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by onion2k 1y ago
OpenAI cookbook says LLMs understand XML better than Markdown text. Yes, for prompts. Given how little XML is out on the public internet it'd be surprising if it also applies to data ingestion from web scraping functions. It'd b
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by onion2k 1y ago
Most of my initial prompts to agents start with "DO NOT WRITE ANY CODE YET." Copilot has Ask mode, and GPT-5 Codex has Plan/Chat mode for this specific task. They won't change any files. I've been using Codex for
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by onion2k 1y ago
Impressive as Dibnah absolutely is, give a thought to cameraman who climbed that chimney with a 1980s film camera to record the footage from the top. :)
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by onion2k 1y ago
It is not me that's making music.. AI is a shortcut from an idea to something that resembles your idea in solid form. If your goal is to create something and get a sense of accomplishment from that creative act then AI will never
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by onion2k 1y ago
No ads I don't know what "Old Web" the author is remembering but when I was first paid to make a website in 1997, it had banner ads on it.
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by onion2k 1y ago
I work backwards from the outcome I want. I eliminate any languages that can't do whatever it is I'm building but that rarely has much impact; most languages can do most tasks. Then I consider cost and performance. Then I look at
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by onion2k 1y ago
This is not how AI has ever gone. Every approach so far has either been a total dead end, or the underlying concept got pivoted into a simplified, not-AI tech. You're talking about the progress of technology. I'm talking about h
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by onion2k 1y ago
Someone tried to generate a retro hip-hop album cover image with AI, but the text is all nonsense, and humans would have to be hired to clean that AI slop In about two years we've gone from "AI just generates rubbish where the t
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by onion2k 1y ago
I've been making a point'n'click game recently, and generating the art using Flux.1 Dev and Flux.Konnect locally on a Mac Mini M1 with 8GB of RAM. It isn't quick (20m+ per image) but once I had the settings dialled in fo
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One of the things I've tried to teach people I've mentored over the past few decades is the principle of "Sharing is better than assuming." If you know something, share it with other people. Don't assume that they k
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by onion2k 1y ago
Maybe, if you don't include the >$10m investment in H800 hardware. Still a lot cheaper than competitors though.
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by onion2k 1y ago
I'll take that bet too. You will always be able to disable it by not using Chrome.
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The problem with that is Google has burned so many bridges with users over the past couple of decades that moving off the ad model to some sort of paid subscription service is going to be next to impossible. People just don't trust Goo
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by onion2k 1y ago
You don’t need big frameworks or component madness that’s more of the same. You don't, but in any sufficiently complex app you'll end up writing a sort of 'mini framework' of your own as you abstract all the things tha
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by onion2k 1y ago
I love AI for speed running through all the boring stuff and getting to the good parts. In some cases, especially with the more senior devs in my org, fear of the good parts is why they're against AI. Devs often want the inherent s
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by onion2k 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good
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by onion2k 1y ago
Consistency is important because it helps you pattern match. What the pattern is doesn't really matter.
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by onion2k 1y ago
I think the opposite is actually true - people want to pay for music, but in a way that compensates the artists they like without enriching someone who 'only' provides the mechanism that they use to listen. People rail against Spo
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by onion2k 1y ago
That's just a measure of where is most friendly to founding a company. Either that or there's something in the water in Delaware...
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by onion2k 1y ago
This is a challenge, right?
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by onion2k 1y ago
Until you lose access to the LLM and find your ability has atrophied to the point you have to look up the simplest of keywords. Devs shouldn't be blindly accepting the output of an LLM. They should always be reviewing it, and only co
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by onion2k 1y ago
Locking down a website to only be available to users on Apple and Windows doesn't make it safer. It just reduces the cost of building it because you don't have to bother testing it on any other platforms. Rather than tell users &q
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by onion2k 1y ago
You can only really be a landlord if there's a limited supply of land (or capital to build useful things on the land). Neither is true on the internet. The premise is flawed to the point it's always going to be a scam if anyone cl
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by onion2k 1y ago
"Taking Copilot out of the loop" if you ignore the massive ecosystems of Github, Visual Studio, and Visual Studio Code.
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Markdown UI is loading a bunch of components and then displaying them where you want them by parsing some Markdown to figure out where they go. MDX goes a step further by enabling you to actually write the component JSX in the Markdown as i
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by onion2k 1y ago
This already exists in a mature state - https://mdxjs.com/
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I feel bad that you're getting downvotes. The reason is that pretty much every modern web stack decouples the URL routing from the source code directory structure these days. It was a nice hack back in the day, but there are so many pr
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It makes them not work in Chrome . For any application that supports XSLT they'll continue to work fine.
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Back when I started my career in web dev (1997) VRML browsers were a pretty hot topic. They were mostly browser plugins rather than stand-alone though. I still think this is a great idea despite nearly 30 years of them being proven not to b
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My ability to break a problem down does not start from listing the files out and reading a few. If you're completely new to the problem then ... yes, it does. You're assuming that you're working on a project that you'v

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