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by csallen 11mo ago
Yes, I do this too. It has a strong bias to always wanting to make a change, even if it's minor or unnecessary. This gets more intense as the project gets more complex. So I often tack something onto the end of it like this: "Repo
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by csallen 11mo ago
Relentlessly break things down. Never give the LLM a massive, complex project. You should be subdividing big projects into smaller projects, or into phases. Planning is 80% of the battle. If you have a well-defined plan, that defines the ar
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by csallen 11mo ago
I mean I had my LLM generate most of my AGENTS.md, and I tweak it maybe once every week or two. It's minimal investment, and it's a gift that keeps on giving.
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by csallen 11mo ago
I've had experiences like this before but if that's the ONLY experience you've had, or if you have that experience 75% of the way, I think you're doing something wrong. Or perhaps you're just in a very different cod
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by csallen 11mo ago
I'm not sure. I think it's asymmetric: high upside potential, but low downside. Because when the AI isn't cutting it, you always have the option to pull the plug and just do it manually. So the downside is bounded. In that wa
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by csallen 11mo ago
Yeah that's my read. True vibe coding, minimal guidance, ofc it was a mess.
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by csallen 11mo ago
Yes, it often is much faster, and significantly so. There are also times where it isn't. Developing the judgment for when it is and isn't faster, when it's likely to do a good job vs isn't likely, is pretty important. Bu
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by csallen 11mo ago
> After about 3-4k lines of code I completely lost track of what is going on... Overall I would say it was a horrible experience, even though it took 10 hours to write close to 10000 lines of code It's hard to take very much away
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by csallen 11mo ago
It's not "my views," it's "my political allegiances." There's a difference. Deciding what political party to vote for is entirely a matter of picking a team, which is entirely dependent on who is on that t
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by csallen 11mo ago
You're right. Change the words "they were pushed" to "they chose". There's your agency. > How about people have principles and don't change them to chase audience/money/fame, eh? You assume
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by csallen 11mo ago
The fact that the left defined Joe Rogan as right-wing for not adhering to very specific far-left tenets (e.g. de-platforming personas non grata and cooperating with cancel culture) only served to push him and his listeners rightward, and t
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by csallen 1y ago
People have been tricked by counterfeits ever since the invention of writing (or even drawing) first made it possible for a person to communicate without being physically present. At that moment, it simultaneously became possible to create
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by csallen 1y ago
> Btw: if you're going to be racist I lean pretty far left myself. But this kind of comment is why I think the left keeps losing. The person you're engaging with is presenting rational arguments and logic in good faith, and
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by csallen 1y ago
> It doesn't matter whether it's possible for a highly motivated and educated person to distinguish the lemons. It does though, since the entire premise of the "lemon market" idea is that buyers can't different
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by csallen 1y ago
Call me crazy, but it is possible to distinguish good from bad in most of these "lemon markets" the author lists. When buying physical products, there are tons of high-quality review sites like Wirecutter, with journalists who s
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by csallen 1y ago
Eh, businesses die and starve all the time. Most businesses fail, and competition to hire is brutal. Big tech are among the top tier businesses. So I don't think it's fair to compare them to average employees. Rule #1 if you want
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by csallen 1y ago
This idea that a job is inherently "worth" some amount of money is way off. The entire point of a market economy is that prices are driven by supply and demand. And salaries are just prices. If more and more people are capable of
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by csallen 1y ago
Most technical writers (and communicators in general) have an insufficient appreciation for the curse of knowledge. This takes me back to running a World of WarCraft guild as a teenager. We would organize "raids" maybe 3 to 4 time
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by csallen 1y ago
You are somehow confusing education with indoctrination. The goal of education is to give people (ideally at a young age) valuable knowledge, critical thinking skills, and the ability to question and make independent judgments. There's
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by csallen 1y ago
Study: Household fuel use and motoric cognitive risk syndrome among older adults: Evidence from cohort study and life course analysis Link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12413735/ Conclusion: "Cl
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by csallen 1y ago
A democracy is only as effective as its people are educated. When people are not well educated, they have more trouble than they should discerning real from fake, objectivity from bias, quality from trash. (Obviously there is some subjectiv
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by csallen 1y ago
Most rich people don't "hoard" money like Scrooge McDuck. They're generally spending it on: 1. Equity in companies or loans to the government. 2. Expensive food, homes, clothes, hotel stays, travel, child care, etc.
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by csallen 1y ago
I'm a well-educated native English speaker and "haiku", "sonnet", and "opus" don't immediately make me think of their size differences.
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by csallen 1y ago
But there's nothing in Claude's naming scheme stopping Claude 5 from being smaller than its predecessors.
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by csallen 1y ago
"Copy-pasting tasks is laborious" "I recommend people read this 30,000 word technical guide"
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by csallen 1y ago
> remember when AI couldn’t count the number of Rs in “strawberry”? GPT-5 still gets this wrong occasionally. Source: I just asked it: How many r's are in "strawberry"? It said 2. (I dislike this method of testing LLMs,
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by csallen 1y ago
Then what is your goal in pointing out, "People are not even interested in each others dreams most of the time"?
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by csallen 1y ago
You're making a false assumption that other people cannot enjoy what you're talking about unless they've experienced it themselves. If one has good storytelling skills and a solid theory of mind (concern for the listener), al
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by csallen 1y ago
Ideology is basically the opposite of nuance.
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by csallen 1y ago
Combinatorics can make things astronomically unlikely. Imagine the "aging program" bugs out 1 in 100 times, a pretty high failure rate. However, imagine the program runs in 10 systems in the body, and success in any one of these s

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