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by aerhardt 8mo ago
I read Hyperion last year. It's an ode to the English letters and a phenomenal exercise in world-building. RIP.
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by aerhardt 8mo ago
Even in our fabulously wealthy societies, people are mostly worried about paying their bills, taking care of their families, and putting food on the table, not in getting together in a quixotic enterprise and paying for thousands of kilomet
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by aerhardt 8mo ago
Dario admitted in the same interview that he's not sure whether current AI techniques will be able to perform well in non-verifiable domains, like "writing a novel or planning an expedition to Mars". I personally think that a
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by aerhardt 8mo ago
Low? Put it this way. You work in a company or go to class with 45 people. Do you really think that 14 crashes in the last ~9 months is low? In terms of miles driven, which is the fair comparison, from the article: > Electrek analysis
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by aerhardt 8mo ago
> We also have someone who vibecoded without reading any of the code. This is self admitted by this person. This is isn’t right. He says very clearly in the recent Lex Fridman podcast that he looks at critical code (ex: database code). H
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by aerhardt 8mo ago
I've used their Pro models very successfully in demanding API workloads (classification, extraction, synthesis). On benchmarks it crushed the GPT-5 family. Gemini is my default right now for all API work. It took me however a week to d
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by aerhardt 8mo ago
I'm coding about 6-9h per day with Codex CLI on the $20 Plus sub, occasionally switching to extra-high reasoning and feeding it massive contexts, all tools enabled, sometimes 2-3 terminal sessions running in parallel and I've neve
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by aerhardt 9mo ago
Hetzner doesn't even have an RDS service. I've heard rumors for years but they haven't done it. Also, while I agree that leaning too much on the cloud leads to lock-in - this is an abstract concept that needs to be guarded ag
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by aerhardt 9mo ago
Well for one thing, call me a sell-out or accuse me of lacking craftsmanship, but I like my databases managed. Then also storage buckets, IAM, general cloud security and other niceties. And I don't think it's for a lack of skills,
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by aerhardt 9mo ago
I don't predict ever going back to writing code by hand except in specific cases, but neither do I "vibe code" - I still maintain a very close control on the code being committed and the overall software design. It's cra
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by aerhardt 9mo ago
I've been recently researching if I could replace American cloud providers with something like OVH or Hetzner (the latter I occasionally use for VPS) and there is no fucking chance. It's great that 37signals and DHH can do it, and
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by aerhardt 9mo ago
Pretty sure the parent comment was being sarcastic but I cannot quite tell if you are, too.
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by aerhardt 9mo ago
I don’t type code into the editor anymore and I still think as deeply about the problem as I ever did, if not more.
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by aerhardt 9mo ago
Margaret MacMillan is a modern historian with a liberal world view and no ideological incentive to defend Bismarck, and in her phenomenal work The War that Ended Peace (2013) she largely supports this view.
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by aerhardt 9mo ago
I chuckled in many scenes and more generally with the Hotel California vibes, but the book is also transcendental, mystical and dead serious at times. The mix of it all is what makes it arguably a masterpiece.
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by aerhardt 10mo ago
I mean, that’s an interesting take, but “having people around to ask dumb questions” is not why most orgs hire juniors.
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by aerhardt 10mo ago
I had to warm up a Gemini API project worth a few thousand hours during weeks so that I could get to the tier that allowed me to carry out the workload. How can you have any tokens if you haven’t finished your tokens?!
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by aerhardt 10mo ago
As fully-featured as possible, because as much as I like building stuff, I don’t give a shit about coding stuff that has been figured out since the 90’s. Another question is whether semantics and operations get bloated or affect development
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by aerhardt 11mo ago
I've kept hearing for a couple of years that Canada has an outrageous housing shortage, though?
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by aerhardt 11mo ago
She was largely ineffectual because she was cock-blocked by the ruling classes. I lean libertarian-capitalist and still I think this. Although it's not a settled debate in the classic liberal or libertarian traditions, there are plenty
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by aerhardt 11mo ago
This looks great. I've thought about vibe-coding a similar app for a while but this might just do - I could save a ton of work. Others have mentioned in the thread that the lack of account integration might be a problem. Plaid has been
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by aerhardt 11mo ago
Draghi's recommendations to roll back regulations had nothing to do with purported special interests, but with his view that regulation was stifling European development. And he's as old guard Euro-establishment as they come.
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by aerhardt 11mo ago
> That's not a problem. That's the system working as intended. You really think that supra-national legislators regulating the fine-print of unfathomably complex systems manage to have everything working "as intended"
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by aerhardt 11mo ago
The idea of giving it a task that may take six hours and reviewing it also gives me shivers. I'm a very happy Codex customer, but everything turns to disgusting slop if I don't provide: (1) Up-to-date AGENTS.md and an excellent pr
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by aerhardt 11mo ago
Well surely that's a good thing. In my experience, for some reason adherence is not even close to 100%. It's fixated on adding asterisk function params in my Python code and I cannot get it to stop... Maybe I haven't found th
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by aerhardt 11mo ago
Codex has been good enough to me and it’s much cheaper. I code non-trivial stuff with it like multi-threaded code and at least for my style of AI coding which is to do fairly small units of work with multiple revisions it is good enough for
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by aerhardt 11mo ago
Combining structured outputs with search is the API feature I was looking for. Honestly crazy that it wasn’t there to start with - I have a project that is mostly Gemini API but I’ve had to mix in GPT-5 just for this feature. I still use Ch
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by aerhardt 11mo ago
I would use it exclusively if Google released a native Mac app. I spend 75% of my time in Codex CLI and 25% in the Mac ChatGPT app. The latter is important enough for me to not ditch GPT and I'm honestly very pleased with Codex. My API
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by aerhardt 11mo ago
I'm confused. The article opens with: > OpenAI is changing its policies so that its AI chatbot, ChatGPT, won’t dole out tailored medical or legal advice to users. This already seems to contradict what you're saying. But then: &
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by aerhardt 1y ago
I'm surprised by how much I prefer prepending "uv" to everything instead of activating environments - which is still naturally an option if that's what floats your boat. I also like how you can manage Python versions ver

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