joshstrange

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by joshstrange 2mo ago
I agree you shouldn't write every line by hand, you should use libraries, but pretending like OAuth/ODIC require using something like Cognito/Auto0 is just silly. An LLM can crank out the needed code in very little time and g
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
In a previous greenfield project (pre-LLM) I considered using Cognito since I was all-in on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, ApiG, Route53, S3, SQS/SNS, and the list goes on...) but after reading through the docs I wanted to pull my hair out. Wh
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
This also frustrates me, I vibe-coded [0] a chrome extension that reads the data from Amazon's website (read orders and purchases, which are different things...) and then matches them against the YNAB entries and then updates the memo
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
> What would you say is the split of your token use (between main job / side project)? It fluctuates, but never less than 30% on either and I get to 95%+ of my weekly usage. I also spend some tokens on “personal” stuff, like with my
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
Writing code for my day job and my side business. 90% of its planning/writing/reviewing code and little bit of it's admin-type work. I have two products/services I do on the side, food festival payments/management s
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
HN is a reflection of the industry and you'd have to be living under and rock (or in denial) to ignore LLMs. People who complain about it give off a real "kids these days"-vibe that has been present on HN for the entire time
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
Fast mode doesn't use subscription usage (IIRC) so it's not going to be limited to 5hr.
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
Absolutely. Tokens will flow like electricity, in the instances when you aren't just paying for electricity to run models locally. The token providers (well, at least the frontier labs) will fight it tooth-and-nail with the example of
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
In the last 30 days my LLM spend, if paid at API rates, would be $19,431 (and that doesn't track online chats or my Github Action reviews). Now I wish I was making $200K/mo but I'm not, no where close. I got all that for $220
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
Macbook (base) yes, but my MBP (M3 Max) is driving 4 screens for me without issue.
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
Due to pricing insanity (not that Apple prices weren’t insane before the ram/ssd shortages) I’m not in the market but I do wonder if my next computer should be a Mac Studio instead of a MBP that lives its life docked. Might be better t
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
So much LLM on this page. I don’t begrudge people for using LLMs (I use them plenty) but I still have very little idea what this does after reaching every word on the page. Oh I have an inkling, I have vague ideas, but nothing concrete. A d
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
I’m a huge fan of bookorbit, especially when paired with KOReader. It’s been, bar none, the best reading experience. I love having my highlights saved in software I control and can do whatever I want with. Currently I have multiple e-ink di
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
One thing that has led to me creating way more highlights is KOReader+BookOrbit. Now that I know my highlights aren't locked up in Amazon/Kindle's ecosystem I'm more likely to highlight something. I had a lot of fun hook
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
I'm slowly inching towards my own control plane because my skill-based workflows (not Claude Code Workflows) are brittle but still work better than anything else I've tried. Enforcing the pipeline has been mostly successful but I&
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
Some more observations - It seems like letting Michael spin up things is the prefered pathway instead of defining a bunch of agents. - The Ask Me really needs some love. The "X/N" display doesn't make sense to me, I star
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
Ok, I've been running it for a couple hours and below are my thoughts. Please note that I do find it fascinating even if most of what I'm about to say is complaining about the parts I like less. - Pipelines, not agents. Roles, not
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
Have you held a kindle? What does that even mean? I vastly prefer digital books to physical ones. I own many physical books (as well as their ebook equivalent) but the physical books on my shelves are nothing more than art to me, I won&#x27
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
I was more interested when I thought it was an actual benchmark showing LLM models acting outside what people would consider "right". As in, leave some creds laying around and don't mention them to the LLM and ask it to solve
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
There are multiple digital ways to preserve exact copies of the original. Both through things like personal backups (I have digital backups of all my physical books) and through collective recordkeeping. For example, Anna's Archive sto
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
Nothing is destroyed, only transformed. What was a physical book is now a digital book. It's a completely different story from "prior happenings", to which I assume you mean book burning and the like. Pretending they are the
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
> They are just out of print modern books, that are still under copyright OR in-print modern books that they can get for cheaper by buying used. The whole thing is a manufactured outrage over something that doesn't matter. They aren
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
Yes, let's begin with the trials for all the librarians who have destroyed/trashed books over the year! Nevermind that they do that because those books aren't being borrowed and no one wants to buy them. Destroying books to d
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
Are you under the impression they scan the book, train on it, then destroy the digital copy? Because that's not what's happening. They scan it, and hold it forever to train future models on. The scan still exists, not available to
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
> From a historical precedent standpoint, this is akin to the burning of the library of Alexandria, where centuries of knowledge was destroyed and leaving a limited version of the history, the surviving one, and depriving successive gene
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
You are conflating 2 parts of the article to make it say something it's not. No one has put forward any examples of a "lone surviving 18th century edition" being bought up my AI companies and destroyed. That was just an examp
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
It would be if it made the point you think it is. All of this is more and more hand waving. 75 copies in museums? Then I think we’re good. As for the 18th century books, that’s pure speculation. It’s like a museum saying, “yes we have they
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
Rare by whose definition? I’m not aiming this at you directly by: ISBNs or STFU Show me which “rare” books they are destroying and _maybe_ I’ll care but so far the pearl-clutching over this leads me to believe it’s people worked up about th
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
I also feel like I was let down by my English teachers. Even in high school I would complain that they would suck all the enjoyment out of a reading a book. Every book felt like a chore and I was an avid reader, a get-in-trouble-because-I-s
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by joshstrange 2mo ago
Until they add CarPlay/AndroidAuto support it really doesn't matter. I won't even consider a car that doesn't have that going forward.

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