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by phillipcarter 4mo ago
Yeah, I didn't really like this post much. I agree the UI is bloated. But there's really two big factors here the post either ignores or doesn't empathize with, which I don't like: 1. The rise of Claude Code is what push
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by phillipcarter 4mo ago
Absolutely huge news for OpenAI. Unimaginable amount of enterprises picked up Claude just because it was available in AWS, and now there's serious competition.
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by phillipcarter 4mo ago
> Right, but it's already doing that, and runs just fine, from what I understand. The developers don't have to sit there pounding the enter key on their keyboards over and over all day to keep the messages flowing. It “works fi
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by phillipcarter 4mo ago
> What on earth do you do with that many devs on a project like Messenger? I mean, really? Over 1 billion monthly users and over 100 billion messages a day, much of which is multimedia. Plus ads, payments, business integrations, a develo
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by phillipcarter 5mo ago
...because the absolute numbers are incredibly low. And I say this as a fan of DDG! It's just the reality we live in; those who are negatively polarized against AI enough to make this sort of change are just very small in number.
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by phillipcarter 5mo ago
It's also entirely OSS. Codeberg's nonprofit could crater in the near-term, too.
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by phillipcarter 5mo ago
Using Tangled for my stuff now, it's alpha, but it's a bit fun to host your own Knot and Spindle servers but still connect to a full social graph.
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by phillipcarter 5mo ago
> What do they have to show for it? My guess is nothing you can see right now, since it likely takes a lot longer for any substantial external-facing changes to roll out broadly. Internally I'm sure several features have moved faste
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by phillipcarter 5mo ago
xAI produces yet another subpar model. Whoopee.
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by phillipcarter 5mo ago
No, it's really not a lot at all, especially if you've got a mandate to maximize your AI usage, which many engineering orgs have right now. I burned $216 USD using Claude Code in March just doing some casual development on the sid
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by phillipcarter 5mo ago
...because it's a terminal emulator? I use it to run Claude Code?
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by phillipcarter 5mo ago
> Monthly API costs per engineer ranged from $500 to $2,000 as adoption skyrocketed across the company. That's...not exactly a lot per engineer. It sounds like they just didn't budget correctly. Especially if the net of that wo
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by phillipcarter 5mo ago
Claude Code is very capable of making a terminal emulator with exactly (and only) the features you want. I did that for myself and it's now my daily driver. Has a few goodies I care about but nothing much else, and I have no intention
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by phillipcarter 5mo ago
Yes, it is the job of users to advocate for the products and platform they use if they want certain use cases to get better and features to be built.
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by phillipcarter 5mo ago
No. Products don't magically get good because people conjured up features from thin air or just copied a competitor. It is very much a two-way street, especially when the product acts as a platform that tries to support heterogeneous u
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by phillipcarter 5mo ago
Sure it does. Users who continually push for the right features, stress test things (under normal circumstances), demonstrate uses of the platform that could be baked in by default, etc. are all highly valuable to everyone. And the social a
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by phillipcarter 5mo ago
Sure, but also... ...anyone with a brain at AWS knows that supporting OpenAI's latest models on Bedrock is simply good for AWS. That context is rather important!
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by phillipcarter 5mo ago
Isn't it the case that OpenAI and Anthropic regularly just swap for whoever is at the top of the latest benchmarks? They're also so close in scores that it's effectively a wash anyways. What OP is referring to is Anthropic al
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
Just a small datapoint, but: > Salesforce said it won’t hire more software engineers in 2025. Some headline somewhere reported this, but Salesforce plenty of engineers (in the US at least) in 2025. One of them is a junior engineer on one
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
I never got an answer when I asked. This same government agency also got extremely mad when our dev manager upgraded the ASP.NET version for one project because it had some really useful features we were developing with. They deleted his
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
I think the best db schema I had the displeasure of working with was one where it was a requirement that every table and column name NOT have vowels, except for the few that could, and "the few that could" were governed entirely b
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
Because the Grok models offer nothing different in serious contexts from the other leading models which don't come with a heaping pile of bad baggage.
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
Sure, but there's no getting around how terrible it is to communicate and coordinate between PST and IST. One of the divisions I currently work with operates in a model where the "drivers" are all in the US and there's a
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
... sigh . I realize there's little that can be done about this, but I just got through a real-world session determining of Opus 4.7 is meaningfully better than Opus 4.6 or GPT 5.4, and now there's another one to try things wit
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
There's obviously misuse and abuse in the world, but telemetry from production systems out in the wild is incredibly useful for all kinds of decision-making. It's silly to dismiss it outright.
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
Sounds like you don't know what the term means.
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
Spoken like someone who isn't aware of any of his work :)
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
Vercel acknowledges a security incident, which nobody is claiming doesn't exist. What they don't acknowledge are this person's vague implications about impact elsewhere.
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
I don't know if I'd trust some random programmer-streamer-influencer on anything other than the topic of streamer-influencing.
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
The value you get out of a simpler adversarial loop to critique your "main" agent's work is high. Stacking Steve Yegge's personal Kingdom of Nouns on top of each other doesn't add much more. And this doesn't ev

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