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by rapind 3mo ago
That's true and interesting. Personally I've been rebuilding an application in Rust, learning Rust at the same time and leaning heavily on AI agents for both the building, but also the learning. I've been at it for a few mont
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by rapind 3mo ago
Maybe famous last words, but I'm not buying the hype that the "clankers" will take over. I suspect reality will catch up soon and we'll be left with a set of pretty powerful but still limited tools. I see no evidence to
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by rapind 3mo ago
100% this is what I've done. I sucked it up and adapted myself to the tool (agents) by having as many implicit guardrails (static typing, functional, no nulls, great linting) and then layering on explicit guardrails (TDD) on top. I als
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by rapind 3mo ago
Sure, but then you need to worry about other things, like Unity a few years ago with their "Runtime Fee" debacle.
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by rapind 3mo ago
Good to know. I built https://github.com/pairshaped/hypertea to get some of Elm's safety in typescript while being easy for LLMs to use (this is basically just hyperapp in TS, with added elm-like guardrails). Mayb
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by rapind 3mo ago
I was already working with elm (have been since Signals) and I was very disappointed in what agents (CC) produced. In contrast, I was pleased with the Rust code they produced.
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by rapind 3mo ago
It's crazy to hear someone think games in the 80s were more creative than they are today. That's taking nostalgia to a whole new level! Indy games today are amazing. When you lower barriers the ratio of good to bad probably tilts
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by rapind 3mo ago
Maybe it's improved, but I was very disappointed to find agents constantly tripping over significant white space with Elm (Claude Code). Always struck me as strange since they are very proficient with python... and Elm has been one of
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by rapind 3mo ago
> Land is not very expensive in most suburbs Compared to the farmland it used to be, it is significantly more expensive.
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by rapind 3mo ago
Miller is the Antichrist, but I don't buy Elon as a victim for a second. I suspect he'll be spending some of that wealth on image rehabilitation and political influence though as the turns tide. The retcon will be entertaining at
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by rapind 3mo ago
Elon has total control of Starlink and he’s currently enjoying his bond villain phase. I am very happy my tax dollars are not going into his pockets. It’s not a crusade. You send him your money if you want. It’s none of my business. Pretty
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by rapind 3mo ago
Per sf comparisons blatantly ignore the bonkers increases in land prices. Good luck finding a 1500 sf house, let alone one with a backyard that hasn't completely outpaced inflation.
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by rapind 3mo ago
Highly recommend exerting the extra effort it takes to remain portable with your AI workflow. Not just to workaround typical Google shut downs, but also the incoming price hikes.
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by rapind 3mo ago
This is kind of what coding with LLMs feels like. Gradually increase guard rails "outside of it's context (automated)" to get the results you want out of it. Static typing, quick compilation, not having nulls, and lints are a
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by rapind 3mo ago
I think the issue is that a lot of concerns that appear to be "cross-cutting" at first glance, don't hold true to that design... but teams will try to stay the course, possibly due to existing debt, and it goes south pretty q
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by rapind 3mo ago
I always thought AOP was super cool, but also that it completely destroys readability and the ability to understand a codebase. I also think it's probably one of the worst concepts to embrace in the age of agentic coding. That would be
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by rapind 3mo ago
Microsoft SSO does exactly this. They let you pretend to be someone else's email, making their SSO service pointless since you still need to do email verification anyways (at which point, just send a login token to sign them in, instea
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by rapind 3mo ago
Hard to convince users that they need to be using a password manager if you run a SaaS. Also when things like LastPASS getting hacked are on the front page... imagine advising people to use that one! (I'm guilty of recommending LastPAS
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by rapind 3mo ago
Login tokens solves the re-use (but does put the onus on their email being secure).
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by rapind 3mo ago
Maybe I wasn't clear. The playlist includes the material in it. Just like curated AI does.
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by rapind 3mo ago
> He's saving face while almost certainly trying to figure out how to make the new systems work so that next time he won't need to rehire engineers. Yup. They jumped the gun. Now they need to hire them back so they can loot the
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by rapind 3mo ago
If you pay me to curate a playlist of musical hits, can you now publish and charge people for access to that playlist (*including the curated material)? Can we do the same with movies? Books? /edit Added a note to make it more obvious
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by rapind 3mo ago
> It’s clear they are scapegoating national security and China at this point to build an anti-competitive moat. They are also fear mongering (and getting shills to as well) the idea that once open weight (Chinese) models catch up to Myth
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by rapind 3mo ago
It's the same scaling issue we've had since the advent of the internet, and why spam and social media became such a dumpster fire. There are many things in life that are perfectly fine when uncommon / rare, but are disastrous
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by rapind 4mo ago
Yeah, for sure people will buy this for those reasons. Some people also bought an nvidia shield and other gimped android boxes. It's honestly really disappointing though. I would love a steam machine to be competitive and cost less and
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by rapind 4mo ago
> Anthropic is ahead of them there, but that is how they win. Isn't Anthropic currently killing that market though? I've been hearing about a lot of businesses pulling back after having experienced the reality.
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by rapind 4mo ago
And yet here we are.
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by rapind 4mo ago
> It's quite impressive how the latest years I have found more and more to empathize with China than many of the western counterparts. I'm not sure that this is because China is suddenly a great place or political system so muc
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by rapind 4mo ago
I think they are already massively winning on efficiency... which is about to matter a lot as the frontier models jack up their prices in order to some day see a profit (and no, Anthropic getting massively subsidized by Elon out of spite do
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by rapind 4mo ago
> The movie Fight Club has been correctly compared to Calvin and Hobbes. Bit of a tangent, but I recently watched Fight Club with my son. He was surprised he liked it because he'd gotten the impression it was a dog whistle for manos

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