candiddevmike

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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
> If you want to code by hand, then do it! No one's stopping you. But we shouldn't pretend that you will be able to do that professionally for much longer. If you can't code by hand professionally anymore, what are you bei
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
What are you going to do for work in 2 years?
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
Please tell me how to do this with any of the inference providers or a tool like llama.cpp, and make it work across machines/GPUs. I think you could maybe get close to deterministic output, but you'll always risk having some leve
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
Yes, they will output the same file hash every time, short of some build time mutation. Thus we can have nice things like reproducible builds and integrity checks.
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
I wish these folks would tell me how you would do a reproducible build, or reproducible anything really, with LLMs. Even monkeying with temperature, different runs will still introduce subtle changes that would change the hash.
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
Any good research papers on the impact of short form video on the human brain? This is a major cause for the attention crisis we're facing IMO.
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
I wish PostgreSQL had a native vector implementation instead of using extensions. They're kind of a pain in the ass to maintain, especially with migrations.
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
You're leaving out how much it costs to pull the lever, both in time and money.
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
I feel bad for whoever gets an oncall page that some executive's vibe coded app stopped working and needs to be fixed ASAP.
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
We're in a recession, it's the economy that's shrinking, not my job.
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
Were they really 100% anti-copyright though? By and large, copyright is the reason most of us have a job and get paid. There are things that shouldn't necessarily be copyright-able like APIs, and copyright probably exists for too lon
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
Why wouldn't I just call the same shell script in CI and locally though? What's the benefit here? All I'm seeing is circular logic.
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
This just seems like calling a shell script with extra steps. I have a shell utility similar to make that CI/CD calls for each step (like for step build, run make build) that abstracts stuff. I'd have Prek call this tool, I guess
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
I struggle to see value with git hooks. They're an opt-in, easily opt-out way of calling shell scripts from my understanding--you can't force folks to run them, and they don't integrate/display nicely with CI/CD. W
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
Most folks don't realize they're paying (up to) an extra 30% to Apple on everything they purchase in the app store. On top of an already exorbitant device price. I'm sure you'd see more outrage if you had the app price
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
Exact same problem, exact same error. Glad to know I'm not alone!!!
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
I can't sign into Apple without going incognito in Chrome. I put in my email, and it throws and error before asking me for my password. It's not an extension, it's not a cookie, idk what it is. And then when I do get past h
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
I feel like this is such a tragedy of the commons for the LLM providers. Wikipedia probably makes up a huge bulk of their dataset, why taint it? Would be interesting if there was some kind of "you shall not use our platform on Wikipe
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
At what point do these "basic rules" turn into boring automation and a rules engine? Especially when you need determinism and reproducibility?
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
How can agents possibly accept EULAs and enter into contracts?
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
All while slowly stuffing (more?) ads into their software. In a lot of ways Apple is as aligned to data privacy the same way other "platforms" are: to gatekeep the user data behind their ad service. It's better than selling
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
But full consistency isn't web scale! There are a lot of times where full consistency with some kind of cache in front of it has the same client quirks as eventually consistency though. As always, the answer is "it depends".
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
I think the rapid iteration and lack of consistency from the model providers is really killing the hype here. You see HN stories all the time around how things are getting worse, and it seems folks success with the major models is starting
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
I think the article can basically be summed up as "GenAI sychophancy should have a health warning similar to social media". It's a helluva drug to be constantly rewarded and flattered by an algorithm.
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
You lost me, how does making previous owners whole help tesla sell new ones?
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
IMO, this could be solved by having a finance team with good workflows and a real human resources team/psychologist on staff that would handle all of the interpersonal drama. It's an interesting anecdote but I don't think it
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by candiddevmike 8mo ago
The "is key - ", is a key giveaway. EDIT to expand the evidence: It's placing unnecessary emphasis on a one off mention in the article (differential fuzzing) and then writes a bunch of bullshit around what it thinks it means
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by candiddevmike 9mo ago
> The uncomfortable part: if your value was being the person who could grind through tedious work, that's no longer a moat. Orchestration and judgment are what's left. What kind of work do you think people who deal with LLMs ev
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by candiddevmike 9mo ago
So... nothing. Glad we're in agreement here. If AI can do all the things people hope/dream it can, there won't be any value in doing it on behalf of folks. I would argue that even some "AI provider" (if that coul

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