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by ljm 1y ago
Nope.
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My running hypothesis on this is that AI is a sentient screenreader and the last thing you should be worrying about is CSS class names, IDs, data-testid attributes, DOM traversal, and all of these things that are essentially querying the &#
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It's more like cgi-bin as a service.
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I dealt with a microservice style serverless backend that was spread out across roughly 50 Go-based lambdas, one per API endpoint, with a few more for SQS and Cognito triggers. Was deployed via CloudFormation. Testing locally was an absolut
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I think the entire concept of HTML and CSS when it comes to browser-based app development (as opposed to styling documents) is just not that ergonomic compared to a native equivalent. It might have seen a lot of improvements over the years
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Same in the UK (which is currenty a contentious issue again with Digital ID), because there is no concept of having a cryptographic signature tied to your identity in the way it is done in other EU countries. Instead you need: - five years
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by ljm 1y ago
Meta feedback: there are so many external links in this post (the majority being to Twitter) that it really feels like the audience is just...people who follow this guy on Twitter. There must be about 25 separate links to one-liner tweets.
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AI agents to me seem maximalist by default, and if it takes 250 lines to meet a requirement they would choose that over the much simpler one-line change. In an existing codebase this is easily solved by making your prompt more specific, pos
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This is like having a normal distribution where the average is a 1x engineer, a standard deviation below is a 0x engineer, and a standard deviation above is a 10x engineer. Which would make more sense because someone running 9 agents with m
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One of the bigger selling points of JJ just wouldn't work so well without larger team buy in for me: the ability to push stacked PRs. I like the idea of it, but there's so much inertia around typical git workflows that revolve aro
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I wonder if there's a parallel universe where people are writing posts about Sapling and getting mercurial users to migrate to it.
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I've tried both and that sounds about right - I had to configure my MCPs for it again and it runs its own server in the background. For that alone I've preferred agent-shell since you just use the agent's own config. That&#x2
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I stand corrected on that matter then. The most recent blog coincides with this quite conveniently.
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Notably I didn't use the word 'blame' but correctly assigned accountability to the people who made the decisions they did, for whatever reason they had. The parenthetical examples are yours alone, not mine. Beyond that, yes..
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Everyone is responsible for their own actions and DHH hasn't made anybody do anything. The reactions to his statements, whether you agree with what he said or not, are entirely voluntary. What it does reveal is the fragility of a com
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As soon as a hangover shifted from an acute headache to a day or more of drowsiness I started to substantially limit the amount I drink. You can't tackle that with paracetamol or caffeine and it's not worth it any more, and that&#
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The Ruby ecosystem is already decentralised in that there is no single source of truth for published gems. You can pull the source from any software forge that uses git, you can point to any self hosted gem server or use something like Arti
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The main page itself provides little to no info so I’m going to make a few assumptions that, to me, seem logical: 1. It must depend on RubyGems in order to stay in sync, because people publish to RubyGems. 2. It has no UI to search or view
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This is also a fantastic way for someone to learn the principle of least privilege by setting up a very strict IAM profile for the agent to use without the risk of nuking the system.
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On overstimulation: there is something about office conversations that I find overwhelming now, and it's that, since COVID, people seem to have lost their inside voices and are talking at volumes that seem quite a bit louder than usual
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It's more the case in tech now that the investor is the first customer, not the actual customer. This is the only way I can make sense of this no-expense-spared approach to adopt AI, regardless of its utility in the product.
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So a service like CloudFlare is the Great firewall of the world and CloudFlare can shut you down if you go against their interests as a supranational gatekeeper. Smart thinking Batman.
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And how does it do that? By looking at the words and seeing that they rhyme? An LLM is not capable of subtext or reading between the lines or understanding intention or capability or sarcasm or other linguistic traits that apply a layer of
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The problem will always remain that it cannot answer 'why', only 'what'. And oftentimes you need things like intent and purpose and not just a lossy translation from programming instructions to prose. I'd see it lik
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Peanuts aren't served on a plane just in case someone with a peanut allergy has a bad time as result. Peanuts (and other things people are deathly allergic to) are also not served or used as ingredients in restaurants where there is a
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I expect an airsoft venue is actually a private space, not a public one. Airsoft but-actually-in-public would have people concerned about a terrorist attack, not being recorded for insta. To that extent, the hobbyists who like to create con
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I was more referring to the environment that MCP servers run within, which at the end of the day is simply a massive interpolated string that blends instructions and data/content together in a way that an LLM will do its best to figure
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What’s obvious to the audience of HN isn’t necessarily obvious to anyone else. Articles like this are intended to serve the latter group of people. And it’s true, AI agents with MCP servers are pretty much unsafe by design, because security
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For finicky issues like that I often find that, in the time it takes to create a prompt with the necessary context, I was able to just make the one line tweak myself. In a way that is still helpful, especially if the act of putting the prom
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I personally don't understand what makes executives so special that they are exempted from the same sort of criminal proceeding the average Joe is faced with. By all accounts they hold these lofty positions precisely because they can (

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