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by mwigdahl 1y ago
If you're happy with your current tools that's good, but if not, and if you haven't tried Claude Code recently, you might give it a retry. I'm not sure what all they've been changing, but it burns a lot fewer token
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
"Deepseek only cost $6 million"?
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
We need knowledgeable people to run computers, but you can become knowledgeable about computers by using computers to access learning material. Seems like that generalizes well to LLMs.
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
"gemma3:4b on my laptop with aider" Found the problem!
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
Claude Code has been pretty poky for me running under WSL 2 on my Server 2022 box (admittedly, with pretty outdated hardware). It would routinely hang after a lot of use and performance would degrade over time. Since the last couple of upd
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
I think the main differentiator here is the local installability and customizability. They're clearly targeting orgs that can't or won't use the actual cutting edge agentic models on the market for security or other reasons.
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
How is it better than Claude Code? I have decent experience with CC, but haven't used Cline. Are there good tutorials for best practices with it?
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
You are misrepresenting what the original poster said. He did not say that he actually called kids "dum-dums" or that the kids were, themselves, a waste of life. He said that using AI to blast through assignments without learnin
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
No, but they do sell them as developer augmentations.
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
Strongly seconded. For me, they were better than the Hornblower novels (which are excellent in their own right).
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
Yes, specifically negative 213 points behind.
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
I do this, but it’s because I am evangelizing proper use of the tool to developers who don’t always understand what it can and can’t do. Recently I used o3 to plan a refactoring related to upgrading the version of C++ we are using in our pr
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
This man didn't even have to speak to be arrested. Wrongthink and an appearance of praying was enough: https://reason.com/2024/10/17/british-man-convicted-of-crimi...
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
That phenomenon is certainly not exclusive to men. All it takes is someone insecure enough to feel that losing a game threatens their sense of worth as a person.
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
My "wow" moment was when I wrote an internal MCP server so that Claude Code could access our test databases. It was a tiny amount of code, simple to connect up, and immediately gave Claude Code a way to directly validate queries.
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by mwigdahl 2y ago
A junior developer is skilled too, but still requires a senior’s guidance to keep them focused and on track. Just because a tool has built in intelligence doesn’t mean it can read your intentions from nothing if you fail to communicate to i
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by mwigdahl 2y ago
I was thinking of productivity as generation of business value rather than something less correlated like lines of code produced. But sure, it's probably more accurate to directly say "business value".
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by mwigdahl 2y ago
True! Or the school system from Ready Player One.
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by mwigdahl 2y ago
Try o3. My (very limited) experience with it is that it is refreshingly free of the normal LLM flattery, hedging, and overexplaining. It figures out your answer and gives it to you straight.
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by mwigdahl 2y ago
Or, increasingly, how the company values your time. If Claude Code can make a $100K/year dev 10% more productive, it's worth it to the employer to pay anything under $1600/month for it (assuming fully loaded cost of the empl
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by mwigdahl 2y ago
Suvins and stabils, burgers and slines, straight out of Neal Stephenson's _Anathem_.
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by mwigdahl 2y ago
You know it’s a great book when everyone seems to dislike it in a different way!
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by mwigdahl 2y ago
Yeah, this one is pretty obvious.
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by mwigdahl 2y ago
Personally I don't impute any malice whatsoever -- these are soulless corporate entities -- but a for-profit company with fiduciary duty to shareholders releasing expensive, in-house-developed intellectual property for free certainly d
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by mwigdahl 2y ago
Some jokesters are surprisingly picky about which side of the joke they're on.
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by mwigdahl 2y ago
Are they? Every foundation model release includes benchmarks with different levels of performance in different task domains. I don't think I've seen any model advertised by its creating org as either perfect or even equally comp
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by mwigdahl 2y ago
I was responding to the "they used an LLM" story about the Norwegian school report, not the original tweet. The original tweet has a great level of detail. I agree that hallucination is still a problem, albeit a lot less of one t
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by mwigdahl 2y ago
That isn't what I'm saying. I'm saying you can't make a blanket statement that LLMs in general aren't fit for some particular task. There are certainly tasks where no LLM is competent, but for others, some LLMs mi
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by mwigdahl 2y ago
All of these anecdotal stories about "LLM" failures need to go into more detail about what model, prompt, and scaffolding was used. It makes a huge difference. Were they using Deep Research, which searches for relevant articles
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by mwigdahl 2y ago
Another vote for this -- I'd read it as well!

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