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by peab 4mo ago
Yeah.. In Texas, there is loads of housing, and loads of affordable housing. In Canada - not so much
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by peab 4mo ago
I mean, Claude itself has been built by people using Claude. Is that not enough of an example?
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by peab 4mo ago
I keep seeing this question asked, and I don't understand. Have you tried it? It's so easy to build useful things for myself now. I've been able to build things that I otherwise would not have been able to build, in the free
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by peab 4mo ago
I've been able to build things that I otherwise would not have been able to build, in the free time that I have: - a VST audio plugin - a wedding website with RSVP functionality - a relaxing game for my wife At work, I've been abl
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by peab 4mo ago
we have "unlimited" time off, with the recommendation of taking off at least 1 week per quarter. This seems to work pretty well, and I'd rather have this than 20 days PTO. I usually try to take 1 week off, as well as 1 day he
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by peab 4mo ago
That's funny, that's the exact conclusion I'm starting to come to
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by peab 4mo ago
I sure hope things change
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by peab 4mo ago
Exactly this
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by peab 4mo ago
AI is the most important, impactful and disruptive technology of today. It makes sense to be talking about it.
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by peab 4mo ago
Exactly. The incentive isn't there.
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by peab 4mo ago
If you like gambling, sure. Market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent, or something like that
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by peab 4mo ago
Yeah. I find a lot of the gripes people have a bout LLMs, these days, could also be said about employees. Like, "the agent went and did a bunch of unrelated changes for the task I asked it to do!"... Have you ever worked with othe
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by peab 5mo ago
Woah, this is really cool to see
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by peab 5mo ago
I believe "i.g" would be more appropriate then, since "i.e" means "that is", while "e.g" means "for example"
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by peab 5mo ago
They're not good at testing things that require a high visual frame rate (i.e animations), high fidelity (small details), or are out of the normal distribution of things they've seen in the past (without comprehensive prompting)
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by peab 5mo ago
One of the bottlenecks right now is testing. The LLMs suck at testing still, so the feedback cycle still requires human input
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by peab 5mo ago
Poverty is not the root cause of crime
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by peab 5mo ago
Not really, if you use the most expensive models and you have a large codebase stuffed into the context window
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by peab 5mo ago
oh interesting. I'll have to take another look, that's good news
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by peab 5mo ago
Civit ai is like 99% porn though. Most production usage of image gen is google or open ai as they are by far the best
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by peab 5mo ago
The amount of cognitive dissonance I'm seeing on HN right now is concerning. I'm seeing both these beliefs right now: • Belief A: "I am a skilled professional whose value lies in my unique ability to solve complex problems.&q
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by peab 5mo ago
Of course. I'm not surprised at all that devs are upset. >You think telling humans with specialized crafts that they don't matter is good politics? Good grief. Yeah, of course not. There are lot's of historical examples of
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by peab 5mo ago
You call someone an author when they use a ghostwriter. They're giving inputs that are core to the output, even though they aren't doing all the writing. Same thing.
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by peab 5mo ago
I don't really think that's accurate either, from a business POV. Software has been such a gold mine, exactly because the maintenance are minimal when you scale, compared to the revenue. The upfront costs are expensive, but once y
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by peab 5mo ago
"has nothing to do with proper software engineering" So you're saying software engineers don't write code? Just because there are other things that SWEs do, does not mean it has nothing to do with it. It's arguably
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by peab 5mo ago
"Producing code has always been low cost" Relative to what? I don't understand people dismissing the massive decrease in both cost of producing code and the speed of producing code. Before AI, people running businesses had si
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by peab 5mo ago
How can you say it has "nothing to do with software engineering" with a straight face? I think you might be in serious denial. Of course writing code isn't the only task of a software engineer, but it's an important one.
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by peab 5mo ago
a skill is just reusuable/shareable context. It's just text, really. It's useful for things like documentation on how to use an API (this works better than MCP in my opinion), or a non consensus way of doing something. For ex
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The new bottleneck in agentic engineering(substack.com)
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by peab 5mo ago
I think if you continue to think this way, you won't have a job in a couple years. I would have agreed with your line of thinking 1 year ago. But these models are quickly becoming more capable than most software engineers. Business lea

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