jcgrillo

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by jcgrillo 1y ago
While I agree with everything you've said, I think you might be making an assumption that quality costs time. In my experience this isn't the case, unless you're starting from a low quality codebase or working with low qualit
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
damn right it's diminutive, and why the hell not? these clowns and the idiots who fund their tomfoolery deserve it
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
the backstory that explains it is the same silly con valley bullshit as always: low quality people doing low quality work and hyping the ever loving fuck out of it for some dumb vc bucks.
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
If we keep at it like we have been maybe there's light at the end of the tunnel for Earth, ecologically. In say 100k or 1M years, after we're long gone and things have started to repair themselves.
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
In addition to the licensing risks there's significant technical risk, IME. Chief among them is making sure your colleagues are sufficiently literate to have read Bloch's and Goetz's (et al.) books, and sufficiently tasteful
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
Companies spending money on SaaS means, generally, that a detached executive many rungs away from the actual users was sufficiently wowed by a demo/steak dinner/whatever to sign a deal. It has nothing in general to do with utility
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
But is it anything more than a convincing mathematical autocomplete? Or a convincing code autocomplete? Mathematics and code are themselves primarily conversational tools, with side effects.
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
Maybe two records getting written to the database in the same millisecond somehow getting the same uuid primary key... could happen if they use some javascript library to come up with the uuid ;)
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
74% feels way too low to be useful, which aligns with my limited experience trying to get any value from LLMs for software engineering. It's just too frustrating making the machine guess and check its way to the answer you already know
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
A huge steam engine might be the ticket, that'll solve your starting torque problem
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
What constitutes a massive update?
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
That's good to hear, how large is the graph you're building (nodes, edges) and how do queries perform?
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
Either, tbh?
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
Are there any? My experience so far with graph databases is a resounding failure.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
That's really expensive, I'm actually in the process of replacing the plastic front and rear bumpers on my 1999 W210 Benz and just the plastic parts add up to over $1k before paint. Having a shop do the whole thing would probably
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
> Instead of steel or aluminum, the Slate Truck’s body panels are molded of plastic. Deal breaker. Plastic gets brittle with age.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
used to be such accusations were grounds to seek satisfaction in a duel.. might be time to revive that practice
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
I'm kind of a hermit I guess.. but I haven't had any of that stuff since like 2009 and it's been just splendid. Email and sms/signal does the job well enough.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
the difference is you're not allowed to shoot the salesman in the face or hit him with a splitting maul
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
IME a little judicious gatekeeping can actually be the thing that makes anything get done at all
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
People who don't know better often make the mistake of thinking there's a tunable tradeoff between quality and velocity. This is false. To go fast you need to execute competently. The result is both high quality and high velocit
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Incentives: you lose a nine of uptime you (ops director) lose a finger. Authority: you, ops director, decide what goes in production and what doesn't.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
The problem is incentives and authority. It used to be that Ops owned uptime, and therefore it was their right to tell Engineering to go fuck themselves when they asked to put some spacecamp graph database or whatever in production. Now eve
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Have you ever tried it?
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
They should know better than to guess. Educated, honest, intelligent people don't spout off a wild ass guess, if they don't know something they say so.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Just this past weekend I gave up trying to install OpenSUSE on a new laptop. I couldn't figure out which magic combination of overlapping Xorg, Wayland, and who knows what else settings were required to make ctrl:nocaps work both in th
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Yes that's how airplanes work
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
There is no trustworthy evidence that I'm aware of to support the claim that "using an LLM IDE makes developers 5x more effective". Do you disagree? Testimonials don't cut it, because individuals are prone to hysteria, d
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Yes, without evidence there's no effect. It's telling that nowhere on cursor.ai's website do they appear to claim using their tool will actually make you, or crucially your team, more efficient.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
I don't get it. What is the dead body thing about?

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