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by block_dagger 7mo ago
One's job and the rest of one's life are not clearly delineated. Best friends and spouses are often met through work, which is inexplicably linked with one's actual performance on the job. This article treats them as if they
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by block_dagger 7mo ago
Cool idea indeed.
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by block_dagger 7mo ago
If it weren’t…subjunctive mood. Sorry, it’s Pedantic Friday in my small world.
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by block_dagger 7mo ago
No human devs will be required (or useful except in extreme niches) within a few years. Ten, at the wild maximum, I suspect.
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by block_dagger 7mo ago
I get exhausted because of the cognitive overhead of switching between 2 or 3 projects at once. I always want to be manually verifying or prompt writing, and keeping it all straight is taxing. But I’m getting so much more done.
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by block_dagger 7mo ago
I would start looking for a job at an AI-leaning firm.
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by block_dagger 7mo ago
I work at a company that maintains one of the largest Rails codebases in the world (their claim, but believable). My experience has been the opposite - Claude and Cursor have done a wonderful job of helping me understand the implement new f
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by block_dagger 7mo ago
I am having a blast at work. I've been leaning hard into AI (as directed by leadership) while others are falling far far behind. I am building new production features, often solo or with one or two other engineers, at lightning speed,
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by block_dagger 7mo ago
Any kind of domination of one species over another raises serious ethical questions. Avoiding suffering on the dominated side is nearly impossible.
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by block_dagger 7mo ago
Join Discord servers of your favorite games and join social servers, build/play with the same folks. It can be like playing in a local band (also a great way to socialize and find purpose).
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by block_dagger 7mo ago
I was the Great Lord Wraith on Atlantic and I can say I was respected. Protecting the weak from PKers was a very rewarding experience.
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by block_dagger 7mo ago
You're cherry picking.
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by block_dagger 7mo ago
I literally thought it was "Dolt" until I read your comment.
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by block_dagger 7mo ago
It's not debt if you don't have to pay it back. Engineers no longer have to read old code. The new way is to use LLMs to summarize, analyze, refactor, and refit. Reading code by hand is best done at pre-commit and pre-merge.
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by block_dagger 7mo ago
Does this mean we'll find out who Satoshi is with a high degree of confidence?
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by block_dagger 7mo ago
Those are cloud agents.
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by block_dagger 7mo ago
Hoping Cursor will also adopt.
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by block_dagger 7mo ago
That’s not at all how this works. Commands are relayed through Anthropic’s servers with a client polling mechanism.
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by block_dagger 7mo ago
Interesting idea but bad tspec. A better approach would be a single env var (DEV_MODE perhaps) with “agent” and “human” as values (and maybe “ci”).
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by block_dagger 7mo ago
Death is apparently snowy
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by block_dagger 7mo ago
The harness (OpenClaw) is free, but you have to run a local model or pay for a remote one. Local models just aren't smart or fast enough for good results in this space yet.
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by block_dagger 7mo ago
Analyzing my text (iMessage) history has yielded interesting stats about how flaky certain friends are, etc. I had it introduce itself in a band conversation and suggest cover songs for an upcoming gig based on conversation history. Worked
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by block_dagger 7mo ago
A thousand dogs typing on a thousand typewriters...
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by block_dagger 7mo ago
The album he made with Ben Folds was worth a couple of listens. Only a couple.
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by block_dagger 8mo ago
Could you add comment navigation features? I want to read all top level comments first and be able to down-arrow through them, and right-arrow to expand one level.
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by block_dagger 8mo ago
I cleanup branches interactively with a few lines of bash, which takes a bit more time but is less likely to destroy active work.
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by block_dagger 8mo ago
Doesn’t the widely accepted Bitter Lesson say the exact opposite about specialized models vs generalized?
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by block_dagger 8mo ago
Anyone else get a “one simple trick” vibe from this post? Reads like an ad for his podcast. As other commenters mention, probably nothing to see here.
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by block_dagger 8mo ago
Loved this series, totally up HN’s alley.
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by block_dagger 8mo ago
The real question is how can that grammar be forgiven? Perhaps that's what sent the bot into its deviant behavior...

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