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by faxmeyourcode 8mo ago
Love this. An example of complete and total dominion over the machine. Great quote here too lol > Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. For this he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity.
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by faxmeyourcode 8mo ago
Everybody is different, I simply cannot stand the sight of chatgpt styled writing. Give me paragraphs.
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by faxmeyourcode 8mo ago
I've lobbied to replace our internal tool with a django admin panel. I prototyped it and it showed that it would reduce our code by > 15k lines. Any internal webapps I need to build like this will 100% be set up with django in the f
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by faxmeyourcode 8mo ago
One trick to get out of this scenario where you're writing a ton is to ask the model to interview until we're in alignment on what is being built. Claude and open code both have an AskUserQuestionTool which is really nice for this
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by faxmeyourcode 8mo ago
> LLMs dont care about the story, they just care about the current state of the code You have to tell it about the backstory. It does not know unless you write about it somewhere and give it as input to the model.
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by faxmeyourcode 8mo ago
I'm sure the same could be said about tractors when they were coming on the scene. There was probably initial excitement about not having to manually break the earth, then stories spread about farmers ruining entire crops with one trac
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by faxmeyourcode 9mo ago
You should check out plain text accounting software Beancount. I've built a skill for this here https://github.com/ouachitalabs/skills/blob/main/beancount/S... and I use it for my custom person
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by faxmeyourcode 9mo ago
> The TL;DR was that old open source was the cathedral of exclusive developers and groups. Then the Bazaar showed up (which was the Linux Kernel for example) and that freed us from the shackles of the cathedral. I didn't make it pas
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by faxmeyourcode 9mo ago
I ran a T450s all through college. My late grandmother gifted me the money after high school graduation to buy my first laptop. I'd learned to code on the old gateway pentium 4 (Windows XP) machine with 512 MB of RAM from the factory.
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by faxmeyourcode 9mo ago
https://ouachitalabs.com/
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by faxmeyourcode 9mo ago
I use claude exclusively at my day job with legacy codebases. I'm not using swarms or fancy multi-agent setups. Just sticking to plan mode, giving enough context, and iterating on a spec before starting the actual build. I'm also
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by faxmeyourcode 9mo ago
Unfortunately this is a skill issue. And it's a totally different skill than reading and writing code, building solid systems, and general software engineering at large. That is annoying, but where we're currently at. Assume you&#
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by faxmeyourcode 9mo ago
The limit clause isn't official/standard ansi sql, so it's up to the rdbms to implement. Your assumption is true for bigquery (infamously) but not true for things like snowflake, duckdb, etc.
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by faxmeyourcode 10mo ago
While I agree with the premise of the article, even if it was a bit shallow, this claim made at the beginning is also still true: > Everyone’s heard the line: “AI will write all the code; engineering as you know it is finished.” Software
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by faxmeyourcode 10mo ago
My boss (great engineer) had been complaining about this with his internal github copilot quality no matter the model or task. Turns out he never cleared the context. It was just the same conversation spread thin across nearly a dozen compl
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by faxmeyourcode 10mo ago
I've run across more and more strudel musicians (developers?) doing a kind of live coding performance art and posting clips on tiktok and reels. It's really entertaining to watch. I've been meaning to dabble in it.
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by faxmeyourcode 10mo ago
> If Microsoft misappropriates GPL code how exactly is that "stealing" from me, the user, of that code? I'm not deprived in any way, the author is, so I can't make sense of your premise here. The user in this example
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by faxmeyourcode 10mo ago
There are many misconceptions of the GPL, gnu, and free software movement. I love the idealism of free software and you hit the nail on the head. Below are the four freedoms for those who are interested. Straight from the horse's mouth
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by faxmeyourcode 10mo ago
This landing page is vibe coded and littered with mistakes/typos (per 1,000 tokens), outdated models (Gemini 1.5?), the security link at the bottom of the page is an href=#, and I can see the "dashboard" without logging in or
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by faxmeyourcode 10mo ago
I think they're referring to this study on LLM poisoning in the pretraining step: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07192 (related article: https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison ) I
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by faxmeyourcode 11mo ago
Point 2 is very often overlooked. Building products that are worse than the baseline chatgpt website is very common.
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by faxmeyourcode 11mo ago
Yes, it's still a terrible UX. Anybody claiming otherwise is using Apple only, which still has trouble (albeit a bit less than mixed ecosystems), or stockholm syndrome.
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by faxmeyourcode 11mo ago
Copilot as a harness for the model is generic enough to work with every model. Claude sonnet, haiku, and opus are trained with and specifically for Claude code in mind. Also, as a heavy user of both, there are small paper cuts that seriousl
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by faxmeyourcode 11mo ago
I worked at a company like this, I was an intern with wide eyes seeing the migration to git via bitbucket in the year ... 2018? What a sight to see. That company had its own data center, tape archives, etc. It had been running largely the s
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by faxmeyourcode 1y ago
Absolutely, it's wildly fun to read the outputs of even a little tiny 0.8M model trained on CPU. And now I've actually got a much better understanding of the transformer architecture after playing around with it for a day. This re
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by faxmeyourcode 1y ago
This weekend I just cracked into nanoGPT ( https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT ), an older but fabulous learning exercise where you build and train a crappy shakespeare GPT with ~0.8M parameters on a cpu. Results are abo
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by faxmeyourcode 1y ago
My side project - https://macrosforhumans.com - is a traditional mobile macro tracker with first class support for voice (and soon image and text blob) inputs for your recipes, ingredients, measurements, units, etc. Kind of a ne
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by faxmeyourcode 1y ago
Pointers in and of themselves are not difficult to learn on their own, but when you're learning them alongside your first programming language, it's just adds to the difficulty I think. I think a lot of noobs learning C struggle w
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by faxmeyourcode 1y ago
This is some of the cleanest, modern looking, beautiful C code I've seen in a while. I know it's not the kernel, and there's probably good reasons for lots of #ifdef conditionals, random underscored types, etc in bigger proje
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by faxmeyourcode 1y ago
It's a symptom of a regression of society as a whole. Twenty years ago things were different. Not just the vibes, but the net hope for humanity and short/medium/long term forecasts of the health of the united states were all

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