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by dzonga 11mo ago
and yet people still can't build software. now the same people in the industry advocating for leetcode are also advocating for vibecoding. I wonder if an LLM is made to do leetcode before approval for vibecoding. day in day out, the so
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by dzonga 11mo ago
yeah that my question to the author too - if A.I is to really earn its keep it means A.I should help in getting more physical products into people's hands & helping with producing more energy. physical products & energy are the
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by dzonga 11mo ago
pretty decent article - but what it misses is most of these agents are trained on bad code - which is open source. so what does this mean in practice? for people working on proprietary systems (cost will never go down) - the code is not on
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by dzonga 11mo ago
nats jetstream vs say redis streams - which one have people found easier to work with ?
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by dzonga 11mo ago
thanks for the explanation.
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by dzonga 11mo ago
I guess a bigger conversation could be had in regards to: what leads to better code in terms of understandability & preventing errors Exceptions (what almost every language does) or Error codes (like Golang) are there folks here that ch
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by dzonga 11mo ago
wow!! beautiful api nicely made, yeah this should get to be part of standard library.
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by dzonga 11mo ago
what's not spoken in this article is you have people problems in bloated teams. hence the explosion in communication channels & those channels breaking down. you don't have communication problems if say max 3 engineers are wor
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by dzonga 11mo ago
before Cloudflare suffered an outage due to React's useEffect, now again trying to mitigate security issues around React Server Pages. at one point in time - they've to admit this react thing ain't working. & just use cla
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by dzonga 11mo ago
we are witnessing a profound moment in history. for the 1st time - a world power admitting they're no longer top dog. & now realigning their strategy for a multipolar world instead of unipolar. this will now either mean - the readj
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by dzonga 11mo ago
would love to see the original requested feature list ?
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by dzonga 11mo ago
I hate how announcements etc from gvt officials, public entities etc started getting announced on X, Fb or social media in general ? what happened to the official blob & official press releases ? these things are a solved problem (wordp
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by dzonga 11mo ago
consumers getting told 'get fucked' in 2025 is the motto of the day while companies chase those juicy a.i profits well hopefully we see more proliferation of system of chips / unified architectures such as the one offered by
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by dzonga 11mo ago
till this day, I don't know the substantial benefits of React Server Components over say classically rendered html pages + using htmx ? mind you react in 2017 paid my rent. now cz of the complexity I refuse to work with react.
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by dzonga 11mo ago
I personally think - Juniors will be okay, if they stick to *fundamentals* lots of "seniors" via title inflation dont have fundamentals anyways - hence a lot of broken software in the wild & also perverse incentives like Resum
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by dzonga 11mo ago
it boils down to - we didn't have full conviction that over the long run we will prove superior to node.js, however a.i company burning a lot of cash, has invested in us by basing their toolchain on us - so they have no option to acqui
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by dzonga 11mo ago
classic case guy of smart guy - but invested too much in x industry - that they drink their own koolaid. as others have pointed out in other comments. the guys at a16z are guilty of this too.
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by dzonga 11mo ago
ins't this the same guy who moved to london [0], just because he could control things better ? or maybe the tide has changed from remote working so again the minions are pushed around! [0] - https://www.cnbc.com/2022&#x
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by dzonga 11mo ago
at certain times - you can't fight the system but vote with your feet. keep running US business, but live in a different country n get private healthcare.
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Rockstar co-founder compares AI to 'mad cow disease'(pcgamer.com)
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by dzonga 11mo ago
Ruby is a fine language that puts humans over machine. however the success of rails was also its biggest albatross. Ruby though fine for system tasks (such as system automation etc, chef existed yeah - but we haven't seen new gen tools
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by dzonga 11mo ago
microservices were an effect of the ZIRP era. you literally have places like Monzo bragging that they've 3 microservices for each engineer. 3 tier architecture proves time and time again to be robust for most workloads.
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by dzonga 11mo ago
yeah - largely a reason why people went to nosql. due to the performance hit you get with ORMs. in ruby-verse you can see this active-record vs sequel(a better orm) the performance gap. now there's better tools like sqlc etc that have
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by dzonga 11mo ago
Tesla has no moat 1. Batteries - BYD has them beat 2. Self Driving tech - other players are better 3. Luxury brands already provide the luxury aspect & even better built cars 4. in the US they're being saved by US protectionism.
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by dzonga 11mo ago
there was a black mirror episode regarding something similar
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by dzonga 11mo ago
all that spend on gpu's to eventually sell ads. something is broken, I can't say what.
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by dzonga 11mo ago
well written article but he doesn't use data to prove his point that energy is what drives the economy. you look at the UK example[0] - energy production / consumption has been going down. likewise quality of life has been going d
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by dzonga 11mo ago
sadly, I agree with your take.
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by dzonga 11mo ago
the real kick to the teeth for apple is when they will be forced to adopt different browser engines across all markets. btw safari is a fine browser but on iOS it seems crippled a bit. we are already getting there with support for web-gpu.
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by dzonga 11mo ago
I have never seen an industry that works so hard to self-immolate. right now the industry is spending billions / trillions of $ on to train A.I on badly written open source code. in universities we teach kids - DSA - but never about to

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