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by rfgplk 4mo ago
Not yet, I might one day.
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by rfgplk 4mo ago
This is gonna be a long critique, I'll try to keep it concise. > C-like C++ is good start, if code doesn’t require more complexity don’t add unnecessary C++ complexities. C is almost obsolete nowadays. Not to mention that C++ is eff
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by rfgplk 4mo ago
One thing I've noticed about a lot of these "strict C" developers is that quite often they actually refuse to learn C++. One of the most common complaints of C developers regarding C++ is "it does things behind the scene
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by rfgplk 4mo ago
I've developed a style that I legitimately call Heterodox C++ (mainly due to the popularity of Orthodox C++), it is effectively a purely functional & metaprogramming heavy style of C++. Quite the opposite of this, not everyones cup
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by rfgplk 4mo ago
A few comments. > VCs think, 'Apps are risky, infrastructure is safe,' so they invested in AI infra. First off, this isn't even infra in the infra sense of the word. Infrastructure implied something physical, a pure softwa
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by rfgplk 4mo ago
> The calculus in “buy or build” has shifted for me over the last six months especially. If I can make an agent build it, I get the version that’s tailored for me. I feel like this is really going to change the software industry moving f
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by rfgplk 4mo ago
$7m actually isn't a whole lot, especially if they hired a (larger) engineering team. Assuming their cali based, that's easily 150-200k per engineer, a team of 20 easily eats through that. Idk the specifics, but I don't the o
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by rfgplk 4mo ago
Made me laugh. Thanks :)
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by rfgplk 4mo ago
> Like OK someone vibecoded an FPS in COBOL or Pokémon emerald in a web browser with web assembly? Ok good for them, piss off karma farmer. Sorry, but most of these discussions reek of extreme gatekeeping. First off, neither of these thi
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by rfgplk 4mo ago
> It's not impressive that Claude wrote it, it was impressive if you have written it, OP. Do you have evidence that it's Claude written? Looking through the source it isn't clear to me, at all. Plus, even if it _was_ Claud
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by rfgplk 4mo ago
Meaningless and easily bypassable. Will actually try coding up a tensor library with it, see if it sabotages anything.
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by rfgplk 4mo ago
If the claimed capabilities are true, Fable 5 is already at a superhuman level. We might see genuine unprecedented leaps in technology now, across all fields.
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by rfgplk 4mo ago
I'm actually working on something similar to this. Basically works as an additional preprocessed layer over C++. You can get some crazy results, but it's tricky to integrate with existing build tools without causing havoc.
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by rfgplk 4mo ago
> void DoSomething(const void* p, size_t numBytes) would be something like template <typename T> void DoSomething (const T& ref) or void DoSomething(const T& ref, size_t numBytes) or C++20-y void DoSomething (const auto&amp
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by rfgplk 4mo ago
Very nice, fairly efficient too. I don't like the explicit split of Newtonian and relativistic gravity, this is often how it's presented in educational content, but it creates too much confusion; for instance it gives the illusion
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by rfgplk 4mo ago
> the result is some massive crap in nextjs that needs 10GB mem to compile, has 1000s of lint errors, dev logs in git (very noisy ones) and so on. The anti-LLM propaganda is getting ridiculous at this point. No project "needs 10GB&
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by rfgplk 5mo ago
Companies IPOing should be forced to put up their estimated market cap as collateral in cash. Oh what is that? You don't have $1 trillion in cash to put up? Cool, you're not a $1 trillion dollar company then.
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by rfgplk 5mo ago
> Plus that's what the whole article is about. I'm not sure how you could've missed that? Even if code typing goes away, a new breed of engineering will take it's place.
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by rfgplk 5mo ago
Exactly, time amortized LLMs are already unbeatable at this point.
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by rfgplk 5mo ago
You're assuming the current ensemble of commonly used software stacks is the most optimal there is. This assumption is simply wrong. Even looking at something simple like the office suite you can probably find countless areas where imp
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by rfgplk 5mo ago
> Something that I've been thinking about for the past year or so is coming to grips with the fact that the vast majority (anecdote) of software engineering work is not novel (and maybe that's okay) Correction, essentially 0% o
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by rfgplk 5mo ago
> C adopts defer C will almost certainly adopt defer in the next revision standard. C++ (via RAII + scoped classes) already effectively has defer. But the fact that it's unsafe means it's effectively unadoptable, no reason not
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by rfgplk 5mo ago
> Customers may build the software they need entirely in-house or via prompt-engineer consultants, without the need to buy software tools like today. It could be a very very different world. Already happening. I know of a few places that
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by rfgplk 5mo ago
> Or just like a 700 or so 1-founder companies in the world and everyone else is without work? This. But instead of 700 it's more likely that everyone will be a founder (more or less). It's already scary how easy it is to launc
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by rfgplk 5mo ago
> “Verify all facts and compliance requirements” No. This is a disasterous instruction. Not only is it vague, but it's also meaningless. When giving instructions to an LLM your prompt must be concise and exact. Tell it _exactly_ whi
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by rfgplk 5mo ago
I primarily use Opus for a Lisp-like DSL codebase (non public, closed source) and it genuinely has _never_ hallucinated. All it pulls from is BNF, language spec + examples. So I have no idea how people are getting it to hallucinate on _popu
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by rfgplk 5mo ago
Those models simply don't hallucinate if you use them properly in any form. The only way they _might_ hallucinate is if you use the web based chat interface and give them zero context.
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by rfgplk 5mo ago
Not only have I never ran across a hallucination in the past ~6 months or so; the latest Opus models have gotten to the point where they can emit inline assembly that is _superior_ to what gcc or clang can generate from optimized cpp. Had i
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by rfgplk 5mo ago
> ¹ Not ghost jobs, not fakacancies, not agendas that are anything other than hiring as advertised. Is there any hard data on the number of ghost jobs out there? Even estimates?
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by rfgplk 5mo ago
If you haven't got a degree on your resume, it just gets autodropped at the application stage by an ATS. No human sees it. Same if you're missing keywords.

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