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by rglover 1y ago
It's being made out to be something bigger/more important than what it is to create hype and investment interest. Is it incredibly useful? Yes. But it's not aliens landing on the front lawn of the White House offering us anti
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by rglover 1y ago
Initially I took MCP to be some crazy new thing, but once I dug into it, it's really just a soft-standard for connecting a database, API, or other data source (e.g., a list of functions that can be called) to a vector database and then
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by rglover 1y ago
You may dig what I've built, then [1][2]. [1] https://cheatcode.co/joystick [2] https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick
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by rglover 1y ago
IMO, I always read that as a psychological trick to get people more comfortable with it and encourage usage. Who doesn't like a friend who's always encouraging, supportive, and accepting of their ideas?
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by rglover 1y ago
I shared some thoughts on this not even a week ago [1] speculating that this is where we're headed. Spooky to see it be proven correct not even a week later. [1] https://ryanglover.net/blog/chauffeur-knowledge-and-
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An AI-generated summer reading list got published in major newspapers(npr.org)
4 points by rglover 1y ago|0 comments
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by rglover 1y ago
> you almost never carefully check to see that it is working (because that would be expensive) I don't know about you, but I test everything thoroughly, whether I wrote it myself or used an LLM. I think you're nitpicking over l
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by rglover 1y ago
It's less likely (and really, depends on the quality of the team and their attention to detail—it's not a "law"), but certainly not a "no way." I'm far more concerned when the official answer to a feature
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The Great Scrape(herman.bearblog.dev)
2 points by rglover 1y ago|0 comments
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by rglover 1y ago
That's the thing, though, it does work. Does it need a fair amount of hand holding to get there for non-trivial tasks? Yes. But if you have a basic skill set and some patience, you can get impressive results with a shocking number of
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by rglover 1y ago
> Customers will notice if software has weird bugs, is slow, clunky to use, etc. Some bugs can result in legal liability. I'd like to believe this, but some ~30 years into the popular internet, we still have bug-riddled websites and
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by rglover 1y ago
I wasn't thinking about that when I wrote this but that's an accurate take.
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Chauffeur Knowledge and the Impending AI Crack-Up(ryanglover.net)
15 points by rglover 1y ago|9 comments
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by rglover 1y ago
I often wonder what the first agent-driven catastrophe will be. Considering the gold rush (emphasis on rush) going on, it's only a matter of time before a difficult to fix disaster occurs.
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by rglover 1y ago
Stupid but semi-related: when I lived in Chicago, I had just gotten a print copy of this and remember doing a double take when I saw a flower shop with the same name (Les Fleurs du Mal).
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by rglover 1y ago
The best architecture approach I've ever found is: 1. Start with a monolith 2. If necessary, set up a job server that can be vertically/horizontally scaled and then give it a private API, or, give it access to the same database as
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by rglover 1y ago
If Microsoft were smart, they'd just acquire Cline (or fork it), make it an official VSCode feature and be done with it. It smokes Cursor and Windsurf and it's a free plugin you can just install in un-forked VSCode.
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by rglover 1y ago
I sympathize with the nihilism, but having built tools that do just work as described, I've found that the problem is mostly rooted in a culture obsessed with novelty. And not novelty with a point (a truly better solution comes out), b
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by rglover 1y ago
Yup. Give people a number or stat to obsess over and they'll obsess over it (while ignoring the more meaningful work like stability and fixing real, user-facing bugs). Over-obsession with KPIs/arbitrary numbers is one of the side-
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by rglover 1y ago
If you're unfamiliar with Gary's design documentary series, do yourself a favor and buy all of them for a marathon watch. Rams' is one of the best because Dieter is so smart/charming. Had the chance to see the premiere o
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by rglover 1y ago
I wired up some custom middleware on Bunny using Deno and it was the first time I really saw the value of it. It was really nice to just hot load dependencies via a URL, write my code, and go. Beyond that use case, though, not much has stoo
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by rglover 1y ago
Here's some backup to that claim [1], though, offshoring is only part of it. In reality, it's likely several factors: - Offshoring/outsourcing - Businesses running out of ZIRP cash/returns - Software replacing a lot of &
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by rglover 2y ago
This is the paradox of the post social media world. I see a lot of mid-tier talent—in all sorts of disciplines/industries—being elevated, while what I personally consider the "greats" get a fraction of the attention (e.g., th
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by rglover 2y ago
Glad to hear my own experienced echo'd. I've been dialing off of the stuff (even HN) for these very reasons. The staggering one is this: > I was downvoted into deep negatives, and I think one or more negative replies for just p
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by rglover 2y ago
Awesome, thank you! What's a good way to get in touch?
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by rglover 2y ago
I would happily pay for any font if I could get individual weights for say $5-$10 and entire families for $20-100 with any usage I want (print, web, etc). I feel like font foundries would print money this way. But for most projects, $300+
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by rglover 2y ago
This is wild. I'd love to use this to do a demo app for my JS framework, Joystick [1]. Would a collab be possible (happy to contribute the end result to the Scrimba library)? [1] https://cheatcode.co/joystick
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by rglover 2y ago
> The fact that you have "fill in the blanks here" in a "legal" document makes this actively harmful. It doesn't. At the end of the day, all legal documents are just words on a page. When in doubt, you can hire a
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by rglover 2y ago
This is why I wrote the SAUCR license [1] for my full-stack JavaScript framework. A lot of OSS developers get "got" by the ideological arguments of OSS and shy away from doing "source available" (which if we set down the
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by rglover 2y ago
And AI will be no different. People will rush head first into the fire and be flabbergasted when all of the hype and promise of utopia results in utter chaos and inequality. If we assume that civilization is already teetering thanks to the

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