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by kaffekaka 8mo ago
To me it seems you and many others are lost in the weeds of constantly evolving tooling and strategies. A pretty basic Claude Code or Codex setup and being mindful of context handling goes a long way. Definitely long enough to be able to us
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by kaffekaka 8mo ago
That is an LLM right there. Wow.
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by kaffekaka 8mo ago
I can only speak for myself of course, but injecting software into all those processes to me seems like a source of stress more than something calming. The best technology is the one we don't even need to use.
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by kaffekaka 8mo ago
Not exactly maybe. Different worktrees can still lead to possible merge conflicts later. This may get messy. Working on tests during compilation seems like a more separate task.
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by kaffekaka 8mo ago
Yes. Unwillingness to accept contradicting data points is holding many people back. They have an unconscious need to always pick one or the other, and that puts them at a disadvantage. "I know what I think." But no, you do not.
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by kaffekaka 8mo ago
But understanding _how_ it solves the problem, and knowing you found the solution yourself might/will be something to strive for.
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by kaffekaka 8mo ago
It surely will.
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by kaffekaka 8mo ago
Very well put. Two things are true at the same time, this makes people uneasy.
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by kaffekaka 8mo ago
Is coding a passion only because other people appreciate it? Is painting a passion because others appreciate it? No, it is a passion in itself. There will always be people appreciating coding by hand as a passion. My passions - drawing, wri
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by kaffekaka 8mo ago
Yes this is the issue. We truly have something incredible now. Something that could benefit all of humanity. Unfortunately it comes at $200/month from Sam Altman & co.
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by kaffekaka 8mo ago
If the output is (dis)proportionally larger, the cost trade off might be the right thing to do. And it might be the tokens will become cheaper.
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by kaffekaka 8mo ago
> Context switching is very expensive. In order to remain efficient, I found that it was my job as a human to be in control of when I interrupt the agent, not the other way around. Don't let the agent notify you. This I have found t
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by kaffekaka 9mo ago
Sure, ad free forever, until it is not. Great by Anthropic, but I put basically no long term trust in statements like this.
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by kaffekaka 9mo ago
I have used a separate user, but lately I have been using rootless podman containers instead for this reason. But I know too little about container escapes. So I am thinking about a combination. Would a podman container run by a separate us
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by kaffekaka 9mo ago
No, you would be ten times as productive. You would ship three different apps 3,3 times faster than you previously only shipped one. The productivity comparison must be made between how long it takes to ship a certain amount of stuff.
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by kaffekaka 9mo ago
Good question. I certainly commit that error sometimes, like everyone else. But the issue here is people using LLMs to write eg emails and then not taking responsibility for what they write. That has nothing to do with attribution, only acc
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by kaffekaka 9mo ago
I guess you got hung up on the word "pathetic". See my comment below, I used it not as "despicable" but rather "something to feel sorry for". Indeed, people writing emails using LLMs and then blame the AI for c
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by kaffekaka 9mo ago
Yes, thank you. I used "pathetic" in the meaning of something which makes feel sorry for them, not something despicable. I fully expect people to stand by what they write and not blame AI etc, but my comment came across as too agg
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by kaffekaka 9mo ago
Making mistakes and regretting is of course perfectly ok! What I reacted to was blaming the LLM. "I am sorry,I meant like this ..." versus "it wasn't me, it was AI".
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by kaffekaka 9mo ago
Great blog post, and I fully agree. The human touch in communication and reflection can not be emphasized enough.
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by kaffekaka 9mo ago
Never in my life would I accept that as a valid excuse. If you sent the mail, committed the code or whatever, you take responsibility for it. Anything else is just pathetic.
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by kaffekaka 9mo ago
Ah yes, skåpa would be a made up verb indeed.
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by kaffekaka 9mo ago
I am just speculating, but Europe has let itself be very dependent on USA for many things - military/defence, technology etc. "We don't need weapons, USA builds them for us". There has been no need to try and compete. Th
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by kaffekaka 9mo ago
You are right of course. But "skåp" means cabinet so "skåpa" could be understood as "build a cabinet", for those who enjoy that kind of pun.
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by kaffekaka 9mo ago
Yes, this pitfall is a hard one. It is very easy to interpret the LLM in a way there is no real ground for.
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by kaffekaka 9mo ago
I am not saying you are wrong, but Trump has shown exactly how quickly a "culture" can crumble down. Despite "checks and balances" the American democracy has done nothing to slow down the slide into dictatorship. So how
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by kaffekaka 9mo ago
Will this continue?
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by kaffekaka 9mo ago
Speaking for myself, a bash script and a Dockerfile (coupled with dedicated user on linux system) seemed simpler than discovering and understanding some other, over complicated tool built by someone else. Example: a coworker vibe coded a bl
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by kaffekaka 9mo ago
Absolutely. "Finlands sak är vår." Finland's problem is our problem, same for Denmark and Norway. We must stand together, we have no choice.
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by kaffekaka 9mo ago
I am sure that someday I will do something fat-fingered myself as well, but I have not in many years now. Are you saying that you make "damaging mistakes" relatively often?

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