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by neya 8mo ago
I was a Pro subscriber until last week. When I was chatting with Claude, it kept asking a lot of personal questions - that seemed only very very vaguely relevant to the topic. And then it struck me - all these AI companies are doing are jus
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by neya 8mo ago
Technical excellence is often overlooked by the MBA groups. They will simply walk into a project, pick something perfectly functional and ask you to tear it down for no fucking reason other than to demonstrate "they add value" to
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by neya 8mo ago
I have the opposite opinion - give me stone age over the colored christmas lights anyday :)
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by neya 8mo ago
You can find specialized roles than Rails and usually more experienced (understandably) but most companies would be really open if you told them you have a Rails background but want to learn Elixir. The pool size is less, but the pay is mor
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by neya 8mo ago
I hope that's the case. That would be really confidence inspiring.
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by neya 8mo ago
Yes, but still, targeting is done even in billboards based on the location's demographics based on census data. It's not random. Some countries in Asia (like Singapore, Malaysia) have digital bill boards to target certain demograp
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by neya 8mo ago
I don't blame you, the FOMO is real to the point even basic ChatGPT wrappers are getting funded these days, I guess.
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by neya 8mo ago
This is atleast fine as it's just spam, I got pulled into an actual scam and it never made it to the frontpage. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45357205
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by neya 8mo ago
OpenAI is already building complex user models. And I mean, super detailed user models - where you are from, what you do, what are your most vulnerable weaknesses, what you care about the most and everything else. This is information even t
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by neya 8mo ago
Anytime :)
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by neya 8mo ago
Here you go: Sorry, I miquoted the company, it was Vercel, not Cursor. "A compressed 8KB docs index embedded directly in AGENTS.md achieved a 100% pass rate, while skills maxed out at 79% even with explicit instructions telling the age
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by neya 8mo ago
I'm actually on the fence with skills. Vercel shared a study where they claimed skills performed actually worse [0] - than just injecting into the context directly via agents.md. Similarly, there was a paper recently that suggested the
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by neya 8mo ago
Agreed 100%. I shifted to Phoenix/Elixir years ago but I still love Rails for all the sensible defaults it provides.
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by neya 8mo ago
If Rails is considered a worse framework, then I'm pretty much speechless. Not everything has to be about performance. Security is a thing too.
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by neya 8mo ago
> why sane developers who for decades have been advocating for best practices when it comes to security and privacy seem to be completely abandoning all of them I'm a sane developer. I do not trust AI at all. I built my own personal
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by neya 8mo ago
'Probably' isn't a good counter argument to Open AI's 'certainly'.
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by neya 8mo ago
A search engine which you leech for free, not pay and get ads shoved onto your face. The core argument here is getting ads into your face despite having paid for the product. And also, no one is forcing you to use Google when you have so ma
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by neya 8mo ago
But they haven't. Last time I checked, you don't get shoved ads into your face if you paid for the product.
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by neya 8mo ago
Google is the new Open AI. Open AI is the new Google. Guess who wants to shove advertisements into paying customers' face and take a % of their revenues for using their models to build products? Not Google.
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by neya 8mo ago
The fundamental of software engineering is built on basic logic. If an engineer made a mistake in a basic logical problem, yes, that does make them less of a software engineer. It's the difference between memorization and actual proble
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by neya 8mo ago
That's a good idea. I will publish something open source. Gemini has Pro, Thinking and Flash. The pro is the one I'm referring to. The thinking, I haven't used it much for development though.
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by neya 8mo ago
> it's almost impossible to get Gemini to not do "helpful" drive-by-refactors This has not been my experience. I do Elixir primarily and Gemini has helped build some really cool products and massive refactors along the way
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by neya 8mo ago
Apple/OpenAI = god Anthropic = good Google = evil That's pretty much HN crowd logic to be honest
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by neya 8mo ago
Anthropic is just doing this out of spite. They had a real scenario to win mindshare and marketshare and they fucked up instead. They could have done what Open AI did - hired the OpenClaw/d founder. Instead, they sent him a legal notic
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by neya 8mo ago
It's the most overrated model there is. I do Elixir development primarily and the model sucks balls in comparison to Gemini and GPT-5x. But the Claude fanboys will swear by it and will attack you if you ever say even something remotely
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by neya 8mo ago
> I'm sure news outlets and popular social media accounts will use appropriate caution in reporting this, and nobody will misunderstand it. You mean the dude who writes articles on TechCrunch and Ars Technica based off of HN and Red
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by neya 8mo ago
I don't know what inverse binary incident you're referring to, but the fundamental premise here is LLMs can't really think logically like humans do and they are far away from replacing humans in software, let alone senior sof
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by neya 8mo ago
Because, this fundamental premise demonstrates that LLMs can't really think logically like we do and they are far from replacing actual humans, let alone senior software engineers.
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by neya 8mo ago
Yesterday someone on was yapping about how AI is enough to replace senior software engineers and they can just "vibe code their way" over a weekend into a full-fledged product. And that somehow finally the "gatekeeping"
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by neya 8mo ago
I am not a fan of OpenAI but they are not exactly hiring a security researcher. They are hiring an aspiring builder who has built something the masses love. They can always provide him the structure and support he needs to make his products

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