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by johnfn 4mo ago
I remember, when I was younger, printing out MapQuest bike instructions, following them, and getting lost trying to find the next street -- and then feeling incredible when I finally found it. When GPS became so commonplace you could use it
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by johnfn 4mo ago
You seem to be misinterpreting my comment, which can be summarized as "be kind to others and assume best intent".
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by johnfn 4mo ago
This is a sharply negative interpretation of behavior of people who may be acting genuinely, if without social grace. I think few people shocked that you don't know bash are displaying that surprise as a way to keep you in the out-grou
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by johnfn 4mo ago
Honestly -- the thing that has impressed me the most about Fable is how diligent it is about testing its own changes. I think this is exactly what Simon is picking up here - Fable is absolutely heckbent on screenshotting that darn scroll ba
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by johnfn 4mo ago
I think Cmux is the incumbent in the "screen-style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty" - any key differentiators here? https://cmux.com/
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by johnfn 4mo ago
I genuinely have a lot of fun coding with AI, possibly more than I used to have coding normally. It’s true that I don’t spend hours on a single problem any more, but I instead spend a lot of time thinking and researching higher level issues
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by johnfn 4mo ago
It's interesting that the guy providing an actual answer gets downvoted, and everyone saying "it's impossible" got upvoted.
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by johnfn 4mo ago
This is only "Funny" in the sense that it's "funny" that a high-performing startup can run the entire thing on a single huge Postgres instance and that mysteriously stops working after you hit a certain level of sca
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by johnfn 4mo ago
I used Fable to see if it could figure out an API or something for the full list of remote-control sessions that I had with Claude Code. It didn't know the API, so it started hacking the Claude Code executable itself to figure that out
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by johnfn 4mo ago
It is entirely reasonable that you could use AI to build a product with no AI features. Why is that hypocritical? Especially for a product like a GitHub -- it's a reasonable take to say "AI is useful tool to produce code, but I do
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by johnfn 4mo ago
This is unfair, and the vibe-coded swipe is unnecessary. Why would anyone continue working on a project if it's not seeing any adoption or interest? Many large successful apps were borne out of sharp pivots - Slack comes to mind.
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by johnfn 4mo ago
> That can't be true, or else the personal attacks, derisive and incendiary content you're describing wouldn't bother you! FWIW, I think we agree on almost everything, but just a clarification on this point. I am perfectly
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by johnfn 4mo ago
I'm with GP here, there is nothing to respond in what you actually said because you misunderstood the comment you replied to.
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by johnfn 4mo ago
Thank you for the very long and thoughtful comment. It's an fun and interesting idea to think about, and I certainly don't mind reading long tangents :) But I want to push back on it a tad: I think it misses my point a little bit.
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by johnfn 4mo ago
Your comment is a perfect example of the low-quality reflexivity negativity AI I am talking about. Yes, of course I built it! Why do I have to defend myself? What does it even mean that I "cheated someone out of a paycheck" -- it&
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by johnfn 4mo ago
While I agree that it's "divided", I wouldn't say "simply". Mentioning AI brings out a sharply negative side of HN that I had not seen before 2023. It is the only subject where, when I have shared that I built
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by johnfn 4mo ago
Just because some people are contributing to bad discourse doesn't mean that you also get permission to contribute to bad discourse. If you don't like it when people say you're going to be obsolete -- tell them ! Don't
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by johnfn 4mo ago
If you can find me even a single example of this I’d love to see it.
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by johnfn 4mo ago
It’s interesting how, as someone more pro-AI, I feel the exact opposite way - every comment thread just devolves into people saying AI is stupid (OK, perhaps modulo new model releases from frontier labs, those tend to be fairly positive). L
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by johnfn 4mo ago
I do genuinely wonder if you’re correct that other people will begin to expect it. I feel I was suddenly able to do stunning stuff about a year ago, and I recall thinking this is nice but everyone will catch on to my secret soon and I won’t
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by johnfn 4mo ago
Very neat, thank you for sharing :) will probably take it for a spin soon
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by johnfn 4mo ago
Yeah I feel like this advice kind of reminds me of a lot of advice - you could rewrite it like "Do the hardest thing -- by which I mean, not the easiest thing, and not the actual hardest thing, but the thing with the right amount of
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by johnfn 4mo ago
Why do you like exe.dev over other providers? Just curious, I haven't tried any yet but I am interested.
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by johnfn 4mo ago
So it might either go up, stay the same, or go down? :)
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by johnfn 4mo ago
I just checked on Pangram and it turns out that the U.S. Constitution is 100% human-written. Who would have thought? Saying "an AI detector" is a bit like saying "an AI" - there's a pretty big difference between Lla
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by johnfn 4mo ago
You are conflating some abstract notion of "succeed"ing (what does that even mean, how can I measure it to two decimal places?) with a very concrete notion of "do this simple thing or get a worse GPA".
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by johnfn 4mo ago
These students are making a tradeoff between an abstract notion of "cheating themselves" and a very concrete notion of "having a worse GPA". The second one translates obviously and directly to job prospects.
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by johnfn 4mo ago
I think a charitable interpretation is that from the perspective of AI, some domains are shallow (like chess), and some are deep (you can fill in the blank here).
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by johnfn 4mo ago
But these are all legitimate choices you have to make, each with their own tradeoffs. Fire-and-forget, all in parallel, and batch are all different - you might end up selecting any based on the characteristics of the work you have to do.
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by johnfn 4mo ago
Something I have been thinking about recently is this: metaphors are often a way that authors use to make an argument in a way that is more engaging than: here is fact A, here is fact B, etc. But some metaphors are so strong that they make

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