dolebirchwood

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by dolebirchwood 3mo ago
I was doing contract work last year for a young solo founder, and he promised a feature to a big customer who only signed up because of this one feature. It was a feature he vibecoded and was able to demo in ways that made it look like it w
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by dolebirchwood 3mo ago
> he :/
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by dolebirchwood 3mo ago
What about the 6x developers? Was there just a doubling multiplier across the board, resulting in them becoming 12x developers, or did they too become 20x developers?
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by dolebirchwood 3mo ago
Why humanoid? Surely there must be a superior physical form factor than one mimicking human anatomy. Is it just supposed to be more psychologically acceptable?
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by dolebirchwood 3mo ago
Good. I'm glad. Keep it up, China. Loving my cheap GLM and DeepSeek.
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by dolebirchwood 3mo ago
> They can put people in roles, reward those you like, punish those you don't like. Who don't enjoy that? Those of us without Machiavellian tendencies?
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by dolebirchwood 3mo ago
That might be a truism that's generally applicable, but some people have enough of a safety net to last them several years while building a business. We don't know OP's circumstances.
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by dolebirchwood 3mo ago
I work from home alone and frequently talk to my cats (I'm not crazy). Had to turn the feature off as well because of it.
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by dolebirchwood 3mo ago
Vibe coders don't know 'bout my dvh.
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by dolebirchwood 3mo ago
Would you trust the site if it did?
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by dolebirchwood 3mo ago
What if I only want 6x better performance? Is there a knob or slider to dial it down?
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by dolebirchwood 3mo ago
As part of a potential interview, I was given login credentials so I could sign in to a site where I was prompted to download a VPN client that would allow me to connect to the company's system (red flags already). They made the site l
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by dolebirchwood 4mo ago
And promise not to cheat on him with any other model providers. I can hear the wedding bells already.
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by dolebirchwood 4mo ago
I know the HN guidelines discourage commenting on "tangential annoyances" on a website, but I think this issue is more than just tangential and more than just an annoyance. When an author is this relentless in pushing you to sign
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by dolebirchwood 4mo ago
> There is a class of human output that will retain value regardless of AI capability: art and sport. I can't speak about sports, but I'll share an anecdote about art. A friend of mine shared an AI-produced song, and I was surp
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by dolebirchwood 4mo ago
I'm sure it's no loss to the author to lose out on close-minded readers. The author also added a little blurb to his article to address the concerns raised.
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by dolebirchwood 4mo ago
> 10x’ing our productivity Normalizing this "10x" language (well before AI) is a factor in this problem. It's been so loosely and casually thrown about in this industry. 10x engineer... 10x mindset... 10x growth... 10x thi
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by dolebirchwood 4mo ago
Yes, we know. It was sarcasm.
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by dolebirchwood 4mo ago
I've been able to get LLMs to push back on ideas by just adding language to the system prompt requiring that they adopt a skeptical persona (insert whatever persona you want for your use case). I see the word "skeptical" appe
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by dolebirchwood 4mo ago
> It's much harder to have a proper back and forth with a firehouse than it is a few sentences at a time. Sometimes just providing the context about an issue is itself enough to warrant a few paragraphs, let alone a few sentences. O
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by dolebirchwood 4mo ago
He clearly has a very narrow definition of "here" in mind.
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by dolebirchwood 4mo ago
These banal accusations are so dim and dull.
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by dolebirchwood 4mo ago
> My understanding is that they strongly believe in no false positives Who cares what they "believe" (or, more accurately, say they believe). What are the underlying processes that actually guarantee this, and what data suppo
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by dolebirchwood 4mo ago
> at partner request Curious if Thomson Reuters (Westlaw) felt threatened if they were this compelled to moan about it. All it does is make me wonder how well these skills perform when paired with Lexis (if possible?) instead of Westlaw.
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by dolebirchwood 4mo ago
> exchanges between a criminal defendant and generative AI platform Claude were not protected by attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine Shouldn't that have been relatively clear to all parties involved? Maybe not to
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by dolebirchwood 5mo ago
They were born in Maryland, and apparently quite skilled (or at least skilled at cheating their way through their studies, if not genuinely technically skilled). https://www.somdnews.com/archive/news/19-year-old-tw
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by dolebirchwood 5mo ago
That argument could be taken to any extreme at the end of the day. They Live, at its core, is a commentary on unrestrained capitalism. You could fault OP for using a Google browser. You could fault OP for using a Microsoft cloud repository.
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by dolebirchwood 5mo ago
I won't set foot in that place unless: (a) it's 30 minutes before closing, at which point the crowd has died down, or (b) I've toked up.
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by dolebirchwood 5mo ago
> it wasn't able to do that back then It was, if you accept that it did so poorly .
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by dolebirchwood 5mo ago
> Then "vibe coding" is a useless term You're absolutely right.

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