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by ianbutler 10mo ago
As the other poster said, your comment didn't really leave any room for nuance, it was "ai bad". And it's also clear you're too egoistic/defensive to reflect on it. Other commentary is you're not owed cour
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by ianbutler 10mo ago
There are plenty of musicians here saying this is useful for them or would be useful while learning. As meta commentary, those not in a subgroup sometime fail to see utility of a thing built for that subgroup and it's easy to feel a se
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by ianbutler 10mo ago
In my experience, at least in circles I've been around, I have found other developers who are a little too high on their own supply so to speak use "hurr durr web dev" as the "easy not real dev" insult. So I both wa
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by ianbutler 10mo ago
For the record I was interpreting that as LLMs are useless (which may have been just as uncharitable), which I categorically deny. I would say they're about just as useful without wading through the mire that SO was.
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by ianbutler 10mo ago
This is a fair critique. I am often not generous enough with people.
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by ianbutler 10mo ago
"But losing SO means that we're getting an idiot friendly guy with a lot of credible but wrong answers in place of a grumpy and possibly toxic guy which, however, actually answered our questions." > "actually answered
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by ianbutler 10mo ago
It's flat wrong to suggest SO had the right answer all the time, and in fact in my experience for trickier work it was often wrong or missing entirely. LLMs have a better hit rate with me.
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by ianbutler 10mo ago
To some people this is a gain, to some people this is a loss. Objectively it is changing things, and I can agree on having empathy for those who it changes something for negatively. I feel like we are in a period of low empathy, understandi
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by ianbutler 10mo ago
To you maybe, to someone else maybe not. It's really hard to pin down a universal framing for existence. My family eats out at a nice steak restaurant every Christmas no one wants to cook. None of us like to cook.
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by ianbutler 10mo ago
Ah yeah, definitely a much different equation when introducing this across many apps as a shared component library. Mixing different DOM abstractions together could get tricky for sure. And yes attempting to add a new paradigm for that many
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by ianbutler 10mo ago
Interesting, I'd be curious to know why you all decided not to go with it if you're open to sharing! Minimally to know if I should look at any other promising frameworks.
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by ianbutler 10mo ago
https://lit.dev/ That's the premise behind Lit (using the custom elements api)! I've been using it to build out a project recently and it's quite good, simpler to reason about than the current state of React
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by ianbutler 10mo ago
I have never once said "Go build feature x" and let it run off. Not saying you do, but I feel like this is how a lot of people interact with these tools. I have a very conversational style of building with these tools, and I'
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by ianbutler 10mo ago
Let me see your typical manual piece of work, I'm sure I'll be able to tear it apart in a way that really hurts your ego :)
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by ianbutler 11mo ago
This bit a community discord server of mine where I am a mod last night since we have a large oceanic contingent, somehow NZ got swept up in it too and we scrambled a bit to change our onboarding and other general policies.
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by ianbutler 11mo ago
It's not particularly hard for current models to wire up a http client based on the docs and every major company has well documented APIs for how to do so either with their SDKs or curl. I don't know that I really agree its as ann
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by ianbutler 11mo ago
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use#:~:t... Anthropic themselves support this style of tool calling with code first party now too.
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by ianbutler 11mo ago
Possible legit alternative: Have the agents write code to use APIs? Code based tool calling has literally become a first party way to do tool calling. We have a bunch of code accessible endpoints and tools with years of authentication handl
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by ianbutler 11mo ago
Okay and if they had said Google we wouldn't be doing this dance, people just hate AI and its obnoxious to see comments about it on HN all the time. On a crypto post no less. We get it you guys don't like AI, next! It is equally o
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by ianbutler 11mo ago
Well reading comprehension tells us they were surprised that most monero folks run their own nodes and that they were unable to find supporting information. Your comment however does actually add nothing.
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by ianbutler 11mo ago
I think we can agree on a version of bad code, specifically extremely bad code. Just as we might agree on universally panned bad movies, but disagree on cult followings or one of us for a particular reason can't stand a popular movie.
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by ianbutler 11mo ago
I feel like its just a reflection of people's minds. People organize their thoughts very different from one another and people often don't organize their thoughts at all when under certain constraints such as needing to ship NOW.
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by ianbutler 11mo ago
I don't think there's an objective assessment of good code. I've been writing code for over 20 years at this point and most times I've seen what people describe as their own good code I disagree with various decisions. E
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by ianbutler 1y ago
That mayor runs a city that has the GDP of multiple nations. The scale is different even if the title is the same.
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by ianbutler 1y ago
Yeah but as I understand it Apple has become a lot more progressive on PWAs in the last few years. I’m under the impression theyre viable
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by ianbutler 1y ago
I obviously understand this and mentioned as much indirectly in the post. You can only do so much and the web is still more open than Android is about to be so again, you do what you can.
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by ianbutler 1y ago
I think this means we need to rely on web technologies more. PWAs are looking pretty good on mobile devices these days and you can publish any web app you want with no reviewing authority. The web has a bunch of crazy APIs now that let you
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by ianbutler 1y ago
Yeah I would be willing to bet serious money that this is a few kids and that the number is not even greater than a fractional fraction of a percent. You're seeing point wise incidents, chosen to generate outrage, and trying to apply t
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by ianbutler 1y ago
Others are saying the end of leaded gasoline, I’ll add that around 2008 when the trend accelerates schools started becoming more locked down and consequences for being a kid can now follow you into adulthood much easier due to social media.
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by ianbutler 1y ago
Doesn’t matter it’s not your call. People should begin to think about these externalities. I do. If you’re using them for business you should probably have a more formal arrangement where they could email you.

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