gaigalas

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by gaigalas 9mo ago
> I'm terrified that our craft will die, and nobody will even care to mourn it. Mourn it? Overall, people seem to hate tech workers in general (of all kinds). The death of the craft will not be mourned as a tragedy, it's alread
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by gaigalas 9mo ago
I see, you're using "determinism" coloquially, in the sense of "exact outcome". That's perfectly fine. We are honed for this too. We don't need to produce exact solutions or answers. We need to make things
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by gaigalas 9mo ago
But what we really want is to cut down layers of abstraction, not increase them. I mean, we only have them because it is strictly necessary. If we could make architectures friendly to programming directly, we would have. In that sense, high
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by gaigalas 9mo ago
True determinism is rare, we often don't get it. That's what purely functional languages are all about and they're a minority. We are trained on the other thing: unpredictable user interaction, parallelism, circuit-breaking,
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by gaigalas 9mo ago
> Engineers are trained on determinism. I'm fatigued by this myth.
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by gaigalas 9mo ago
I can give you a couple of examples: 1. I recently made an extension to "bookmark data". It's an auto scraper, but client side. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/lidar/eckcmnibplmme... The us
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by gaigalas 9mo ago
I'd say browsers are a pretty good way of delivering models that run locally. Currently, this tech is a sleeper because consumer hardware is not there yet. Extensions, even websites, could benefit a lot from offering small models on de
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by gaigalas 9mo ago
Yep, it's all about fast feedback and being beginner-friendly. I don't want to try 100 hello worlds until I find one that costs a dollar. Perhaps I want to start on my machine, then get acquainted with the tech, then move on to re
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A true 'hello world' LLM pipeline(alganet.github.io)
2 points by gaigalas 9mo ago|2 comments
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by gaigalas 9mo ago
> requires my engineering expertise and constant babysitting What the skeptics have been saying all along.
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by gaigalas 9mo ago
You are mistaken. People totally do read and write assembly.
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by gaigalas 9mo ago
Is this rage bait for shell script people?
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by gaigalas 9mo ago
The mistake here was the expectation that LLM code would not be junk. It's the same junk produced by fast-growing startups. It was always here, now there's more of it. I'm convinced that people will continue to use it. Theref
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The Five Levels of PHP 8.5 Pipes(alganet.github.io)
2 points by gaigalas 9mo ago|0 comments
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by gaigalas 9mo ago
We'll eventually have a discarded vibe coded silicon wafer batch. Someone will be insane enough to spend on it.
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by gaigalas 9mo ago
> it makes it extremely expensive here That is relative. It makes it expensive compared to our people's purchasing power. Most people here don't earn much. In more absolute terms (costs, etc), food in Brazil is incredibly cheap
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by gaigalas 9mo ago
There's a clear conflict between SKILLS, tools and multi-tasking. I think "intra-context" tooling is already dead. It's too narrow. It's all "extra-context" now: how one instruments for multiple agents, at
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Show HN: Quick Beats – minimalistic webapp (mobile and desktop) drum machine(alganet.github.io)
2 points by gaigalas 10mo ago|0 comments
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
> You tried agentic coding. You realised it was better at programming than you are. We need to drop this competition paradigm ASAP.
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
They look all the same to me.
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
Both Claude Code and OpenCode users are too loud. It makes sense for them to fight. These are boutique tools, and there can be only one boutique tool. I have a gut feeling that the real top dog harness (profitability, sticky users, growth)
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
This dude got famous by polluting the public discourse on archaeology to sell books. I cannot respect him as an author or thinker, only as a human.
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
Quite cool. You could distribute it as `.html` only, and use JS to offer a local download link to itself in the correct extension. A polyglot installer, of sorts. For example, this gist is an HTML that, when opened, offers a download zip of
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
Wins what? AI companies don't even know what they want.
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
At some point you need to remove the training wheels, otherwise you'll never learn to ride the bike. At first, you need them. You'll fall without it. But if you still rely on them after a while, it's not a good sign.
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
So, models are officially a commodity now. The battle is for the harness layer. And it's quickly going the commodity way as well. What's left for boutique-style AI companies?
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
I don't like tailwind. However, I don't wish that to anyone. Despite any of my preferences, it was real work that deserved a chance. It cannot be denied that AI slurping their content contributed to less paying customers. IMHO, th
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
Has anyone else noticed that there isn't a single AI karma company? The idea is simple*: Instead of users rating content, AI does it based on fact check. None. Zero products or roadmaps on that. Worse than that, people don't want
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
That's exactly what a commie in disguise would say to get away.
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by gaigalas 10mo ago
I clicked expecting a philosophical contrast to the idea of spherical cows. Nice game though!

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