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by ativzzz 9mo ago
I've literally never found flow state with programming. Is it even possible when working as a full stack web dev? I am constantly context switching between backend/frontend, reading documentation, looking at/modifying data, r
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by ativzzz 9mo ago
I've had some great conversations with uber drivers. Most don't talk, but I've had some memorable ones for sure.
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by ativzzz 9mo ago
It is hard because this product will likely be obsolete next year based on how quickly AI is changing and evolving. Speed is king when you're on the frontier
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by ativzzz 9mo ago
What's everyone's hate with uber and lyft rides? Over the past 10 years, I've had maybe one ride that was a 1/5. Most drivers either don't talk or are actually very pleasant conversations I will take whichever one i
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by ativzzz 9mo ago
For greenfield apps you can vibecode it. For existing complex apps, where existing products where customers pay us a lot of money for working software, understanding the changes and context surrounding them in the code is critical or else n
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by ativzzz 9mo ago
Uber and Lyft operated partially or outright illegally in many places while negotiating with governments. They also had a far superior product. Just like they fought the existing taxi companies, Waymo will have to fight against Uber and Lyf
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Social Media Agent Protocol(ativz.substack.com)
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Ask HN: How do you do multi-agent workflows with web apps?
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by ativzzz 9mo ago
> special government LLM to implement direct democracy I like your optimism, but I think realistically a special government LLM to implement authoritarianism is much more likely. In the end, someone has to enforce the things an LLM spits
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by ativzzz 9mo ago
> That they will know when to do abstractions The only way to learn when abstractions are needed is to write code, hit a dead end, then try and abstract it. Over and over. With time, you will be able to start seeing these before you writ
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by ativzzz 9mo ago
Great, then we can use AI to solve the problems given a set of requirements, and spend more time thinking about what the requirements are by understanding the users. PM and software development will converge more and more as AI gets better.
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by ativzzz 9mo ago
The best way to get an idea is to do something for 5-10+ years, learn the limitations, learn what's missing. 2nd best way is to meet those people and talk to them. The more of them from different backgrounds you talk to, the more ideas
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by ativzzz 1y ago
Sure, but when I've spent 30 mins talking to you and you look the same on paper as the other 5 competent candidates and I need to make a choice on who to hire, any data point that portrays you negatively is an easy way to narrow my dec
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by ativzzz 1y ago
100% untrue. Hiring is a social game. You want to put your best foot forward, and then slowly let out your truer self over time. Much like dating - you don't want to air all your dirty laundry on the first date. Don't lie about wh
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by ativzzz 1y ago
A good reason to have an anonymous account to post negative things on. Never post honest negativity under your real name. Unless you work for yourself or your vulnerability is a sort of marketing, you're only hurting yourself. Make an
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by ativzzz 1y ago
In any job I've had (all remote), just message any person with some experience with the thing you're working on. They're always more than happy to bounce ideas or hop on a call and chat about it > Hey, I'm working on
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by ativzzz 1y ago
Totally agreed, which is why I'm sticking with my editor (neovim) regardless of whatever AI thing is hot and using tools outside/analogous to it, currently claude code
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by ativzzz 1y ago
> Which means you should need fewer of them, no? I've never worked at a company that didn't have an endless backlog of work that needs to be done. In theory, AI should enable devs to churn through that work slightly faster, but
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by ativzzz 1y ago
> I make stupid decisions reacting to those feelings. Yea it seems like the right thing to do is to step away and take a sabbatical to cool down, and then remember that we like money, and that it's just part of the game to get paid.
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by ativzzz 1y ago
It goes beyond this. Reading is a form of entertainment. There has been an explosion of new and different forms of personal entertainment, so books now have to compete not just with old books, but movies, video games, social media, etc etc
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by ativzzz 1y ago
While the AI is running, go work on something else. Go write a doc, or write a test, answer an email, work on another part of your feature that won't interfere with the AI, etc I know some people have trouble with the context switching
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by ativzzz 1y ago
This is very cool. I think the primary innovation here is twofold: 1. Remote agent - it's a containerized environment where the agent can run loose and do whatever - it doesn't need approval for user tasks because it's in an
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by ativzzz 1y ago
Because summarizing is one of the few things LLMs are generally pretty good at. Plus you should use the summary to determine if you want to read the full source, kind of like reading an abstract for a research paper before deciding if you w
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by ativzzz 1y ago
I think that the future of local LLMs is delegation. You give it a prompt and it very quickly identifies what should be used to solve the prompt. Can it be solved locally with locally running MCPs? Or maybe it's a system API - like rea
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by ativzzz 1y ago
Yes and other engineering disciplines have certifications and organizations that require you to pass exams to prove you have the knowledge They also tend to pay less Preparing for interviews is a small price to pay
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by ativzzz 1y ago
8 is becoming a law in more places already 9 & 10 can be applied to any non-game software service as well 11 is impossible because there's too much variation in consumer hardware, but some kind of formal performance standard would
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by ativzzz 1y ago
The problem is the same. It still costs money to support crypto payments via taxes, payment fees, customer support etc that it's not worth to collect crypto from these countries. It's much more lucrative to just target US markets
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by ativzzz 1y ago
Probably because it's one of those industries where legalizing it still attracts a large enough black market (human trafficking is a huge thing) that it's easier to just blanket ban it than try to separate the legal from the illeg
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by ativzzz 1y ago
War is simultaneously the best and worst thing humanity can do. Killing each other is a pointless activity, yet the imminent threat of death and the idea of destroying your enemy is the strongest motivator to work together and accomplish in
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by ativzzz 1y ago
I've found it useful for doing simple things in parallel. For instance, I'm working on a large typescript project and one file doesn't have types yet. So I tell the AI to add typing to it with a description while I go work on

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