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by ramesh31 2y ago
>how much more confirmation do we need that we are in a recession? Were we in a recession in the 90s, as the rust belt was hollowed out and earning its name, and Wall street reaped the once in a generation windfall of outsourcing an enti
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by ramesh31 2y ago
>Why? Why set an arbitrary number of people who need to be fired as opposed to grading people to a standard? A person, individually, indeed must always be judged by themselves objectively. But people , in aggregate, can generally be und
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by ramesh31 2y ago
^ Brought to you by an LLM invented in the US, running on hardware designed in the US
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by ramesh31 2y ago
>Typical run of the mill USAer mindset. Ah yes, we are "better" than them, so our problems don't really exist. No, we just have higher level problems to deal with. Running global trade, providing the reserve currency, gene
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by ramesh31 2y ago
>"Meanwhile, they say, voters behave like easily manipulated children and don’t have enough information, education, or domain expertise to weigh in on national leadership matters." You see in all of this stuff at the core is a
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by ramesh31 2y ago
Indeed Next is the closest we've gotten, but see: commercialized. The default path for Rails and Django is not a vendor locked in cloud offering; they are truly FOSS projects. It seems like its that mentality which died out more than a
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by ramesh31 2y ago
It's such a shame that a big successful Rails or Django equivalent never really materialized in the Node world. It's not like nobody tried. There were so many times it seemed like one was gaining traction, then it would be abandon
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by ramesh31 2y ago
>provided you take the proper care and control both the UI and the tests. And no one ever does. There is zero incentive to spend days wrangling with a flakey UI test throwing a false positive for your new feature, and so the test gets sk
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by ramesh31 2y ago
>This thing that was just released is the future of UI testing? The general idea of it, yes. No one will be writing selector based tests by hand anymore in a couple years.
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>Personally I'd love to use this as an intermediate workflow for producing deterministic playwright code, but it looks like this is intended for running directly. Treating UI test code as some kind of static source of truth is the b
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by ramesh31 2y ago
>Agent is a funding and marketing term imho So was "mobile" 15 years ago. Companies are deploying hundreds of billions in capital for this. It's not going anywhere, and you'd be best off upskilling now instead of dism
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by ramesh31 2y ago
This is 100% the future of UI testing. The dream of BDD and Gherkin can be fully realized now that the actual test code writing/maintenance portion is completely taken care of.
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by ramesh31 2y ago
Read into this what you will for Salesforce particularly, but we are probably going to start seeing similar announcements from other companies. Generative AI has completely revolutionzed the nature of knowledge work, and this will be the ye
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by ramesh31 2y ago
We did it to ourselves. Modern "small L" liberalism went completely overboard, and we're seeing that play out now in the rise of fascist leaning governments in the west. It will take a generation for the pendulum to swing bac
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by ramesh31 2y ago
>The main thing they're doing is introducing a "mercure hub" between event producers and consumers (browsers) that handles delivery through SSE in a way that tracks subscribers and handles sporadic or interrupted connectio
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by ramesh31 2y ago
>the context limits on google are nuts! Being able to pump 2 million tokens in and having it cost $0 is pretty crazy rn. What's the catch though? I was looking at Gemini recently and it seemed too good to be true.
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by ramesh31 2y ago
But if the scaling law holds true, more dollars should at some point translate into AGI, which is priceless. We haven't reached the limits yet of that hypothesis.
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by ramesh31 2y ago
Key to understanding the power of agentic workflows is tool usage. You don't have to write logic anymore, you simply give an agent the tools it needs to accomplish a task and ask it to do so. Models like the latest Sonnet have gotten s
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by ramesh31 2y ago
Use Tailwind. It's a massive difference from just asking the LLM to write raw CSS. Tailwind provides a semantic layer that allows them to actually understand it.
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by ramesh31 2y ago
>As someone who's personally tried ( with lots of effort) to build agentic assistants/systems 3+ times over the course of the last few years I haven't seen any huge improvements in the quality of output. I think you greatl
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by ramesh31 2y ago
Grappling with this hard right now. Anyone who is still of the "these things are stupid and will never replace me" mindset needs to sober up real quick. AGI level agentic systems are coming, and fast . A solid 90% of what we thou
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by ramesh31 2y ago
> There was the rather strange Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie, released shortly after the feature film came out in 2004. Essentially, director Adam McKay had shot so much material while making Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy
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by ramesh31 2y ago
The Business Plot finally worked
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by ramesh31 2y ago
Workflow management. The disparate flow of actions is a nightmare.
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by ramesh31 2y ago
ChatGPT is just terrible at code in general. Claude feels like a generational leap above it.
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by ramesh31 2y ago
One of the very best episodes of In Our Time: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0bkpjns
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by ramesh31 2y ago
so... Delta Lake?
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by ramesh31 2y ago
Anthropic will be the winner here, zero doubts in my mind. They have leapfrogged head and shoulders above OpenAI over the last year. Who'd have thought a business predicated entirely on keeping the ~1000 people on earth qualified to wo
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by ramesh31 2y ago
>My understand of those drugs is that they don't actually make you lose weight, they just cut your appetite so you can follow a diet to lose weight without hunger hammering at the door. While acknowledging that the mechanism is diff
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by ramesh31 2y ago
Front end devs are officially on notice at this point. If you're someone who makes their living doing little more than design -> code (and there are many of us still), it's time to upskill or be left in the dust. The days of wr

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