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by augusteo 8mo ago
n_u's point about LLMs as mentors for Rust's borrow checker matches my experience. The error messages are famously helpful, but sometimes you need someone to explain the why. I've noticed the same pattern learning other thing
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by augusteo 8mo ago
tokyobreakfast is right that this is just a certificate fix, not a real software update. But it's still notable. Lots of old devices become paperweights because of expired certs or backend shutdowns. The fact that Apple even bothered t
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by augusteo 8mo ago
I left a large tech company for a startup partly because of this. The politics of shipping were exhausting. At a certain scale, what gets rewarded isn't always what's valuable. But I'd push back on the idea that all tech comp
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by augusteo 8mo ago
LLMs playing Tetris feels like testing a calculator's ability to write poetry. Interesting as a curiosity, but the results don't transfer to the tasks where these models actually excel. Curious what the latency looks like per move
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by augusteo 8mo ago
The precision they achieved with 18th century tools is remarkable. Measuring 0.0032 degrees of deflection without modern instruments, then getting within 20% of the correct answer. I love stories where the constraint forces creative problem
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by augusteo 8mo ago
On the API vs local model question: We went with API embeddings for a similar use case. The cold-start latency of local models across multiple workers ate more money in compute than just paying per-token. Plus you avoid the operational over
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by augusteo 8mo ago
Large, hard-to-review PRs existed long before AI. The fix is the same: reject them, ask for smaller chunks. If your team doesn't have the culture to do that, AI just accelerates the dysfunction that was already there. The teams I'
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by augusteo 8mo ago
The frustrating part isn't that the project failed. It's that it was marketed as a success. I use AI coding tools daily. They're genuinely useful for real work. But stunts like this make it harder to have honest conversations
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by augusteo 8mo ago
Nice work. The hybrid BM25 + vector + LLM reranking approach is exactly what I've been wanting for my notes. I use Obsidian with hundreds of markdown files. The built-in search is fine for exact matches but misses conceptual connection
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by augusteo 8mo ago
The Baird vs Farnsworth debate reminds me of similar discussions in tech. The first demo rarely becomes the dominant standard. What strikes me is how fast the iteration was. Baird went from hatboxes and bicycle lenses to color TV prototypes
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by augusteo 8mo ago
Curious about the MCP integration. Are people using this for production workloads or mostly experimentation?
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by augusteo 8mo ago
The advice sounds obvious, but execution is hard. The best hires weren't the obvious ones. One of our strongest engineers came from a completely different industry with no relevant experience on paper. What I've learned: hunger sh
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by augusteo 8mo ago
The framing of AI risk as a "rite of passage" resonates with me. The "autonomy risks" section is what I think about most. We've seen our agents do unexpected things when given too much latitude. Not dangerous, just
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by augusteo 8mo ago
Building on sluongng's point about schema evolution: we ended up in a weird middle ground on a project where we used gRPC for metadata and presigned S3 URLs for the actual bytes. The metadata schema changed constantly (new compression
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by augusteo 8mo ago
The tractor analogy keeps coming up in these threads, and I think it's actually more pessimistic than people realize. Tractors didn't just change farming. They emptied entire regions. What saved the people (not the communities) wa
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by augusteo 8mo ago
I don't know Nature, but the shared-stack coroutine details here are interesting. The fact that C callbacks just work because everything runs on the same stack is a nice side effect of the architecture. The 10ms timer hack for garbage
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by augusteo 8mo ago
The folder input thing caught me off guard too when I first saw it. I've been building web apps for years and somehow missed that `webkitdirectory` attribute. What I find most compelling about this framing is the maturity argument. Bro
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by augusteo 8mo ago
This looks useful and I really wanted to try it but all of the stories link goes to 404 e.g. https://www.genstory.app/story-template/stories/turbo-and-th...
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You Need to Clear Your Coding Agent's Context Window(willness.dev)
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by augusteo 8mo ago
Nice project. The $15 price point is genuinely impressive for something like this. I've been curious about e-ink displays for a while but haven't taken the plunge. What's the refresh rate like in practice? And does it actuall
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by augusteo 8mo ago
Building on ranger207's point about transformative impact: I think the challenge is that game transformations are often invisible to outside observers. When someone reads Lord of the Rings, they can talk about it with others who haven&
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by augusteo 8mo ago
The real unlock for pancakes is making the batter the night before. Cold batter from the fridge gives you fluffier pancakes than fresh batter, and you don't have to measure anything at 8am.
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by augusteo 8mo ago
Good timing for this article. The multi-column index advice was always confusing because the "leading column" rules had real performance implications, but bitmap index scans made it less catastrophic than the textbooks suggested.
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by augusteo 8mo ago
stackskipton makes a good point about authority. SRE works at Google because SREs can block launches and demand fixes. Without that organizational power, you're just an on-call engineer who also writes tooling. The article's premi
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by augusteo 8mo ago
I love these "what if you only had X" puzzles. The constraint here (no bit access, only FP multiply and add) sounds impossible until you realize rounding behavior carries information. The edge cases around negative zero and infini
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by augusteo 8mo ago
The vanilla JS with zero dependencies is refreshing. Looking through the code, it's surprisingly readable for something handling Amiga file formats and color cycling. The demoscene connection makes sense. That community has always valu
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by augusteo 8mo ago
59,000 navigational aids is a lot more than I expected. Nice work turning the USCG Light List into something browsable.
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by augusteo 8mo ago
Building on zemo's point about parasocial relationships: traditional parasocial interaction involves a performer who doesn't know you exist. Here the AI does respond to you specifically, which changes the dynamic. Is it still para
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by augusteo 8mo ago
The manipulation part is what fascinates me. They didn't just correlate alpha wave frequency with ownership perception. They used transcranial stimulation to artificially speed up or slow down the waves, and the subjective experience c
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by augusteo 8mo ago
The framing as "bash pipes" is slightly misleading since jq and an LLM do the heavy lifting. But I don't think that's the point. What I like is the philosophy: use an LLM as a personal filter based on a plain-text descri

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