rafaelmn

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by rafaelmn 3mo ago
> Some of the issues mentioned above like dead code removal, code duplication, unreachable code are already solved using deterministic linters for quite a while now for most language ecosystems. I have legacy endpoints that are no longer
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by rafaelmn 4mo ago
If we want reliability - we come up with processes to make it reliable and not rely on individuals getting it right. Code is a way to create a reliable process in the digital world.
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by rafaelmn 4mo ago
> The strange thing is this is happening in multiple companies at the same time. It's like all the CEOs and HR reps met at some golf retreat and decided to follow a script. Industry trends spread in all roles ?
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by rafaelmn 4mo ago
>You can build application outside of container, but run it in container. I think that it is simpler workflow, than everything in container (when you actually need to develop it with IDE). At this point I will not do any dev outside of a
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by rafaelmn 4mo ago
Good for you ?
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by rafaelmn 4mo ago
It's not about time efficiency more about convince. It sounds trivial but sometimes it's really useful to be able to do things hands free/without having to move - worth spending the time to install/setup all of this once
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by rafaelmn 4mo ago
I have dimmable lights I need the main light at 20% to read a book and it's useful to whisper to my assistant instead of walking across the room. I really don't get the comment - just because you can't envision a usecase does
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by rafaelmn 4mo ago
>Siri turn off the main light in children's bedroom 100% of the time turns of all the lights in children's bedroom. Alexa has no problem with this. Disappointing to say the least. Completely useless, I was going to get an Andro
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by rafaelmn 4mo ago
Entropy makes sure that you can't scale systems into infinite completely.
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by rafaelmn 4mo ago
At no point in history did we have economic security at child bearing age and the assumption that it has a correlation with number of children seems to go against the data.
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by rafaelmn 4mo ago
This is all assuming tests measured anything valuable in the first place. In my experience standardized tests were always flawed and most of my peers knew shit about the subjects they passed in top % a year after. If AI breaks the current e
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by rafaelmn 4mo ago
Leave the drivers/power management to the optimized OS and do your work in VM ?
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by rafaelmn 4mo ago
Why ? If it's shared reads and scoped writes (read-only look up, output to a thread owned buffer span) concurrency seems pretty straightforward. Rust can only prove a limited subset of correct programs to be safe, when you're doin
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by rafaelmn 5mo ago
You are right I forgot about that ! I think my point still stands - price per token is not decreasing for frontier capabilities, in fact it's increasing.
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by rafaelmn 5mo ago
> AI revenue has been going up while the cost per token has been rapidly falling Every model release now has been straight price increases since what GPT 4 ? When was the last time a new flagship model decreased prices compared to the pr
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by rafaelmn 5mo ago
Usually I describe the problem, explore a bit with LLM iteratively. Then I switch to creating a plan when I have enough insight (and the LLM has it in context/same session as exploration), specifying all the things I'm trying to a
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by rafaelmn 5mo ago
How do you justify your salary given that you're just using OSS compiler/editor any of us could use for free in your role ? AI just changed how I edit code - I still see coworkers (senior developers) failing with Claude/Codex
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by rafaelmn 5mo ago
Without web view ? Share the code ?
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by rafaelmn 5mo ago
If anything LLMs should use something higher level because it compresses the context and makes programming closer to natural language they are trained on. Forcing LLMs to do a shitty job of what a compiler can do deterministically is not a
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by rafaelmn 5mo ago
I have that both in the skill and in CLAUDE.md but it's not reliable - and polluting CLAUDE.md with task specific instructions kind of sucks.
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by rafaelmn 5mo ago
How well does that work for you ? It's annoyingly inconsistent for me - I give it instructions on how to fetch JIRA ticket with a script that renders everything relevant to a .md and half of the time it will still default to reading it
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by rafaelmn 5mo ago
And sometimes an LLM can find those 10 lines in 10 minutes. Or it can find a 100 and you cut them down to 10 in two hours total. Yes I've seen this in practice. The amount of code an LLM can tirelessly ingest is super human.
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by rafaelmn 5mo ago
Yes this exactly, it's getting ridiculous at this point. It's precisely because I get swamped with all the non-coding work that agentic coding works so well. And in multiple ways. - it lets you get back in the flow faster (unless
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by rafaelmn 5mo ago
> It’s people accepting plausible-sounding justifications for skipping the parts they don’t feel like doing. WTF ? Almost always this was "skipping the parts because the deadline was 2 weeks ago". The "I don't feel li
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by rafaelmn 5mo ago
> Asking an AI for something can be faster if I can state my requirements informally; but if I need to specify many things precisely to an AI... why not just write the code in F#? One reason I realized recently - when you work it through
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by rafaelmn 5mo ago
>We discovered that people ask Claude about random medical issues instead of googling it Sounds like the basic gist of this
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by rafaelmn 6mo ago
Is this even an issue these days ? I thought GSuite was good enough for most office work for a very long time now ?
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by rafaelmn 6mo ago
> Once it was explained to me, authoritatovely, that hallucinations are mathematically impossible to eliminate That's a weak criteria - hallucinations are mathematically impossible to eliminate in humans.
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by rafaelmn 6mo ago
>This is the kind of dated argument that really makes me dismiss most of the critics. I was running xubuntu as my main desktop since 2010 at least, switched to Debian + nix + XFCE in 2022 and switched to full-on nixOS in 2024. I never ha
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by rafaelmn 6mo ago
This is another underrated benefit of working with LLMs. When I work I don't take detailed notes about my thinking, decisions, context, etc. I just focus on code. If I get interrupted it takes me a while to get back into the flow. With

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