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by ikerino 1y ago
Not the angle I'm coming at it from. I mask as a coping mechanism for ADHD and Social Anxiety. This masking causes me harm. I learned it in the way you describe. The most helpful learning I've gotten through years of therapy has b
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by ikerino 1y ago
Absolutely agree with this. I still think it's important to (1) notice what's causing the problem, bring it into consciousness (2) understand the behavior (in this case: masking) and reckon with it if if's causing a bad outco
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by ikerino 1y ago
Eh, this just feels like "software engineering simulator." I don't have autism but a good bit of this feels familiar (am I on the spectrum?) I'm an introvert and have struggled to cope with corporate work for a while. Wh
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by ikerino 1y ago
How is that different than how any self-taught programmer learns? Dive into a too-big idea, try to make it work and learn from that experience. Repeat that a few hundred times and you'll have some strong intuitions and sensibilities.
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by ikerino 1y ago
Hot take: Junior devs are going to be the ones who "know how to build with AI" better than current seniors. They are entering the job market with sensibilities for a higher-level of abstraction. They will be the first generation o
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Runway – Act Two – motion capture model [video](youtube.com)
1 points by ikerino 1y ago|0 comments
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by ikerino 1y ago
https://www.latent.space/p/o3-pro Have completed around a dozen chats with o3-pro so far. Can't say I'm impressed, output feels qualitatively very similar to regular o3. Tried feeding in loads of context as s
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by ikerino 1y ago
Am I right to say: doesn't look better than anything we've seen before?
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by ikerino 1y ago
Useful tip! I'll use this. Not sure how I feel about it, but the the blog post seems very clearly LLM-written to me. Nobody writes like this: > Revolutionary? No. Life-changing? Absolutely.
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OpenAI o3 and o4-mini System Card(openai.com)
1 points by ikerino 1y ago|0 comments
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by ikerino 1y ago
I'm curious about the "environmentally friendly" promise. How meaningful/measurable would removing these tags be? I think there's something to be said for efficiency/no wasted bytes, but better for the environm
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Product Placement in Gemini?(arc.net)
1 points by ikerino 1y ago|1 comments
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by ikerino 1y ago
Ran into this earlier today when using Gemini 2.5 Pro. Thought it was a weird bug.
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by ikerino 2y ago
Feels reasonable in the first few paragraphs, then quickly starts reading like science fiction. Would love to read a perspective examining "what is the slowest reasonable pace of development we could expect." This feels to me like
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by ikerino 2y ago
> Important Corollary Two. If you show a nonprogrammer a screen which has a user interface which is 100% beautiful, they will think the program is almost done. > People who aren’t programmers are just looking at the screen and seein
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The Iceberg Secret, Revealed (2002)(joelonsoftware.com)
2 points by ikerino 2y ago|1 comments
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by ikerino 2y ago
The blog author didn't think so, but there's good anecdotal + empirical evidence that working with LLMs boosts *overall productivity*. (A recent study: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=51882
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by ikerino 2y ago
Let's say a decent software engineer gets paid $100k per year (40hr weeks, 50 weeks a year.) $100,000 / (50 weeks * 40 hours) => ~$50 per hour. Extremely conservatively, if this saves a developer ~30 minutes per day, it pays
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by ikerino 2y ago
I regret giving my TV my Wi-Fi password. By default, it has some knock-off Alexa assistant that triggers a couple times a day, even when I'm sitting in silence. It also warns me it will auto-updates the software 1-2 times a month. My T
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by ikerino 2y ago
> Is that really hype? I'm thinking back to various promises self-driving would be widespread by 2016. These set a certain expectation for how our roads would look that I don't think has been realized a decade later (even as I&
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by ikerino 2y ago
> Using human crash data, Waymo estimated that human drivers on the same roads would get into 78 crashes serious enough to trigger an airbag. By comparison, Waymo’s driverless vehicles only got into 13 airbag crashes. That represents an
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by ikerino 2y ago
In terms of absolute progress (e.g. towards finishing a feature or MVP) I think it it could have to do with a usual underestimation (optimism) for timelines. I'm using Cursor mostly for exploratory/weekend projects. I usually opt
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by ikerino 2y ago
I use Cursor for most of my development these days. This article aligns pretty closely with my experiences. A few additional observations: 1. Anecdotally, AI agents feel stuck somewhere circa ~2021. If I install newer packages, Claude will
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by ikerino 2y ago
Asking questions and unblocking yourself is a required competency for acting independently. Developers should aim to be resourceful and respect others time, but I expect my reports to seek out help if they get genuinely stuck for more than