by adamddev1 7mo ago
Drivers for laptops. Do all the sound cards work flawlessly? Is the power usage/battery life similar? Sadly this is a big part of what holds it back.
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by adamddev1 7mo ago
> By the time you’ve sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you’ve certainly learned something about it yourself. I love these quotes. I got a much deeper, more elegant understanding of

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