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by mvkel 8mo ago
Excited for the inevitable "Windows 3.11 - 98K MRR" in pieter's X bio.
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by mvkel 8mo ago
From Claude docs: Planning is most useful when you’re uncertain about the approach, when the change modifies multiple files, or when you’re unfamiliar with the code being modified. If this isn't true, skip the plan.
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by mvkel 8mo ago
Love this forum UI/UX. It's clear, snappy, intuitive. How far we have fallen. That said, allowing posts with no auth is a choice.
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by mvkel 8mo ago
> This isn't another trading bot. It's an autonomous agent with memory, intuition, and the authority to act. The AI smell sure is strong with this one. Overall, this bot will fail to generate a profit; it is trading what is alr
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by mvkel 8mo ago
> the workflow I’ve settled into is radically different from what most people do with AI coding tools This looks exactly like what anthropic recommends as the best practice for using Claude Code. Textbook. It also exposes a major downsid
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by mvkel 8mo ago
This should be a wake up call. A product's value is not a function of its code elegance. Nobody who matters notices the code, or cares. This is hugely inspiring to the most lazy+clever engineers, because it frees up so many thinking ca
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by mvkel 8mo ago
Related, I have a personal project that has several modules that run in a sequential pipeline. As each module is activated, an animated portrait avatar of a Starcraft II character appears, so at a glance, I can see which module is running a
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by mvkel 8mo ago
> The Hatchet TUI is not well supported on mobile devices. Isn't everyone else remoting into a Claude instance on their phones?
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by mvkel 8mo ago
"Built to Sell" is a better book, starting with the premise that your company needs to be positioned to be bought, not sold. If you are reaching out to someone to buy you, you are effectively accepting an 80% price cut.
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by mvkel 8mo ago
This was one of the biggest hurdles I had to overcome when I was a wee lad combing through "Professional PHP Programming." All of the examples it gave were foo/bar, and I couldn't make the intellectual leap to understand
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by mvkel 8mo ago
Seems short-sighted to commit to not running ads exactly like OpenAI plans to. You win in the court of public opinion for a few months, then look like a hypocrite when you're inevitably forced to run ads because your investors demand i
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by mvkel 8mo ago
> We are certainly closer now to being able to prototype and go to market faster with a product Absolutely. But this begs the question that businesses want to also sign up to maintain whatever product they've built, on top of their
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by mvkel 8mo ago
It's this generation's "build vs buy." I imagine it will play out the same way, like a revolving door. Customers churn because they can "build it themselves," then a year later when they're sick of maintai
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by mvkel 8mo ago
Why anyone wouldn't want to be using the SOTA model at all times baffles me. Going dumb/cheap just ends up costing more, in the short and long term.
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by mvkel 9mo ago
So here we have OpenSSL, coded by humans, universally adopted by the Internet, universally deemed to be terrible code. More evidence that "coding elegance" is irrelevant to a product's success, which bodes well for AI generat
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by mvkel 9mo ago
This seems like a cheap trick to hook someone into a blog post (ironically, Gwern seems to disregard this almost universally). If I were reading a book and each chapter started with such a "hook," it'd start to feel like a Li
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by mvkel 9mo ago
More engineers aren't the solution. Less engineers are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law
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by mvkel 9mo ago
It's wild how the layers of abstraction just keep expanding
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by mvkel 9mo ago
> tests, documentation, CI, issue trackers Exactly. In many engineering camps, it's not unreasonable to say that almost all of this has no benefit to the end-user, even indirectly. https://agilemanifesto.org/
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by mvkel 9mo ago
Just my experience in vibe coding apps from gpt-3.5 onwards (mostly NextJS or Node). In gpt-3.5, I had to really hand-hold it, getting it to write one function at a time, then a separate task to glue the functions together. Now, it can buil
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by mvkel 9mo ago
There's only one difficulty setting
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by mvkel 9mo ago
Style = syntax, taste, architecture choices, etc. Things you would see on a 15-year-old Java app. i.e. not a greenfield project.
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by mvkel 9mo ago
> Other people are just less picky than I am I think this is part of it. When coding style has been established among a team, or within an app, there are a lot of extra hoops to jump through, just to get it to look The Right Way, with no
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by mvkel 9mo ago
Related: does anyone know of a way to delete the original videos on trimmed ones? Apparently all edits to videos are non-destructive, so the 10-minute video that I trimmed to 2 seconds still takes up 8gb.
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by mvkel 9mo ago
Incredible. I have such a hacked-together system to get my iCloud Photos backed up to an external drive while not filling my main laptop drive. This would be even better.
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by mvkel 9mo ago
Lemay's appointment was widely celebrated, but he'd been at apple since 1999 and never got the gig. My guess is that there are valid reasons for that that may not be design-related.
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by mvkel 9mo ago
Seems very clear now that we are going to see touch screen MacBooks. Which is a very silly idea. But explains why the UI "snaps" like an iPad, and everything is designed for touch.
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by mvkel 9mo ago
Demanding every intimate personal detail of a human whose paycheck you happen to underwrite feels a little ... inhumane.
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by mvkel 9mo ago
I think the difference (at least with macOS) is the fundamental things that -were- working don't suddenly break* *macOS26 excepted
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by mvkel 9mo ago
Twitter started as an internal service for existing Odeo employees, so an unfair comparison if you're talking about cold, starting a social network. Twitter didn't start cold.

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