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by lopatin 1y ago
> They wrote off the coding ability of ChatGPT on version 3.5, for instance, and have missed all the advancements that have happened since. > It's hardly even useful for coding. I’m curious what kind of projects you’re writing wh
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by lopatin 1y ago
Not typing the trivial parts is pretty great though
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by lopatin 1y ago
While people's experience with LLMs is pretty varied and subjective, saying they're bad at writing tests just isn't true. Claude Code is incredible at writing tests and testing infrastructure.
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by lopatin 1y ago
Off topic but my dad took me around the woods this weekend to show me mushrooms and he almost couldn’t contain his excitement. And this is a person who usually doesn’t like stuff. And the whole time I was like “yep, that’s a mushroom”. Ther
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by lopatin 1y ago
I knew I was being sold to and I couldn't stop reading and signing up anyways. It's an effective ad.
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by lopatin 1y ago
ChatGPT is trying out a new feature. I don't get what's fascinating and wild about that.
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by lopatin 1y ago
Presumably retail options traders and less sophisticated firms
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by lopatin 1y ago
I never thought that Go would be a technology of choise for PL stuff. I always considered it more of a Java-lite for Web systems and also for CLI stuff, but here we are! TypeScript rewrote their compiler to Go. Being a compiler, they had no
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by lopatin 1y ago
I see it as an investment into my future. I was able to make progress on a personal project with Claude Code which I failed at using other tools. Yes, I will, and apparently have, paid multiple hundreds of dollars to get the project release
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by lopatin 1y ago
That's a great question. Probably not. IDK. I'm also only paying this much to maintain momentum on a personal project. I also know in a year, these LLM products will change drastically, pricing tiers will transform, etc.. So I can
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by lopatin 1y ago
I feel unstoppable with Claude Code Max. I never thought I'd pay $200 per month for any developer tool, yet here we are, and I also couldn't be happier with it.
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by lopatin 1y ago
Here's how it caught my Snake bug: My snake representation is a vector of key points (head, turns, tail). A snake in a straight line, of length 3, facing right can look like this: [(0,0), (2,0)]. When a Snake moves (a single function c
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by lopatin 1y ago
And just a tip for who may be intersted: Claude Opus with Extended Thinking seems to be very good at converting existing code into TLA+ specs. I've found multiple bugs for personal Rust projects like this (A Snake game that allowed a s
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by lopatin 1y ago
I'd day that hedge funds and quant trading firms are an exception to this rule. If you get access to their model training code, order execution code, and especially their trading strategies, then that is literally valuable since you&#x
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Ask HN: How much better are AI IDEs vs. copy pasting into chat apps?
139 points by lopatin 1y ago|136 comments
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by lopatin 1y ago
Humans haven’t been around for millions of years though. Or is that part of the cheekiness?
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by lopatin 1y ago
My biggest issue with the UI is that it doesn’t let you edit your prompt if it’s not the latest one. If someone at Google is reading this, can you just implement it lol. Such a minor thing but really disrupts my workflow when dealing with a
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by lopatin 1y ago
Ruby isn't web scale. Rust is web scale.
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by lopatin 2y ago
Deep Research is great for specific stuff like this. https://chatgpt.com/share/67f5b165-b7c0-8000-b81c-4dc869e163... It did take more than a few minutes to do the research, looks thorough though.
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by lopatin 2y ago
I always thought a fun but fireable April Fools joke would be to sprinkle the words "probably" and "likely" to key parts in technical documentations.
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by lopatin 2y ago
The OP needs to write with some more focus. Most of this reads like a very long rant by someone who was woken up too many times recently. > We need to talk about Kafka No we don't, that entire section was irrelevant.
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by lopatin 2y ago
Multi-axis matplotlib charts on the first try
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by lopatin 2y ago
I started using Idris a few years ago because the idea is fascinating. Such as state machines in your type system, the size of a list being defined in the static type system, even if the list size changes over time (pretty mind blowing), et
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by lopatin 2y ago
I still don't get it. Is Mozilla phoning home the fact that I pressed the button?
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by lopatin 2y ago
GoatDB is web scale. PouchDB isn't web scale.
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by lopatin 2y ago
And people on the internet are simplifying it into memes. Shocker.
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by lopatin 2y ago
The bad SSL cert is the perfect feature for this.
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by lopatin 2y ago
I only allow myself to use Scala these days if follow some rules: no sbt (just Maven) and no Scala libraries (just Java ones). I never used fancy stuff like Cats anyways. Curious to hear who actually does, and for what.
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by lopatin 2y ago
Step 1. Write blog post about how unnecessary feature churn can make a product worse. Step 2. Put an avalanche of moving snowflakes in the background of the blog post to make it nearly unreadable.
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by lopatin 2y ago
The main feature of Sublime Text for me is that it doesn't throw away your buffers. Ever. So it's mainly a note taking app with vim key bindings for me / snappy scratch pad. All of my actual code editing happens in an IDE or

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