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by kingkongjaffa 4mo ago
It's not suitable for someone without prior in-office work experience IMO. There are mentoring and office based behaviors and norms that people learn from each other through osmosis. I think it's a career mistake to never work wit
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by kingkongjaffa 4mo ago
show me a prompt that is meaningfully expertly crafted beyond just providing Do's, Do not's, task context, and a goal. > Correctly prompt, to steer it, to verify it, and to improve the harness. I doubt this a lot. The average A
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by kingkongjaffa 4mo ago
Does anyone have good examples of well designed web applications - not landing pages or peoples tech blogs, which are often listed here on HN. But like actual applications that do a complex task with the user using it as a tool.
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by kingkongjaffa 4mo ago
This is a spin piece from a private equity firm. Hardly the most unbiased and credible source for this kind of reporting.
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by kingkongjaffa 4mo ago
The gradient of improvement is absolutely not the same.
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by kingkongjaffa 4mo ago
> I haven't used them first hand Why not? Given your background surely you would be curious.
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by kingkongjaffa 5mo ago
Claude skills made by other people are typically useless. The exceptions I have found are https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin which was like an early brainstorm -> plan -> write -> embed kn
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by kingkongjaffa 5mo ago
Football manager Command and Conquer series skirmish Cities Skylines
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by kingkongjaffa 5mo ago
Typically for most code it's telling claude how to run tests. For front end code it's giving claude a way to 'see' the work for example a Playwrite MCP server seems common. https://playwright.dev/docs&#x2
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by kingkongjaffa 5mo ago
AI K-pop was in the cafes in Seoul.
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by kingkongjaffa 5mo ago
The whole thing looks amateur, this is what every product design student has in their design portfolio when they needed to add an automotive concept. There's chairs and lamps, and they tagged on this car in their PDF. Looks like a scho
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by kingkongjaffa 5mo ago
Business can get too big to fail and instead of being allowed to fail get bailouts from the government, thus are not truly capitalism.
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by kingkongjaffa 5mo ago
> general aversion for strong spices You can get very hot spicy katsu curry in most Japanese cities.
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by kingkongjaffa 5mo ago
One heuristic I used during my masters degree research thesis was to look for the seminal people or papers in a field by using google scholar to find the most cited research papers and then reading everything else by that author / look
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by kingkongjaffa 5mo ago
wtf have you guys been doing. Get on a fixed team plan ASAP instead of paying per token via API pricing. https://claude.com/pricing#team-&-enterprise Standard seat All Claude features, plus more usage than Pro* $20 Per
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by kingkongjaffa 5mo ago
Thank you! I was more looking for signal that him + Anthropic might yield something beyond a step-change from Opus 4.7 (disappointing so far). We have not gotten to use Mythos yet, I wonder if that will become Opus 5 or something.
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by kingkongjaffa 5mo ago
> creating magic everywhere they go Like specifically what has he done?
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by kingkongjaffa 5mo ago
I think you're focusing on all the wrong things and come across a bit naive IMHO. - Your PC specs don't mean anything to anyone. - 'top 2000 technicaians in the Nation from Stellantis of North America.' - This doesn&#x27
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by kingkongjaffa 6mo ago
This book is a good read for anyone building anything, software, hardware, whatever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things Design is its own thing. Fundamentally it's problem solving, but des
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by kingkongjaffa 6mo ago
Just one more anecdote: I'm on the enterprise team plan so a decent amount of usage. In March I could use Opus all day and it was getting great results. Since the last week of March and into April, I've had sessions where I maxed
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by kingkongjaffa 7mo ago
> Insofar as you're a music-enjoyer, listening to music, the only question should be _is it good_. It shouldn't matter if it was created by duck or slug. What an awful take. Music is inherently a human act, there's been l
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by kingkongjaffa 7mo ago
> the advanced customization I have found makes weaker models more capable. Like what?
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by kingkongjaffa 7mo ago
- I'm seeing lots of internal apps to help our customer success teams. - I'm seeing prototypes escape Figma and live as code for a faster/closer demo experience for product managers.
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by kingkongjaffa 7mo ago
It feels lower. Last 2 weeks I was using it more or less all day on Opus running skills to write PRDs and then code and tests to solve the PRDs, never hit the session limit. Last 2 days I hit the cap in about an hour of kicking off my skill
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by kingkongjaffa 7mo ago
If you have mapped the research space and understand it very well then what does it matter how you got there? For example when I was doing my master's degree in the UK, I realised my research topic had about 10 people around the world
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by kingkongjaffa 7mo ago
Frankly it's a total non-issue because you now have your train ticket on a mobile app on a mobile device with synchronized internet time anyway. Most people are wearing mechanical watches today as jewellery and a physical piece of craf
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by kingkongjaffa 7mo ago
I’m not saying you’re wrong but as a senior PM, the engineers I work with see about 10-20% of what I actually do in a week, so in general engineers are not a good judge of the utility of product management.
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by kingkongjaffa 7mo ago
> Coming from Thoughtworks it also gives a bit of gravitas Why? I thought the opposite. Consultancies, of which thoughtworks is one, publish thought leadership as marketing material.
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by kingkongjaffa 7mo ago
> What I need is 3 months of runway so I can do exactly that. I think you need to be more realistic about your priorities right now, you need a job, any job, and a roof over your head mate. The OS and runway for a start up can wait. This
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by kingkongjaffa 7mo ago
Sorry to hear about your situation. Have you spoken to https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/ you should be able to get some help and advocacy. And they will help you find accomodation and apply for the benefits you are entitle

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