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Well, no, he was not a pleasant person. Back in the day he was a management consultant, best known for an essay which rustled many programmer jimmies at the time: "Theory P: The Philosophy of Managing Programmers" (2005): https:&
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There is no alternative to deadlines because time is money, and those downstream of you can ill afford to wait on your deliverables. Part of management's job is to determine how much time it should take so a reasonable timetable that s
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Tired Searlian arguments about whether an LLM truly "knows" or "understands" anything. Ultimately it doesn't matter; it observably behaves as if it does, and for small to medium programming tasks can outperform an a
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I've always liked to see power pylons receding in the distance on a grassy plain, or over a forest. It makes me flash back to my youth. There was an abandoned railway a short distance from my house, that had become overgrown with veget
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> For the foreseeable future. Left to their own devices current LLMs kinda wander off into outsider art territory. They aren’t grounded in the real world and they need that feedback loop to stay within the category of relevant ideas. I h
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This is why I still like solving software problems on my own. Because those solutions now live in my head, rather than being spit out by some agent and then disappearing from the Dixie Flatline's memory once the session shuts down. And
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Indeed. The world has moved on to the Kitty graphics protocol.
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When I started Linux in the 90s, I remember looking for defrag utilities and finding none, but reading that defragging wasn't really necessary under ext2, because the page cache smoothed things out and/or the fs was to some degree
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We have created Project 2501. Edit: Reading the report I think we might be a bit beyond that; we're nearing the point where we hear the thundering drums and the chorus of: THIS CANNOT CONTINUE THIS CANNOT CONTINUE THIS CA
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This is the most useless thing I've seen on here lately. It's not necessary on hard drives, as the page cache did a decent job of improving disk access even in the 90s, let alone with today's fast HDDs. And if you're on
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I used to refer to agents as "the Dixie Flatline" to my coworkers, especially to remind them that, for good or ill, when you start a session afresh the agent loses all previous context and forgets any conversation you may have had
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I had a friend who believed that large cities should be abolished and society should be made agrarian by law. She believed that that way we would have more free time to pursue our intellectual curiosities, unburdened by our dependence on an
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> In short, being a CEO is a skill of crafting and debugging a machine of people, a skill that I think life gives almost no training for, and a skill that most people with that title have no awareness or aptitude for. Indeed, but the CEO
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The biggest stock-price hack for a CEO is: * announce that effective immediately, the company will begin its transformation to an "AI-first" organization, with AI driving most development workflows by end of year * percolate the m
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In the real world of business, generally you want to store these pieces of information together to establish a historical record, not have references or links to other tables, etc. Links and relations are fragile, as anyone who's click
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1) The internal or wire representation of data from document DBs isn't necessarily JSON, though it's normally converted to such. 2) "Document" has undergone a bit of semantic drift thanks to HTML and XML. In an informati
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This is really cool. I'm also reminded of a game on SGIs called Mekton. Mekton was originally a mecha-combat RPG designed by Mike Pondsmith, the creator of Cyberpunk (2040, etc.); it was made into a multiplayer video game using OpenGL
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Like combos in Street Fighter II . Also a "hit bug" in a different sense, as it's an unintended effect of how characters strike each other in game.
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Not if you have a deadline.
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I said "functionally", not (as Claude says) "byte-identically".
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Presumably a verified click is a click traceable to an attested human identity through your government's soon-to-be-implemented "KYC to use a computer or smartphone" policy.
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"Shape" appears to come from JavaScript development wherein an object's "shape" is its structure: the set of properties and methods it is expected to have.
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"Spike" comes from Extreme Programming where it means specifically code written without TDD. Code that wasn't written against a pre-existing test is by definition broken, and should not go into production. So you create a sim
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My observations suggest that frontier models consistently produce correct, high-quality code for small to medium-sized tasks provided the goals are well-specified and testable. Even when they appear to get distracted, they converge on a sol
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"Skipping their no-op fuel starves nothing." https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan-src/commit/a9260cb3584854...
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I have my own theory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476127
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I have a friend who understands and interprets AI through the lens of Continental philosophy and psychoanalysis, particularly Lacan. I think I'm beginning to understand why he chose this framework. It may be the only way to understand
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It's the Lalilulelo. "I hear it's amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flapjaw space does a raw blink on Hara-Kiri Rock. I need scissors! 61!" Kojima was a prophet, fite me
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I explained GitHub to a friend as "like DeviantArt, but for code". And it is true, but that just means the bar for expectations has been raised thanks to early open source success. Tarball drops don't cut it anymore (unless y
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I am proud of my work, and I hate working with AI. But reality is what it is. The economics are what they are. And at the present time, writing code without LLM assistance is a mere handicraft, an idle pastime indulged in as a curiosity

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