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by dirtbag__dad 7mo ago
I was a Cursor loyal until I was spending around $2k a week with premium models and my team had a discussion about whether we’d want to use more Cursor over hire another engineer. We unanimously agreed we’d rather hire another team member.
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Ask HN: Where are legit examples of agentic coded products or software?
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by dirtbag__dad 7mo ago
This sounds amazing. In particular, I like comps to existing PRs. But I’m also not sure that I want existing PRs to be a template for most things reasonable or best practice. I’ve been building out internal linters that enforce design patte
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by dirtbag__dad 8mo ago
OLAP conveniently not mentioned. Anyone have any suggestions for this? We tried to get as much mileage as we could out of Postgres before we switched to clickhouse and it was night and day.
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by dirtbag__dad 10mo ago
This advice has worked very well for me. But but but, in some scenarios it has been at the expense of my well being. It’s not good to take on more work and not let go of some of the things you’re currently doing. Moreover, finding “permissi
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by dirtbag__dad 10mo ago
Thanks this is helpful framing!
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by dirtbag__dad 10mo ago
In my experience, which is series A or earlier data intensive SaaS, you can gauge whether a program is taking a reasonable amount of time just by running it and using your common sense. P50 latency for a fastapi service’s endpoint is 30+ se
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by dirtbag__dad 10mo ago
Can you help me understand what the value or use case of poethepoet is?
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by dirtbag__dad 10mo ago
> Today we just don’t know You never knew. There are plenty of intelligent, well-intentioned software engineers that publish FOSS that is buggy and doesn’t meet some arbitrary quality standards.
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by dirtbag__dad 11mo ago
I think so. People will behave in the guardrails they are provided. If we have a problem with those rails, then in the US at least, democracy is (ostensibly maybe) the tool to make them more aligned with what we want.
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by dirtbag__dad 1y ago
Intuitively I agree with this too. I would love to see results from other companies as evidence it’s correct, is all
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by dirtbag__dad 1y ago
> [Linear] mentioned that this approach is working very well for them, and they have achieved, at the time of writing, 96% retention. Is this evidence that their hiring process is sound, and is it more a consequence of Linear being a roc
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by dirtbag__dad 1y ago
Unfortunately in practice you see snowflake implementations left and right in python. It’s still unclear to me if python is too expressive for its own good, or if it’s so widely used, that it’s impossible to avoid nonsense
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by dirtbag__dad 1y ago
Sorry this may be a dumb question, why would you cache a flow?
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by dirtbag__dad 1y ago
This is interesting to me, too! My team is in the midst of opening new reqs. A leader wants to hire based on skillset. The team wants to hire based on upcoming work. We had a decent employee churn recently because the work wasn’t what they
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by dirtbag__dad 1y ago
Amen to this. Everyone is worried about losing their job. I’m pretty sure at the same time it’s cementing them.
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by dirtbag__dad 1y ago
Having worked with many python repos, that didn’t know any better to follow conventions or that the tooling ecosystem has meaningful options, I am ecstatic to see formatting and linting be a first class feature of the modern python experien
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by dirtbag__dad 1y ago
This article is inspiring. I haven’t had the moment to get my head out of the Cursor + biz logic water until now. Very cool to think about LLMs automagically creating changelogs, testing packaging when dependencies are bumped, forcing unit
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by dirtbag__dad 2y ago
Yeah, this is shocking to me. I’m a backend developer who occasionally tinkers with frontend. I gave nextjs a spin and couldn’t believe the reload times on a new project. For folks who use this every day, how/why is this acceptable?
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by dirtbag__dad 2y ago
> they're willing to spend a lot of (usually their employer's) money May just be my naïveté, but I thought that something like ECS or EKS is much cheaper than an in-house k8 engineer.
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by dirtbag__dad 2y ago
This resonates hard. In particular, managing the old guard’s emotions is a defeating process. It is almost always easier to jump into a project and critique it than it is to start from scratch. New perspectives and better ideas should be we
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by dirtbag__dad 2y ago
This. I used to spend time researching more premium purchases. Now either the quality of the brands I love has diminished, their prices have skyrocketed, or there are too many players thanks to the ease of standing up e-commerce that I fall
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by dirtbag__dad 2y ago
Also the folks at a company like render, railway, or even supabase might be fascinating - what it takes to write an infra abstraction at scale
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by dirtbag__dad 2y ago
This! This is what I’ve seen at my companies and is super salient to today’s real life work ~
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by dirtbag__dad 2y ago
Infrastructure for gov cloud is another beast and might make a fun case study
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by dirtbag__dad 2y ago
Does anyone care to share an example of the OrderService that is not anemic?
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by dirtbag__dad 2y ago
Every day multiple people post on LinkedIn “my team is hiring a <your role here>.” You can search for this on the main search bar “hiring a <role>” or variations of that. Connect with them on the LinkedIn desktop web app and inc
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by dirtbag__dad 2y ago
What are the other viable players? As mentioned in another thread to this post duckdb is not “production-ready.” That has been a non-starter for us at work.
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by dirtbag__dad 2y ago
I tried to switch to this from keystonejs. Keystone’s documentation is painfully inconsistent with its library. I have lost entire days over it. but “it works.” Was expecting more with payload but seems to be another buggy experience but wi
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by dirtbag__dad 2y ago
I’m curious about the “market charges X so I’ll charge X too but with a better service.” I’ve seen this elsewhere, too. Isn’t the point of replacing a human agent with software that your margins are better and can charge less to the end use

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