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by falkensmaize 9mo ago
Citing the absolute worst practices from terrible developers as a way to exonerate or legitimize LLM code production issues is something we need to stop doing in my opinion. I would not excuse or expect a day one junior on my team that wrot
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by falkensmaize 9mo ago
What is happening?
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by falkensmaize 9mo ago
What diminishes your value is that suddenly everybody can (in theory anyway) do this work. There’s a push at my company to start letting designers do their own llm-assisted merge requests to front end projects. So now CEOs are greedily rubb
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by falkensmaize 9mo ago
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Today I tried to get it to upgrade Nx, yarn and some resolutions in a typescript monorepo with about 20 apps at work (Opus 4.5 through Kiro) and it just…couldn’t do it. It hit some snags with some of the c
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by falkensmaize 9mo ago
This was my first thought too. We already have terraform for repeatable, source controlled service provisioning and we have the relatively straightforward aws cli for ad hoc management. I don’t know that I really need another layer, and it
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by falkensmaize 9mo ago
‘How does a model “trigger” self-harm?’ By telling paranoid schizophrenics that their mother is secretly plotting against them and telling suicidal teenagers that they shouldn’t discuss their plans with their parents. That behavior from a h
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by falkensmaize 9mo ago
Not to be cheeky, but isn’t this just display: flex; align-items:center; now?
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by falkensmaize 9mo ago
I buy vinyl for one reason - it forces me to actively listen to the music. My teen daughter does the same. I have many happy memories of getting a new record as kid, laying in the floor and listening from start to finish while poring over l
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by falkensmaize 9mo ago
"I am not scared to go back flipping burgers again." You should be - in all likelihood you'd have to work 3 burger-flipping jobs to make enough money to pay rent and buy food. Inflation and housing issues have hit a lot harde
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by falkensmaize 9mo ago
Man, come on - what planet are you from, seriously? I got into this business because I enjoy programming, but I also wanted to for once in my life make a decent living and be able to save something. I have kids I'd like to send to coll
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by falkensmaize 9mo ago
"will continue to do so" What evidence do you have for this statement besides "past models improved"?
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by falkensmaize 9mo ago
It seems pretty obvious that the opposite is true. I know I’ve experienced some serious skill atrophy that I’m now having to actively resist. There’s a lot lost by no longer having to interact with the raw materials of your craft. Thinking
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by falkensmaize 10mo ago
The only way to truly fix these cycles is to finally let the bubble actually pop. Make laws against government bailouts. Let companies and investors who acted recklessly go broke. Send criminals to jail. That’s the only way to restore sanit
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by falkensmaize 10mo ago
I've had this same thought for some time. There should have been an explosion in startups, new product from established companies, new apps by the dozen every day. If LLMs can now reliably turn an idea into an application, where are th
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by falkensmaize 10mo ago
Spot on. Ten or fifteen years ago, participating in the internet was something I got excited about, now I just get excited about getting away from it.
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by falkensmaize 11mo ago
This 1000%. When my wife was a teacher she would often comment on what a huge distraction chromebooks and tablets were. Most of the things being learned through high school do not require a computer and do not benefit from them. Added to th
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by falkensmaize 11mo ago
EarFun Air Pro 4
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by falkensmaize 1y ago
Yes actually. That was one of my biggest annoyances with non-Apple earbuds in the past, but these actually do seamlessly connect to all my Apple devices and switch quickly and reliably to the active device.
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by falkensmaize 1y ago
This is not an ad, just personal experience, but I went through two pairs of AirPod Pro 2s in the last couple of years and both developed problems outside of warranty. I bought a pair of Earfuns from Amazon and they’re honestly pretty great
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by falkensmaize 2y ago
Are you serious? The obvious benefit is they get to lay a bunch of people off and pretend it’s because they’re forward thinking innovators instead of poor managers that are having difficulty growing their business. There’s a huge incentive
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by falkensmaize 2y ago
"But it will get better, a lot better." I see statements like this a lot when talking about AI in general. People seem to think it is a foregone conclusion that no limit to LLM model improvement and capability exists. What causes
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by falkensmaize 2y ago
Serif makes a very capable alternative also called Publisher. I really like their software - you can buy it without a subscription and it's very polished. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/publisher
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by falkensmaize 2y ago
This is really impressive - nice work. I too use Ruby at work, and would love to build something like this.
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by falkensmaize 2y ago
The numbers are FAKE. How else can you describe a 30% downward revision in jobs numbers this year?
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by falkensmaize 2y ago
I unironically love the band Winger. They’re probably most famous now for becoming instantly uncool once Mike Judge drew Stewart in a Winger tshirt on Beavis and Butthead in the 90s. The thing is though, they’re amazing musicians. Kip Winge
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by falkensmaize 2y ago
As someone who writes a lot of RoR and typescript at work, I find I’m generally happier and more satisfied after completing a ticket in typescript. It seems counterintuitive because Ruby is generally more expressive and readable than JavaSc
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by falkensmaize 2y ago
Please no. There are many alternative cross-platform password managers one can use instead. Please don’t make my software and devices suckier and harder to use to appease some EU bureaucrat.
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by falkensmaize 2y ago
What makes you think Bitwarden can’t indiscriminately axe your account?
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by falkensmaize 2y ago
You’re incredibly far off base. I’m not a libertarian in the least. I’m all for well run government that uses its money to help its citizens. Unfortunately we don’t have that kind of government. But if you want give even more of your payche
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by falkensmaize 2y ago
I don’t really object to taxation of winnings like this in principle. It’s knowing that said money is essentially being thrown into the financial black hole that is the United States government that bothers me. The unending waste of it all,

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