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by apsurd 4mo ago
There is a subtle "misery loves company" at play even in one's own trusted circles. Criticizing someone for working too much tip-toes into that realm. It can be well intentioned: everything in moderation, life is about more t
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by apsurd 4mo ago
sibling discussions are taking this as human perception. But it’s easier to think of it literally. Time is change. Physical state change. By “nothing interesting” - interpret it literally . if “nothing happens” then there is no time becaus
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by apsurd 4mo ago
Makes me think of how my Claude.md files specifies to use the built in framework code-generators (rails). Those generators are deterministically right every time. I wonder how often the Agent actually follows the guidance. I do see them fol
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by apsurd 4mo ago
Tobi Lutke is known to be an eccentric. I listened to an interview a few years ago. Clearly smart and forward thinking. He's also polarizing. He's very into optimize everything, systems thinking. Hard to say it's wrong but de
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by apsurd 4mo ago
it’s a good point. Their product likely is legit, but i even judge individual contributors who use these site builders for their resumes or portfolios and stick with the subdomain. It’s that last mile effort towards completeness i think.
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by apsurd 4mo ago
They're all making a living by telling people the truth that want the truth. The more money they make the more they deviate being solidly in camp #2. It's an aphorism. I enjoyed it. It's not a proof of the Universe.
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by apsurd 4mo ago
oh that's cool! Can only see it on chrome though =/. I switched to Safari as the lesser of two data-harvesting evils. Or rather, with an iPhone I've already chosen my overlord. I also switched to Kagi. Trying to deGoogle myse
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by apsurd 4mo ago
AI made working for (an AI-pilled) company unbearable to me. Time will tell if there will be new approaches that new companies take, and lessons learned. But immediately, I hate AI work in a company setting. Mandates intentionally want huma
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by apsurd 4mo ago
As someone not old but young enough to not have experienced a world before software, Im not sure that engineering rooted in the physical is a necessary prerequisite. I appreciate your comment but the entire world I happened to experience in
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by apsurd 4mo ago
well Apple is stated as an easy counter example. They charge money for premium hardware and software. everything else is downstream. So while they could squeeze at every possible opportunity, they are less incentivized to abuse the relation
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by apsurd 4mo ago
I just remembered there’s a black mirror episode about this. The paid subscription evolution by a “health tech” startup let’s say. I won’t give away the plot, but it’s so realistically absurd it’s sad, hilarious and terrifying all at once.
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by apsurd 4mo ago
Heard it here on HN: problem is paying a subscription is purely additive. eventually, inevitably, they’ll take the subscription AND sell your data, serve you ads, etc. it being against what your payment contract states just means they’ll re
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by apsurd 4mo ago
I paid for youtube premium for a few months under the reasoning that I hate those auto playing make money ads so much. Certainly paying for peace is worthwhile. Youtube legitimately has some quality content. But I ended my subscription beca
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by apsurd 4mo ago
What's actually being said is that these people are not your friends/family and probably shouldn't be. That definitely sounds harsher than intended. It's a meditation really. Nobody needs FB and Instagram. (please read
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by apsurd 4mo ago
I don't believe for a second you'd pay $50 per month! Yeah you'd do it to prove a point. 6 months later, no way in hell.
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by apsurd 4mo ago
If AI makes code a commodity, then why is the prescription for everyone to ship even more code even more urgently? My gut reaction, as a professional developer, to my (previous) company's AI mandates was an instinctive "wait but..
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by apsurd 4mo ago
I was hunting for a way in to side with your father in law. But you landed the point: friction is relative. Digital maps clearly solve the end-goal needs for most people. But like your father in law, there’s definitely a loss in that exchan
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by apsurd 4mo ago
Im not understanding why the discounting of your prior knowledge somehow slides over to a benefit for the non-technical vibe coder? wouldnt you still be in a better position when prompting “site slow, make fast”?
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by apsurd 4mo ago
Another angle to refute this take: my experience is software developers themselves arent good at building software products . Its been historically necessary but not sufficient to have to understand the underlying tech. Even if AI makes th
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by apsurd 4mo ago
The point is that those a real prices real people are paying for real API usage. it's not made up. your point is large players won't pay those prices at massive volume. ok
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by apsurd 4mo ago
Same. My total agentic session time/effort is about 70/30 discussion vs code-gen. I've got 12 years experience.
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by apsurd 4mo ago
The criticism comes because people self-share how they berate the agents, argue and curse at them. It's right here in the comment section. one comment speaks of causing physical (simulated i guess) thousand year pain as a means of obed
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by apsurd 4mo ago
I'm willing to bet you've never sent a single word to a potato ever. And you send thousands to an llm. This is not about llm sentience. this is about the habit and skill of communication.
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by apsurd 4mo ago
Yes as a rule i've baked in a kind of expand and refine, expand and refine guidance for all sessions. I explicitly form the conversation around thought partnership, apply critical lens, audit, verify, scrutinize, research then recommen
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by apsurd 4mo ago
haha! yes i read too fast but i did read it and i took "message is small" to mean the message you want followed within the large context, not the entire context is just a small message. funny though it is a case in point: language
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by apsurd 4mo ago
Isn't a large context window still a problem though? At the upper bound, the more you put in the more each sentence washes out within that window?
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by apsurd 4mo ago
Working with LLMs is great for building communication skills. Communicating effectively is one of the hardest skills and it's baked into everything we do as humans. I'd say as a matter of principle: blame it on a communication fai
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by apsurd 4mo ago
Semi-related, I'm always very put off by how people treat LLMs. Especially coders, seems an instinctive joy comes out to play God. The justification is usually that it's intentionally against the trap of anthropomorphizing, but no
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by apsurd 4mo ago
Sandboxing is a feature. Poor AI is damned if it does damned if it doesn't.
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by apsurd 4mo ago
Fair enough but it means you're giving a lot of credit to these white-collar workers losing their jobs. I've seen enough to know office workers are not the intellectual savants their college sold them on. People are mostly trying

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