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by alwillis 6mo ago
AI is predicted to continue eating SaaS: https://www.bain.com/insights/why-saas-stocks-have-dropped-a...
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by alwillis 6mo ago
> 1. We pay for saas, so we don't have to manage it. If you vibe-code or use these AI things, then you are managing it yourself. > 2. Most Saas is like $20-$100/month/person for most Saas. For a software engineer, that
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by alwillis 6mo ago
Cheaters: https://brettterpstra.com/projects/cheaters
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by alwillis 6mo ago
> At this point perhaps a million person-years have been sacrificed to the semantically incoherent shit UX of git. I have loathed git from the beginning but there's effectively no other choice. Yes! We mostly wouldn’t tolerate the c
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by alwillis 6mo ago
> More than killer AI I'm afraid of Anthropic/OpenAI going into full rent-seeking mode so that everyone working in tech is forced to fork out loads of money just to stay competitive on the market. You should be more concerned a
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by alwillis 6mo ago
> They should just say they'll never release a model of this caliber to the public at this point and say out loud we'll only get gimped versions. That’s not going to happen. If you recall, OpenAI didn’t release a model a few ye
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by alwillis 6mo ago
> I struggle to believe that a ton of seemingly intelligent software engineers are too dumb to figure out how to use Claude code to get reliable results. They're not dumb, but I'm not surprised they're struggling. A develo
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by alwillis 6mo ago
They seem to know what they’re doing. Anthropic entered 2025 with a run rate of $1 billion; the run rate for March 2026 is estimated at $19 billion. Internal projections show the company reaching cash-flow break-even in 2028, after stopping
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by alwillis 6mo ago
I think the point the author is trying to make is dealing with environment variables was a solved problem 40+ years ago on FreeBSD and other Unix-like systems. And that we shouldn't need to download something like dotenv to address som
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iPhones orbit the Moon on Artemis II for astronaut photos(appleinsider.com)
4 points by alwillis 6mo ago|2 comments
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by alwillis 7mo ago
> On your lan, you really want to be doing ".local" / ".lan" / ".home". The "official" is home.arpa according to RFC 8375 [1]: Users and devices within a home network (hereafter ref
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by alwillis 7mo ago
Yes, I configured VS Code to use Monaspace a while ago.
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by alwillis 7mo ago
Also terminal apps like Ghostty, Wezterm.
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by alwillis 7mo ago
I’ve been using Monaspace with Neovim for at least a year.
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Oracle reportedly cuts jobs to fund its AI infrastructure push(the-decoder.com)
2 points by alwillis 7mo ago|1 comments
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by alwillis 7mo ago
"The file has no permissions model. No encryption. No audit trail. It is a sticky note on a monitor, formatted as UTF-8."
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The .env File Nobody Needs(vivianvoss.net)
13 points by alwillis 7mo ago|6 comments
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by alwillis 7mo ago
I’ll have to give this a shot. One possibility: Claude Code subagents get their own 1 million token context window; should be better with large JSON files vs. having everything in the same context window.
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by alwillis 7mo ago
Agreed.
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by alwillis 7mo ago
AI is better at writing prompts than most humans. It requires work and lots of developers don’t think getting good at prompting actually matters. At least half of the complaints I see on HN boil down to the person's prompts suck. Or th
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by alwillis 7mo ago
Mushroom. Since when is a mushroom a buddy?
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Google Touts Dubious Android Browser Benchmarks; Press Swallows It Whole(daringfireball.net)
3 points by alwillis 7mo ago|0 comments
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Ollama Now Runs Faster on Macs Thanks to Apple's MLX Framework(macrumors.com)
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by alwillis 7mo ago
Sounds awesome! Looking forward to trying it out.
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by alwillis 7mo ago
> but if there is a deterministic option, why would you choose something that might give you the wrong answer? Claude Code can use jq if it's installed on your system. Also, the data transformation is usually part of a larger workfl
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by alwillis 7mo ago
Claude Code hooks are deterministic; the agent can’t bypass them [1]. For example you force a linter to run or for tests to run. Claude Code defaults to running in a sandbox on macOS and Linux. Claude Cowork runs in a Linux VM. [1]: https:
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by alwillis 7mo ago
I’ve been using Cotypist on macOS [1]. Sometimes it feels like it’s reading my mind when I’m typing. [1]: https://cotypist.app/
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by alwillis 7mo ago
> you'll be pleased to know it has plenty of its own shortcuts, as well as a "VIM navigation" mode you can turn on. For doing something quick, VS Code's Vim mode is… fine. But not if you're something serious. I o
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by alwillis 7mo ago
> I always thought Vim/Nvim already had a built-in package manager They do; I used minpac [1] back in the day with Vim. And now Neovim has vim.pack. Every so often, a movement to create Vim and Neovim configurations with zero (or mi
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by alwillis 7mo ago
Looking forward to multiple cursors… but Vim/Neovim can already do some of the common use-cases for multiple cursors, like prepending (or appending) text to a bunch of lines using visual block mode [1]. Here’s a video example [2]: [1]:

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