jakevoytko

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by jakevoytko 4mo ago
I needed to set up a VPS for my blog, so I gave Claude SSH access to a fresh Digital Ocean droplet and told it to set up a deploy with Ansible and harden the instance. It one-shot it in 15 minutes.
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by jakevoytko 5mo ago
That is indeed how things like copy/paste through the menus already work; you install an extension to get the clipboard permission or the browser limits you to keyboard shortcuts
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by jakevoytko 5mo ago
Applications like Google Docs would be impossible without each of the four things you listed being available. We had Google Docs that didn’t roll-your-own for each of the items in that list and it was called Writely and it was absolute dogs
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Why are we getting worse at software engineering?(bitlog.com)
3 points by jakevoytko 5mo ago|0 comments
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by jakevoytko 5mo ago
> The decision was made to go with Eclipse. Then it magically went into some sort of internal box/decision process, and came out IntelliJ instead. I've always thought this was because of a sufficiently highly placed Android per
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by jakevoytko 5mo ago
Yeah, a lot of people came of age with a "we'll fix it when it's a problem" mindset. Previously their codebases would start to resist feature development, you'd fix the immediate bottlenecks, and then you could kick
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by jakevoytko 5mo ago
The proof is in the pudding. At this point, there have been plenty of models that overperformed on benchmarks and underperformed on real work. So my stance is that I'm curious, I'm excited to see where it goes, and I don't be
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by jakevoytko 6mo ago
Yeah, this is exactly what I thought when I read this post. It seemed like the author either hasn't worked in big tech, or hasn't worked in the industry very long. It's extremely likely that the engineer who designed this was
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by jakevoytko 6mo ago
And even still, it’s hard to ignore him because he’ll still have some insight like “token efficiency is going to be the big thing we care about in the future,” which was a small section of one of his Gastown blogs. And after you’re done ask
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by jakevoytko 6mo ago
I have some blog posts coming out soon. I’m also trying an experiment where I make YouTube videos[0] on each of them. My first video was a huge lift, since it was my first time doing everything. Random observations from my first one: - pres
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by jakevoytko 6mo ago
He recruited for wall street trading firms; based on the finance types I've met over the years in NYC I would 100% believe some did this just because they hated losing. He was just making the point that you should never lie about your
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by jakevoytko 6mo ago
An old neighbor of mine was a headhunter. He once told me that some companies had a trick to get around the law. Upon getting hired, you'd sign a document saying that you'd agree to all policies in the employee handbook. Pretty st
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by jakevoytko 6mo ago
Fun fact: I was on the Google Docs team from 2010-2015. Save didn't do anything but we still hooked up an impression to the keystroke to measure how often people tried to save. It was one of the top things people did in the app at firs
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by jakevoytko 6mo ago
There are some rose-colored glasses when people say this. Programs didn’t auto save and regularly crashed. It was extremely common to hear someone talk about losing hours of work. Computers regularly blue screened at random. Device drivers
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by jakevoytko 7mo ago
I’m on tirzepatide and it’s crazy how it can truly reform habits. I’ve been a night snacker my whole life. I don’t even think about food after dinner anymore. At a bar, I used to pound down the last quarter of a beer so I could go get anoth
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by jakevoytko 7mo ago
My doctor, who is on the older side, told me that he went through his records when GLP-1s started being prescribed for weight loss. He wanted to calculate what percentage of his patients (a) he had advised to lose weight, (b) reduced their
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by jakevoytko 7mo ago
I also think we're going to see a resurgence of either pair programming, or the buddy system where both engineers take responsibility for the prompting and review and each commit has 2 authors. I actually wrote a post on this subject o
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We haven't adapted teams to the magic wand yet(bitlog.com)
1 points by jakevoytko 7mo ago|0 comments
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by jakevoytko 7mo ago
I'll try that out, thanks for the tip!
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by jakevoytko 7mo ago
I’ve been playing around with these kinds of prompts. My experience is that the prompts need a lot of iteration to truly one-shot something that is halfway usable. If it’s under-spec’d it’ll just return after 15-20 minutes with something th
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Claude Code is a great Dad side project environment(bitlog.com)
2 points by jakevoytko 8mo ago|2 comments
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by jakevoytko 8mo ago
As someone who took German in high school, Dutch had my brain flailing for vocabulary to understand but nothing connected.
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by jakevoytko 9mo ago
When I was on Google Docs, I watched the Google Forms team build a sophisticated ML model that attempted to detect when people were using it for nefarious purposes. It underperformed banning the word "password" from a Google Form.
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by jakevoytko 9mo ago
My blog is bitlog.com, and my personal newsletter is clientserver.dev
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by jakevoytko 9mo ago
I should have clarified for people who had the good fortune to not be exposed to these posts, but that was usually his lead-in to his ultra toxic writing. i.e. it was an engaging hook that led to more engaging trolling
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by jakevoytko 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_climbing <-- applying this for getting more and more engagement
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by jakevoytko 9mo ago
I followed his blog back when he started this descent, and I have a theory that it was hill climbing. He used to blog about pretty innocent stuff; his wife making fun of him for wearing pajama pants in public, behind the scenes on drawing c
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by jakevoytko 9mo ago
"Chuck Norris facts" was a text-only meme format from the mid '00s. Stuff like "Chuck Norris is the only man to ever defeat a brick wall in a game of tennis" or "When Chuck Norris does push-ups, he doesn't
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by jakevoytko 11mo ago
With the current crop of LLMs/agents, I find that refactors still have to be done at a granular level. "I want to make X change. Give me the plan and do not implement it yet. Do the first thing. Do the second thing. Now update the
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by jakevoytko 11mo ago
Because the systems are so complex and capable of emergent behavior that you need a human in the loop to truly interpret behavior and impact. Just because an alert is going off doesn't mean that the alert was written properly, or is me

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