krupan

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by krupan 8mo ago
Hi, I worked on printer firmware. It was fun! Printers are robots, when you get right down to it. Now, when they downsized and reorganized and put me on the windows driver team, I left the company within a week.
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by krupan 8mo ago
This is amazing because it's the same logic and argument about how to do good software engineering that's been around for 40 years. If you just write good enough requirements, a good enough, detailed specification, then your soft
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by krupan 8mo ago
Are you disappointed that the LLM generated random games, or are you disappointed that the dog didn't actually care about the games? Neither are that surprising to me, tbh.
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by krupan 8mo ago
Such a weird project, starting with the weird name that sets all kinds of wrong expectations
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by krupan 8mo ago
"But then you need to fight bots day and night and do some serious sandboxing on your server which you might be using for other things and is likely to have other accessible endpoints for people to exploit." For a static read-only
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by krupan 8mo ago
Very true, though it has improved a over the years. Most people haven't noticed because when git has introduced newer simpler commands it hasn't deprecated the old ones. You can now use it like this, but most people don't k
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by krupan 8mo ago
So much this. Once you get beyond the very basics, git is a code editing tool as much as your editor/ide is
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by krupan 8mo ago
Nice! You can play Electroboom without actually getting shocked. If you do want the real world experience you can get bags full of components on Amazon for pretty cheap
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by krupan 8mo ago
It wouldn't matter of you did all that because you could still ask the AI, "what would my friend Bob think about this?" And the AI, who heard Bob talking in his phone when he thought he was alone in the other room, could tell
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by krupan 8mo ago
People stating he must have hit his equity cliff, does anyone grant equity at only a 2-year cliff? People stating he can sell equity on a secondary market, do you have experience doing that? At the last start up I was at, it didn't se
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by krupan 8mo ago
The way the safety concerns are written, I get the impression it has more to do with humans' mental health and loss of values. I really think we are building manipulation machines. Yes, they are smart, they can do meaningful work, but
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by krupan 9mo ago
Fiction is my favorite, because the authors admit they are just making it up.
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by krupan 9mo ago
Sounds like planet described in The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov
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by krupan 9mo ago
Thanks for writing that. It reminds me that there are many things we build and they work (for some definition of work) even though we don't fully understand them. Did the first people that made fire understand it? You mentioned bridg
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by krupan 9mo ago
Government is doing stuff that's awful and whenever people propose solutions to this someone always complains that government "won't be able to get anything done." That's the point! What are you worried about?
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by krupan 9mo ago
"...for the negligible price of occasionally having to look at ads..." "negligible price" and "occasionally" are outright lies in just that one tiny snippet of this opinion piece. I was going to highlight more
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Is this a game or is it real? What's the difference?(bryan-murdock.blogspot.com)
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by krupan 9mo ago
Amazing when it comes to Epstein (and other controversial actions/decisions) how detailed and open minded we are when it comes to someone we liked and supported, and how cut and dry we want things to be when it's someone we don&#x
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by krupan 9mo ago
This is so disheartening. Time to short more tech stocks
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by krupan 9mo ago
This author puts to words several thoughts of mine that have been jelling recently. In the end I still seems to miss that AI is totally optional. It's a depressing read because the basic gist is, this AI stuff is weird and depressing
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by krupan 9mo ago
Control over code requires understanding it. That's what letting an LLM wrote everything takes away from you
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by krupan 9mo ago
You what code is? A very detailed specification that drives a deterministic machine. Maybe we don't need to keep giving LLMs more details, maybe we could skip the middle man there
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by krupan 9mo ago
https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow/
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by krupan 9mo ago
Like, do you even know how furniture is designed and built? Do you know how software is designed and built? Where is this comment even coming from? And people are agreeing with this? A friend of mine reposted someone saying that "AI
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by krupan 9mo ago
The most pertinent thought in this is where the author asks, "LLMs can generate decent-ish and correct-ish looking code while I have more time to do what? doomscroll?" LLMs are not good enough for you to set and forget. You have
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by krupan 9mo ago
If you think unhappy devs are going to produce anything good then please let me know the stock ticker of your company so I can short it
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by krupan 9mo ago
Clearly the author is implying that, but with zero evidence to back that implication up. Not even an attempt to link the two other than saying "this happened" and "this exists." And hacker news is upvoting it like it&#
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by krupan 9mo ago
Government is bad at stuff, and more news at 11
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by krupan 9mo ago
I am in no way a republican apologist, but how many people were clamoring for the immediate releasing these documents, saying it "should be easy" and all that? Laws were passed ordering their sudden speedy disclosure. How would
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by krupan 9mo ago
I clicked and starting reading this expecting some actual connection between said markdown files and losing money. There was nothing at all like that in this blog post.

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