hectdev

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by hectdev 2mo ago
Genuine question, is the reasoning chain different from clicking the status bar under a reply and watching it "think"? Or selecting the "Thinking" transcript view in Claude Code? (both on the desktop app). Seems to me th
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by hectdev 2mo ago
I've started doing this in my home. All lights are smart LEDs. At 8pm, they shift warm, 80%. From 9pm-10pm, they go from 80% to 0%. At 7am, they start going from 0% to 100% cool (I work from home and it helps with focus). Having my env
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by hectdev 2mo ago
The bane of my engineering career is working under engineers like this. It's like we forget we are doing a very analog thing (collaboration and building) under the guise of something digital. We should accept that there will be edge ca
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by hectdev 2mo ago
As someone with a few unused Teenage Engineering things. The real answer is probably rich tech people who love having things that make people say "I'm not sure who the target audience is".
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by hectdev 3mo ago
From my experience, Speech-to-text falls way short of Wispr flow and I would assume the ones that are said to be better than that. It lacks context awareness and formatting
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by hectdev 3mo ago
From my experience, it has not been sycophantic in the sense that it pushes back and questions my own reasoning in healthy ways. There were moments where I felt I was brushing up against actual AI psychosis, and it pushed back on my questio
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by hectdev 3mo ago
I think they have a better agent personality which pushes back and isn't sycophantic. It has been awhile since I've used the others but that's where it locked me in and I've stuck with it.
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by hectdev 3mo ago
I _believe_ the term "AI Psychosis" is a "thought-terminating cliché" that readily puts you in a position to disarm any criticism to your point of view, which, if you're aware of it or not, it's a belief in and
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by hectdev 3mo ago
My only issue with this was the restriction of "Do not look at any data outside of our working folder" is preventing the tool from doing what it does best. I would have given it access to PubMed to pull the latest research on the
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by hectdev 3mo ago
That's what I would like to call job security. When you know how to read what is wrong, you can easily catch the mistakes and correct it. AI gets you there faster by doing a lot of things right and you correct the mistakes.
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by hectdev 3mo ago
It is fun when debugging slow code and you see a for loop in a for loop. Feels rewarding to sort that out.
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by hectdev 3mo ago
I like this. Really paints a picture of what we are progressing towards. The tools we needed to build the tools we need to build. And the fact that it all boils down to getting the computer to do the thing we want it to do and trying to fi
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by hectdev 3mo ago
Boiling down AI to faster emails and listing out those horrible things and trying to side step it as not equivocating are both really disingenuous arguments. AI can and has already shown to be really helpful in emerging medicines and medica
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by hectdev 3mo ago
OK but the ones here are of a certain bias to the discussion. It isn't downvote based on merit, it's downvote based on disagreement with where it falls pros/con to the topic. A discussion on the shape of the comment section i
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by hectdev 3mo ago
no, take a look around. comments are downvoted for not agreeing with the topic, not for lack a validity. You, yourself, are ganging up on commenter and painting people with broad strokes. That is quintessentially a space where dissenting op
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by hectdev 3mo ago
At work, with friends, even on dates, oddly enough. But this is a polarizing topic and I don't think any of the discussions here are actually discussions. It's more venting and downvoting anyone who has a different view on all thi
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by hectdev 3mo ago
I'm starting to realize this comment section is an echo chamber and dissenting opinions aren't allowed.
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by hectdev 3mo ago
why are you being so condescending?
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by hectdev 3mo ago
I don't know, I see plenty of organic interest growing out there. Even from people who are against it when they see how it can benefit them. It's just a tool that increases productivity at a rate we haven't experienced in a l
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by hectdev 3mo ago
I mean, the author is mad something is popular and calls it psychosis. Which, all things being equal, is balanced out by nay sayers time and time again. Is not posting a lengthy rant online and sharing it not a form of "psychosis"
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by hectdev 3mo ago
I promise you top performers aren't always thinking about work. There is proof in going detached from work problems and doing other things can help produce novel solutions. Same principle as getting a good night's sleep vs crammin
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by hectdev 4mo ago
>The company reiterated that Apple Intelligence relies on on-device processing and Private Cloud Compute, with a promise that user data is only used to execute the immediate request and is not accessible to Apple or third parties. Appl
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by hectdev 4mo ago
Why do you give Elon such influence. He doesn’t have to do anything. SpaceX employs engineers. I think that’s one thing that’s keeping the discussion from being rational whenever it is brought up online. Too many knee jerk reactions to the
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by hectdev 4mo ago
Not sure how we went from space x will fail to there are no companies new industries to the new industries are lying to data centers don’t make sense. There are plenty of reason for space data centers the big one would be: the public is mov
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by hectdev 4mo ago
Check out K2 Space. They are planning a large bus satellite that can ferry deliverables to different orbits. They are just one of many many companies just itching to send large mass objects into space at low cost.
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by hectdev 4mo ago
I'm just as dumbfounded about Tesla's stock value vs what it does in the market and will trash talk Elon all day long but SpaceX is a different beast. I know of whole industries that are just waiting for the ability to get more st
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by hectdev 4mo ago
I'm aware of the article. My point is it may be catching a slice of the person's full journey with AI. When I started using it, I blind copied and pasted all the time. Heck, I had a job interview that allowed me to use AI to build
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by hectdev 4mo ago
Yea, but that's just a straw man argument mixed with a little No-True Scotsman. How do you know those people aren't just learning how to use AI and will change over time to be early adopters adapt and using the tool to get work do
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by hectdev 4mo ago
Sometimes, yes. Some coworkers ramble and give too much information, some leave out information. Sometimes there's a bit of a language barrier. If I can get to the nugget of what needs to be communicated and understood, it can be faste
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by hectdev 4mo ago
Yea, you have to be proactive. I have friends with non-traditional work schedules to spend time with during the working hours when I take breaks from work. I go to coffee shops and make friends with the workers there. And I make sure to eng

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