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pdntspa
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pdntspa
7mo ago
You can get even more vague and just generally describe the design of something, making sure it leaves exact measurements to parameters, and end up with something usable. ("Make me an openSCAD file for an pointed star with curved point
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7mo ago
Doesnt systemd fuck with resolv.conf? Also, I have had many system updates that broke my X11 config
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pdntspa
7mo ago
Sooooo.... webmin?
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pdntspa
7mo ago
Then can they please figure out some way of invoking it that doesnt require prefixing everything with 'uv'
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7mo ago
I'll never say that I wrote the code, because I didn't.
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7mo ago
If you micromanage the mechanic, then yeah you might get production credits for fixing the car. You could argue that I'm playing the manager, sure. I guess people who write software with nocode or visual data flow tools aren't pro
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7mo ago
> Vibecoding is the term for building software with LLM tools without manual review and guidance. Coasting along purely on vibes. Hence the name. Agentic development is the middle ground where you're actively reviewing and archite
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7mo ago
"I thought using loops was cheating, so I programmed my own using samples. I thought using samples was cheating, so I recorded real drums. I thought that was cheating, so I learned to play. I thought using purchased drums was cheating,
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7mo ago
Substitute it with "the mechanical act of writing code" and maybe it will make more sense. I have been clumsy with my vocabulary here, forgive me.
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7mo ago
I'm literally making a program. Present-progressive of the verb to program . I feel like you're pearl-clutching on semantics. By my read, programming != writing code, but writing code is most definitely programming. Oxford define
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7mo ago
At a later date, perhaps. I haven't messed with this project since I got employed and it was written over summer 2025, when the tooling for agentic development was a lot worse. (Very ADD here) There's also the open question of how
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7mo ago
Possibly. Mostly? I wanted a stackable desk tray shelf thing for my desk in literally any size for my clutter. Too lazy to go shopping for one, and couldn't find one on any of the maker sites, so I had claude write me an openSCAD file
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7mo ago
I'm still reading the code, I'm still correcting the LLM's laughably awful architecture and abstractions, and I'm still spending large chunks of time in the design and planning phase with the LLM. The only thing it does
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7mo ago
All of my side projects scratch an itch, so I do want the output. There are not enough hours in the day for me to make all the things I want to make. Code is just the vessel, and one I am happy to outsource if I can maintain a high standard
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7mo ago
Because the programming is and was always a means to an end. Obsessing over the specific mechanical act of programming is taking the forest for the trees. I agree with gp that the speed in which I am able to execute my vision is exhilaratin
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7mo ago
Maybe, but the amen break has a very specific je ne sais quoi that makes it way more useful and pleasant as a sample than almost any other sample. There's just so many situations in the kind of music I make where the amen is like the o
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7mo ago
I haven't checked in a while but I know for a fact that Amazon does or did it
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7mo ago
They already do... A lot of known crawlers will get a crawler-optimized version of the page
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7mo ago
> because my prompts are in natural languages, and hence ambiguous. Legalese developed specifically because natural language was too ambiguous. A similar level of specificity for prompting works wonders One of the issues with specifying
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7mo ago
I wouldn't confuse Steve Jobs-era Apple with what it is now.
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7mo ago
I have a lot of questions about the person who wrote that blog post, in that it seems to be a quick hot take without any digging into the reasons why things are the way are Blog first, ask questions later? It's like c'mon man, hav
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7mo ago
Sure, if you want to speak with the precision of a sledgehammer instead of a scalpel
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7mo ago
Equally egregious are applications that insist on using the primary disk to cache model data/sample data/whatever
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7mo ago
Fuck this business sense bullshit. If the feature can be built, it should be built. The is business at the expense of product, aka the reason everything sucks so much nowadays
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7mo ago
Now make Dropbox sync work with iPhone
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8mo ago
> There is an unsolvable disconnect between what the performer's actions and their audience Is that really true though? If I watch a cellist play I can pretty clearly see all the things they are doing and it will correlate neatly to
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8mo ago
At 8 hours a day 5 days a week I never hit the limit on my $100 MAX plan. People must be running crazy autonomous workflows or something because I'm nowhere near hitting my limit, ever
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8mo ago
And here I thought this was some sort of cross-platform Swift-Forth hybrid
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8mo ago
I have MAX and have been using Opus 4.6 heavily for my day job which is 100% agentic programming, and my usage numbers have not changed meaningfully since Opus 4.6 came out
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8mo ago
You can delete the billing from a given API key
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