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by icedchai 7mo ago
The biggest mistake is not knowing your audience. Is the diagram for marketing? A sales proposal? A business person using the product? Technical peer? If you don't know this, you don't know if you have the right level of detail.
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by icedchai 7mo ago
It probably does happen. It’s slop all the way down.
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by icedchai 7mo ago
Yep, I get the reasoning. It's just a terrible experience if you're used to gmail.
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by icedchai 7mo ago
Many small companies operate without any formal board meetings. Not every company is a Delaware C corp.
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by icedchai 7mo ago
Most people only care about compliance if it stops them from closing a deal. I was at a startup where some enterprise said we needed a SOC 2. The founder talked them out of it by giving them a discount if they'd waive the requirement.
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by icedchai 7mo ago
I worked at a place where someone made the deliberate decision to migrate from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 / Outlook / whatever it's called today. "Most of our partners use Microsoft", so we have to suffer wit
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by icedchai 7mo ago
You also need to ask: How much do mainframes cost? They were engineered for backwards compatibility and reliability, with built in redundancy you don't find in consumer hardware. AI models are changing every other day. I have to rebuil
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by icedchai 7mo ago
Based on our current trajectory, it seems more likely everyone will upload everything to the cloud and pay perpetual royalties to access their own data.
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by icedchai 7mo ago
I'm seeing an unfortunate pattern where someone wants to write an email, and "asks Claude", producing a needlessly verbose response that the recipient doesn't even want to read. The slop is obvious. This behavior is be
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by icedchai 7mo ago
In general, I think those use cases are fine. But... AI generated content is a slippery slope. Someone earlier today asked me to "review" a 50 page document they had completely generated with AI yet obviously not reviewed themselv
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by icedchai 7mo ago
The "premium" movie channels had tons of paying subscribers. They didn't need ads. It was very much a selling point for those channels.
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by icedchai 7mo ago
Not entirely true. The "premium" channels (HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, Bravo, The Movie Channel, etc.) never had ads. Then there were channels like Nickelodeon that originally had no ads, then added them in the mid 80's. I rememb
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by icedchai 7mo ago
If you believe benchmarks, maybe this is true. But I've done my own experiments and it is absolutely not the case for real world usage. The quality of output from Claude (Sonnet) was much higher than Kimi K2.5.
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by icedchai 7mo ago
Same. It's been 6 years of "work from home", starting mid-March 2020. It has become very, very old. I would love to find a local startup that embraces hybrid work.
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by icedchai 7mo ago
You didn't look at the code, so you don't know what you're really working with. Maybe it's total slop. This is concerning since you're dealing with security and presumably API keys to third-party platforms.
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by icedchai 7mo ago
You need to analyze your 'funnel' and find out where people are dropping off. What sort of traffic are you getting on your posts? What percentage actually click through to your site? What percentage of those visitors click 'b
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by icedchai 7mo ago
This does not feel like 250K lines of complexity. Have you looked at any of the code at all? You likely have mass duplication, copy-pasta everywhere.
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by icedchai 7mo ago
You might be surprised. In 2008, when the App Store first came out, I became an iPhone app developer after reading one book. I already knew C, so Objective C wasn't a big leap. Between my own apps and consulting work, I had a pretty go
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by icedchai 7mo ago
I can respect that, but for many of us, computers are a hobby. That's why we got into the industry in the first place.
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by icedchai 7mo ago
I dumped DOCSIS the moment fiber became available. With cable, I'd go through periods of 1% to 3% packet loss. It also affected the neighbors, so it wasn't my "old modem" as the tech once tried to claim. When it was at i
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by icedchai 7mo ago
Yep. Unless you inspect the payload and actual code / validation logic, there is nothing to distinguish an API that "works" and is totally insecure from one that is actually secure. I've seen Claude Code generate insecur
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by icedchai 7mo ago
The Linux userspace ABI is actually quite stable and rarely changes. If this wasn't true, every time you installed a new kernel you'd have to upgrade / reinstall everything else, including the C compiler, glibc, etc. This d
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by icedchai 7mo ago
An LLM might take 5 minutes, or 20 minutes, and still do the wrong thing. Rarely have I seen an LLM not "know what to do." A coworker told it to fix some unit tests, it churned away for a while, then changed a bunch of assert stat
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by icedchai 7mo ago
In my experience, consulting companies typically have a bunch of low-to-medium skilled developers producing crap, so the situation with AI isn't much different. Some are better than others, of course.
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by icedchai 7mo ago
I have a couple cloud certs because I was forced to get them by a previous employer. They are useless.
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by icedchai 7mo ago
You would think they'd have a standard way to recover this, like mailing a one-time password to the account's billing address.
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by icedchai 7mo ago
Yup. You can get control of valuable assets this way, like legacy IPv4 blocks.
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by icedchai 7mo ago
I've also worked for "consulting" and "product" companies. The PMs I've worked with at product companies have been competent. They understand the customer's needs. They spec out features and product mockup
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by icedchai 7mo ago
DOS / Desqview support filesystem locking with "share.exe." Honestly I am not sure how well this worked, but I knew guys who ran multi-line BBSes under DOS and Desqview (and later OS/2) without issue. Even with multiple
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by icedchai 7mo ago
Not necessarily. DOS multi-taskers like DESQview and TopView existed. You didn't even need a 386.

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