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by cautiouscat 3mo ago
Kagi has been a great and worthwhile subscription to me. It feels like browsing the Google of the 10s in some ways. Way more private blogs and whatnot in the results.
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by cautiouscat 3mo ago
> Similar to someone just scrawling a sandwich board sign in chalk As opposed to what? This is usually a sign of quality. If it’s in chalk it’s because it changes as the restaurant experiments and tries new things.
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by cautiouscat 3mo ago
> The posters all look good Maybe I’m misunderstanding but I haven’t seen many that I’d say look “good”. Especially food related ones.
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by cautiouscat 3mo ago
I have a few friends I’d describe as high up in the restaurant industry. They’ll usually be skeptical of a menu with photos unless it’s a mom and pop place that’s been around for decades. There’s a big reason more expensive restaurants don’
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by cautiouscat 3mo ago
> Calling it "AI" was possibly a net-negative but we don't know yet. I’m not sure it’s net negative or not. I’ve found that it’s reductive though. We have this really broad field of artificial intelligence reduced down to
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by cautiouscat 3mo ago
Those people are not just on Twitter. They’re here on HN, they’re at work, they’re at your next social gathering. I’ve found them to be unavoidable to some degree.
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by cautiouscat 3mo ago
C-suites. Marketers. People with stock portfolios. Banks. Politicians. So all people that don’t understand the thing being hyped.
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by cautiouscat 3mo ago
I hope neither wins, and open models win.
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by cautiouscat 3mo ago
> i dont think there is any software on the planet that i would consider "truly life changing", so i find it a bit weird to hold ai up to that standard. I think the author made this point because earlier they mention how people
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by cautiouscat 4mo ago
Nintendo gets a lot of flak for how they treat consumers and how litigious they are. However I get the impression they treat their employees very well in Japan. Like when the Wii U flopped, execs took a pay cut to avoid layoffs. No company
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by cautiouscat 4mo ago
> I have no concrete scientific evidence of this - my own personal vibe metric of “is a model good enough” is, “do I have to double-check it against an API model”, and GPT-OSS was the first one where I started doing that a lot less often
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by cautiouscat 4mo ago
Maybe it’s just me but it’s still hard. Writing code wasn’t hard before. Honestly putting up guard rails is harder than writing it yourself. It just may be faster now. Getting proper requirements, knowing what to make, update, the domain kn
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by cautiouscat 4mo ago
Maybe the recent final update to Destiny has already taken over my brain but if Marko is a Destiny fan, he has a great GitHub username. This is an extremely detailed article on every level and I can’t wait to deep dive into it. Marko really
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by cautiouscat 4mo ago
I assume consumers aren’t a big note in their bottom line. I’m not actually very sure about that, just an assumption. What I wonder however is if these tools will become something I use at work only. $100/month is already a massive str
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by cautiouscat 4mo ago
I didn’t say that and I don’t have a feeling on that either way. But this is a limited time trial and calling it out as such is valid. Is it nice we get the trial? Sure. Is it also a common play in the playbook of tech companies? Yes.
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by cautiouscat 4mo ago
In the automotive world we have benchmarks in HP/torque with the dyno. That’s expensive though, so many depend on their “butt dyno” to judge if their fresh new parts and tune made a difference. I’m curious how this will feel to my code
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by cautiouscat 4mo ago
It’s an interesting thing to bring up because it’s this classic thing we’ve seen for decades now. The ramifications go beyond the individual which is why I assume they mentioned it. They don’t need to use it/not use it for it to have i
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by cautiouscat 4mo ago
How is someone showing a 3D render with no products or services to buy from advertising to me ? In addition, why does that matter if I enjoy the content? It’s not “just” advertising. Again this is nuanced.
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by cautiouscat 4mo ago
I agree but there’s definitely room for nuance. I follow a lot of artists because I genuinely like seeing their work. I follow a lot of miniature painters for their tips and tricks. I follow my close friends to see what they’re up to. I thi
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by cautiouscat 4mo ago
> I don't know if y'all have tried it, but it now produces really good stuff. Does it? It produces passable stuff that is fine. However the lack of passion and care completely disinterests me.
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by cautiouscat 4mo ago
I’m more of an “AI centrist”, as I think the topic is extremely nuanced. As with most tech hype, there tends to be a black and white “AI good” or “AI bad”. I think reality is somewhere in the middle, personally. > Let’s face it: by the t
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by cautiouscat 4mo ago
> Problem is once we got them, we realized they are not all that. Isn't this just the hype cycle? [1] Fake edit: I know its not a perfect model. 1: https://www.gartner.com/en/research/methodologies/gar
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by cautiouscat 5mo ago
Every time I think I am adept in git, something like this is shown to me. I really should read into it more lol.
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by cautiouscat 5mo ago
Haven’t you heard? If you don’t adapt now you’ll be left behind, never to be able to work again! Copilot? That’s so last year. Agentic engineering? You’re already late!
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by cautiouscat 5mo ago
This quote from the authors friend really hit home with me. > “If you’re going to use an LLM to write me an email, I’d much rather you just send me the prompt; at least then I’d have an idea of what you actually meant to say.” I’m not sa
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by cautiouscat 5mo ago
Yeah I do find myself leaning back into those tools. For awhile I’d just prompt to rename something. But when it’s my own tokens I’m paying for, I prefer the fast and free option :)
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by cautiouscat 5mo ago
I agree with the article, though I will say with an agentic workflow I feel more tired at the end of it than I would doing it by hand. Maybe it’s the constant reading and digging in the generated code, or the constant context switching whil
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by cautiouscat 5mo ago
Woah! I loved this game on Steam. If anyone likes factory games (Satisfactory or Factorio) and programming this is a must try. Also got a bit of idle game in the mix. Surprisingly immersive too for a mostly text game.
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by cautiouscat 5mo ago
Yeah but these models are the worst they’ll ever be! They’ll get better! You need to give it better context! Did you try multiple agents? Sarcasm aside, I am just so tired.
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by cautiouscat 5mo ago
I think this is the part that kills me. This is what many grunts, including myself said from the start. More PRs and more code does not equal value for the customer.

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