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by ljm 8mo ago
Heroku and Ruby, for me, was the 21st century answer to 'deploying' a PHP site over FTP. The fact that it required nothing but 'git push heroku master' at the time was incredible, especially for how easy it was to spin u
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by ljm 8mo ago
Every now and then there's a post on Reddit like "I ordered this thing from UNARFI and it is nothing like the pictures" and I'm like, what do you expect when ordering from a site named after an incorrect guess on wordle?
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by ljm 8mo ago
I guarantee that his employees are wishing he would stop fucking up their issue list and get on with being the CEO
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by ljm 8mo ago
This is the bit that struck me as odd. The author is creating issue slop but blames the contributor for treating it as genuine. The author wants to continue creating slop issues and decides that blocking all external contributions is the so
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by ljm 8mo ago
Given that social engineering is an intractable problem in almost any organisation I honestly cannot see how an unsupervised AI agent could perform any better there. Feeding in untrusted input from a support desk and then actioning it, in a
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by ljm 8mo ago
Perhaps to show the level of privilege I enjoy as a software engineer with some level of seniority, I have had zero problem resigning from a position (more than once in fact) because I objected to something my employer was doing. It's
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by ljm 8mo ago
I'm not that surprised because of how pervasive the 'move fast and break things' culture is in Silicon Valley, and what is essentially AI accelerationism. You see this reflected all over HN as well, e.g. when Cloudflare goes
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by ljm 9mo ago
> You don't have to prosecute and send a million people to jail for making and distributing fake AI nudes, you just have to send a couple, and then the problem virtually goes away. I genuinely cannot tell if you are being comically
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by ljm 9mo ago
The feeling I get is 'RCE exploits as a Service'
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by ljm 9mo ago
You don't see how the common thread is Elon Musk buying out his own businesses, largely on the basis of overinflated stocks and corporate welfare? It's baffling that the market has stayed so irrational because of Musk. It will col
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by ljm 9mo ago
Virality would be a factor in this too, which is totally demand-side even if there are levers that can be pulled to induce it artificially, but that's getting towards dead internet theory and engagement-bait I think and it's more
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by ljm 9mo ago
That's demand driven and organic, at least, and it's not the first thing that comes to mind with hypergrowth, it's just scale. Instead, I think of hypergrowth as a supply-side attempt to capture a larger market in a highly in
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by ljm 9mo ago
YOLO is a bit of an understatement for this
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by ljm 9mo ago
I think it's a good idea to have a style guide of sorts that you can point to when people sweat the small stuff.
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by ljm 9mo ago
I've only managed to use it as a linter-but-on-steroids because, where I'd normally page through the Ruby docs about enumerators to find the exact method that does what someone has implemented in a PR (because there's almost
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by ljm 9mo ago
Growth at any cost. Once growth is unable to increase the wealth of the shareholders the money has to be diverted from elsewhere, via cuts. Money gotta keep flowing upwards.
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by ljm 9mo ago
Some useful tech has come out of the development of VS Code that every other editor has been able to benefit from but I don’t rate it much as an editor any more. It’s rare for MS to do just the embrace and extend part of EEE, unless Copilot
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by ljm 9mo ago
Coming full circle to renting time from a mainframe.
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by ljm 9mo ago
TFA wouldn’t blame ‘Mike’ but I definitely would. And ‘Mike’s Boss. That’s not just a process error. At some point you just have to feed back to the right person that someone isn’t up to the task.
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by ljm 9mo ago
If all I know is the mech suit, I’ll struggle with tasks that I can’t use it for. Maybe even get stuck completely. Now it’s a skill issue because I never got my 10k hours in and I don’t even know what to observe or how to explain the outcom
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by ljm 9mo ago
The more accurate prompt would be “You are a mind reader. Create me a plan to create a task manager, define the requirements, deploy it, and tell me when it’s done.” And then you just rm -rf and repeat until something half works.
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by ljm 9mo ago
If I had a compact Linux laptop for work rather than a MacBook I'd be raw dogging NixOS already rather than using nix-darwin. There isn't really much about MacOS that sets itself apart these days. The only other thing keeping me h
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by ljm 9mo ago
It shows me that there doesn’t appear to be an escape from Conway’s Law, even when you replace the people in an organisation with machines. Fundamentally, the problem is still being explored from the perspective of an organisation of people
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by ljm 9mo ago
For me it’s just a multi-coloured ring like a gamer’s mood light, but it’s literally just slapped in the corner of the UI the same way a shitty Intercom widget would be. Totally a thing a growth hacking team would do, injecting an interface
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by ljm 9mo ago
Yet, if you can only explain an exception using the word ‘exception’ you’re not making any head way. I like the idea of an exception as a way to blow out of the current context in order for something else to catch it and handle in a generic
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by ljm 9mo ago
I’ve been using agent-shell in emacs a lot and it stores transcripts of the entire interaction. It’s helped me out lot of times because I can say ‘look at the last transcript here’. It’s not the responsibility of the agent to write this tr
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by ljm 9mo ago
Yes, but they can also do the same with a group chat on WhatsApp, and email. And, XMPP was the protocol to do this before people found money in extinguishing it. That's probably accurate in the US with the AI tech push to 996. You know
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by ljm 9mo ago
Agreed - particularly because there is an example of a login box and the screenshot of that is far more prominent than the rest of the design. I don't think the demo should overpower the landing page. And then it goes straight into the
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by ljm 9mo ago
Every third party you contract with can pull the rug from under you this way, even this new startup with its 'forever free tier'. You plan for it as a potential risk just like anything else and, if the time comes, you can work on
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by ljm 9mo ago
Honest feedback: seeing the promise of 'free, forever' as a selling point on some early-adopter SaaS actually puts me off. It's a promise that is always broken. I don't buy it. I also think that the marketing is pitch

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