kstenerud

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   by kstenerud 4mo ago

   I'd really really wished, with all of the history behind us, that golang would have learned from it. All they had to do was make pointers nonnull by default. Immutable-by-default would also have been nice. A man can dream...
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   by kstenerud 4mo ago

   https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/art...
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   by kstenerud 4mo ago

   I Netanyahu retires, Eisenkot or Bennett take up the mantle, which is arguably worse. But he's got no reason to retire, given how he's polling now. Iran isn't going to drop their nuclear program. They know full well that IF t
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   by kstenerud 4mo ago

   strncpy is 99.999% of the time NOT the correct function to call, so this is a huge win. It's just a shame that such a confusing name was chosen for such a niche use case (fixed width records that require null padding).
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   by kstenerud 4mo ago

   It's not that you plan to do nothing; rather, it's because you can do nothing about them. The only people who have any sway are the various foreign offices and the country leaders. But even their power is incredibly limited, becau
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   by kstenerud 4mo ago

   $50 a month subscription (temporarily lowered to $30). Allows you to generate 3-7 minutes of video. Per month.
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   by kstenerud 4mo ago

   This has been my experience with AI. Writing software begins with a solid design that is defensible. If you don't have that, the AI will produce slop. Once you're happy with the design, you need a solid plan. If you don't hav
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   by kstenerud 4mo ago

   I remember C compilers becoming affordable, and GCC actually getting good. I remember Java coming along, and how much easier it was to build compared to all the crazy linking and cryptic error messages my C compiler gave me once you went be
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   by kstenerud 4mo ago

   > Nerds used to have a internet to discuss tech in, you were allowed to make an argument based on logic and reasoning. I don't remember this internet. Ever since I got my first modem, I remember the kinds of vitriolic posts that led
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    by kstenerud 4mo ago

    For crash resilient data, you have a few options: - Journaling file structures (telegraph what you're about to write, then write it, then signal completion) - memmap your important data structures to a file (they will be flushed to dis
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    by kstenerud 4mo ago

    A tool that creates sandboxes (docker, podman, orbstack, seatbelt, tart, containerd, kata, firecracker) and then sets up an agent (claude, codex, gemini, aider, opencode) inside it with max permissiveness (no annoying permission prompts). I
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    by kstenerud 4mo ago

    > I'm guessing the next thing I should probably look into is some sort of machine vm I can tunnel my codex-gui requests to so I don't have to deal with the sandbox approvals (I don't want to give it "dangerous" a
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    by kstenerud 4mo ago

    Or, just stop using so many animations. In most UIs, it feels like they're animated for the sake of being animated. Very rarely do I say "Ah, I'm glad that was animated, because the transition would be confusing otherwise.&qu
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    by kstenerud 4mo ago

    TLDR: Once a design gets old enough that LLMs can reproduce them, they are now "slop".
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    by kstenerud 4mo ago

    > yet their sandboxed agent has access to all of their code, their github, and unrestricted web access. Not in my sandbox. It gives no direct access to the workdir, no access to my github, my ssh keys, my security tokens or API keys. No
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    by kstenerud 4mo ago

    This reminds me so much of the "Spurious Logic" ability in the RPG "Paranoia"
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    by kstenerud 4mo ago

    I do it with every project I go into. First step is setting up the documentation so that the agent can navigate it quickly, knows the idioms, knows the test gating procedure, design principles, coding standards, testing policies, etc. Once
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    by kstenerud 4mo ago

    Ah yes, the agents by default are very "implementation" oriented, which is why I instruct mine to never implement something without formulating a plan first for me to approve. Another thing they tend to do is rely on their own con
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    by kstenerud 4mo ago

    I never let it go into planning mode, other than to output a plan file that I can audit before giving it the go-ahead to implement. After that I don't want to be bothered, so --dangerously-skip-permissions keeps all but real questions
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    by kstenerud 4mo ago

    Wow... Our experiences have been very different, then. I've found each upgrade of Opus to be a noticeable improvement in its complex reasoning and delegation capabilities over its predecessor. To me, this feels in many ways like a tech
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    by kstenerud 4mo ago

    I've found that setting good guardrails, and running in a sandbox so that the agent doesn't keep asking tedious permission questions, makes things go a LOT smoother. Generally, I spend anywhere between 15 mins and an hour setting
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    by kstenerud 4mo ago

    This is awesome! I just added this as a backend for yoloAI on Mac, and wow... super fast startup times now!
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    by kstenerud 4mo ago

    > Worryingly, European populists are espousing more assertively anti-Ukrainian views. Viktor Orban focused his unsuccessful election campaign to remain Hungarian prime minister on that theme. Meanwhile ECFR’s polling shows that voters of
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    by kstenerud 4mo ago

    You won't get anywhere pressing your case here. This group has already found you guilty, and no argument will change their minds. You've been caricatured into a blind AI-follower rust-rewriter-just-because type, and that's th
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    by kstenerud 4mo ago

    Sure, if the function is expected to not treat the data as anything but bytes, then it might be acceptable in narrow circumstances. But in such a case I'd argue FOR the ceremony, as a way of declaring from the API "The input is a
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    by kstenerud 4mo ago

    The real question here is: WHY are you passing a blob of memory rather than a struct that uses the type system to describe and enforce what the contents are? I don't mean dressing up an anonymous pointer, which the author rightly compl
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    by kstenerud 4mo ago

    I made a tool that creates sandboxes (docker, podman, orbstack, seatbelt, tart, containerd, kata, firecracker) and then sets up an agent (claude, codex, gemini, aider, opencode) inside it with max permissiveness (no prompts to call sed, etc
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    by kstenerud 4mo ago

    I honestly don't care who or what wrote the article. The value comes from what's useful to me, not how much effort went into creating it.
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    by kstenerud 4mo ago

    I use an RTX 3090 with 24gb on it, which can comfortably fit https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B . It's freely downloadable, so you only pay for the gfx card and the electricity. There are also plenty of models
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    by kstenerud 4mo ago

    Opencode can be connected to Qwen for coding grunt work. It's pretty decent, but I prefer to use Claude. Less mistakes, better for reasoning architectural decisions with the agent checking against the existing codebase and documentatio