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by hollowturtle 2mo ago
> Repeating these things won’t make them true or protect your job. Most of these things are just true as of today. > You protect your job by learning how to use new tools as the technology advances. Sure and the more you learn the mor
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by hollowturtle 2mo ago
Very much not a skill issue; even with the best spec, guardrails and evals, frontier models will just do the hell they want. > one-shot secure, performant code. I call it reverse skill issue; it feels secure and performant because you ca
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by hollowturtle 2mo ago
> Figma uses React for the UI panels. Google Docs uses the DOM extensively too. Tangential uses of the dom, the core app is on the canvas > I don't use Google Chrome. Who cares? They have an almost monopoly and they dictate what
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by hollowturtle 2mo ago
You can have programmatic apis for accessibility, SEO pages can be dom based, performance of figma is better than if implemented via the dom api, developer experience? you just get the best and stop pretending you have capable people that s
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by hollowturtle 2mo ago
I mean if you can write pseudocode then just code it yourself, very often that would be almost the same number of tokens/lines
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by hollowturtle 2mo ago
You confuse marketing websites with productivity apps, google docs, figma and many more already render on a canvas using webassembly or not. It's a matter of exposing the right tools
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by hollowturtle 2mo ago
What is then the impact of dissolving plastics in a few years? Can't believe it's a zero impact scenario. We can't still figure out what microplastics do to our health. As usual the best solution is the simplest: prevent plas
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by hollowturtle 2mo ago
An "HTML Can't Do That" would be hundreds pages long, and at the pace of getting features like dialogs every decade we're limiting ourselfs on any further development and creating serious apps. It wasn't created for
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by hollowturtle 2mo ago
"quality games" screens of copy pasted games like balatro
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by hollowturtle 2mo ago
For those who find Linear Algebra Done Right too much to start with, and those who don't get why Strang starts with matrices, I can't recommend more "The dark art of linear algebra" read this first. With this you can the
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by hollowturtle 2mo ago
Why not going with both? Choice is never bad for the consumer, even if the majority or sales is digital. I usually buy both and they just lost me, I won't buy into their dystopian store
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by hollowturtle 2mo ago
I mean in which lucky place of the planet you live in? I dunno u but where I live it's 40 degree celsius out there and all over europe. I'm a remote worker and most time of the year going outside is just not possibile, over heat o
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by hollowturtle 2mo ago
Blueprints are code the same as current code is blueprints over machine code. I myself wrote a good amount of code and done a bunch of visual programming, they're basically the same. AI is not good at high level blueprints because impl
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by hollowturtle 2mo ago
I would pay the cost of a license for a good editor. I did with sublime+sublime merge. I did with Intellij. I did many times
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by hollowturtle 2mo ago
> Every change is linked to the agent conversation that produced it A total nightmare and imo every dev should push back using this stuff. You'd otherwise have management brag about you not being a good communicator with the ai age
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by hollowturtle 2mo ago
> An experienced engineer using modern AI tools can move at a pace that would have been unimaginable five years ago. I dunno sometimes I think I should have sticked with a simpler solution coded by hand with more tradeoffs, than trying d
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by hollowturtle 2mo ago
I have many problems dealing with statements that use Infinity, especially if I think about the math or physics implication of that :)
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by hollowturtle 3mo ago
> From my experience when I added "discuss; don't edit any file yet" at the end of the prompt I've never seen the LLM go against my will and edit the files anyway. depends how long conversation gets and he will still
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by hollowturtle 3mo ago
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. > When disagreeing, please reply to the
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by hollowturtle 3mo ago
It doesn't handle anything, he reproduce statistical patterns. If it seems it cares about the details it's because he's been trained to regurgitate stuff. Another thing is being expert in something and being able to prompt th
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by hollowturtle 3mo ago
I always wondered though why a website in the eu, for the love of their users, won't just drop cookie usage and instrusive third party scripts. Just do analytics on the backend and don't set any cookie, except for tokens in authen
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by hollowturtle 3mo ago
> We are seeing more and more appliances coming out with less buttons and a mobile app to access advanced features. Also cars (annoyingly) are coming out with more physical controls replaced by touchscreen interfaces. It's not hard
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by hollowturtle 3mo ago
Wow I totally forgot how great 2 was, how did we regressed from that? The buttons are so satisfying
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by hollowturtle 3mo ago
Because you never saw a button in your life
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by hollowturtle 3mo ago
And break ux for users often and piss them. There are short reversibile decision that can be taken fast, important decision requires a lot of thinking before changing to often and alienating your users
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by hollowturtle 3mo ago
Totally agree. But we're in such minority that it's super depressing
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by hollowturtle 3mo ago
These tools combined with silicon valley motto of moving fast and breaking stuff fast created the perfect storm > They have raised upper management’s expectations for team output. That is the worse part, it's not great at all dealin
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by hollowturtle 3mo ago
> I did use Claude to learn some basics, like the easiest way to get the data out of a Google Sheet You can still use it like this, it's a super power, using it as a tool it's like wearing the iron man suite. Imo using it to 10
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by hollowturtle 3mo ago
Unimpressive slot machine, it will betray you sooner than later and pay a real price
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by hollowturtle 3mo ago
From another Italian fellow: stop following people and do your own thing, it will be worth it no matter what influencers says

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