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by johnfn 5mo ago
Have you updated your priors after this announcement? If not, why not?
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by johnfn 5mo ago
With Google returning lists full of SEO spam, 2 out of 5 is quite good. If you know something better than that, I'd love to hear it.
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by johnfn 5mo ago
Hmm. I use AI to write almost all my code, and I feel that the "part of the brain" I use is mostly the same. Pre-AI I spent a lot of time thinking about code architecture, schemas, APIs, etc. Post-AI I spend a lot of time thinking
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by johnfn 5mo ago
The subjective experience I and others report is that GitHub feels to have gotten significantly worse over the last few months. If you look at the month over month view of "Uptime history" in the cited link[1], it confirms this: i
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by johnfn 5mo ago
Everyone wants to pin this on the Microsoft acquisition or incompetence but it seems pretty clear to me from the material GitHub has posted that AI has 10xed the amount of code being committed to GH, which has downstream effects everywhere
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by johnfn 5mo ago
I would definitely bet against the humanoid robot thing on good odds.
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by johnfn 5mo ago
Insecurity is behind comments like these. Don’t worry about them.
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by johnfn 5mo ago
But the whole idea is that a warning is a warning. Solving a warning can be deferred, and a warning doesn't cause execution to fail. Your warning was transmuting itself into an error. I feel like "All means are fair except solving
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by johnfn 5mo ago
OK, say you're proposing an in-house tool to host your repo to your boss. What do you think will sound better? "Let's use this random vibecoded app I just found"? Or "Let's use GitHub"?
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by johnfn 5mo ago
Everyone already has an account, so there's no friction to opening up issues, adding thumbs up to issues, using the discussion forum, etc. And while I think it's pretty silly, a lot of people take "10k stars on GitHub" t
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by johnfn 5mo ago
- There are already viable GitHub replacements, like Codeberg, Bitbucket, Gitlab, etc. Everyone stays on Github for network effects, not because of the superior product. You can't vibe code network effects. - And yes, GitHub is a massi
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by johnfn 5mo ago
The last time I did this I prompted the agent and went to sleep. When I woke up, CI was green. The agent had worked for 4 hours or something.
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by johnfn 5mo ago
Count yourself as one of the lucky few that can pay a 0 minute context switching price to switch between whatever other productive work you were doing and debugging CI. Most people I speak to remark that continually switching between unrela
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by johnfn 5mo ago
There are definitely tasks you can prompt an AI in 5 minutes that would take a whole day to do. One example is adding something to a CI pipeline and getting it to green (i.e. maybe you're adding your first ever e2e test), especially wh
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by johnfn 5mo ago
This is so good! You have to bring this back!
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by johnfn 5mo ago
As fun of a theory as this is, star-history.com just seems to round off the numbers at multiples of a hundred - just look at any other repo on the site.
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by johnfn 5mo ago
FL Studio was absolutely a massive commercial success. I mean, sure, nothing compared to AI, but in the music community bubble, it was enormous - and still is. It did what AI is doing today - it made a very expensive and time consuming proc
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by johnfn 5mo ago
When modern DAWs like FL Studio started democratizing music production, there was immediate backlash in the music production community. I know this because I lived through it. Music made with FL Studio was considered garbage, not by serious
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by johnfn 5mo ago
First of all, super cool. I have a soft spot for SimTower as well. :) > I didn’t want to do a function-by-function port. First, APIs may be copyrightable - and copying a binary that closely might implicate copyright more than an approach
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by johnfn 5mo ago
This is so good! Using mouse motion as a control scheme is particularly genius - how did no one think of this before? I particularly like the points where the mouse control is taken away from you, i.e. when you float downstream, or when you
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by johnfn 5mo ago
I really like the default Cursor theme - One Dark is also OK.
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by johnfn 5mo ago
I hate to dismiss Zed for such a stupid reason, but I have tried to use Zed seriously many times and every time I stop because I can't get over the theme. I've tried basically every single theme I can find that is reasonably popul
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by johnfn 5mo ago
I just want you to know that I read over this thread and you are obviously completely right. This sort of incurious, immature stance is something I've seen become the norm on HN over the last few years, particularly when it comes to AI
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by johnfn 5mo ago
Because they are worth more than 1B? If each is worth 7, that's worth 600B? Some are worth plenty more than 7.
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by johnfn 6mo ago
You are calling something “magic” that actually happened in real life.
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by johnfn 6mo ago
It’s insane to me how yesterday someone posted an example of ChatGPT Pro one-shotting an Erdos problem after 90 minutes of thinking and today you’re saying that AGI is a fairy tale.
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by johnfn 6mo ago
We must have read a different article because I read a neat one about how someone bought a domain no one was using.
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by johnfn 6mo ago
No, telemetry is not "literally" about screen recording. Telemetry is metrics. That is why they invented a new word for it rather than calling it "screen recording".
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by johnfn 6mo ago
Maybe it just comes down to how you interpret "flying blind", because I do tend to agree with that statement. Telemetry is one half of the puzzle, user interviews are the other. Without either I would argue you are flying blind; I
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by johnfn 6mo ago
My comment explicitly uses "how many people clicked the secondary button on the third tab" as an example, not any of that nonsense -- you are not responding in good faith.

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