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by fsloth 8mo ago
Yup. Engineers can intuit quality up to a point from very weak signals. Those signals become illegible _really fast_ the further you move in competence from the core domain of the offering - and after that all you have as a decision maker a
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by fsloth 8mo ago
"reasonably stable company" If the other company is "equally stable" then pricing offers leverage sure. But there are lot of situations were _any_ license costs in some given range are so trivial nobody actually cares we
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by fsloth 8mo ago
Nobody talked about consciousness. Just that during evaluation the LLM models have ”behaved” in multiple deceptive ways. As an analogue ants do basic medicine like wound treatment and amputation. Not because they are conscious but because t
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by fsloth 8mo ago
I think even “non-intelligent” solver like Mathematica is cool - so hell yes, this is cool.
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by fsloth 8mo ago
" It is now an enterprise OS" You really want enterprise standards support for your graphics API. Bleeding edge ...is not nice in graphics. Especially the more complex the systems get, so do the edge cases. I mean in general. If y
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by fsloth 8mo ago
Yes! There are also very good reasons for deep skepticism.
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by fsloth 8mo ago
Ouch. You could have taken a statistical approach "google is not known for high quality product development and likely therefore does not select candidates for qualities in product-development domain" - I'm talking too much t
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by fsloth 8mo ago
The sad corollary to "you will be noticed only if you put out fires" is nobody actually realizes the elegant solution you shipped will stop tons of these fires from happening. Rather the reaction will be "that looked simple a
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by fsloth 8mo ago
IMHO I think the best any engineer can do in an org is to ask "what is the highest value problem to solve for the business" and "can I solve it". "I made this x times better" is not relevant to _most peoples in
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by fsloth 8mo ago
> maybe France or the EU should ban its citizen from investing in the upcoming SpaceX/xAI IPO, and also Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Adobe, etc. ? I'm sorry, but I don't understand any of the arguments above. I
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by fsloth 8mo ago
How the hell can you do that. GCODE is mostly about pure maths and geometry (well, there's other stuff but in principle). They would forbid math? "Euclid is illegal."
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by fsloth 8mo ago
Of course it makes sense. It's a cool story to pump up the valuation in the AI datacenter boom. This meme will keep on delivering until (if) the AI bubble bursts.
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by fsloth 8mo ago
> I data centers in space could attract investors (who are just riding the data center hype). I find this to be the most obvious game plan here. Makes total sense from financial engineering point of view. You _might_ get to develop nice
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by fsloth 8mo ago
Sorry for the flood below. It's relevant but not very compact. The compact answer is software complexity, intrinsically complex algorithms and geometric robustness. Data model may be difficult depending what you want to do. Robust imp
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by fsloth 8mo ago
Well, clearly not for you :). Even though Claude's improved considerably in the past few months I'm super impressed what you achieved in a very little time. You clearly know what you want and how to get there. The key here is _you
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by fsloth 8mo ago
Sure! Here’s the most recent public alpha build https://github.com/AdaShape/adashape-open-testing/releases/t...
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by fsloth 8mo ago
That it is. I’ve been doing one for a sideproject for years. And I worked in CAD professionally for over a decade. Vibecoding expedites the easy parts fantastically. But the hard parts are hard. Really, damn hard.
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by fsloth 8mo ago
Their blog post about this subject is really good https://www.ondsel.com/blog/goodbye/ They chose maybe one of the toughest imaginable combinations for a business model. Viable open source businesses are hard (si
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by fsloth 8mo ago
Version control? Quite a few with their domain specific naming conditions, constraints and workflows. For example Fusion 360 https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/fusion-360... Then there's s
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by fsloth 8mo ago
I agree with the OP:s statement "With version control" but there are 0 reasons you can't have that in a visual application as well. It just needs good domain model design. I mean it's _not_ trivial. To start with you hav
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by fsloth 8mo ago
"I do find the graphical interface very natural for doing creative design work" As do I! I don't think there is any correct single answer. People, their workflows, and requirements are different. It seems we are living in CAD
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by fsloth 8mo ago
C++ community would be better off without Conan. Avoid at all cost.
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by fsloth 8mo ago
Yes, it's Windows only (mainly because testing multiple platforms as a solo dev is above my stamina). Thank you!
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by fsloth 8mo ago
No, seriously, the reason the world is messed up now is that only some powers have monopoly on nuclear weapons. And every single one of the major powers is internationally in an aggressive, expansive mood. We could have had a world without
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by fsloth 8mo ago
Thanks man! I would love to build this eventually to a real product so am not currently considering open sourcing it. I can give you a free foreverlicense if you would like to be an alpha tester though :) - but am considering in any case fo
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by fsloth 8mo ago
Yes please.
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by fsloth 8mo ago
If you doubt it’s real just run it, man. I shared the app because it’s not confidential and it’s concrete - I can’t really discuss work stuff without stressing out what I can share and what not. At least in my workplace everyone I know is u
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by fsloth 8mo ago
"So why do you think a 10 kLoC vibecoded codebase will be any good engineering-wise?" I've been coding a side-project for a year with full LLM assistance (the project is quite a bit older than that). Basically I spent over a
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by fsloth 9mo ago
He explains their pivot with Ben to GOP in this podcast episode. The main argument was that democrats policies were detrimental to their business. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_sNclEgQZQ&t=11s Mr. Andreessen has bee
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by fsloth 9mo ago
Absolutely! In a way it's really cool you can go to ACM archives and start reading from something like https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/563858.563893 (Blinn, Models of light reflection for computer synthesized

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