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by devmor 4mo ago
This is how all the big video game conventions do things to prevent it, it’s very effective.
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by devmor 4mo ago
Hey I have the same complaints about us developers adding new features that no one asked for to a product that already serves its purpose. I wish the industry could learn the art of leaving shit alone.
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by devmor 4mo ago
This is how they want you to use AI-powered apps. The more ambiguity there is between you and the end result, the likelier you are to keep paying them to avoid friction. The problem with AI products vs other rent-seeking is that AI is very
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by devmor 4mo ago
Every time I update my JetBrains IDEs, they obliterate my lovely, tool packed UI and replace it with what looks like a minimalistic iPad app. I have to reenable a “Classic UI” plugin to fix it. This is annoying enough, but if they did somet
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by devmor 4mo ago
There was a pretty bad one last summer - their IAM system got a bad update and it broke almost all GCP services for an hour or so, since every authenticated API call reaches out to IAM. It had lasting effects for us for a little over 3 hour
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by devmor 4mo ago
They might be conflating the valuation of these three companies with one of the recent analyses that the presumed valuation of the current “AI Economy” is an order of magnitude over the valuation of the total wealth of the world.
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by devmor 5mo ago
But those skeptics are initially responding to the constant AI hype claims that we are exponentially growing to AGI. So this article is in fact just a (very poorly thought through) attempt at saying “nuh uh, the hype might be true, you can’
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by devmor 5mo ago
"Exponentials all tend to become sigmoids but you can't predict exactly when" is a true statement, but I'm not sure it needed an article. This doesn't say much, and the author fights their own points a couple times,
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by devmor 5mo ago
I don’t even understand the point of making up tasks. Surely there’s some moonshot frustration project in your workday you could have an agent plugging away at, even if it’s unsuccessful.
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by devmor 5mo ago
Tempting! But I’m not paid well enough to avoid prison yet.
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by devmor 5mo ago
If I heard my employer was using Claude to manage payroll, I’d be looking for a new job - quickly .
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by devmor 5mo ago
Yes, I'd agree with that. I think there's a significant value in the "plan" mode that copilot, claude, etc. expose. I also think there's significant value in using these tools to connect data silos and combine infor
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by devmor 5mo ago
That's a very silly claim to make, because you can make that same claim about writing a bash script.
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by devmor 5mo ago
5-50x huh? Years of AI hype and yet still to this day, not a single person or organization can provide any kind of reputable evidence that it has significantly increased their productivity.
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by devmor 5mo ago
A data-harvesting software product delivered as hardware. Why would anyone actually want to purchase this?
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by devmor 5mo ago
If you are using subagents for asynchronous work, you can burn through 300 requests in a workday easily.
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by devmor 5mo ago
> I'm not sure I'm clear on what the kerfuffle is about. Perhaps the kerfuffle is about making legal threats against open source developers.
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by devmor 5mo ago
I dismissed “AI Psychosis” as a silly term, even as a strong critic of LLMs for programming tools. > For 7 months I'd been prompting and shipping without ever sitting down and actually reading the code Claude wrote. But every time I
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by devmor 5mo ago
“Use all of the tools at your disposal, including searching the internet” is my claude-specific common instruction.
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by devmor 5mo ago
If you’re using LLMs for agentic work it is absolutely essential that you have a robust set of tools for them to use and the correct instructions to prompt their use. The LLM will come up with stupid ways to do things, common sense doesn’t
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by devmor 5mo ago
The same way using an auto increment integer ID does, but imagine that integer also leaked your created timestamp column too.
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by devmor 5mo ago
Wow! A significant amount of that information is wrong. I guess my corporate security is doing their job pretty well.
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by devmor 5mo ago
It also helps that Framework actually releases their products when they say they will.
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by devmor 5mo ago
In the same way AI frees up SREs and developers to focus on all the downtime and bugfixes they’ve caused by using AI now? Humans don’t get to drop down to 2 9’s though… we just die.
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by devmor 5mo ago
This is actually one of the things that made LLMs more usable for me. The default tone and style of writing they tend to use is nauseatingly annoying and buries information in prose that sounds like a corporate presentation.
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by devmor 5mo ago
Symfony kind of fits the “well-chosen libraries” approach as each of its components can be pulled in individually with no bearing on the architecture of your application.
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by devmor 5mo ago
That’s not really an argument, it is central to my point. The current system does exhibit those issues and it is by human creativity and outliers that we have some points of escape from it. Codifying and distilling it removes the points of
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by devmor 5mo ago
I think most people are missing the forest for the trees. TUIs are popular because once you use a piece of software that doesn't have a poorly-written GUI library full of animations bogging it down, you don't want to go back. It&#
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by devmor 5mo ago
Until medical models can contrive of unique diagnosis, this will not be true and cannot be true. Medical models can absolutely get better at recognizing the patterns of diagnosis that doctors have already been diagnosing - which means they
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by devmor 5mo ago
Mostly my experience, but “Gemini crunches data” would be my replacement there. If I have a task that requires parsing through swathes of irregular data that traditional ml would choke on (or require an intermediate training step ala bigque

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