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by ljm 1y ago
I do it quite often and it's great, because it helps contextualise some changes that might not seem to be intuitive. You could argue this is what commits are for, but given how people use GitHub and PRs, it gives some extra visibility.
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A great mentor won’t waste their time on someone cynically using their time to cash out at Meta. Such a person can just get a CS degree and launch into Amazon for that. Big Tech are just the IT enterprises of the modern day. It’s not where
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Was AI supposed to help juniors shine? By all accounts it would give such a person a superficial boost in productivity but you don’t climb the ladder that way without getting hard experience, you’d just be the super-powered perpetual beginn
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Let the chips fall as they may, no? If there was a way to make changes entirely free of consequence, everybody would be doing it.
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The bullet lists, emojis, and a weird focus on insanely specific technical details, are a telltale sign of Claude Driven Development.
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I didn’t know it was written in Zig. That’s a fascinating choice to me given how young the language is. Amazing to see it being used in a practical way in production.
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Farage only has this traction because he's financed and platformed by interests (Russia, conservative Christian groups in the US, right wing media) that benefit from the division his inflammatory politics creates. This gives him and hi
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Have had some conversations where the other person goes into chatgpt to answer a question while I’m in the process of explaining a solution, and then says “GPT says this, look…” Use an agent to help you code or whatever all you want, I don’
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If I was to drop acid and hallucinate an alien invasion, and then suddenly a xenomorph runs loose around the city while I’m tripping balls, does being right in that one instance mean the rest of my reality is also a hallucination? Because i
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If everything is a hallucination then nothing is a hallucination. Thanks for listening to my Ted Talk.
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… I think I’ll just stick with pydantic AI for now
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This is quite a disappointing self-limitation given the improvements uv brings to the table. You’re missing out on some good stuff.
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And many of the conversions between metric and imperial align with the Fibonacci sequence on any order of magnitude. 130km/h is roughly 80mph simply because the fibo sequence has 8 and 13. Obviously not an emergent property but shows h
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My 'beef' with Cursor is that the editor is part of the package and you don't really have the same kind of hooks into the agent that you do with Claude Code or similar, which really means you're at the mercy of the Curso
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So Amazon becomes a supranational entity. You should be ashamed of yourself for shilling for this shit. Curtis Yarvin would be proud.
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I don’t know about this law specifically, but every other law attacking the internet or encryption has attempted to exempt people in government. That defeats the point of the legislation since it creates a gaping wide backdoor to exploit of
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Only 20 years since it started as a hobby. There is programming that I enjoy doing for the fun of it or for experimentation and I wouldn’t use AI for that (most likely because it’d be something that isn’t well known or documented). If work
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A lot of native apps are just wrappers around a JS context with a few bridges into native APIs and they are pure data grabs. Reddit always asks you to use its native app, for example. Why the fuck would I care so much about Reddit that I wa
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I wouldn't say it's the majority of my time but the most utility I've got out of AI is using MCP to deal with the boring shit: update my jira tickets to in progress/in review, read feedback on a PR and address the trivia
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I'm sure I saw this gem posted a few days ago (maybe not on HN?) and at the time all the docs were in one mahoosive README. I think it's a massive improvement that it's been broken down into chapters in a docs folder. I can t
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I'm not sure if I'm on HN or LinkedIn Lunatics now.
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I used to work at Typeform and I think it's a testament to their product that people have been inspired to make open source versions of it multiple times over the past decade or so. I enjoy seeing posts like this.
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I don't think static types (or lack thereof) complicate (or simplify) program evolution over time, bad architecture does.
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Been posted a few times recently, no indication of what changed
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I've worked with people who want you to put the effort into writing a document or proposal, or even just answering a question on Slack or on Linear, but will spend zero effort themselves actually reading what you give them. Instead the
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I used to be quite fond of Datadog but after one or two completely surprising bills (thanks to their granular but unintuitive pricing model), I wouldn't recommend it to anybody any more. If I were more cynical I would say the pricing m
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I wonder how much that no-expense-spared, money-is-no-object attitude to buying SaaS impacts an engineers ability to make sensible decisions around infra and architecture. Coinbase might have been fine blowing 65 mil but take that approach
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You can easily tell the difference between services built under GDS, where the work favoured local contractors and agencies and otherwise smaller outfits, and those farmed out to the usual huge consultancy firms that are typically mired in
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I’d go for Discord if it had a business version without all the gaming stuff. The dedicated voice/video channels are great for ad-hoc conversations when remote and a lot better than Slack’s huddles. They’re like dedicated remote meetin
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I genuinely believe that low-code workflow orchestrators like Zapier or IFTTT will be the first major victims of agentic LLM workflows. Maybe not right now but already it’s easier to write a prompt describing a workflow than it is to join a

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