hibikir

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by hibikir 9mo ago
It's not really a FAANG thing. I bet you've seen the memes about X days without a serious accident, or without stopping the production line. It's the equivalent in a restroom or a urinal: A place you can make sure people see
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by hibikir 9mo ago
it's also a good opportunity to find yourself something that doesn't actually help the company. My unit has a 100% AI automated code review KPI. Nothing there says that the tool used for the review is any good, or that anyone pays
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by hibikir 9mo ago
Highlighting this as a good thing is just... not great > Code you did not write is code you do not understand > You cannot maintain code you do not understand We need no AI for this one: If I could only maintain code I wrote, I'd
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by hibikir 9mo ago
You can find in developer notes for city sims that sometimes they've tried to keep sizes of roads and parking lots to scale, and then they realize it's all low density and uninteresting, kind of like real aerial photography of a t
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by hibikir 9mo ago
I've seen this happen over and over again well before LLMs, when teams are sufficiently "code focused" that they don't care much at all about their teammates. The kind that would throw a giant architectural changes over
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by hibikir 9mo ago
With Claude code I live in plan mode, and ask it to hand me the implementation plan at the low level, with alternatives. It's rare for it to not give me good ones: Better than the junior dev. Then the plan it has is already limited eno
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by hibikir 9mo ago
The surprise was not that they existed: There were chatbots in Google way before ChatGPT. What surprised them was the demand, despite all the problems the chatbots have. The pig problem with LLMs was not that they could do nothing, but how
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by hibikir 9mo ago
KPI infection. You see projects whose goal is, say "repos with A I code review turned on" vs "Code review suggestions that were accepted". And then if you do get adoption (like, say, a Claude Code trial), then VPs balk a
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by hibikir 9mo ago
Yet we look at phones, and we see people accepting outrageous permissions for many apps: They might rely on snooping into you for ads, or anything else, and yet the apps sell, and have no problem staying in stores. So when it's all sai
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by hibikir 9mo ago
Copying a game from the 90s is easier than ever. We see small teams making 90s level games all the time. It just happens that in the market, those are now just indies. The market demands not just better, more complicated games, but mostly m
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by hibikir 9mo ago
A failure of governance if your goal is to have the best possible OS, and you have one person in charge who would rather not ship something than ship detrimental features, but that's not really how companies today work. If instead we l
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by hibikir 9mo ago
The analysis forgets the very first problem after someone is killing criminals visibly: Light relies on TV to find them. You could tell it's Japan without doing any math about time zones or anythING, as TV itself brings in the bias. To
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by hibikir 9mo ago
You'd have to do even less copy-pasting. The switch to some agent that has access to your source code directory speed things up so much, the time spent pays for itself in the first day.
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by hibikir 9mo ago
Which points out one of the yet reasons why I consider Outer Wilds one of the best games I have ever played, while Blue Prince, which many consider a similar game, as one of the worst. Respect for my time and for where I want to focus my at
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by hibikir 9mo ago
They are two very different accidents: The second was insufficient/poor maintenance: Supposedly the train that checks for this had passed 2 months before, and someone will have to wonder whether it's just not passing often enough,
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by hibikir 9mo ago
They handed people free trials before, which is using the carrot and not the stick. Around where I live, with HW3, the last trial made it clear that it was just not worth it at all, as there's key areas around my house where interventi
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by hibikir 9mo ago
Yes, there's quite a few that just give you actual money: You can get a check back. You often get a better return if you instead purchase things at a specific retailer or something like that, but it's not all gift cards and discou
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by hibikir 9mo ago
A very big percentage of credit card expenses in the US come from cards with rewards programs, so you get money/gift cards/travel discounts in exchange for using the credit card instead of the debit card. A lot of this is funded f
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by hibikir 9mo ago
America's banks enjoy pulling a bait and switch on HYSAs: They will create new account types with better rates, while they let their old ones become uncompetitive. Citi has pulled this too. Unless you really think you might need the mo
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by hibikir 9mo ago
And yet they aren't running planes and engines all from 2023 or beyond: See the MD-11 that crashed in Louisville: Nobody has made a new MD-11 in over 20 years. Planes move to less competitive routes, change carriers, and eventually mig
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by hibikir 9mo ago
If they want to be lore accurate, then they should also ise them constantly, just in the down low. There is a C'tan in their version of Mars after all
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by hibikir 10mo ago
IMO, the difficulty with your typical business book is practical application: I've spent way too much time over my career trying to explain to leadership at different levels how they were acting in ways opposite to the very books they
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by hibikir 10mo ago
I think the GP is thinking about how libraries and ecosystems are often more important than the language. Most emphasis in scales is in a collection of competing frameworks that, today, are very FP oriented. Some hide the category theory wh
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by hibikir 10mo ago
That's also pointing to a big risk for certain jumps, as everything done in the list for, say, a cross team position means less work on your team. So a manager that isn't all that friendly can use an attempt at promotion as a grea
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by hibikir 10mo ago
Note that this wasn't a global phenomenon. We had SF2 in Spanish arcades, and I a lot of people wanting to play, but basically nobody played versus in the arcades I visited: The game was too expensive to make someone's investment
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by hibikir 10mo ago
Small startups end up writing code in whatever gets things working faster, because having too large a codebase with too much load is a champagne problem. If I told you that we were going to be running a very large payments system, with cus
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by hibikir 10mo ago
The "If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device" youtube series, which was in some ways one of the best pieces of Warhammer content made in years, had to be stopped because GW gave the author a cease-and-desist. I think that their
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by hibikir 10mo ago
That's only a problem when you decide that the way to do error handling is exceptions. When you go with a strongly typed functional programming language, you throw exceptions away, and the fact that something can error, and what kinds
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by hibikir 10mo ago
I'd argue that the issue isn't that the default is too high, but that we assume the default. Think a math class: Often enough, kids are left behind, because the pace is too high, but others get bored to tears, because for them, th
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by hibikir 10mo ago
The problems of lack of independence are rarely the kind of thing you decide in a big leveling meeting though: Someone working in near the project has to be providing the feedback regarding the employee needing more supervision. If that&#x2

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