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by adriand 9mo ago
> If anything this example shows that these cli tools give regular devs much higher leverage. This is also my take. When the printing press came out, I bet there were scribes who thought, "holy shit, there goes my job!" But I b
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by adriand 9mo ago
> Its answer will be 10x harder to maintain and debug Maintain and debug by who? It's just going to be Opus 4.5 (and 4.6...and 5...etc.) that are maintaining and debugging it. And I don't think it minds, and I also think it wil
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by adriand 9mo ago
> I really wonder what means for software moving forward. It means that it is going to be as easy to create software as it is to create a post on TikTok, and making your software commercially successful will be basically the same task (w
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Ask HN: Is this the end of the "no code platform" era?
2 points by adriand 9mo ago|2 comments
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by adriand 10mo ago
> Fundamentally on the moral level removing oppressive tyrants like Sadam, Maduro, Gaddafi etc. is the right thing to do. If the issue was what was “right” then Trump wouldn’t have cozied up to Putin and abandoned Ukraine, or cozied up t
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by adriand 10mo ago
This article doesn’t add anything to what we know already. It’s still an open question what happens with the labs this coming year, but I personally think Anthropic’s focus on coding represents the clearest path to subscriber-based success
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by adriand 10mo ago
This is a great idea and insurance companies as the customer is brilliant. I could see this extend to prescribing as well. There are huge numbers of people that would benefit from more readily prescribed drugs like GLP-1s, and these have la
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by adriand 10mo ago
Update: I haven’t heard from him about this since. That might count as a success story though.
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by adriand 10mo ago
> On mobile this is a strong contender for the worst UX I've ever seen. Pretty hyperbolic. First of all, this is a human and their work you’re talking about. A little respect goes a long way. Secondly, if this is the worst UX you’ve
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by adriand 10mo ago
> "It" being "that it's harder than it looks"? Honestly, I'm not sure what to expect. There are clearly things he can't do (e.g. to make it work in prod, it needs to be in our environment, etc. etc.) bu
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by adriand 10mo ago
There was no machine vision stuff in the app at that point. Claude suggested a couple of different ways of handling this and I went with the easiest way: piggybacking on the Apple Vision Framework (which means that this feature, as currentl
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by adriand 10mo ago
The president of a company I work with is a youngish guy who has no technical skills, but is resourceful. He wanted updated analytic dashboards, but there’s no dev capacity for that right now. So he decided he was going to try his hand at b
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by adriand 10mo ago
Here's an example from this morning. At 10:00 am, a colleague created a ticket with an idea for the music plugin I'm working on: wouldn't it be cool if we could use nod detection (head tracking) to trigger recording? That way
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by adriand 10mo ago
> They are probably wading through a bunch of stuff right now, but given the context you have given us, its probably not "scrum meetings".. This made me laugh. Fair enough. ;) In terms of the time estimations: if your point is
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by adriand 10mo ago
Work that would have taken me 1-2 weeks to complete, I can now get done in 2-3 hours. That's not an exaggeration. I have another friend who is as all-in on this as me and he works in a company (I work for myself, as a solo contractor f
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by adriand 10mo ago
Currently three main projects. Two are Rails back-ends and React front-ends, so they are all Ruby, Typescript, Tailwind, etc. The third is more recent, it's an audio plugin built using the JUCE framework, it is all C++. This is the one
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by adriand 10mo ago
> Like, is there truly an agentic way to go 10x or is there some catch? Yes. I think it’s practice. I know this sounds ridiculous, but I feel like I have reached a kind of mind meld state with my AI tooling, specifically Claude Code. I a
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by adriand 11mo ago
I’m super cautious with these messages like I’m sure we all are but on Monday I ordered a printer from Amazon. They said it would arrive on Wednesday. On Wednesday I was working from home and I got a text from “Purolator” saying they’d trie
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by adriand 11mo ago
My point about my experience with this plugin isn’t that it’s a throwaway or meaningless project. My point is that it might be enough in some cases to verify output without verifying code. Another example: I had to import tens of thousands
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by adriand 11mo ago
I’m starting to believe there are situations where the human code review is genuinely not necessary. Here’s a concrete example of something that’s been blowing my mind. I have 25 years of professional coding experience but it’s almost all w
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by adriand 11mo ago
These stories never fail to astonish me. Why the same deity? It’s so interesting. The fact the mind is able to create these powerful visions and patterns and other realities is really incredible. We have this machinery for perceiving the wo
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by adriand 11mo ago
I can’t speak to his true motives but there are ethical reasons to oppose open weights. Hinton is an example of a non-conflicted advocate for that. If you believe AI is a powerful dual use tech technology like nuclear, open weights are a ma
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by adriand 11mo ago
Don't throw away what's working for you just because some other company (temporarily) leapfrogs Anthropic a few percent on a benchmark. There's a lot to be said for what you're good at. I also really want Anthropic to su
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X Just Accidentally Exposed a Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans(weaponizedspaces.substack.com)
322 points by adriand 11mo ago|206 comments
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by adriand 11mo ago
My home town of Hamilton, Ontario (population 560k) recently made the news because a guy stole a bus, with passengers onboard, and started driving it through the city. It was newsworthy because he also dropped people off at their stops, and
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by adriand 11mo ago
> Maybe they were new, or maybe they hadn't slept much because of a newborn baby Reminds me of House of Dynamite, the movie about nuclear apocalypse that really revolves around these very human factors. This outage is a perfect exam
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by adriand 11mo ago
The enterprise sales cycle is often quite long, though, and often includes a lot of hurdles around compliance, legal, etc. It would take a fairly sustained loss of edge before a lot of enterprises would switch once they're hooked into
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by adriand 11mo ago
Anthropic has a fairly significant lead when it comes to enterprise usage and for coding. This seems like a workable business model to me.
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by adriand 11mo ago
Related situation: you're at a family gathering and everyone has young kids running around. You hear a thump, and then some kid starts screaming. Conversation stops and every parent keenly listens to the screams to try and figure out w
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by adriand 11mo ago
Haha yeah I just got off the phone and I said, look, either this gets fixed soon or there's going to be news headlines with photographs of giant queues of people milling around in airports.

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