onion2k

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by onion2k 8mo ago
Why bother at all? AI stops coding being about the journey, and makes it about the destination. That is the polar opposite of most people's coding experience as a professional. Most developers are not about the destination, and oft
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by onion2k 8mo ago
It's possible to automate the pointless stuff without realising it's pointless.
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by onion2k 8mo ago
Yes. The problem is that the styles for something can be defined in multiple places, and that makes it hard. Especially with CSS and (potentially) having specificity issues if things aren't managed well. Having them as a part of the
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by onion2k 8mo ago
it's difficult to see ARM as anything but a greedy profiteer Welcome to Capitalism. It's not perfect but it's the best we've got.
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by onion2k 8mo ago
There's a balance to strike, and it's hard to get right. You have to give up quality enough that you actually deliver things to users rather than working on 'the perfect code', but you also have to keep quality high enou
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by onion2k 9mo ago
That's really simple - actually writing the software has never really been the hard part in most SaaS apps. So long as you're moderately disciplined and organised it's easy to build what most SaaS apps are e.g. a CRUD-app-w
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by onion2k 9mo ago
Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in 1992. Doubleclick started in 1995. So yes, like those glorious 3 years when hardly anyone was online and most access was via a 28kbps modem. I'd take adverts over that. :)
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by onion2k 9mo ago
This is true, but it's worth adding that there are no blog posts about those things either, or articles, discussions, etc except in very limited niche places dedicated to talking about them. If there was a ban on 'internet adverti
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by onion2k 9mo ago
I don't think I know how to confirm that command is correct, and I've been a Mac user for decades. If Apple's solution to problems is "trust the CLI command you found on a website" then I might need to sell some sha
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by onion2k 9mo ago
WordPress as a CMS is fine, but 90% of websites (e.g. the bit that lands in your browser) don't need the complexity of runtime generation and pointlessly run an application with a huge attack surface that's relatively easy to co
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by onion2k 9mo ago
I'm not arguing that the feature wouldn't be used at all , just that I believe I'm fairly typical in not using clever phone features. It'd be used by a small number of people but that wouldn't make a noticeable cha
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by onion2k 9mo ago
surely, 4,000 developers can’t be wrong Apparently almost half of all the websites on the internet run on WordPress, so it's entirely possible for developers to be wrong at scale.
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by onion2k 9mo ago
I think that sounds like an incredible feature, but like so many things my phone can already do I'd never actually use it. I just don't want to become someone who does what their phone suggests. Plus I have a partner and friends,
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by onion2k 9mo ago
They make the decision about what to say yes to. They can choose to do something else without it impacting their individual circumstances.
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by onion2k 9mo ago
Because there are plenty of developers who'll say yes, so anyone saying no is putting their ethics ahead of their livelihood. Few people will be willing to put their beliefs ahead of providing for their family. It's easy to say yo
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by onion2k 9mo ago
Peter Thiel talks about the difference in progress between bits and atoms. Progress in atoms (physical things) moves incredibly slowly, and has done for centuries. Progress in bits (software) moves astonishingly fast. We all work in softwar
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by onion2k 9mo ago
It'd be more strange if the thing you learned 43 years ago was exactly the same today. We should expect change. When that change is positive we call it progress.
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by onion2k 9mo ago
When I started I first had a long discussion with the AI... and made a big Markdown file with a detailed architecture description. Yep, that's how you get better output from AI. A lot of devs haven't learned that yet. They still
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by onion2k 9mo ago
however it's something entirely different for that output to be good and maintainable People aren't prompting LLMs to write good, maintainable code though. They're assuming that because we've made a collective assumpti
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by onion2k 9mo ago
One of the biggest problems with AI slop ( the biggest problem) is that we aren't discerning or critical enough to ignore the bad stuff. It should be fine for people to use AI to generate tons of crap so long as people curate the go
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by onion2k 9mo ago
If that was true the OP's manager wouldn't have been able to fix it. If finance rolls over it cannot be a legal issue.
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by onion2k 9mo ago
Fair enough, I guess I'm misremembering the timeline, but saying "It's taken 3 years, not 2!" doesn't really change the point I'm making very much. The road from what ChatGPT 3.5 could do to what Codex 5.3 can
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by onion2k 9mo ago
Nvidia invests $100bn in OpenAI, who buy $100bn of Nvidia chips, who invest the $100bn revenue in OpenAI, who buy $100bn in Nvidia chips, and round it goes. That's an easy $600bn increase in tech industry revenue right there.
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by onion2k 9mo ago
This feels right when you're looking forwards. The perfect AI bot is definitely not 6 months away. It'll take a lot longer than that to get something that doesn't get things wrong a lot of the time. That's not especially
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by onion2k 9mo ago
If you give people a limited set of tools they quickly improve until then they need (well, want ) different tools. In order to keep your customers you'll inevitably end up adding new things.
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by onion2k 9mo ago
You started your Pro or Max subscription before Wednesday, February 4, 2026 at 11:59 PM PT. Ah well. Back to Codex.
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by onion2k 9mo ago
A small suggestion: All those 'v run_command' blocks in the example flow could show you the command that was run.
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by onion2k 9mo ago
That only good if you're doing measurably more with the time you save. I feel like I'm significantly faster in parts of my job using Copilot, but when I try to get data on what I'm doing now that I wasn't doing before
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by onion2k 9mo ago
Outsourcing development and vibe coding are incredibly similar processes. If you just chuck ideas at the external coding team/tool you often get rubbish back. If you're good at managing the requirements and defining things well yo
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by onion2k 9mo ago
YC, like most incubators, has always encouraged their companies to use products and services from other companies in their portfolio. Are you saying founders don't mount an FTP account using curlftpfs and access it using SVN?

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