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by boron1006 5mo ago
Unless the user just vibe-codes their own version. Which is what I’m seeing at my job. All of these “afternoon vibe code” projects never actually get users because everyone just vibe-codes their own.
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by boron1006 5mo ago
This is a good way of putting it. I ship individual features faster, but the end to end process of shipping software has remained the roughly same because the vast majority of my time is building the “theory”.
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by boron1006 5mo ago
Conversely, the value of software has dropped to 1/10 of what it was before Claude code existed. I’m being glib, but there’s a whole class of software (eg simple crud apps) that just don’t have any marginal value anymore. So it doesn’t
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by boron1006 5mo ago
I can’t tell if we’re in identical situations or we work in the same place…
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by boron1006 6mo ago
Meetings are too easy to game. I worked with a bunch of new managers from LEGACY_CORP and learned the extremes of how to BS. As an example, if you think there might be any sort of pushback, just never stop talking. Once a manager talked for
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by boron1006 6mo ago
I essentially have 3 modes: 1. Everything is specified, written and tested by me, then cleaned up by AI. This is for the core of the application. 2. AI writes the functions, then sets up stub tests for me to write. Here I’ll often rewrite t
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by boron1006 6mo ago
Case in point, just this morning I contributed a one-line change to an open source repo and the CI started failing. I asked Claude (Opus High Effort) and pasted in all the logs. I went back and forth and it very confidently made over 20 sep
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by boron1006 6mo ago
Yeah you’re right my bad.
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by boron1006 6mo ago
> A messy codebase is still cheaper to send ten agents through than to staff a team around. And even if the agents need ten days to reason through an unfamiliar system, that is still faster and cheaper than most development teams operati
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by boron1006 6mo ago
> doesn't have the obvious AI frontend 'look' as it was copying from the starter. Check out the other reply and scroll down a bit…
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by boron1006 1y ago
I don’t think it’s necessarily bad to be unprofitable but definitely weird to be sending 100% of your revenue to what is essentially your main competitor
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by boron1006 3y ago
What are you talking about? We are in this position precisely because of government regulation prioritizing cars. Most of American cities are still only zoned for SFH within the city limits. It’s nearly impossible to build in any other wa
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by boron1006 4y ago
> So do bikes. The comment that you cite doesn’t actually have any supporting citations… > Rules are rules, unless someone thinks that bikers are special and aren't subject to the same laws the rest of us have to follow. I would
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by boron1006 7y ago
For context, this was when ISPs were planning on selling data, and someone was collecting donations saying they'd reidentify senators internet history. I said that people shouldn't donate to them, because it wasn't even clear
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by boron1006 7y ago
Absolutely idiotic article and title. Obviously it's possible to reidentify a person if you have 15 demographic attributes if you don't specify which attributes you use. I can do even better, I can reidentify 100% of people, wit
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by boron1006 7y ago
This would be a good solution, but from what I've seen with psychologists and statisticians, it's unlikely to happen for reasons I don't fully understand. Another thing is that undergraduates often learn by adopting the norms
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by boron1006 7y ago
Completely right, I've been trying to hype up the "Github sponsorships" program as a way of changing the thinking around software (e.g. tacking OSS onto grants as required equipment), but haven't found much support.
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by boron1006 7y ago
I'm using technical in a broad sense. One effect of scientific research becoming bigger is that roles are becoming more specialized. Often the people leading the research have primarily spend time writing grants or papers, and less s
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by boron1006 7y ago
You're right, and more generally all of the issues are related to the fact that scientific incentives don't typically align with good development. At the end of the day, over a period of 3+ years, I'd rather have the results
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by boron1006 7y ago
Great article, and fantastic to see a spotlight on an issue that I've thought a lot about. The sad part is that to a lot of scientists and researchers, software/software engineers isn't something worth paying for. It's n
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by boron1006 7y ago
The term "privacy" has become a hollow word that people use to criticise anything they don't like. Generally, I see the concept of "you shouldn't be able to know anything about me, but I should be able to know every
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by boron1006 8y ago
I just finished reading the book "The Confidence Game", and the stories of Delvey or Holmes would fit right into that book. It's easy to look from the outside in and question how these people could fall for these types of fra
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by boron1006 8y ago
You do have to be logically consistent in your voting though, and you should be as well informed as possible. You can't have people vote for anything shiny with "JOBS" written on it, and then get outraged when corporations
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by boron1006 8y ago
You've misunderstood what I meant. People talk as though Amazon is getting a sweetheart deal from NYS and NYC. However, what they're getting is (mostly) a predetermined set of tax breaks for relocating to LIC. And I know about the
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by boron1006 8y ago
Most of the tax breaks Amazon used are open for pretty much any company, and have been around for a very long time. But no one seems to want to repeal or fix these laws. In all of this, I haven't seen a single person talk about them. Y
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by boron1006 8y ago
Not to mention the tax breaks that the city was giving Amazon are still available for pretty much any company.
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by boron1006 8y ago
> larger research teams did the work of consolidating the ideas and solidifying the evidence As someone who works in science, I hate that this was just kind of a side note in this article. If you want to know how to create a replication
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by boron1006 8y ago
Honestly I'm surprised that so many people have come out against this, but no one seems to care about the Excelsior job program in general. I haven't even seen a person suggest that the program should be amended to preclude a comp
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by boron1006 8y ago
Manhattan is a very different place than Queens. Most of the subsidies that Amazon was using was only open for businesses in LIC.
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by boron1006 8y ago
Using that logic, the CIA and almost every company in existence is functionally equivalent. This is just sloppy thinking. You have to show evidence for your opinions. In this particular instance, do you have any specific evidence?

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