imron

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by imron 6mo ago
Make a loss on every sale but make it up in volume!
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by imron 7mo ago
The robot _does_ gaf. Rust's biggest selling point is that it turns runtime problems in to compile time problems. Compile time problems are significantly easier and cheaper for robots (and humans) to solve.
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by imron 7mo ago
Sometimes it’s still the app: rows = select all accounts for each row in rows: update row But that’s not necessarily a PHP problem. N+1 queries are everywhere.
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by imron 8mo ago
Not in the last 2 months. Current clause subscription is a sunk cost for the next month. Maybe I’ll try codex if Claude doesn’t lead anywhere.
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by imron 8mo ago
> and use my $800/month company Claude allowance only for the tricky stuff that Codex can’t figure out. It doesn’t seem controversial that the model that can solve more complex problems (that you admit the cheaper model can’t solve)
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by imron 8mo ago
I have tried using this and other workflows for a long time and had never been able to get them to work (see chat history for details). This has changed in the last week, for 3 reasons: 1. Claude opus. It’s the first model where I haven’t h
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by imron 8mo ago
How do you unintentionally use an AI to help you write an article?
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by imron 8mo ago
> I just don’t code manually anymore I'm curious about what industry you are in and the tech stack you are using?
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by imron 8mo ago
Yes I have.
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by imron 8mo ago
> By far the greatest IDE I have ever used was Visual Studio C++ 6.0 on Windows 2000 Visual C++ 6 was incredible! My favourite IDE of all time too.
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by imron 8mo ago
It’s a boil the frog thing.
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by imron 9mo ago
The first punchline > Our mission is to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity; our pursuit of advertising is always in support of that mission
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by imron 9mo ago
They had a great article on this too.
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by imron 9mo ago
It is not necessary in a theoretical sense, but in a practical sense developers that care about memory efficiency only have a handful of options. If you also care about memory safety it further limits options.
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by imron 9mo ago
I couldn’t tell if this article was genuine or satire, and I changed my mind several times throughout.
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by imron 9mo ago
> Cloud SQL is the baseline Does GCP not have something equivalent to Aurora Serverless? [0] It's more expensive if you are constantly using the database over the course of a month, but much less expensive if you only have bursty tr
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by imron 9mo ago
See this thread from a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46039274
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by imron 9mo ago
That is a reasonable argument - but it was not made in the article and also does not preclude the use of breakpoints (see your except clause which covers a lot of ground).
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by imron 9mo ago
You’re gonna love ctrl-r name-of-command
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by imron 9mo ago
> Try debugging without breakpoints Why would you need to give this up? I use breakpoints with terminal debuggers all the time.
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by imron 9mo ago
> Will admit It's not great (probably not even good) but it definitely has throughput Throughput without being good will just lead to more work down the line to correct the badness. It's like losing money on every sale but maki
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by imron 9mo ago
Are you sure it’s _people_ driving this increase? Dead internet theory means real users are declining while bot users are skyrocketing. For example google search is such a terrible experience these days that I’ll often ask an LLM instead. T
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by imron 9mo ago
Dead internet theory explains this perfectly well. Google search results are a wasteland of ads and content farms, with vanishingly small value for humans
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by imron 9mo ago
In some ways, Firefly being canceled was the best thing that ever happened to it.
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by imron 9mo ago
‘Numbers go up’ is the exact type of thinking that caused the death of search. From a user perspective, google search results are awful and almost always a complete waste of time.
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by imron 9mo ago
Google search died years ago already.
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by imron 9mo ago
As someone who struggles to realise productivity gains with AI (see recent comment history) I appreciate the article. 100% coverage for AI generated code is a very different value proposition than 100% coverage for human generated code (for
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by imron 9mo ago
I'm pretty sure I have the right intellectual and emotional understanding of the AI and its abilities. > I consider this to be partly what I mean by "LLM is a junior" and that "I act as the project manager". And
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by imron 9mo ago
I appreciate the reply, and you trying to be helpful, but this is not what is happening. I mean I'm definitely still in the stage of disillusionment, but I'm not treating LLMs as senior or expecting much from them. The example I g
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by imron 9mo ago
Right. This is how I feel. I can get the LLM to generate code that more or less does what I need, but if I objectively look at the result and the effort required to get there it's still not at the point where it's doing it faste

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