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by deterministic 5d ago
My experience as well, working on very large-scale C++ code. Thanks for adding such a thoughtful and level-headed comment to the discussion.
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by deterministic 5d ago
> Microsoft is a monopolist that makes some of the most hated products on earth Really? That is quite a claim. You are talking about one of the worlds most successful software companies. What fact based research or large scale survey
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by deterministic 5d ago
> Anyone who thinks they can produce high quality code from an LLM is mistaken about how to judge code Sorry, but you are 100% wrong. I have 30+ years of professional development experience working on complex, very large-scale C++ code u
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by deterministic 5d ago
I completely agree. It 100% matches my experience. The C++ code I maintain now is higher quality, more maintainable, higher performance, less buggy, and faster to modify now using Claude Code. However it doesn't happen automatically. I
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by deterministic 7d ago
You might as well use “magic” in your comments instead of “AI” and you would make an equal amount of sense.
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by deterministic 7d ago
You are not an outlier. 40+ years of hobby and pro coding experience here and I absolutely love Claude Code. It enables me to dramatically increase code quality, performance, and features while still doing the fun parts and letting the
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by deterministic 7d ago
I'm surprised to hear that. LLMs make it practical to prove safety-critical C code correct without the cost that has traditionally made formal verification prohibitive. If you haven't explored that area, it's worth a look.
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by deterministic 7d ago
Not my experience at all. I’ve coded for fun for 40+ years and professionally for 30, and I absolutely love Claude Code. I write far more high-quality, high-performance code, and I learn much faster. I no longer have to agonize over which f
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by deterministic 8d ago
I completely agree. Every time I remove boost from projects the build times drop dramatically and it usually doesn't take much work to swap the boost code for something else that isn't template fetish art.
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by deterministic 8d ago
> Architecture is optimizing for people inhabiting the building Not my experience at all. Quite the opposite. I have seen so many "designer buildings" that looked beautiful in pictures but were a nightmare for the people workin
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by deterministic 9d ago
This seems to happen whenever Microsoft buys a company and "assimilates" it into its culture. The same thing happened with Skype. That said, Microsoft isn't alone. The YouTube Android app has so many basic bugs that I sometim
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by deterministic 9d ago
Agree. People who have a problem with this either don't understand how the MIT license works or what the spirit of Open Source is. I'm getting really tired of the knee-jerk "AI bad!" online reactions to anything AI relat
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by deterministic 11d ago
I most certainly am. I taught myself how to program 40+ years ago and I love using Claude Code both at work and at home for hobby projects. It feels like going from walking to running. Love it!
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by deterministic 11d ago
I’m starting to believe we may actually need more developers in the future. Projects that were previously too expensive to fund may now be viable with a small team using AI. In other words, AI could make the pie of software projects much
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Building a Soviet Nail Factory: how KPIs killed efficiency (June 2026)(vincent.bernat.ch)
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by deterministic 14d ago
Doesn’t GIMP have a hardware abstraction layer making this kind of port trivial? If not I recommend that the team looks at how games are made portable. Think about different versions of GTK as different hardware platforms and design the sof
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by deterministic 14d ago
I’ve been through some really bad stuff, and one thing I learned the hard way is this: don’t automatically trust your feelings or your thoughts. Your brain can come up with completely random, untrue conclusions and make them feel 100% true.
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by deterministic 14d ago
Where is the evidence for this? I use Claude every day at work but other than that my life hasn’t changed at all. Electricity, food production, security, human relations, the house I live in etc. hasn’t change.
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by deterministic 14d ago
So far LLM’s have been really bad at creating the most important things in life. Like food, shelter, security, electricity, water, medical breakthroughs, better politics, better connection etc. etc. etc. So AI’s will have some impact on t
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by deterministic 14d ago
Humans still compete playing chess, sprinting etc. even though machines are vastly superior to humans. Real artists can’t not do art. They do it for the pleasure of doing it. Not to compete with other humans or machines. And there will be a
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by deterministic 15d ago
> "go after profitable niches and avoid unwinnable fights" Straight out of "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu.
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by deterministic 16d ago
That's really interesting. Can you go deeper on how you achieved that? A loop comparing procedurally generated model with reference image?
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by deterministic 16d ago
> Too many people don't think for themselves enough in this post-GenAI world This is nothing new. IMHO, 90% of people are happy to outsource their thinking to some "authority", whether it’s a priest, politician, cult leade
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by deterministic 19d ago
> My answer is because forcing a type hierarchy I happily work in typed languages and nobody is forcing me to create any type hierarchies.
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by deterministic 19d ago
Merging data and behaviour into a single unit (the core idea behind OOP) is literally impossible to do in practice. Just imagine "sending a message to an int to send a copy of itself to a HTTP server" or "send a message to an
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by deterministic 19d ago
In my experience: The poorer the neighbourhood the worse the trash, graffiti, broken windows etc.
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by deterministic 19d ago
It's interesting how different your experience is from mine. I would love to find out why it works so well for me but not for you. I use Opus 5 every day, and it just works. It is very rare that I need to do any manual editing.
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by deterministic 19d ago
That is interesting. I use Opus 5 as my daily driver, and it pretty much just works. For example, a few weeks ago I asked it to analyse my code and find duplicated code that could be extracted into reusable libraries. It found several good
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by deterministic 19d ago
> Survival of fittest would be if opinions were allowed, and let the best one wi Not at all. By definition, the only thing a survivor needs to accomplish is to survive. And who decides which one is "the best"? You need someone
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by deterministic 21d ago
Lean is based on Type Theory not ZFC.

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