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6mo ago
Why not just Nginx Proxy Manager? Solves both the Proxy issue as well as TLS/SSL. https://nginxproxymanager.com/
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This is reductionist and myopic. I've personally been through building forms online and it's hell to try to find consensus on perhaps the most common forms used online. Let's take a credit card form: - Do I let the user copy
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6mo ago
The way I see it is more like this: - Skills help the LLM answer the "how" to interact with API/CLIs from your original prompt - API is what actually sends/receives the interaction/request - CLI is the actual doing
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6mo ago
The founder of GitButler is the co-founder of GitHub. It doesn't matter what he builds, the VC is going to throw money at them.
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6mo ago
Exactly. This is called overfitting and it's most definitely a thing.
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> We're gonna need some new benchmarks... You can't consistently benchmark something that is qualitative by nature. I'm struggling to understand how people don't understand this.
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6mo ago
> complexity emerged over time So complexity is an issue? I don't get it. SFDC is an incredibly complex system that makes billions of dollars. Tell me why I would NOT want to be able to create a system like that with an automated to
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> Is there any evidence of this being intentional? The evidence is in the code! If you didn't intend for a capability to be there then why is it in the code? > if they truly wanted that, they have about 10 better approaches for i
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6mo ago
Signal?
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> All AI is doing is speed running your code base into a legacy system Are you implying legacy systems stop growing because I didn't mean to imply those companies stop growing.
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I've seen enough dirty code (900+ tech diligences over the last 12 years) to know that many businesses are successful in spite of having bad code.
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6mo ago
It's a proxy for complexity.
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6mo ago
Or a homelab using Proxmox or Unraid.
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6mo ago
Uber ran their ridesharing at a loss for years. This is a very common way to gain market share.
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6mo ago
But 600 kWh is about ~4k kg, no? Isn't that like the max hauling a sprinter can do? So doesn't this just get you a bunch of range at the "cost" of not being able to haul anything or am I missing something?
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I don't get why I would use Claude Code when OpenCode, Cursor, Zed, etc. all exist, are "free" and work with virtually any llm. Seems like a weird use case unless I'm missing something.
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> It's widely understood that the big players are making profit on inference. This is most definitely not widely understood. We still don't know yet. There's tons of discussions about people disagreeing on whether it real
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6mo ago
Wait, you put 600kWh of batteries on a sprinter van?!? I wanna know more...that's insane (base eSprinter is like ~115 kWh, right?)
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6mo ago
This is a fair point as it's not just simply using ethanol for gasoline. This article goes into more depth about it: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501605122 There's lot of factors at play here:
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6mo ago
We already produce enough food. Rooftop solar by definition is an inefficient use of resources.
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> why it is not done yet? Whoa lots to unpack here. I'll summarize: - It is already happening to some extent (it's cheaper) - Try explaining to farmers to do away with their livelihood and retrain them to running a solar farm -
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Fun fact, 12 million hectares of land of used to produce corn used for ethanol which is used to produce gas. I'll let you draw the conclusion. https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/04/trading-some-corn-e.
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7mo ago
He ran a small (30 employee) tech startup for 7 years He was a partner at YC for 8 years He has no research/PhD background in AI and is the CEO of an AI company There is no objective data point in which he's a better CTO than a CE
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Thousands of developers are using Claude Code successfully (I think?). So what specifically is the gripe? If it works, it works right?
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ding. ding.
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> "well the market doesn't care about quality" You literally just told me the market doesn't care about quality. I don't get what point you're trying to make? > When the market incentives are aligned betw
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Which might be true, but is totally irrelevant to the OP's comment.
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> obviously created by people the care deeply about the quality of the product they produce This obviously doesn't represent all of the billions of dollars spent on software like Salesforce, SAP, Realpage, Booking.com, etc. etc. (al
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7mo ago
This is the most objective viewpoint on transgenders in sports: https://shows.acast.com/realscienceofsport/episodes/whytrans...
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That's true.
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