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by girvo 9mo ago
By piggybacking off GCC et al you gain very easy portability/access to a bunch of platforms that most languages would never attempt to support. We used this in production with Nim for embedded firmware engineering at my previous job do
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by girvo 9mo ago
My Cupra Born does this; it has a little line that it draws on a "road" with the car in front, and you have to put the car in front of the line to be safe. Its quite a fun little system haha, works well on me!
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by girvo 9mo ago
The idea of cruising 15km/h over the limit is absolutely crazy to me. That will get you 3 points and a minimum $500 fine here. We have "average speed zones" too!
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by girvo 9mo ago
> and personally I prefer the CLI to the vscode UI cursor builds on So do I, but I also quite like Cursor's harness/approach to things. Which is why their `agent` CLI is so handy! You can use cursor in any IDE/system now,
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by girvo 9mo ago
To be totally fair to them... it is quite literally in the last few months that the tools have actually begun to meet the promises that the breathless hypers have been screeching about for years at this point. But it's also true that i
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by girvo 9mo ago
> I just eat what I evolved to eat So do I: plants!
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by girvo 9mo ago
> Especially when you’re deep into the context window. Though that is, at least to me, a bit of an anti-pattern for exactly that reason. I've found it far more successful to blow away the context and restart with a new prompt from t
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by girvo 9mo ago
Well of course, the actual intent of insurance today is to make profit.
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by girvo 9mo ago
> straight 7x-ing token costs You are probably right, but my work pays for as many tokens as I want, which opens up a bunch of tactics that otherwise would be untenable. I stick with sub-agent approaches outside of work for this reason t
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by girvo 9mo ago
The effects when extrapolated out aren’t good, IMO. Certainly bad for me, a mid 30s software engineer who’s been doing this for nearly 20 years…
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by girvo 9mo ago
Except that is not the reason, and that’s not new haha
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by girvo 9mo ago
They are though, atlasians stock is in the toilet. The world seems to think Jira will be replaced by AI built in house replacements, for some reason
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by girvo 9mo ago
The market seems convinced it will happen, considering its stock price is in the gutter
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by girvo 9mo ago
For me option 4 has been the move, but “just as good” I haven’t found that. It’s slower and about 90% as good, so it definitely works as a great back up, but CC with Opus is noticeably better for all of my workloads
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by girvo 9mo ago
The benchmarks simply do not match my experience though. I don’t put that much stock in them anymore.
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by girvo 9mo ago
I don’t hit Codex limits because it’s so much slower , is what I’ve found personally.
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by girvo 9mo ago
I don’t think it’s bias: I have no love for any of these tools, but in every evaluation we’ve done at work, Opus 4.5 continually comes out ahead in real world performance Codex and Gemini are both good, but slower and less “smart” when it c
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by girvo 9mo ago
> that a lot of popular modules expose incorrect type hints that need to be worked around Typescript (and Flow to a lesser extent) had this problem once upon a time. It’s a lot better today, so I imagine it will continue to improve.
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by girvo 9mo ago
> unless you're playing the games that absolutely insist on kernel-level anti-cheat Sadly, I do :( Valorant is the main one that keeps my Windows partition around, for better or worse. Also sadly still there's some performance
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by girvo 9mo ago
> As it is often the case with these tools, run it in isolated environments. But is actually the case with these tools: basically nobody does, sadly. "It's too productive to handcuff like that" etc etc. Same thing as my co
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by girvo 9mo ago
Now do the same for internal combustion cars. What a silly argument.
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by girvo 9mo ago
Cupra Born in aus, same thing here haha Though it means connected charging via API stuff doesn’t work. Not that it’s mattered to me!
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by girvo 9mo ago
Amusingly my Cupra Born in Australia is a “dumb” EV, because Cupra/VW didn’t put a SIM in the car in this country. It’s quite lovely really, though it means I have to go to Cupra for a firmware update.
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by girvo 9mo ago
GP literally invented the D language.
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by girvo 9mo ago
> I can't believe how bad it is This has been my consistent experience with every model prior to Opus 4.5, and every single open model I've given a go. Hopefully we will get there in another 6 months when Opus is distilled into
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by girvo 9mo ago
Amusingly one of their examples (the final Age Control example) is prompted to have American English as an accent, but sounds like an Australian trying to sounds American to my ear haha
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by girvo 9mo ago
If there were real consequences, we wouldn't be forced to churn out buggy nonsense by our employers. So we'd be able to take the time to do the right thing. Bug free software is possible, the world just says its not worth it today
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by girvo 9mo ago
The bad ways effort was already paid by someone else, though.
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by girvo 9mo ago
I also lived in ctags land, but gosh I don’t miss it. LSPs are a step change, and most languages do have either an actual implementation or something similar enough that’s still more powerful than bare strings. It’s faster, too, as the mo
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by girvo 9mo ago
Yeah, most of that intuition only comes from making those mistakes yourself originally, and getting it wrong. At least for me that was the case

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