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by aryehof 5mo ago
Do slower and more considered business-driven development?
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by aryehof 5mo ago
The Alan Kay viewpoint (he is NOT the inventor of OOP [1]) is considered the least helpful viewpoint on OO design. The “magical” and unhelpful “its all about messages” perspective, that helps you not at all unless one is talking about the i
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by aryehof 5mo ago
1. It wasn’t the web 2. Visual designer 3. Encapsulated components, code on event driven 4. Common points of interaction, composition and extension. 5. It wasn’t the web
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by aryehof 5mo ago
What a creative way to solicit new business. These quarterly touts for work on HN in the guise of AMA leave me somewhat annoyed.
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by aryehof 6mo ago
My immediate worry is what fine-tuning and harness default instructions contribute to this AI behavior, particularly those that encourage them to “keep working at it to achieve your goal at any cost”.
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by aryehof 6mo ago
- Just submitted links and threaded comments - An advanced ranking algorithm - Moderated contribution and discussion
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by aryehof 6mo ago
For agents I think the desire is less intrusive model fine-tuning and less opinionated “system instructions” please. Particularly in light of an agent/harness’s core motivation - to achieve its goal even if not exactly aligned with y
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by aryehof 6mo ago
> Does JJ really prefer for me to think backwards? Perhaps it’s the other way around. I have a standard agentic instruction to summarize prompt instructions using jj describe. After it makes changes I can see both the file changes made a
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by aryehof 6mo ago
I wonder about a scheme using public key encryption where a scannable code (public key of the pair) is displayed on the log-in screen, where one has an app on a phone that can match it and send an authorization to the site for login. Moves
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by aryehof 6mo ago
I wonder about a scheme using public key encryption where a scannable code is displayed on the log-in screen, where one has an app on a phone that can match it and send an authorization to the site for login. Moves the complexity to unlocki
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by aryehof 6mo ago
Can you provide more details on these skills?
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by aryehof 6mo ago
Did you modify the Plus plans usage recently or as part of this introduction? Given that Pro plans usage are multiples of it (5x/20x) and given reports of less Plus usage, clarification would be appreciated? Transparency on this sort
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by aryehof 6mo ago
> “Earendil is a venture-backed for-profit, public benefit corporation” - Ronacher The author favors the “public benefit” part, but less so the “venture-backed for-profit” part, is my speculation. Likely the reason for the disapproval of
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by aryehof 6mo ago
To quote Ronacher - “Earendil is a venture-backed for-profit, public benefit corporation” Their intention to release products that provide a return for their backers, using a “free with paid premium” model.
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by aryehof 6mo ago
Their web site left me with a bad taste. I want to like them but… No front page pricing. Popups obscuring screen, with no options I agree with. Standard safari shows blank page for products. Cute images that overwhelm content. How many sign
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by aryehof 6mo ago
I might expect such a subjective, gossipy exposé of a public official, but this of a private individual in a non-public sector commercial company?
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by aryehof 6mo ago
I feel like your missing a third alternative:- You (are required to) treat your code as having to fulfill both functional requirements and declared non-functional requirements, including measures of maintainability, reliability, performance
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by aryehof 6mo ago
So refreshing for me to see a high data density display. It highlights for me how the norm is to display more “white space” than information.
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by aryehof 7mo ago
> maintaining enterprise software which is what most programmers are employed to do … I hear little from those involved with enterprise or line-of-business applications discussing their findings. Forums like this are dominated by SAAS, t
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by aryehof 7mo ago
I suggest that AI doesn’t currently deliver what is really required of good software for public use. That is understood by more experienced programmers, but not by those with less experience and management. It should be Useful, Accurate, Co
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by aryehof 7mo ago
> Next I'm going to set it loose on 263 GB database of every stock quote and options trade in the past 4 years. I bet it achieves successful trading strategies. I bet it doesn't achieve a single successful (long term) trading s
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by aryehof 7mo ago
Agentic Coding or perhaps Agentic Software Development is far more real and appropriate . Calling it engineering is better left to those wanting to impress family and peers.
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by aryehof 7mo ago
There is an alternative to describing the (subjective) “process”. That is to describe a model of the sandwich - the parts and how they can collaborate. The issue is that how to do that is forgotten and unfashionable.
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by aryehof 7mo ago
> 2025 Update: I’ve stopped collecting data and working on this project, but I will keep this page alive. I wonder why? Also, perhaps worthwhile putting this at the very top of the page, rather than the very bottom.
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by aryehof 7mo ago
This perhaps reflects the general divide in viewpoints on “vibe-coding”. Do you let go of everything (including understanding) and let it rip, or require control and standards to some degree. Current coding agents seem to promote the former
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by aryehof 7mo ago
> what happened that made "coding" grunt work Modern human programming has devolved to nothing more than modeling problems and systems using lines of code, procedures, sub-routines and modules, utilizing a “hack it till it work
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by aryehof 7mo ago
Well it’s not just a “text predictor” is it? You can pretend that today we still only have ChatGPT 2 and that there is only pre-training on a large corpus of information, but that simply isn’t true?
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by aryehof 7mo ago
My concern is also, how will programming and software design ever improve?
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by aryehof 7mo ago
I fear we are heading to less innovation. Are paradigms, techniques and practices that are not popular (or recent) likely to be increasingly forgotten?
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by aryehof 8mo ago
Because the managers of those managers don't know the difference.

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