devin

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by devin 5d ago
This is pretty great. Having the physical knobs to do the step locking tweaks makes the experience a whole lot better, but the fact that this is exists is great. I have an MK1 and this is pretty darn accurate.
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by devin 5d ago
Good lord, man. Just absolutely dripping with passive aggression. And mischaracterizing my position to boot!
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by devin 5d ago
This is a completely laughable comparison.
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by devin 5d ago
Sure, but I wouldn’t call this a “well-informed plan”. I’m a programmer. Learning new shit has always been the job.
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by devin 6d ago
Maybe I'm just light on imagination or something, but I honestly wonder what you would qualify as a "well-informed plan" in the current scenario? I've thought a lot about it and the whole "potential for the mass une
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by devin 6d ago
It may not have been responding to anyone in particular, to be honest with you. I think it's important that people remember that a big chunk of what writing is, is the time spent thinking about the topic you're writing about. Peop
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by devin 6d ago
To be sure, you absolutely can do this. I did it all the time as a kid. Nothing bad happened from being out of constant communication for hours.
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by devin 6d ago
I’m not sure acceptance buys you much. “Well-informed plan” at this stage feels like a useless exercise. It is changing fast, and the world only needs so many electricians. Besides, I don’t think “accepting” the fact that these big companie
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by devin 7d ago
Not really. It's an iPad + iPhone. That's hardly exotic. Both of those product categories sell very well. People who own an iPad mini and an iPhone have every reason to consider this for the merged cost.
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by devin 7d ago
Read Ong's "Writing is a Technology that Restructures Human Thought". Emitting words is not really what "writing" is. https://twinada.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/708.
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by devin 8d ago
That seems like a tough road. They've never been able to enforce that iPhone app makers build an iPad-compatible version or vice versa, and this looks exactly like that scenario.
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by devin 8d ago
I'm not fangirling over it, but comparing it to Vision Pro is ridiculous.
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by devin 9d ago
I think a lot of people will tell you that now it's much easier because they can just ask their LLM how it works, but in practice I don't think people are able to absorb enough from these purely need-based interactions to arrive a
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by devin 10d ago
At an even more fundamental I tend to think about software as managing _risk_, where complexity is just one component. A large portion of my career has been about making difficult decisions around accepting particular sorts of software risk
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by devin 10d ago
I agree, but it seems that some people actually need to be told that copy/pasting a bunch of LLM slop into chat is like farting on an elevator. I wouldn't even say that it comes down to "social skills" in a lot of cases,
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by devin 10d ago
I think a lot of workplaces would do well to ban LLM-based replies in certain spaces.
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by devin 11d ago
Blocked.
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by devin 15d ago
This is happening all over the place right now. There is a ton of greenfield happening, which further adds to the illusion of speed. Eventually you produce a big old pile of shit that even with the help of the LLM is weird to reason about
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by devin 15d ago
Let’s start with “what would happen” and run the experiment instead of starting with “they could probably”.
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by devin 16d ago
> Where it actually breaks I had a sensible chuckle when I got to this part. This kind of article "____ is all you need" is like another case of Betteridge's Law of Headlines. The answer is "that's not true"
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by devin 23d ago
"Latent" is another one, as in "latent bug" or in one particularly odd case "latent twin".
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by devin 23d ago
Reading this made me ill. Nice job!
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by devin 23d ago
Here are some. I typed them just for you.
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by devin 24d ago
It's a hedge against the risk of the current government. Leaving a bunch here is part of the hedge. It's not as "multifaceted" as you're making it out to be.
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by devin 1mo ago
Yes, there is a post that made the rounds not long ago entitled Taste Is All That's Left: https://notashelf.dev/posts/taste-is-all-thats-left Knowing what not to do has always been important, but it is perhaps mor
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by devin 1mo ago
This reminds me of a story I heard (read?) a long time ago. At Disney World they had a rule about a garbage can being within a 10 foot distance of basically anywhere in the park. The logic was that when a garbage can is nearby, there is add
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by devin 1mo ago
This is kind of a shallow assessment of "slowness". Slowness is a feeling, not a fact. Network is slow as a rule relative to other parts of the stack, but it is not usually what contributes to the feeling that your software is slo
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by devin 1mo ago
I agree, but it won’t be because we can’t do it. It will be easier than ever to achieve, but of course money for the tokens to do it will go toward some other aspect of the business. That the products get worse seems to be the rule.
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by devin 1mo ago
The very first thing many people did with AI is start calling the automated tests it writes good enough to capture the desired behavior. Writing tests isn't a whole lot of fun for most, so now the thing that it is supposed to help ensu
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by devin 1mo ago
I would be genuinely interested to see how it evolves the same program over a large number of generations. Given a whole lot of software is more a collection of programs rather than a singular "program", I have to imagine that the

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