perrygeo

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by perrygeo 3mo ago
I largely agree with the premise. I was just honing in on the coding claim because the statement is so obviously wrong that it distracts from an otherwise solid post. We should put software squarely in the "complex system" categor
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by perrygeo 3mo ago
> Coding, math and most administrative work are similarly benign. What makes them easy is that they have relatively smooth solution spaces and are tractably verifiable. Code most definitely does NOT have an easily verifiable search space
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by perrygeo 3mo ago
Billions of conversations. Zero lived experience. The difference is huge. An LLM conversation can contain within it a batshit crazy model of the world and still produce a plausible stream of tokens. No skin in the game. If you don't te
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by perrygeo 3mo ago
My point is that creatine has had significant attention on it for decades. OP perceives an increase in attention but that's just a reflection of their knowledge (Baader–Meinhof effect)
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by perrygeo 3mo ago
Creatine is a health fad? No other supplement has been this widely-used for such a long time. It was considered safe and effective when I started using it 30 years ago. The benefits are/were well established, the mechanisms well-known,
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by perrygeo 3mo ago
Ironically that's where I started my career and now I'm hoping to get back there. I was a data-oriented environmental scientist who happened to code. But at some point, I slipped into 100% software development roles and I never g
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by perrygeo 3mo ago
My heaviest LLM usage month came in at $45. So far this July, $6 and counting (it's been a light month). I can certainly imagine increasing my usage by several orders of magnitude but ... why? If I have something that needs to get done
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by perrygeo 3mo ago
It's not just "the code itself looks LLM generated" - it's also LOC/hr by a particular author which suggests vibe coding. You could look at the author's github contributions to identify time periods when the
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by perrygeo 3mo ago
Love it. Another great site along these lines: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
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by perrygeo 4mo ago
Point datasets have two distinct modes of visualization. First is an aggregate view which serves to show you the trends and spatial distribution. Second is the individual view showing details about the point itself, its attributes, etc. Clu
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by perrygeo 4mo ago
> Ask your favorite GPT to generate manifests, ... > Before LLMs writing consistent YAMLs was PITA but today on low/development scale it's pretty much free lunch. Writing manifests seems like a trivial thing to focus on. Who
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by perrygeo 4mo ago
This is a consequence of our "AI accusation culture" that has arisen in the last year. An obvious reaction to the "AI slop culture" (seriously, stop doing that) but its a shame to see legitimate creators caught in the cr
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by perrygeo 4mo ago
I don't think people fully grasp the scale of a trillion dollars. A trillionaire is a million millionaires. It's impossible to efficiently manage that much wealth in one brain. Distribute it! I'd run an essay contest. Every y
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by perrygeo 4mo ago
At what point does this become an issue for data quality and global epistemology? It seems inevitable that we ask for more AI assistance on topics we don't understand. And therefore have the least context to correct. Result: a flood of
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by perrygeo 4mo ago
Learn SQL (because it's basically the only option) but much more importantly, learn databases. Know why atomicity, consistency, idempotency, and durability matter. Understand the wire protocol and the client-server model. Do relational
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by perrygeo 4mo ago
Navigating and manipulating code as a tree, directly in your editor. There is nothing like it. Going back to code as bunch of carefully arranged ascii chars feels like a regression.
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by perrygeo 4mo ago
Friction is the mechanism by which mammalian brains acquire skills. This is as close to proven as we get in cognitive neuroscience; without a struggle, we literally don't learn. This is not a controversial statement. The only way to im
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by perrygeo 5mo ago
yes, sorry its an important distinction. Especially raw whole fruits since they are packed with fiber and nutrients and hard to overeat.
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by perrygeo 5mo ago
Yep. If there was one single thing that literally every person should do for their health, that is to greatly reduce or completely eliminate sugar. The evidence is overwhelming. The evidence against seed oils is not quite as convincing. I s
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by perrygeo 5mo ago
I watched people ask LLMs for linting/refactoring help, burning easily 5 minutes for something that could be completed deterministically, locally, in ms using any modern editor. Quite frankly it was embrassing. We've had tools for
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by perrygeo 5mo ago
Another framing is "Prioritize". It's not yes or no; it's what are you focusing on right now . There may be plenty of good ideas that are "no" today because you can only work on one at a time.
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by perrygeo 5mo ago
> The unit you plan in is the truth you will or will not face. This 100x. "Story points" are evil, simply because they can't be measured. The qualitative nature of story points means that planning assumptions are NEVER che
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by perrygeo 5mo ago
No, this is quite backwards. I find myself reading code more, to gain context and build the theory for the feature I'm working on. The time it takes to write the code is now trivial compared to designing a good idea. Reading/think
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by perrygeo 5mo ago
> Muddled prompting by humans gets you the Homer Simpson car you wished for Well put! Now that we have a magic tool that can generate tokens on demand, the quality of the underlying idea gains enormous importance relative to the code. To
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by perrygeo 5mo ago
Super strange framing. The plant still need solar energy. They still need electricity within the tissues of the organism to survive (ATP and krebs cycle). Humans have always burned organic matter for light. Not trying to be a pedant but &qu
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by perrygeo 5mo ago
Partly true, but don't blame GeoJSON. Blame the data model. GeoJSON is firmly rooted in the "simple features" model of spatial data. Sometimes called the "vector data model", this is ubiquitous in GIS. Each geograph
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by perrygeo 5mo ago
14x is insane, especially since the quality and quantity of IRL software has barely budged. One could hope that we'd use these newfound agentic coding powers to actually realize value, improve quality, etc. Instead I see enshittificati
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by perrygeo 5mo ago
Good advice generally. But please, not at the gym. All gyms have a different vibe but mine is almost strictly no talking. We go there to workout, not to chat. Everyone locked in, headphones on, no nonsense. I've been going for years an
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by perrygeo 5mo ago
> Valuing quality over velocity is not selfish Fully agree. I never mentioned velocity or advocated for lower quality. In fact, this statement very well sums up my point: we should care about the thing we're producing, not our perso
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by perrygeo 5mo ago
The "typing ascii characters" angle is a bit hyperbolic, I admit. But my intention is to get people to think about their software, not their personal experience of it. BTW, there's nothing preventing you from using AI agents

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