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by bob1029 5mo ago
> Furthermore, we observe that input tokens consistently constitute the largest share of consumption for an average of 53.9% I'm seeing a ratio of around 10:1 in my usage. A vast majority of the tokens consumed are on the input side
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by bob1029 5mo ago
This question goes a lot deeper than AI. You can infer a developer's position on AI with 100% accuracy if you ask them a related question about the customer and how much overtime they'd be willing to pull to meet a deadline for on
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by bob1029 5mo ago
TDD is fundamentally problematic in every practical implementation I've ever seen. I don't think the same thing, but much faster, is going to help at all. TDD tends to cause adverse, higher order effects. I am currently observing
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by bob1029 5mo ago
I am finding UUIDs help a lot if your primary schema consumer is an LLM. Inappropriate aliasing of integer keys allows for silent errors in queries because it will actually return some result a lot of the time. A UUID is immune to this pr
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by bob1029 5mo ago
gpt5.4 pushed me over the edge when I started using it to help with Unity projects. The writing of high quality mono behavior scripts was not the surprising part. It's the part where it once did a direct edit to a 500kb scene file (~ya
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by bob1029 5mo ago
I've always had capacity/quota issues with Azure compute. I would never pick them as my primary vendor. They're great at some cloud stuff (AAD/EntraID/Office/MDM), but everything else is a really bad time. Usin
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by bob1029 5mo ago
I like to take advantage of this effect. I will post various concepts in threads like these to see how "offensive" the hive mind finds them to be. The more immediate & adverse the reaction, the more certain I become that the i
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by bob1029 5mo ago
In the US, the average gun owner has something like 3-5. An actual enthusiast will have tens or hundreds. It's the people who own exactly one that you need to watch out for the most.
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I believe this is one of those having your cake & eating your cake scenarios. Wind turbines are designed to be aerodynamically loaded on purpose . The blades can pitch arbitrarily to compensate for unwanted loads in the axial flow dire
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In theory it should merge well. The only actual newline is at the end of the physical line. Everything else is escaped in the JSON string.
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by bob1029 5mo ago
> these agents to operate on files specifically so where does your SQL even fit into that? VARCHAR(MAX) I can tell HN isn't very interested in this idea today. I won't waste time trying to explain it further.
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by bob1029 5mo ago
I would emphasize the importance of batching and set operations. This is where I think many developers lose track of the rabbit, because you don't have much control over either of these things via ORMs. You have to get your hands dirty
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by bob1029 5mo ago
You can create an impenetrable prison for the LLM agents if you are willing to employ old school tech like Postgres, MSSQL or Oracle to solve the problem. I can't think of a better sandbox. No other ecosystem is as complete. Using virt
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And avoid moving said data between physical threads as much as possible. Most of the bottlenecks I see are not due to the organization of data. Unnecessary communication of data is the #1 offender.
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I try to avoid using custom attributes to configure things like business logic because they struggle to account for interactions between members. Attributes have no affordance for lambdas, delegates, method references, etc. You would need a
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by bob1029 5mo ago
> CQL is not a database management system: it neither stores nor updates data. The same could be said for SQL. How does CQL differ from SQL? If I squint my eyes just a tiny amount, these ideas become really difficult to separate. I was a
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by bob1029 5mo ago
I like to think of the initial system prompt as a fuse or bootloader. The user prompt and feedback from tool execution are where most of the alignment comes from in multi-turn use. You want to point the agent in the right direction and then
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by bob1029 5mo ago
I've been looking at the warning banner in VS2026 for the last few weeks with total indifference. Prepaid tokens tend to go a long way when you pay for them with your own money. I suspect most of the developers in the angry set have be
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by bob1029 5mo ago
I think supporting the predators of mosquitos is the better solution. We should go out of our way to avoid spraying insecticides in our lawns and other spaces. The lifecycle of the mosquito is much more rapid than that of fish, spiders, dra
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by bob1029 5mo ago
> A gun doesn't kill a person without being driven to action by a human. See: p320 uncommanded discharge controversy.
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> How large a project do you typically use dotnet for? The largest dotnet project I am responsible for has around 50 megabytes of source files sitting on its main branch right now. If you include the generated WCF references it's pr
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Furthering the idea that not all package managers are the same, there are entire cycles of the moon where I don't open nuget once. Some ecosystems simply don't need to vendor out very often, and these are the ones where you genera
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by bob1029 5mo ago
These machines are total garbage in my experience. > And with all-day battery life[ii] If they managed to get anywhere near Apple, they'd have confidently published some kind of actual hour figure without a scare citation.
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I think it is mostly accurate to say that the cost of execution has dropped to zero. In this new world, the ability to say "no" is more important than ever. It has never been so easy to burn time, money and energy. The fact that y
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> And yes, if you want the absolute best, Opus 4.8 exists. It also costs more per 20 minutes of heavy use than I paid for this entire GPU and adapter setup combined. But the gap is shockingly small. I don't think this is a fair char
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> So the most valuable person in this new world is the one who has both skills This has always been the most valuable person. A skilled software developer who is also deeply experienced in their target domain is untouchable. They can alw
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That is actually pretty wild to me. Do you have any sources regarding this? I see my GPT5.x harness seek out and read CLAUDE.md files all the time.
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> OpenAI wants to be more of a Google. It’s increasingly seeming like consumer may not be as good of a play here OpenAI has openings right now for "AI Deployment Engineer"-style positions, which is a role where they embed that
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I strongly believe the reason gpt-5.x performs so well on large projects is because of the focused training they've done on their dedicated apply_patch primitive. The official implementation of apply_patch is well thought out. It is a
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by bob1029 5mo ago
> This is especially attractive for AI agents and AI-generated workflows. Those systems are often bursty, experimental, and easier to reason about when each agent or tenant has a small self-contained unit of state. I am finding that the

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