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by dagss 8mo ago
I mainly use Opus as well, Cursor isn't tied to any AI model and both Opus and Sonnet and a lot of others are available. Of course there's differences in how the context is managed, but Opus is usually amazing in Cursor at least
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by dagss 8mo ago
> from copying and pasting code into ChatGPT, to Copilot auto-completions [...], to Cursor, and finally the new breed of coding agent harnesses like Claude Code, Codex, Amp, Droid, and opencode Reading HN I feel a bit out of touch since
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by dagss 8mo ago
Others have mentioned SVG AI tools... I've tried 3-4 over the previous days and eventually ended up with svgai.org (after I've used Google Gemini for bitmap). You can instruct it to make edits, or say "Use SVG gradients for t
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by dagss 9mo ago
I honestly don't think humans fit your definition of intelligent. Or at least not that much better than LLMs. Look at human technology history...it is all people doing minor tweaks on what other people did. Innovation isn't the re
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by dagss 9mo ago
Yes it is. My point is that event sourcing would have been a lot less painful if popular DBs had builtin support for it in the way I describe. If you go with event sourcing today you end up with having to do a lot of things that the DB coul
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by dagss 9mo ago
I just long for DBs to evolve from "stateful" to "stateless". CQRS at the DB level. * All inserts into append only tables. ("UserCreatedByEnrollment", "UserDeletedBySupport" instead of INSERT vs UPDAT
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by dagss 9mo ago
Fresh example: I described a problem on UI level. LLM suggested the Ramer-Douglas-Peucker algorithm to solve it, which I have never heard about before. It implemented it. Works perfectly. It is 40 lines of code (of which I only really need
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by dagss 9mo ago
I obviously don't know that my past two days of work would have taken two weeks in the alternative route, but it's my feeling for this particular work: I'm implementing a drawing tool on top of maps for fire departments (se
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by dagss 9mo ago
Why use a nailgun instead of a hammer, if the nailgun still requires supervision and handholding? Example: Say I discover a problem in the SPA design that can be fixed by tuning some CSS. Without LLM: Dig around the code until I find the ri
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by dagss 9mo ago
I've been programming for 20 years, and I've always been under-estimating how long things will take (no, not pressured by anyone to give firm estimates, just talking about informally when prioritizing work order together). The o
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by dagss 9mo ago
As long as it makes already senior engineers work as quickly alone as when working in a team together with 3 juniors, it can lead to replacing jobs without producing code that doesn't need review.
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by dagss 9mo ago
This is not advice to just follow for anyone. For some people this may be right, but for others it can be dangerous and a disaster. (At least if there's any chance "months" turns into "years".) If one is of verge of
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by dagss 9mo ago
I've used HTMX-like approaches a lot for other apps and I've been pretty frontend-averse, but this time I'm doing something similar to a drawing program with lots of d3 and SVG etc, very much the "real usecase" for
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by dagss 9mo ago
I am pretty new to frontend development (but have 20 years of backend) I assumed I would need to use one of these libraries at some point. But, perhaps since I am using Svelte instead of React, whenever I ask AI to do something, then since
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by dagss 9mo ago
Why? Russia didn't have a protracted civil war between 2000-ish and now? Isn't Trump busy replacing US Army leadership with those loyal to him? Why would Army and ICE be on opposite sides? Seems MAGA just have to continue the pres
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by dagss 9mo ago
I don't have that much to offer... we just implemented it for a few different backends sitting on top of SQL. The concept works (obviously as there is not much there). The main challenge was getting safe export mechanisms from SQL, i.e
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by dagss 9mo ago
Nice to see HTTP API for consuming events. I wish there was a standard protocol for consuming event logs, and that all the client side tooling for processing them didn't care what server was there. I was part of making this: https:&#x
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by dagss 9mo ago
When coding they are solving "novel, unsolved problems" related to coding problems set up. So I will assume you mean within maths, science etc? Basically things they can't solve today. Well 99.9% of humans cannot solve novel,
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by dagss 9mo ago
Your mind must work differently than mine. I have programmed for 20 years, I have a PhD in astrophysics.. And my "reasoning" is pretty much like a long ChatGPT verbal and sometimes not-so-verbal (visual) conversation with myself.
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by dagss 9mo ago
Whether LLM is reasoning or not is an independent question to whether it works by generating text. By the standard in the parent post, humans certainly do not "reason". But that is then just choosing a very high bar for "reas
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by dagss 9mo ago
There's a difference between UI and code. In code, it is more complicated to do if (change.direction == OUT) { total -= change.value } else { total += change.value } than to simply use negative numbers
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by dagss 9mo ago
You jump from "some revolutions have happened" to "revolutions always happens and always succeed"... By your logic why are there any tyrannies at all in the world? Do you really believe all governments are supported by t
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by dagss 9mo ago
Overdrafting accounts or negative balance in a bank account has nothing to do with what I was talking about. A negative number in my comment is just the "from" part of a flow. Just like in engineering, if you consider a dam, you c
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by dagss 9mo ago
Thanks for correcting me! But probably they were not as widespread and natural to people as today? Perhaps though things like income account balance being a negative number would have made credit/debit invented anyway.
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by dagss 9mo ago
I read this article on HN ten years ago and it has been very important to me in a career working on a special purpose accounting (for automated reconciliation of bank accounts of a payments processor). The biggest shift from conventional ac
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by dagss 9mo ago
This website that you call nonsensical was a huge help to me when starting to learn about accounting systems. And I have spent several years of my life working on a (special purpose, non-generalist) accounting system. The important thing is
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by dagss 9mo ago
"the article still loses me because it defines transactions one way (the edges) and then seems to make this big switch that each edge/transaction is really two transactions suddenly (one on each side of the edge)" Perhaps the
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by dagss 10mo ago
It isn't that simple. Each company paying for ads would have preferred that their competitors had not advertised, then spend a lot less on ads... for the same value. It is like an arms race. Everyone would have been better off if peopl
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by dagss 10mo ago
Thanks for the tip. Just to be clear, I agree the money abstraction is not working particularly well. And that in the age of computers something that is more directly linked to the underlying economy could have worked better. But what needs

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