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by jonfw 8mo ago
I love ASCII diagrams! The fact that I can write a diagram that looks equally wonderful in my terminal via cat as it does rendered on my website is incredible. A good monospaced font and they can look really sharp! I will definitely give th
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by jonfw 9mo ago
Like all other job functions tangential to development- it can be difficult to organize the labor needed to accomplish this within a single team, and it can be difficult to align incentives when the labor is spread across multiple teams. Th
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by jonfw 9mo ago
Coding agents are excellent at solving merge and rebase conflicts according to natural language instruction.
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by jonfw 9mo ago
In my experience (this was about 5 years ago mind you) it was no more complex than an arch installation, but with a smaller community and less documentation.
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by jonfw 9mo ago
Thank you for the kind words and feedback! Maybe I could have been more clear on the implementation details. You were on the money with “UI just a reflection of the folders/files on disk that the AI updates. There is no real UI integra
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AI as the Engine of Application State(jonwoodlief.com)
2 points by jonfw 9mo ago|3 comments
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by jonfw 9mo ago
In my experience, people building APIs w/ python are almost always using frameworks, while people building APIs w/ golang are almost always using stdlib
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by jonfw 9mo ago
what if I payed a content marketing expert to craft my blog post and title in such a way that drew attention? Would that be paying for
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by jonfw 9mo ago
Many discord servers don't even have voice channels and are just collections of text chat channels.
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by jonfw 10mo ago
How do you modify the url exactly?
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by jonfw 10mo ago
In theory, sure. In practice? Chinese companies ignore your patent, you waste money suing, it takes a long time. If you win? Good luck collecting damages from China, and have fun suing the next brand that starts selling the same machine in
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by jonfw 10mo ago
It sounded like he was trying to one shot things when he mentioned he would ask it to fix problems with no luck. It's an approach I've tried before with similar results, so I was sharing an alternative that worked for me. Apologi
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by jonfw 10mo ago
For those surveys to mean anything (for or against AI), we'd have to have an effective measure of developer productivity
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by jonfw 10mo ago
If you have not started working on a new codebase while adopting AI, it may be harder to realize the gains. I switched jobs somewhat recently. At my previous job, where I was on the codebase for years, I knew where the changes should be and
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by jonfw 10mo ago
"Company that has been left in the dust claims it was a good business decision"
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by jonfw 10mo ago
They have 30 days to disclose trades. Even with that massive limitation, the NANC fund that tracks pelosi does well- https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/etf/nanc/advanced-cha...
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by jonfw 11mo ago
Tools are more reproducible than prompts w/ instructions to hit apis. They are helpful for agentic workflows that you intend to run multiple times or without supervision. They aren't worth bothering with for one off tasks or super
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by jonfw 11mo ago
There is a Goldilocks effect. Dependency just came out a few minutes ago? There is no time for the community to catch the vulnerability, no real coverage from dependency scans, and it's a risk. Dependency came out a few months ago? It
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by jonfw 11mo ago
Distribution channels to orgs or countries that don't buy from nvidia. Ability to cut discounts w/o discounting the Nvidia brand
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by jonfw 11mo ago
> ChatGPT going to stop in the middle of it and go "Hey, you know what sounds good right now? A nice bowl of soup..." Google/facebook do that today, because the content they're showing is created pre-ad, and the ads h
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by jonfw 11mo ago
Investors are non fungible. Partnering w/ your supplier can provide benefits such as preferential treatment and early access to hardware that are non-monetary but enormously valuable.
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by jonfw 11mo ago
> The problem is that no 3rd party seems willing to just invest cash It seems to me that these AI companies are seeing no shortage of cash investments either.
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by jonfw 11mo ago
Access to infrastructure is a core part of the AI business. If you are a startup, and you want to buy AI infrastructure, you would typically sell equity to a VC and use that money to buy infrastructure. If the AI infrastructure vendor would
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by jonfw 11mo ago
These CLIs are just thin request clients a la curl. The code execution time is peanuts in comparison to the request latency
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by jonfw 11mo ago
Are you implying that 1B investment gives Nvidia control over Nokia procurement?
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by jonfw 11mo ago
I don't think anybody accepts school shootings, and anybody accusing half of the population of "accepting" this obvious problem is likely making a bad faith argument attempting to paint their political opposition in a bad lig
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by jonfw 11mo ago
MCP provides a convenient packaging for tools, and generally workflows, for LLM clients. You can debate all day whether bringing your own tools is a good thing vs giving the LLM a generic shell tool and an API doc and letting it run curls.
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by jonfw 11mo ago
> the freedom to be able to choose to engorge yourself on twinkies is maybe a good thing In isolation, freedom is wonderful. In practice, maybe not? If a member of the star trek crew abused twinkies to the extent that they were lethargic
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by jonfw 1y ago
This is a very valuable use case for me personally. I frequently have the problem that I change things on the filesystem in a separate tab and the agent context gets out of sync. It fails on subsequent edits, often tries to reverse the chan
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by jonfw 1y ago
It's less about the punctuation used, and more about the necessity of the punctuation used. In the sentence you provided, you make a series of points, link them together, and provide examples. If not an em dash, you would have required

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