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by brookst 1mo ago
To the extent code is artistic expression, sure, I get what you're saying. But when you sit down at an awesome synth and start jamming, do you care whether the firmware was written by a real live human? It's forest/trees.
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by brookst 1mo ago
No, waterfall is an engineering process. What I’m describing is thorough documentation of requirements (acceptance criteria, if you like), and then encouraging Claude to be agile in execution. As long as the outcome is well-defined, it is e
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by brookst 1mo ago
I’ve never been a cram for the test kind of person. I do best when using knowledge in an ongoing basis. Regardless of AI, things I studied intensely a decade ago but never use are by and large gone, whereas things I use frequently stay and
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by brookst 1mo ago
This, after decades of phone trees, mail-in rebates, specialist pre-approvals, and other processes specifically designed to create friction for typical people when interacting with large companies and organizations. I have no moral judgment
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by brookst 1mo ago
Hear hear. I do not understand the people who bemoan the loss of slide rules and books of trig tables in the era of graphing calculators. I’m with you — I’m producing more and better art, with a deeper understanding of the art which comes f
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by brookst 1mo ago
It’s funny, I’m the exact opposite. I’ve tackled projects at scales I could never have done before, and learned more than I would have. My actual coding ability is probably lower, but I’ve learned so much about music theory and production,
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by brookst 1mo ago
Next year has been the year of the Linux desktop for as long as I remember.
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by brookst 1mo ago
And it always will be!
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by brookst 1mo ago
I see a significant difference between making a security feature available but opt-in during a teething phase, and removing the feature altogether. Am I missing something?
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by brookst 1mo ago
Yep. I do so much work with Claude on product requirements and architecture before a single line of code is written, and test coverage is extreme. If I need to understand a specific line of code it means I did something wrong in planning or
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by brookst 1mo ago
I’m genuinely curious why it matters to make abstract moral judgments about the differences between remembering function names and deep understanding of the syntax used in a function. Why don’t we just care about results? Code quality, pe
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by brookst 1mo ago
There’s certainly an analogue to package managers, which made it easy to pick a random package rather than writing the code. We survived. Some upsides, some downsides, life continues.
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by brookst 1mo ago
Yep, even with cache hits that like submitting uncached 80k-token prompts over and over. My Claude.md + framework stuff has it tell me when it recommends /clear before the next prompt (and write itself handoff notes) and I rarely see &
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by brookst 1mo ago
When was it ticking up? The status line only updates after each turn. If you submitted a turn, tokens were used. The status line itself is a bash script, you can go look at it.
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by brookst 1mo ago
For me, inner monologue isn’t audio wildly different from imagining / reliving audio. Both exist, it’s the difference between listening to music and having a conversation.
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by brookst 1mo ago
My inner monologue isn’t audio… it’s more like reading. But yes, with you on composing songs. One reason I can’t fall asleep on airplanes or in other noisy environments: the closer to sleep I am, the less control I have over the tendency to
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by brookst 1mo ago
Huh? Are you saying that one should take action… without making any claims about who to oppose?
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by brookst 1mo ago
Greetings fellow music-hearer. My s/o will sometimes get irritated when I'm silent for a while on a car trip or at dinner. I'm not trying to be rude, I just get caught up in a song, just as if it were playing in the room. Voc
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by brookst 1mo ago
Do you think the moral issue is the same if someone fails to hold a door for you, or if they shoot you? It’s rude either way, right? I don’t have words for it, but the US has been infected with some kind of hybrid reductionism / nihili
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by brookst 1mo ago
Lol, you think they're price fixing today? When demand exceeds supply? How would that even work ?
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by brookst 1mo ago
I mean that’s imaginative but not sure there’s any evidence at all for it, and it’s the opposite of what the comment you replied to observed.
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by brookst 1mo ago
But if you're interested in the science of it, it makes sense to distinguish screen time in the abstract, like using a screen for any purpose, from engagement with specific content. Me, I'd hypothesize little if any difference
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by brookst 1mo ago
Hey, a high school jock from 1982 wandered in to the computer lab...
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by brookst 1mo ago
I returned an M4 Mac mini, 64GB, unopened... because I thought it was excessive for my needs then. I swear it'll be one of the things flashing before my eyes when this all ends.
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by brookst 1mo ago
On second thought...
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by brookst 1mo ago
Why in the world are you choosing to live that way? I'm writing the best music of my life, realizing games and art projects I never had time for, and writing higher quality software in addition to dramatically more of it. Who has time
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by brookst 1mo ago
In part, sure. From drug discovery to crop yields to education, compute and AI have material benefits. It's kind of shocking that anyone could doubt this. Evidence: * https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09809 * https:&#x2
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by brookst 1mo ago
100%. We're probably on the cusp of over-capacity, a glut, cheap RAM, bankruptcies, and shortages.
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by brookst 1mo ago
Not to mention interact with enternal clocks like audio.
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by brookst 1mo ago
It’s absolutely still very useful. Security is risk mitigation, and a reduced surface area makes it easier for everyone to focus on the remaining areas. It’s basically a great front door lock: it does not guarantee nobody will break in thro

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