emodendroket

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by emodendroket 4mo ago
> Does open source matter anymore? I mean, did it ever? It depends what you mean. Very few open source or free software projects are successful in any meaningful sense.
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
OK, but part of repenting for something is genuine contrition, which is not really incompatible with knowing it's wrong but doing it anyway since you read that you can be forgiven.
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
Yes, that was already the first scenario presented. I was presenting a different one to help you understand how someone could reach the opposite conclusion.
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
Do you honestly think you're raising a novel point and not just being trite? If so, try reading Luther's Concerning Christian Liberty, where he dispenses with this argument. Or if you want a short version of what he says, if you
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
> When I look at history, I see so many tragedies caused by being weak. Both Germany and the Soviet Union were able to invade Poland, for instance, and the Katyn massacre is a national scar. And who wouldn't want to defeat invaders
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
Cursor's Auto mode is built on this premise though I can't say how effectively it categorizes with limited experience.
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
I find it is a quite reliable workflow to ask a strong model to design a plan and then point a weaker one at executing. The agent harnesses themselves are baking in similar concepts though.
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
It sounds like the problem is signing customers in the first place.
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
If you're not going to experiment at all you're not going to be able to do that. Agentic coding was basically a joke the first time I tried it. Now it isn't.
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
I mean, this guy is probably not a bleeding heart, but he had a certain line and wouldn't cross it. I'm not sure the potshots are really warranted. We all realize they were not bleeding heart do-gooders, but saying you're O
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
Even if there's a lot of noise there's clearly something real there. People are shipping more working products than was previously possible, they're debugging faster than was previously possible, and various other things. I
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
Also let's not pretend like typical efforts were not buggy as hell with oversights or tricks that didn't work in every environment.
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
Everyone says that but in aggregate they don't act like they believe it. Having "personality" means some people will love it and others will hate it, rather than everyone finding it acceptable and moving on to the actual con
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
Well, if everyone is telling you they want you to adapt AI, then it's rational to see just how much of your job you can get it to do for you.
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
I use AI as an editor on informational writing all the time and it's good at pointing out flaws in what I wrote. But I don't really love reading a document that's obviously in the voice of Claude if you're asking for my
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
I mean frankly this should just be part of the standard process. By the time any person is looking at it there's no reason it should not have gone through an AI review.
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
Well, what's the solution here, he should ship less stuff?
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
It's not always feasible of course but I think there is real, worthwhile discipline in trying to get change requests small and it matters more with agents. It's very easy to let it balloon into gazillions of files and lines.
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
There's a reason I didn't stay in that domain, let me tell you.
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
It depends a lot where you work because there are lots of companies in the world where the business analyst does all of that and the developers exist to mindlessly translate their docs into code.
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
Just parsing some HTML and JavaScript doesn't seem sufficient to have confidence in the result.
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
Well, it's a similar impulse to the way you see professional carpenters pin the guard open on a saw or do other things everyone knows you shouldn't do, except probably with a larger productivity difference and less life-altering (
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
No, in general I don't buy this idea that if we start using awkward phrases like "died by suicide" everywhere or avoiding phrases like "car accident" (which, despite what advocates claim, is a literally accurate des
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
Not sure that's necessarily any bigger a deal than when every Web site had the "Bootstrap look."
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
Which "this"?
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
The businesses who wnat to use all this software I would guess.
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
Which has approximately zero to do with the anthropomorphization of the car itself. I could have chosen a different machine or tool to make my point.
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
I don't do a ton of programming on my own time to be honest. But I did make some recipes with Calibre. Seeing Gemini basically jsut take the HTML from some news Web sites and come up with recipes really opened my eyes to how good tha
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/04/nx-s1-5791661/chatgpt-gemini-... > Only about 3% of households were paying for AI in February, using the most recent numbers available from the Bank of America Institute
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
You can get a certain portion of the population to pay $20/mo. but I think it's a very small population who's paying enough to actually cover frontier models in agentic workflows right now.

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