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by fsloth 1y ago
Sure! That's inefficient. I know just how I work and I've been writing the type of programs I do for quite many years. And I know what would take me normally a week takes me few days at best.
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by fsloth 1y ago
This. You _have_ to write the spec. The result is that instead of spending X units of time on spec and THEN y units of time on coding, you get the whole thing in x units of time AND you have a spec. The trick is knowning where the particula
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by fsloth 1y ago
If this is about SWE roles - this is my take. All you need is decades old CS mostly. Then you apply this to production via software engineering principles. Systems design is the key. Always systems design. If you find something that happens
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by fsloth 1y ago
As a daily user who has used windows for 25 years it’s totally fine.
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by fsloth 1y ago
Windows 11 is fine after you turn off all the ads from configs. Do agree the default settings are extremely disrespectful of users but once they are turned off I don’t have any gripes.
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by fsloth 1y ago
Imo the usability issues are very minor. The default settings for the home edition are absolute shitshow - ads and clickbait everywhere - but those can be turned off with a few clicks.
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by fsloth 1y ago
Yup. It’s totally fine for it’s job. Not worse or better in my experience.
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by fsloth 1y ago
"everybody can move to a Linux desktop now" People use whatever UI comes with their computer. I don't think that's going to change.
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by fsloth 1y ago
” but it only did so by stochastically parroting hallucinated slop” I’m not sure what the argument here is. That you should only use the most primitive tools available? ”LLMs suck” arguments sound exactly like ”IDE:s suck! True engineers wr
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by fsloth 1y ago
I don’t get these arguments. Just because LLM learned the entire internet does not mean it can’t 10x a developer. Were all standing on shoulders of giants - LLM or no LLM. LLM gives you extra pair of ladders. That are wobbly for sure. But l
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by fsloth 1y ago
Why microservices? Monoliths with code-golfed minimal implementation size (but high quality architecture) implemented in strongly typed language would consume far less tokens (and thus would be cheaper to maintain).
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by fsloth 1y ago
”it's neither "programming" Sure it is. Modern ecosystem is sadly full of API:s like WPF on Windows that are both verbose and configuration heavy. Now, some people may be able to internalize xaml with little effort but not al
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by fsloth 1y ago
I strongly disagree agents are for extroverts. I do agree it’s definetly a tool category with a unique set of features and am not surprised it’s offputting to some. But it’s appeal is definetly clear to me as an introvert. For me LLM:s are
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by fsloth 1y ago
Yeah! It's quite possible my scenario is in the "happy accident" valley. I'm using it mostly for C#, WPF and OpenTK. The type system seems to help a lot. The UI logic it recommends is mostly god awful. But at least for m
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by fsloth 1y ago
At a real job? Not that often! And it's miserable in large scale architecture. However, at leas for me there is lots of "small enough context" boilerplate that the context can deal with. Clearly this is not a tool in the sen
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by fsloth 1y ago
From my experience when used through IDE such as Cursor the current gen Claude model enables impressive speedruns over commodity tasks. My context is a CAD application I’ve been writing as a hobby. I used to work in that field for a decade
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by fsloth 1y ago
All the dentists I've ever visited have worked in doctor/nurse pairings. The nurse assists in operations AND is the data entry expert. I think it's just about bureaucratic faux-economical thinking infringing to doctors worksp
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by fsloth 1y ago
This is how all the dentists work that I've seen. Doctor plus nurse. Apparently dentists have more agency over their work environment than doctors do.
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by fsloth 1y ago
" this doesn't exist yet" We have a national health database in Finland called "OmaKanta" (which translates to MyDatabase or something like that). It's not perfect but at least I can trust it with most of my he
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by fsloth 1y ago
No. Just no. Teaching doctors touch typing is tending to the secondary symptom of the fact doctors should not waste time inputting routine data. What doctors need would be secretarial services trained in medical procedures.
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by fsloth 1y ago
Yup! Boring technologies are great.
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by fsloth 1y ago
I would guess Fortune 500 still runs on desktop windows? (Don’t know but this is just my guess).
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by fsloth 1y ago
Yes! Valuable, fundamental, etc. - do it yourself, the slow path. Boring, uninspiring, commodity - and most of all - easily reversible and not critical - to the LLM it goes! When learning things intrinsic motivation makes one unreasonably e
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by fsloth 1y ago
In some cases like clean written geometry algorithms the code _is_ the best technical documentation and attempts at verbal description would sound awkward and plausible become dated. In this case the purpose of the written docs is to offer
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by fsloth 1y ago
Not really an expert here but happy to share my path. My current goal is to maintain minimum flexibility, do some resistance training and keep some aerobic fitness. If you have very little exercise from recent years, I really recommend find
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by fsloth 1y ago
It’s not about buying extra years but making your life a hole lotta better as well. Am not kidding. I hated exercise, I still hate it, but it objectively makes everything else so much better I keep at it. There are simple and effective prot
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by fsloth 1y ago
Strong Jensen Huang cosplay vibes here but I see some missing elements for this approach to be very effective.
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by fsloth 1y ago
WASM as it is, is good enough for non-trivial graphics and geometry workloads - visibility culling (given octree/frustum), data de-serialization (pointclouds, meshes), and actual BREP modeling. All of these a) are non-trivial to implem
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by fsloth 1y ago
Potentially this is something Clude Code, Cursor and other interactive LLM tools will disrupt. I watched at work a former GIS consultant without software engineering background delve into novel Python stack with Claude and hot damn … they a
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by fsloth 1y ago
Great tooling is 50% of what makes C# and F# so damn good. For the love of god don’t write C# in a text-editor. The live debugger gives you over 80% of what people gush about in lisp-interactivity - a live program environment you can poke a

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