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by bonesss 10mo ago
There’s also change over time to consider: web programming has become immensely more stable and simpler and more mature over time, thereby enabling classes of application and experience that traditionally meant a client application to be bu
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That’s the issue, though, isn’t it? Why isn’t it black and white? Clear massive productivity gains at Google or MS and their dev armies should be visible from orbit. Just today on HN I’ve seen claims of 25x and 10x and 2x productivity gai
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A little hypothesis: a lot of .Net and Java stuff is mainlined from a giant mega corp straight to developers through a curated certification, MVP, blogging, and conference circuit apparatus designed to create unquestioned corporate friendly
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.Net languages have ‘regions’ that can collapse & nest, providing a high level narrative of file organization (and, in practice, display most files in a clean collapsed view).
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> even bad comments can be useful Bad comments aren’t just less helpful than possible, they’re often harmful. Once you’ve hit a couple misleading comments in a code base (ie not updated, flatly wrong, or deeply confusing due to term misu
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> the result of Ballmer's "Developers, developers, developers!" attitude I think Microsoft’s framework chasing has been a betrayal of that philosophy. Internal divisional politics have been major drivers behind fracturing
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Going to failure can also be a question of which ‘link in the chain’ is hitting failure at any given rep range. Bent over rows being and easy example: at a 5RM upper back is giving out as desired, but past 10RM my lower back is the issue.
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Generating CRUD is like solving cancer in mice, we already have a dizzying array of effective solutions… Ruby on Rails, Access 97, model first ORMs with GUI mappers. SharePoint lets anyone do all the things easily. The issue is and always
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I think the gap between people dealing with JavaScript cruft all day and backend large systems development is creating a massive conversational disconnect… like, this thread is plain-faced and seriously discussing reinventing date handling
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In light of OpenAI confessing to shareholders there’s no there there (being shocked by and then using Anthropics MCP, being shocked by and then using Anthropics Skills, opening up a hosted dev platform to milk my awesome LLM business ide
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In reflection heavy environments and with injection and reflection heavy frameworks the distinction is a bit more obvious and relevant (.Net, Java). In some cases the mock configuration blossoms to essentially parallel implementations, lead
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Functional programming makes DSLs easier/possible, so you express your domain in natural domain language/constructs leading to easier comprehension, standardization, reuse, and testing, thereby improving reliability. This is the e
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Challenging my own LLM experiences cynically: for a period it really does feel like I’m interactively getting exactly what I need… but given that the end result is generated and I have to then learn it, I’m left in much the same situation y
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There’s more than one way to be a fungi.
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They made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm…
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> LLMs is just a synthetic human 1) ‘human’ encompasses behaviours that include revenge cannibalism and recurrent sexual violence —- wish carefully. 2) not even a little bit, and if you want to pretend then pretend they’re a deranged del
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Context is king, too: in greenfield startups where you care little about maintenance and can accept redundant front end frameworks and backend languages? I believe agent swarms can poop out a lot lot lot of code relatively quick… Copy and p
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Pure speculation, but I feel the inference money is tiny compared to the speed and permanence of Office integrations MCP enables through the consultancy swarm. MCP lets you glue random assed parts of services to mega-ultra-high critical bus
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Templates and templating languages are still a thing. Source generators are a thing. Languages that support macros exist. Metaprogramming is always an option. Systems that write systems… If these AIs are so smart, why the giant LOCs? Sure
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I find that technology really exciting. Partly because it’s a polished and comprehensive version of something I was implementing around my MCP cluster anyways. Mostly, though, because it seems like we’re mere minutes away from having Star
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No nulls, no nullability bombs. Forcing devs to pre-fix/avoid bugs before the compiler will allow the app means the programs are more correct as a group. Wrong, incomplete, insufficient, unhelpful, unimpressive, and dumb are all still
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Another red flag vis-a-vie energy source is ignoring hydro electric. High energy consumers and areas with a constant surplus of hydro are a good match. One of the new mega dams on Central Asia was restarted and funded primarily by an alum
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Amazon didn’t pay zero taxes, robbing the commons. Amazon engaged in trade and investment, taxed on all sides and at multiple points in the exchange of goods and services. Then Amazon invested their profits into further tax-creating transac
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Vibedetector
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Bourdain didn’t initiate the cultural practice of going on safari and congratulating one’s self. The Michelin guide was founded in 1900. Bourdains travels also weren’t the curated tourist jaunts you’re describing. They often showing the gr
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Imagine if that dev team could create some kind of hyper intelligent interface to git so powerful even a marketer could use it… Like a couple icons and some basic platform scripts for the 99% use cases of picking a branch, adding content, a
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Customized, self-guided, tailor made kids content isn’t slop per se. Colouring pages autogenerated for small kids is about as dangerous as the crayons involved. Not slop, not unhealthy, not bad.
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I have had similar experiences, and wonder how the subjective experience is impacting my estimations of progress and productivity. Specifically: what if I just started downloading repo’s and aggressively copying and pasting to my needs… I’d
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Religions are about faith, faith is belief in the absence of evidence. Engineering output is tangible and measurable, objectively verifiable and readily quantifiable (both locally and in terms of profits). Full evidence, testable assertions
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Well put. In that broken metaphor we’ve seemingly enter into a web ‘inclusiveness’ discussion focused on pronouns over, say, accessibility for visually impaired readers and readers reliant on tool-based assistance… Degenerative diseases an

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