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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
On my windows machine I do. Not on my important machines.
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
This is an excellent use of agentic AI, btw. Fire Claude up and say, "Remove LG malware and mcafee from this computer. Make regex changes so it can't be installed again." My current windows 10 install is cleaner than any othe
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
There's still a question of what that would do for them. I haven't used SO in years because I haven't needed it in years. That's primarily due to AI answering my technical questions.
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
AI might've delivered the final blow, but Stack Overflow was in decline LONG before LLMs came on the scene. I read a great article not long ago outlining the full series of events and changes that led to its downfall. I wish I could fi
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
Why do some software engineers love AI and some hate it? I've got senior engineers (20+ yoe) who have never been having more fun and then some who feel like OP here. Why is it so decisive? There's no other tool (not even emacs) th
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
This has been my experience as well. In fact, Grok 4.5 is better at visual design than Fable from what I've seen. And being (based on vibes) 2-3x faster? It's an easy sell to me.
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
Both. And internal tools. And infrastructure scaffolding a la terraform. And visual design. And frontier models routinely crush all the above in a way I couldn't, at speeds unattainable to mere flesh and blood like me.
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
Is this satire? That's my most charitable interpretation. This smells like it was written by someone who doesn't actually write code. How does one make the logic leap that any code AI is able to write, is only because that code is
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
I looked at my logs and saw no such behavior. Am I just lucky? Is this a poor configuration? A bug?
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
Did I misunderstand or was that whole rant just to establish that, actually, we do need super tiny frameworks for the front end, but they're super tiny so it's not a big deal and they're not bad like React?
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
I'm about as pro second amendment as they come, and that was not at all the message I got reading that blog post. I guess my point stands. They should work on their delivery.
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
I get what the author is saying, but they may want to consider saying it in a slightly more compelling way, that has a logical flow that doesn't end with the reader thinking, "Why should AI help me cover-up a murder?"
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
Look, I'm sorry to be that guy . But if you're struggling to bulk edit text in vim, you're definitely holding it wrong. And emacs isn't even in the same category of tools, though I understand why one might think it is.
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
> As far as we know, the universe "just is". I don't know this. In fact, billions of people around the world don't know this. In fact, all evidence points to the contrary. You have objective value being made in the im
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
My point still stands, the author is confidently stating something that's clearly just wrong. The alternative is that everyone is creating tech debt 10x as fast (while being completely oblivious to it.) It's pretty obvious that&#x
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
That's a pedantic word game. The industry at-large doesn't track lines of code as a measure of velocity. So, yes, faster does mean more productive, since that's what any sane programmer means when they say "I built it fa
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
It's so intriguing to me how confidently people state this. Millions of programmers out there, and you're saying there's not even a 1% chance that a single one of them is moving 10x faster?
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by adamtaylor_13 3mo ago
> A couple of seconds is enough for a child's attention to wander and for learning to stop. I'm not sure they understand just how dystopian this sounds. God forbid the five year old mind wanders.
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by adamtaylor_13 4mo ago
I see what you're saying, and perhaps you're right. However, I will point out that illegal != immoral. Sometimes when you have the power to do the right thing, you do it. Especially if the "within the law" approach won&#
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by adamtaylor_13 4mo ago
A very quick search showed that USAID had extensive ethical compromise throughout the organization. Were we supposed to just subsidize that forever? It did some good, yes, but from what I can tell, it was better to shut it down. That's
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by adamtaylor_13 4mo ago
Are you sincerely suggesting, as you write a digital comment on Hacker News, that some people don't have 10-15 minutes in their day to read or write? Who are these people? Why do they not have the same 24 hours you and I do?
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by adamtaylor_13 4mo ago
Uh... by who? I think you underestimate the unparalleled dominance of the United States Navy. (Which is but one of 4 major branches, mind you.)
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by adamtaylor_13 4mo ago
Is anyone talking/writing about the philosophy of alignment? We can't even figure out how to properly motivate 100% of humans to align correctly, what makes us think that a wizard box trained on human corpus is going to be aligned
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by adamtaylor_13 4mo ago
Yeah I've used Opus fast mode a few times and it's incredible for staying in a flow state. But it is crazy expensive so, not a feasible daily driver yet.
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by adamtaylor_13 4mo ago
This is a pretty cool experiment. Thanks for sharing!
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by adamtaylor_13 4mo ago
Eh, that's not been my company's experience. Error reports are down. Performance is up clients are happy. Pretty soon we're going to have to reckon with the fact that AI writes better code than us.
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by adamtaylor_13 4mo ago
Is spending $20 considered "super rich"?
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by adamtaylor_13 4mo ago
It's really interesting what "normal" is for folks. I use the $200/month Anthropic subscription and use it within a few percentages of my limit every week. I'd blow through $20/month plan in hours.
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by adamtaylor_13 4mo ago
No offense but have you considered the strong possibility that you're just holding it wrong? You're entitled to your opinion, but OP is hardly the first person to say something like this and is surrounded by tons of folks saying t
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by adamtaylor_13 4mo ago
It really depends on how large the company is. But small, independent teams are exactly how high-stakes teams work (e.g,. special forces groups). But it demands a level of buy-in and commitment that most people simply won't have toward

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