kristianc

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by kristianc 5mo ago
The future might have more outages then.
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by kristianc 6mo ago
... or by textbooks, Stack Overflow, senior engineers, code review. How many engineers today got their start by building Minecraft mods or even MySpace? I do think that these pieces sometimes smuggle in a nostalgic picture of how engineers
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by kristianc 6mo ago
To think we'd have known about this in advance if they'd just have open sourced Claude Code, rather than them being forced into this embarrassing post mortem. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
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by kristianc 6mo ago
The article literally draws that distinction in the first paragraph.
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by kristianc 6mo ago
Sure, but if the advice works, you'd see failure rate drops over time. It would work like medicine - we have more people than ever before, but almost no one dies of polio anymore. That's not what we see though, failure rate is bas
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by kristianc 6mo ago
Well of course it is, most startups are dead on arrival. The big pinch of salt I throw in with advice like this though is that startup failure rate hasn't dramatically shifted despite two decades of lean startup methodology, accelerato
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by kristianc 6mo ago
>AI models are not really effected by that at all. I don't know about that. More usage means more support, which means more docs and open source projects, wrappers, harnesses built around them etc. Way less demand to build tooling a
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by kristianc 6mo ago
If it goes as well as the 'open' / federated social network alternatives of the 2010s, I wouldn't count on it.
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by kristianc 7mo ago
We've officially come full circle https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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by kristianc 7mo ago
Draconian law gets introduced, public outcry ensues. Oh okay we will make it six months then. This is how civil liberties get eroded.
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by kristianc 7mo ago
Theo's t3code does a lot of this for free I think. Interested to know if it uses the same trick for accessing Claude without violating their TOS. https://t3.codes
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by kristianc 7mo ago
Yeah, definitely not the "straight in" one...
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by kristianc 8mo ago
> One of our first customers is a staffing firm that searched for a scheduling solution for almost eight years. Their coordinators manage hundreds of candidate-client interviews where each side needs separate email threads, separate Zoom
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by kristianc 8mo ago
In an ideal world it would work something like that. In reality in the UK the pattern more often is: 1. New power introduced after crisis or scandal, justified as exceptional and targeted 2. Enforcement is patchy or politically difficult. P
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by kristianc 8mo ago
Sure, but it comes down to framing. If you asked 'Would you support weakening encryption in messaging apps if it helped catch some criminals, even though it could make it easier for hackers to read your messages and steal your password
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by kristianc 8mo ago
It's never been controversial, it's the BBC. doing it's usual job of laundering the arguments the establishment want you to hear for domestic consumption.
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by kristianc 8mo ago
I always assume people have lost the argument when they resort to giving people comedy names, regardless of what else they've said.
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by kristianc 8mo ago
OP is right. Surely we will all go back to on premise any day now.
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by kristianc 8mo ago
MySpace never had close to a billion users.
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by kristianc 8mo ago
> Once you have multiple agents across multiple sessions generating code in production, you hit the same observability problems every other distributed system hits: tracing, attribution, debugging failures across runs. This has been the
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by kristianc 8mo ago
The thing that keeps on getting glided past in most discussions of this is the distinction between systems of record and systems of workflow. If you're SAP, Workday, Procore, maybe even HubSpot, you have a shout. Growth won't be f
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by kristianc 9mo ago
No, there's GSuite / Google Workspace instead. OpenAI doesn't have one of those.
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by kristianc 9mo ago
Every one of them individually seems like a weird place to draw the line. Social fabric and the ties that bond matter.
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by kristianc 9mo ago
"Does Britain really need?" has been responsible for the gutting of so much of what used to make Britain a nice place to live over the last 20 years. You can say she same about public libraries, local bus routes, civic architectur
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by kristianc 10mo ago
“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.” - Christopher Hitchens
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by kristianc 10mo ago
Lovely design - but also shows the inherent problem. Not everyone can create a design like this. Medium and Substack mean that not everyone needs to. When everyone is able to publish, you invariably end up with a lot more crap, and it has t
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by kristianc 10mo ago
The value of any traditional RSU is to treat it as a nice bonus if you get it, so not so much different from any other stock or option package.
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by kristianc 10mo ago
I find it funny that we see complaints about why software quality has got worse alongside people advocating to choose objectively risky AWS regions for career risk and blame minimisation reasons.
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by kristianc 10mo ago
And who cleans up the mess when OTAs miss emails, get passenger details wrong, display outdated prices or add markup through algorithmic pricing? Ludicrously one sided take.
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by kristianc 10mo ago
Dealing with crazy people must really cut into his four hour work week.

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