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901.
by bandrami 10mo ago
Except some times they aren't solved by LLMs, but appear to be. A CS student should be able to look at it and tell the difference.
902.
by bandrami 10mo ago
I remember when they were saying that 20 years ago
903.
by bandrami 10mo ago
What's the model for integration and maintenance in that case, then? Just re-create the app every time?
904.
by bandrami 10mo ago
You can second-guess their decision all you want but they voted with their feet
905.
by bandrami 10mo ago
Poor people have hundreds of servants, they're just robotic: a dishwasher, a laundry washer, a water heater, a door announcer, a courier who can travel at the speed of light, etc.
906.
by bandrami 10mo ago
This is what people were saying about Rails 20 years ago: it wows the kids who use it to set up a CRUD website quickly but fails at anything larger-scale. They were kind of right in the sense that engineering a large complex system with R
907.
by bandrami 10mo ago
Particularly given that on a screen reader -- which yes is an example of a browser -- it doesn't "look like" anything at all
908.
by bandrami 10mo ago
A poor person today has a better standard of living than a rich person in the 1700s
909.
by bandrami 10mo ago
The dire urban poverty was so much better than the pre-industrial rural poverty that nearly half of Great Britain moved from the countryside to a city during that period. You see the exact same patterns in India and China today.
910.
by bandrami 10mo ago
There are several restaurants there. The Domino's thing is back from the first Gulf War and wasn't even really true then
911.
by bandrami 10mo ago
Every individual programmer having locally-implemented idiosyncratic versions of sed and awk with imperfect reconstruction between sessions sounds like a regression to me
912.
by bandrami 10mo ago
The construction workers having lunch on the girder in that famous photo were in fact about four feet above a safety platform; it's a masterpiece of framing and cropping. (Ironically the photographer was standing on a girder out over
913.
by bandrami 10mo ago
Right.... how is that different from IRC other than being controlled by a big company with no exit ability and (again) extremely tenuous privacy promises?
914.
by bandrami 10mo ago
I'll come clean and say I've still never tried Discord and I feel like I must not be understanding the concept. It really looks like it's IRC but hosted by some commercial company and requiring their client to use and with ex
915.
by bandrami 10mo ago
Sorry, I don't buy it. I'm an ops guy, and devs who say they like the integration stage mean they like making ops play a guessing game and clean up the mess they left us.
916.
by bandrami 10mo ago
I'm largely a stranger to the js world but from the outside it sure looks like projects are sharded so as to maximize npm contribution count
917.
by bandrami 10mo ago
It's a cliché that the first 90% of a software project takes 90% of the time and the last 10% also takes 90% of the time, but it's cliché because it's true. So we've managed to invent a giant plausibility engine that aut
918.
by bandrami 10mo ago
The preparation sounds more classy when you call it "bisque"
919.
by bandrami 10mo ago
"Choosing" is doing a lot of work in that sentence
920.
by bandrami 10mo ago
These are cool tricks but this seems like an impedence mismatch: why would you use an LLM (a probabilistic source of plausible text) in a situation where you want a deterministic source of text where plausibility is not enough?
921.
by bandrami 10mo ago
My instinct was that you would have an outer non-agentic ring that would simply identify passages in the token stream that would initiate tool use, and pass that back to the harness logic and/or user. Basically a dry run. But you mig
922.
by bandrami 10mo ago
Given the data exfil vulnerability a few stories down HN's front page I would be extremely hesitant to ask Claude to process a document someone else produced and sent to me
923.
by bandrami 10mo ago
You'd need to run one model per authority ring with some kind of harness. That rapidly becomes incredibly expensive from a hardware standpoint (particularly since realistically these guys would make the harness itself an agent on a mod
924.
by bandrami 10mo ago
If you allow apt you are allowing arbitrary shell commands (thanks, dpkg hooks!)
925.
by bandrami 10mo ago
Isn't one of the main use cases of Cowork "summarize this document I haven't read for me"?
926.
by bandrami 10mo ago
The model that does make sense to me is (and the only actual success stories I've seen) is people saying "it let me quickly produce a piece of software that otherwise wouldn't have been worth the time to create". That is
927.
by bandrami 10mo ago
It makes a lot of intuitive sense: people feel more productive because they're twiddling switches but they're spending so much time on tooling it doesn't actually increase output (this is more or less what the MIT study fou
928.
by bandrami 10mo ago
This is giving "Debian systemd units call their old init.d scripts" energy but I kind of like it
929.
by bandrami 10mo ago
> A minute per day would be far too much drift for navigation, wouldn't it? Even that was much better than the dead-reckoning they had to do in bluewater before working chronometers were invented. Your ship's "position&quo
930.
by bandrami 10mo ago
IDK, I think it's at least reasonable to look at the fact that there isn't a ton of new software available out there and conclude "AI isn't actually making software creation any faster". I understand the counterargu

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