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by apsurd 4mo ago
This is about compassion. The rice workers in Vietnam just need to follow your podcast. The problem is they were just too dull this whole time. (I have no idea about Vietnamese rice workers' quality of life, so I don't mean to as
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by apsurd 5mo ago
Would you mind sharing antirez' suggestion?
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by apsurd 5mo ago
yes it makes sense that it's AI all the way down, but also the "why not just…" answer is because it's exhausting. Being reduced to an inconsequential middle manager is more exhausting than being reduced to a code monkey
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by apsurd 5mo ago
thanks, yeah i thought how'd it have to be time constrained, maxed out the monthly allotment. that makes sense. also using the latest model will burn those tokens. I've been so psychologically frugal with my token usage that'
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by apsurd 5mo ago
Your project cost $5k in tokens? How does that work? over what time? My understanding is that most developers are given pro max plans at $200/m and are expected to max that out. I've been getting by on the $200/year plan by s
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by apsurd 5mo ago
This is the problem with teaching and learning. Everything is wrong to some extent. I used to be this way but I don't have a better approach. Newtonian physics is actually wrong, the founding of any country will be wrong, biology is wr
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by apsurd 5mo ago
are you a programmer? it 100% requires skill. AI or not. i'm trying to say there's levels to this. if you don't agree then you don't agree. but i can buy commodity tools for any skill and that doesn't make me profes
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by apsurd 5mo ago
it can be easily dismissed because "anyone can use the tool that costs $20" makes no meaningful sense. this was always true in fact $20 is more than the free it costs for notepad++ it's a flippant statement. Go down the lin
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by apsurd 5mo ago
chop wood, carry water. the article circles around this but then uses the label "challenges" which misguides it. That's what I take the parent comment to criticize. Seeking money or fame is the same as seeking peace if you se
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by apsurd 5mo ago
How different is it really though, if you work for a company that buys the ads? I've thought about this because it's true for most every place I worked, we just funnel money into Google & Meta's coffers and play the SEO a
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by apsurd 5mo ago
What if the harness and loops get sufficiently better though? CC is using haiku for code-base gripping and such, you don't see a local commodity model being "good enough" for the 80% case when matched with better harnesses
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by apsurd 5mo ago
Humans are notoriously bad at predicting the future. Toward that end, your prediction is laughable. React is the end all be all of UI… lol
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by apsurd 5mo ago
What is this post. The point is normal people do normal things in their normal lives. I regret reading and commenting, but hopefully save someone else.
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by apsurd 5mo ago
This is part of the wider conversation. At least one reason is because other peoples' home is not your Disneyland.
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by apsurd 5mo ago
My example is always Bezos; everyone "hates" greedy tech Billionaire Bezos but how did he get there? We all put him there every day, every hour, every purchase. If basically everyone transacts with Amazon, willingly, how is it p
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by apsurd 5mo ago
"The problem is them " no no, we're not doing that.
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by apsurd 5mo ago
The State are the people and the people want tech billionaires because they want the same chance at being that (tech) m/billionaire. Temporarily embarrassed millionaires; I cannot get around that issue toward collective action, toward
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by apsurd 5mo ago
it does, it's a nextjs app so there's a bunch of top level pages that work as you'd expect. The issue is that we're trying to be a real company, those pages have nested logic, multiple views, sub navigation, search, filt
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by apsurd 5mo ago
Web technologies got so many things right. People complain about it so much but it's amazing. I worked with a vibe coded app at my last job (and since quit due to it) and because it was a nextjs SPA frontend with a separate API backend
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by apsurd 5mo ago
> A hero image at the top of a post: good, can be great, do it, make sure it's not AI. But like, a random dinosaur giving a thumbs up in the middle of the post? Don't do that at all. That's a weird intentional example to m
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by apsurd 5mo ago
but the author said they used ChatGPT. You're saying you produced the exact same image using Gemini?
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by apsurd 5mo ago
For me, not scaling, the opposite of scaling. For the scaling side there's two much more involved posts about the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36004925 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by apsurd 5mo ago
You are right about the activation energy to throw up anything new really comes down to a hosted db that won't rot. My initial experience with supabase was incredible in that sense: any client-side framework I wanted, deployed statical
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by apsurd 5mo ago
I found https://www.instantdb.com/about very interesting; you built a new database! The triples stuff is cool. For GETadb, it's a conflicting sell. The people that need "a db solved by AI" and fully abstracte
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by apsurd 5mo ago
But there's a cult following for various Costco products including food. The frozen croissants, the ~$5 rotisserie chicken, the vodka. The generic clothes items, shirts, socks etc. The pizza. I don't even have a Costco membership!
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by apsurd 5mo ago
yep fully agree. i'm taking issue with the flippant "not prompting right" as if they're holding it upside down vs it's actually a meaningful skill to have to invest in so it's fully believable that someone trai
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by apsurd 5mo ago
that's well put. But i'd stress mentoring junior engineers is really a high effort, high leverage, high demand skill. A good teacher is gold. and not common.
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by apsurd 5mo ago
but then how can the parent comment land? "you're just not prompting right"
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by apsurd 5mo ago
I've drank the AI koolaid so I'm not a hater, but to say "you're just not prompting right" is such a cop-out. Prompting right takes a metric fuck ton of effort. I'm actually kinda agreeing with you, if you make
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by apsurd 5mo ago
The problem with this is that everybody thinks they have better ideas than they do. And engineers are probably the worst offenders in that they're smart enough to make a case that deludes themselves. The insane billion dollar companies

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