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by kaydub 4mo ago
There's always oversight, that's just something you wrongly assumed.
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by kaydub 4mo ago
I accept that for every prompt of building I'm going to have 1-5 prompts of refinement. Once the LLM tells me "Okay, it's done, everything works" I always as it to do a thorough review, I tell it to split up the work amo
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by kaydub 4mo ago
Yeah, v1 is sloppy, then I tell the LLM to clean it up. Every 1 prompt of building tends to require 1-5 prompts of clean up. Simple, fast, clean good code. The chasm between "Software Developer" and "Software Engineer" i
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by kaydub 4mo ago
This is such a low value article lol I'm not even sure what it's trying to say. It's just someone patting themselves on the back.
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Made my first plugin – How I orchestrated 3 LLMs to ship a plugin in 2 hours(byacommonthread.com)
3 points by kaydub 4mo ago|1 comments
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by kaydub 4mo ago
I've been in software for about 15 years now, so long before LLMs. But now, I won't write code without them. When I go out to eat, I'd love to know what people's favorite dishes are so that I know what to try. This plugi
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by kaydub 4mo ago
My anecdotal experience isn't a benchmark. Just because I feel like something is better or different doesn't mean it actually is.
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by kaydub 4mo ago
I just don't believe non-deterministic tools can actually be benchmarked. It's all hoopla to me. I flip between models all the time. Makes little difference. Sometimes one model is faster or better than another but there's no
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by kaydub 4mo ago
I've always interchangeably used the models. I don't look at benchmarks. It's a non-deterministic tool. A lot of the shit going on with LLMs just doesn't make sense to me. All the tooling around like MCPs, they're a
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by kaydub 5mo ago
I'm surprised at how many businesses are using subscriptions instead of paying per token.
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by kaydub 5mo ago
So you think your bespoke solution is less complex? Custom scalers? Running prometheus, grafana, etc?
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by kaydub 5mo ago
Lambda IS super simple. These people are professional amateurs. They don't know what they don't know so they post stupid posts like this and all the other know-nothings upvote it and comment likewise. Seriously, there's nowhe
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by kaydub 5mo ago
Yup! I've been holding Hacker News in too high of esteem for too long I think. Most people on here are amateurs at best. The complaints about AWS/Cloud and LLMs are getting too loud. Did the industry pull in too many inexperienced
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by kaydub 5mo ago
I honestly can't believe most of the people posting aren't engineers or they work at small companies or something. They show their lack of experience when talking about how cheap Hetzner and DO are.
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by kaydub 5mo ago
Alright, so where are the good engineers these days? Reddit died quite a while ago and I was holding on to Hacker News, but with all the anti-LLM posts and the anti-cloud fud I see on here it's obviously not here either any more. What
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by kaydub 6mo ago
At my job and for personal projects I pay per token with claude and I've had no problems at all with it. No slowdowns, no "throttling", nothing. I'm honestly surprised how many people have subscriptions and are expecting
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by kaydub 6mo ago
Have you been to Orcas Island or the San Juan islands in Washington? I think Acadia is a great National Park, especially for the East coast. But I moved to Seattle a few years back and only more recently got out to Orgas Island. It's i
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by kaydub 6mo ago
Interesting perspective, thank you.
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by kaydub 6mo ago
Acadia is a beautiful park and it definitely reaches National Park level for the East coast. I don't really agree with your assessment there, especially since it doesn't sound like you saw much of Acadia if you think it's onl
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by kaydub 7mo ago
Yeah, I've gotta use skills more. I didn't quite get it until this last week when I used a skill that I made. I didn't know the skill got pulled into context ONLY for the single command being ran with the skill, I thought the
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by kaydub 7mo ago
I avoid most MCPs. They tend to take more context than getting the LLM to script and ingest ouputs. Trying to use JIRA MCP was a mess, way better to have the LLM hit the API, figure out our custom schemas, then write a couple scripts to do
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by kaydub 8mo ago
Why would you use Grok at all? The one LLM that they're purposely trying to get specific output from (trying to make it "conservative"). I wouldn't want to use a project that I outright know is tainted by the owners tryi
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by kaydub 8mo ago
Do you think this is a gotcha? You just prompt the llm to change the plan.
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by kaydub 8mo ago
Yes to all of these. Here's the rub, I can spin up multiple agents in separate shells. One is prompted to build out <feature>, following the pattern the author/OP described. Another is prompted to review the plan/change
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by kaydub 8mo ago
There's comments like this because devs/"engineers" in tech are elitists that think they're special. They can't accept that a machine can do a part of their job that they thought made them special.
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by kaydub 8mo ago
You just have another agent/session/context refactor as you go. I built a skribbl.io clone to use at work. We like to play eod on Friday as a happy hour and when we would play skribbl.io we would try to get screencaps of the stupi
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by kaydub 8mo ago
I don't see how...
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by kaydub 8mo ago
Yeah, definitely a stupid take from OP. LLMs are very strong at using the frameworks, it makes it easier to hire people to work on your codebase, it makes it easier for future uses of LLMs since they'll have a lot of framework details
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by kaydub 8mo ago
The arrogance to think this isn't possible using llm tools and that the opposite didn't already exist at plenty of software shops pre-llm tools...
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by kaydub 8mo ago
You haven't worked somewhere where you're working on multiple different microservices each written by different teams in different languages?

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