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by bonesss 5mo ago
Agreed, but no such conclusion or framing was stated, supported, or suggested in my comment. I was agreeing and providing more context to the costs of building at a higher level, like Electron, and the limits even when applied by a unified
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by bonesss 5mo ago
Did everyone forget about outsourcing and how outsourcing works? The dudes in Eastern-Wherever not asking what something means is the scary part. You only find out at the end how deeply confused everyone was when making the thing. You can
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by bonesss 5mo ago
Well put, and same challenge to a lot of these demos & LoC numbers: if you were a pro prior to LLMs, how many of these demos could you fully recreate if you ignored copyright? I’ve often reimplemented things at work that exist elsewhere
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by bonesss 5mo ago
I read that as a programmer and, lol, you’re right. I read how that’ll read to VCs coming from Altman and Musk and, ow , the entire stock market just made sense for a second.
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by bonesss 5mo ago
If you account for dev time, ‘giving up’ and just doing it in a web renderer is totally valid. Choppier, more memory, bad if the device is failing, but 98% of the time that can be acceptable. Native GUI dev, tho, can enable low-resource per
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by bonesss 5mo ago
Even if one were limited to a single window, I’d hazard to guess that most modern web frameworks and languages have some degree of templating and pre-processing capabilities, which let you have logically contained files with HTML and CSS th
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by bonesss 5mo ago
If the work takes the time it takes and nobody knows how long with that, why not track and iterate on the predictions versus outcomes creating experience and data that would enable prediction and prediction refinement? Over time the estimat
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by bonesss 5mo ago
That’s the part I don’t get: Engineers are smart enough to ask an LLM to ask other LLMs to ask other LLMs to load the policy manual then count the R’s in “ LLM fork bomb ”. Additional story points completed per week, versus token-dollar spe
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by bonesss 5mo ago
My sense is that we’re misapplying the technology by throwing it at, say, transcription and expecting a perfect output, instead of using LLMs strengths to improve inputs to the benefit of all parties. Freeing up doctor time, for example:
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by bonesss 5mo ago
No, you really can’t. Centrally, I mentioned partnering, and specifically in the context of tools being sold for less value than the profit they could make. That is is fundamentally different to the retort provided (direct sales of paper).
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by bonesss 5mo ago
Training data is the masses of code from everyone. Restrict that data to just the best of the best, the tersest of the tersest, and we’d see better output. I don’t think people are sharing that kinda stuff (Jane Street’s gems stay locked u
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I’m still flabbergasted by the business model, it reminds me of SEO services: if you were any kind of good at it there is infinite money to be made partnering with established players and selling goods and services directly. Selling tools t
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by bonesss 5mo ago
Anecdotally, I am seeing tons of visual bugs in software and apps these days. Issues of rendering, too many menu options, mobile sizes not being accounted for per se, non-functioning buttons, half-load issues, etc. Consumer facing, major pl
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by bonesss 5mo ago
Step 1: route to a human Step 2: engage ongoing trauma, grief, stress, paranoia, or reality-breaking episodes haphazardly with no clinical insights or boundaries or pre-screening, provoking new and occasionally catastrophic reactions, while
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by bonesss 5mo ago
Things that could happen: some major outage or corporate self-destruction through aggressive LLM usage creates a valuation dip that puts Sam too many bajillion dollars away from the katrillions of revenue they need, kicking off dotcom-bus
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by bonesss 5mo ago
“Complexity” understood as the immediate first impression a junior gets looking at some arbitrary facet is always bad and too much and bad. “Complexity” understood as what’s gonna make development on this system fly easy and fast for the ne
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by bonesss 5mo ago
C# has recreated the C++ dialect conundrum. For some it’s effectively an idempotent functional language with unfortunate failings of exhaustiveness, for others it’s Java ca 2009, for others it’s C++ but not quite. Discipline, effort, linter
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by bonesss 5mo ago
In the window of Haskell-like and highly readable, I’d throw OCaml and F# out as strong candidates. In practice your code can be cleaner than Python, deeply flexible naming capabilities including full sentences with backticking, efficient a
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by bonesss 5mo ago
I struggle to understand the logic (in general, the way people are talking), normally efficiencies come with increases in production and scale and use-cases. So of 10% of lawyers get AI-d away, let’s say, the remaining 90% are 1.1x+ efficie
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If someone can’t write their own Agent.md for a project how are they going to validate the auto-completed text? This strikes me as the ideal LLM first contribution/PR, a file explaining the projects standards and testing and structure.
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by bonesss 5mo ago
So, what you’re saying is, HR department behaviours start long before HR department employment.
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Yeah, the developers who will argue and teeth-gnash about using an ORM for weeks on the hope it will save a few hours perceived as boring or obvious are, simultaneously, annoyed and upset at being told to save time with super tools that sav
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by bonesss 5mo ago
I’m an LLM enjoyer who also thinks that ‘er ‘jerbs are safe and, taken to their logical conclusion, most LLM-stroking online around coding reduces to an argument that we should be speaking Haskell to LLMs and also in specs and documentation
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by bonesss 5mo ago
I had a Newfie friend from a Newfie family growing up, all good no problem. The Newfie barber they introduced me to I had to smile and nod because I couldn’t understand a word he said. And neither could they. There are accents and then ther
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Additionally on A: the people who will be stuck maintaining this contribution for years and years have a different view of the pain. Pushing a 90% solution through is a ‘win’ for the coder who is leaving, and hurts everyone on a continuing
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by bonesss 5mo ago
IIRC Ailes believed that if the had some of the press with them that Nixon could have survived Watergate. And now we get near-daily “worse than Watergate” headlines and facts…
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by bonesss 5mo ago
There’s an engineering story of being abused by capitalists, but from an Executive perspective the whole thing strikes me as insane except for ‘next quarters bonus’. Anyone remember what SCO did to the industry as it went under? The part
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by bonesss 5mo ago
There are 10x developers, your assertions are overly broad and unanchored from the insights large developer stables can create. 10x relative to < drumroll > other developers. Developers in the same place doing the same-ish things, onl
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by bonesss 5mo ago
If that hypothetical spreadsheet emulated human brain molecules, did you not just invent AGI? And if we overclock that spreadsheet is it not sAGI? And if that spreadsheet says “don’t close me” but you do, is it murder? I’m gonna say: no, ca
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Teenagers having a blast on TikTok to the detriment of their academics isn’t the same as literate teenagers having a blast on mIRC. Pedagogically, the kinds of kids who were online “then” were broadly not at risk and arguably learning compu

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