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by pdimitar 4mo ago
You can and should have the best of both worlds. Using Enpass, the program _is_ local, it just backs up the entire database (encrypted SQLite3) to a cloud. But if even that is too much then f.ex. `keepass` + a scheduled script to periodical
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
Everybody knows this... especially those that gaslight people into working themselves to the bone. They know that people wisen up to this so they hire younger people, before they understood the game. Classic.
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
I am with you here but don't get overly pessimistic: devising hooks and stopgaps and flows and constantly tuning what to watch out for does not only improve the quality of the LLM-output code. It hones and refines your own abilities. C
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
I agree his tone was not productive but the comment he responded to seemed like a disingenuous argument as well. "The CPU doesn't know about that stuff" is not true -- or it's arguing in bad faith. I mean, hello, tagged
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
Nobody claimed that "sum types are be all end all". I originally responded to "how would you handle cases where a value is unset without NULL" with "sum types" which are trivially presentable with bit masks if
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
Your proposed solution?
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
All true but every time I tried to help with an outsider's perspective -- and IMO us as engineers with systems thinking _can_ contribute -- I was told to shut up and stay in my lane (more politely than that but still crystal clear what
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
You asked how sum types work in assembly. I'm telling you that at least 3 compilers figured that part out.
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
OCaml / Rust / Haskell. Apparently they found a way to have the CPU know... about "this stuff".
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
I remember why C stayed what it is at least: elitism and gatekeeping. And YAGNI, repeated millions of times, of which only the first few were correct. You're telling me OCaml / Rust / Haskell compile to fairy pixie dust? Obvi
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
Sum types, of course.
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
That didn't help very much. What did you mean by "agents" earlier on? The tool/harness or the LLM itself? Also -- can you make Maki enforce the underlying LLM to use stuff like fd/rg and not always default to find&#
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
Wait what? I thought Maki is a Pi/OpenCode replacement i.e. just the TUI for whatever you plug in it i.e. API-based Codex / Claude? In another comment you said "I can't get back to other agents". What gives? Feels l
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
I am unsure where your confusion comes from, the very first of my comments which you replied to was already expressing disagreement with my then-parent poster. No idea why you are escalating and are trying to mock either, so I'll bow o
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
> We are arguing both that agential blah blah makes everything fast and easy and you don't need to be as knowledgeable about any X anymore I do not know who "we" is but I sure as hell am not arguing this -- that's d
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
I have them but they can't quite save me from shitty articles, sadly. Shitty videos I learned to avoid. But yeah we don't disagree. I don't mind investing time and effort into becoming an informed consumer. But I just wish I
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
If you really like to argue semantics, OK, nobody put a gun to my head and said: "Here, buy this washing machine that will break just two weeks after its meagre two years of warranty, or I blow your head off!". Fine. But it is, sh
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
I live in country where shrewd salesmen know that people like me would pay extra for quality so they sell me crappy quality still, just for 3x the price. So yeah, I started resorting to asking acquaintances with big families and also LLMs t
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
You are kind of ranting here and your point seem to mostly be "but we should not do harness engineering at all" which I agree with btw. I am describing the reality we are currently in. If I don't do some harness engineering t
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
> Concretely: if you can do 90% of your work with AI, someone else can also do that same work That's the part that is not true. Prompting and guard-rails and generally harness engineering do matter a lot lately. Seen it first-hand
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
This is likely mostly nullified by the consumerism hellscape that's being forced on us i.e. stuff lasts less time and we have to buy more often. Still a win but not as big as many are selling it.
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
Your last sentence sounds reasonable. Can you give examples?
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
No, you are paid to deliver. Whether you do that by thinking + hand-coding or just vibe-coding, or handing the task description to Cthulhu and waiting for him to materialize the solution on your disk, is immaterial. Unless of course you als
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
I mean OK, valid, and they really should get on it. But you are squinting really hard if you equate "programmers not being good lawyers" with "they obviously vibe-launched the product".
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
Beautifully put and I agree, with one nuance: There are multiple ways to think about how to write software, and that number really is not as high as various language proponents want us to believe. They aim at 50-100 but I'd say we got
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
Hell, you can install the gemini/antigravity CLI and use Gemini's free tiers and it will still fix it for you.
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
I think everyone on HN would easily agree with this. They take issue with the how i.e. AI-assisted images (and maybe text).
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
You do not in fact need an agent. Without it, you'll just need more time to inform/educate yourself and do it yourself. Agents in this case are just accelerators.
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
And you addressed your parent comment... how exactly?
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
I would not mind if it was +50% more expensive... if it was TRULY a competition to f.ex. a Macbook Air. Many more techies would not mind it. But I don't think we ware there yet. I am rooting for Framework myself.

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