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by groby_b 1y ago
Why? Most engineers can't do that either. That's the whole point of having tools, that you don't need to stand their and mumble about "first principles". It's about as useful as requiring your engineers to fo
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Simple fact: AI is extremely powerful, in the hands of experts who invested time in deeply understanding it, and in understanding how to actually use it well. Who are then willing to commit more time to build an actually sustainable solutio
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"I'll try this newfangled steel constructions if they actually forge each rebar on site". You are saying that you'd trust the new and unproven technology more if it didn't rely on old and proven technology and inste
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by groby_b 1y ago
Skip the fiddling with prompts, just sandbox so that these commands are not run (via permissions.deny) In dire cases, use the PreToolUse hook to inspect/intercept (though it's usually not necessary). Granted, I haven't tried
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by groby_b 1y ago
You don't need to convince me. The question was "why would people want this", not "why are they wrong to want it" :)
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Honestly, nothing. Except the endless debate on where the braces go, and how long they're allowed to stay on a single line. It seems trivial, but replacing scope delimiters with a per-line signifier (i.e. indent) makes the scope of eac
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Do you hear the VSCode team talk about supply chain security?
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by groby_b 1y ago
I love Obsidian dearly, but if you build an app that's only really useful with plugins, and that has a horrifyingly bad security model for plugins and little to no assurance of integrity of the plugins... Maybe, just maybe, don't
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by groby_b 1y ago
Good for you, you'll be a principled unemployed. Absolutely stupid advice for people who actually look for a job. You're participating in a social game, with well-defined signalling functions. If you'd like to actually have a
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It is absolutely funny that he's talking about alignment, and then you see the chevron in the "better" example :) But, kidding aside, it's a mechanistic view patterned on avoiding egregious missteps. It's rules for
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> i.e. we've been educating people for 1,000s of years even without textbooks. And we've been doing a pretty crappy job educating people without written texts. The written word led to a tremendous acceleration of knowledge tran
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by groby_b 1y ago
First up: If you were a machinist and can model in CAD (especially constraint based, not mesh based), slicers are trivial. You'll spend a bit learning about materials & how to deal with their inadequacies by fiddling with support s
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> everything should be a library. That's exactly npm's problem, though. What everybody is avoiding to say is that you need a concept of "trusted vendors". And, for the "OSS accelerates me" business crowd, th
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Because you might have a perfectly selfish stance in the short term, but it turns out that creators not making enough money leads to creators not making content. Someone you care to watch not making enough money to make the things you like
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by groby_b 1y ago
Not always, but since OP mentioned it was "deleting and rewriting" files - that's how the CLI agents usually "move" files. And sure, you can use an IDE, but that's harder to do if you live in vibe land. (We rea
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Tiny catapults. It's the only correct answer. Sadly, this would still be an improvement on many smaller delivery services that especially Amazon is fond of using.
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That startup is going to fold about two years in unless they're at least Series E or so. Incompetent hiring will kill you, and hiring people that you and your team don't personally gel with is incompetent hiring. So I see that a
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by groby_b 1y ago
Small suggestion on refactors into packages: Move the files manually. Just tell codex "they used to be in different locations, fix it up so it builds". It seems that the concept of file moving isn't something Codex (and other
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by groby_b 1y ago
In the sense that a lot of fevers are deadly. Bodies do not "benefit" from fever. A fever is a signal that pathogens have recently entered the body, and the body is desperately at work trying to kick them out again. If it fails, y
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by groby_b 1y ago
You might want to think a little bit further. One, figure out why you're "anti-Atlantist", and anti-defense pact. Two, think about how radicality created the US problems, and why you think radicalism is the answer in your cas
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by groby_b 1y ago
While the reason is not stated, Occam's razor demands we look for the simplest explanation that ties together all actions of this administration. And that seems to be dismantling the US as a military and technological superpower - a se
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by groby_b 1y ago
This comment is especially funny to anybody who's run QGIS Yes, it has a better UI than ArcGIS, and uses less memory, but only slightly so. It still looks like it escaped from 1995's Neckbeard Labs, is clunky as heck, and eats ton
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by groby_b 1y ago
It's more that there isn't a single credible alternative. So, winning by default, not by merit.
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Yeah, but that also contains the core customer segment for buying representatives, so probably not. We'd like to protect that market.
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The funny implication here is that this requires governments to ship a complete list of sensitive geolocations. (I have no direct knowledge if that is indeed true, but it sure seems like a prerequisite)
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"that every model is either about to be great or was great in the past but now is not" FWIW, Codex-CLI w/ ChatGPT5 medium is great right now . Objectively accelerating me. Not a coding god like some posters would have it, bu
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They certainly realize when work is significantly accelerated. They might miss that it doesn't apply to all kinds of work equally, but they see some things go multiples faster, they see the folks behind those things using AI, and they
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AI is the first dev tool that makes a difference that is immediately noticeable even for higher layers, that's why they apply pressure. The core problem, as OP called out, is change aversion. It's just that for many previous usefu
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I think the author misses a few points * METR was at best a flawed study. Repo-familiarity and tool-unfamiliarity being the biggest points of critique, but far from the only one * they assume that all code gets shipped as a product. Meanwhi
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> An abstraction is a deterministic, pure function That must be why we talk about leaky abstractions so much. They're neither pure functions, nor are they always deterministic. We as a profession have been spoilt by mostly determini

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