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by overgard 8mo ago
The issue for me is the customer support here, not necessarily that they don't have good offerings. (I know they've always been bad at customer support, but this all seems egregious)
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by overgard 8mo ago
Yikes!! This is really unfortunate, because Google's models seem very good but there's no way I'm using a google service for this kind of thing with those policies. I don't even want to run OpenClaw, but that's scar
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by overgard 8mo ago
Definitely good points, thanks for the links. While I try to practice all of these, I think what tends to happen on large codebases is just a bit of entropy. Like, these are all good practices that are either a little obscure or a little le
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by overgard 8mo ago
I mean, if you turn off incremental compilation and build in a container (or some other "clean room" environment), it should turn out the same each time. Local builds are very non-deterministic, but CI/CD shouldn't be. E
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by overgard 8mo ago
Also, most real build systems build from a clean directory and checkout.. so, outside of a dev's machine they should be 100% reproducible, because the inputs should be reproducible. If builds aren't 100% reproducible that's a
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by overgard 8mo ago
While I agree undefined behavior is annoying and a huge UX issue, end of the day the bug is in your code not in the compiler. Also having an -O0 debug build is standard practice. My point isn't that compilers are super easy to use and
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by overgard 8mo ago
I'm using Claude every day and I am correcting the output all the time, by reading the code, because it does bad things and breaks things. I feel like the people saying that it doesn't matter either aren't building anything r
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by overgard 8mo ago
I feel like this is kind of missing the point of the argument around this. People love to say "Well you don't check your compiler output do you?" (never mind that some of us actually do for various reasons). When's the l
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by overgard 8mo ago
I mean, Microsoft has recently made a statement that they're aware people are mad and they're working on it, so, no, I don't think they care that I personally hate the software but they do care that there are a number of peop
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by overgard 8mo ago
Tell that to people abandoning Windows. (I'm writing this on a Linux machine right now) Most users are forced to use the software that they use. That doesn't mean they don't care, just that they're stuck. BTW, this going
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by overgard 8mo ago
React is a weird beast. I've been using it for years. I think I like it? I use it for new projects too, probably somewhat as a matter of familiarity. I'm not entirely convinced it's a great way to code, though. My experience
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by overgard 8mo ago
I don't think anyone on the AI hype train cares about performance, memory usage, or code quality (measured by bugs). Customers will, though.
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by overgard 8mo ago
> The poster here doesn't seem to grasp how Facebook's algorithms work. Since when do customers need to grok the algorithm? If it doesn't work it's not on us.
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by overgard 8mo ago
I don't really think that's how this plays out. Facebook can squeeze people a little longer, but if all you want is entertainment other options seem better. End of the day Facebook's moat is your network, but if it's not
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by overgard 8mo ago
Every couple of months or so I log in, and it's just depressing. I basically see zero posts from friends, it's just a lot of weird content I never signed up for. The weird thing is they send me a ton of emails saying "So and
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by overgard 8mo ago
You know, before AI, one of the things that always kind of puzzled me about software development was that people thought it was super hard, or something only certain people can do. And I mean, the evidence seems to point to that being the c
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by overgard 8mo ago
I don't want to speak too much out of my depth here, I'm still learning how these things work on a mechanical level, but my understanding of how these things "reason" is it seems like they're more or less having a c
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by overgard 8mo ago
AFAIK you can't copyright AI generated content. I don't know where that gets blurry when it's mixed in with your own content (ie, how much do you need to modify it to own it), but I think that by that definition these compani
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by overgard 8mo ago
I'm using Claude Code (and Codex) (with the expensive subscriptions) on an app I'm building right now. I'm trying to be maximalist with them (to learn the most I can about them .. and also that subscription isn't cheap!)
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by overgard 8mo ago
I think LLM's are just fundamentally the wrong AI technique for games like this. You don't want a prediction for the next move, you want the best move given knowledge of how things would play out 18 moves ahead if both players pla
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by overgard 8mo ago
Remember when Visual Basic was making everyone a programmer too? (btw, warm fuzzies for VB since that's what I learned on! But ultimately, those VB tools business people were making were: 1) Useful, actually! 2) Didn't replace pro
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by overgard 8mo ago
Ok, I'll try to talk you out of it! > AI will soon plan better, execute better, and have better taste I think AI will do all these things faster , but I don't think it's going to be better . Inevitably these things know
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by overgard 8mo ago
Because of how LLM's work. I don't know exactly how they're using it for chess, but here's a guess. If you consider the chess game a "conversation" between two opponents, the moves written out would be the cont
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by overgard 8mo ago
I do. But, there's a lot of annoying things about it being a TUI. I can't select a block of text in my editor and ask it to do something with it. It doesn't know what I'm looking at. Giving it context feels imprecise bec
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by overgard 8mo ago
> It is inevitable. Is it though? I agree the technology evolving is inevitable, but, the race/rush to throw as much money at scaling and marketing as possible before these things are profitable and before society is ready is not in
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by overgard 8mo ago
Don't these companies keep firing their safety teams?
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by overgard 8mo ago
Well, without the self soothing I think what's left is pitchforks.
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by overgard 8mo ago
They have literally every chess game in existence to train on, and they can't do better than 1800?
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by overgard 8mo ago
Couldn't agree more, isn't that the bizarre thing? "We have this great intellectually challenging job where we as workers have leverage. How can we completely ruin that while also screwing up every other white collar professi
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by overgard 8mo ago
The funny thing is I think these things would work much better if they WEREN'T so insistent on the agentic thing. Like, I find in-IDE AI tools a lot more precise and I usually move just as fast as a TUI with a lot less rework. But Clau

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