roncesvalles

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by roncesvalles 1mo ago
The problem is when you stuff your codebase with so much unreviewed vibecoded slop that engineers lose their grasp on how it all works.
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by roncesvalles 1mo ago
I gave up on optimizing and just use the Robinhood Gold 3% cashback card everywhere (except Amazon/WF, where I use their 5% Chase card). I can probably get more than 3% cashback in some categories on other cards, or more ROI by switch
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by roncesvalles 1mo ago
>Startups succeed or fail based on how much customers like the product. It's always been that simple yet founders these days tend to believe success is predicated on all the things but the product. "Build it and they will come&
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by roncesvalles 1mo ago
>My actual job also included non-coding work: Does this attempted solution even work at all? Is this solving the right problem? Even if it's a valid solution to the right problem, is it the best solution given the time constraints?
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by roncesvalles 1mo ago
The reason is cost savings. It's cheaper to modify software UI than it is to modify hardware UI.
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by roncesvalles 1mo ago
Exactly. You can't assume it's a new normal until Trump is out of office.
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by roncesvalles 1mo ago
>something I had purposefully written to be as fast as possible and then you threw it all away by adding transition animation
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by roncesvalles 1mo ago
>SSR but in the browser We've come full circle.
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by roncesvalles 1mo ago
My completely conjectural theory is that natural language is just a shitty medium for communicating knowledge and the idioms and motifs that the LLM uses are an emergent "code" or structured syntax that work better for communicati
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by roncesvalles 1mo ago
I don't understand why one would let a router handle their LLM request (other than for routing it to the cheapest inference provider for open models). When I build an application that uses LLMs, it's tuned and tested for a specifi
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by roncesvalles 1mo ago
My understanding is that there is no arrival time SLA when you buy a plane ticket (barring the compensation ladder set by EU regulators). All they owe you is getting you and your stuff to the destination.
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by roncesvalles 1mo ago
The problem is that most of the volume doesn't come from proprietary products, it comes from API use which has no stickiness. Claude already has a killer product (claude.ai/chat is a Swiss army knife) but just relying on people ty
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by roncesvalles 1mo ago
Then you should consider emigrating to a country with universal healthcare such as Canada.
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by roncesvalles 1mo ago
This is broken window fallacy. The $1T not wasted on healthcare inefficiencies would be spent/invested on other things, creating jobs there. Yes, there would be churn because a good number of people involved in the bureaucracy of priva
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by roncesvalles 1mo ago
Imagine what it's like without that line.
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by roncesvalles 1mo ago
Babe wake up, a new psychedelic drug just dropped.
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
Bad engineers simply don't care about good engineering. They aren't even trying. LLMs have made these engineers super "productive".
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
It is highly unlikely that the US is going to collapse any time in our lifetimes. Or even those of our children. Also, let's not forget that the Trump admin is a problem of 2.5 years at most. Trump has greatly stressed the safeguards i
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
or basically anybody who has an opinion about vibecoding but isn't actually a programmer The number of times I've heard "SaaS is dead" irl and flustered responses when I asked "what does that mean?" is comicall
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
Because a non-crap product wouldn't be worth $26B. What you perceive as crappiness is the sauce that keeps you coming back.
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
Nuclear war is hardly an existential risk. An all-out global nuclear war (all nuclear nations landing 10% of their warheads in populated areas) would be a disruption comparable to COVID at best.
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
Exactly, this is all a symptom of underinvestment in grid capacity, and datacenter companies having to cobble together whatever electricity source they could get their hands on at the last minute. It's a complete failure of the state i
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
"Winner-takes-all" in the software context is never meant literally. It's more like, an oligarchy of a few winners will emerge out of hundreds of contenders. It's not like restaurants where for example you can open a &qu
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
Most vertical software is just horizontal software glued together
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
Since software is still a winner-takes-all market, the mass-production property of software doesn't really matter. In such markets, what you produce is either worth nothing or worth millions of dollars. For as long as it's the cas
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
Yes
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
How is this different from hosting infra or just SaaS in general? TFA contends that there is some fundamental shift in the economics of software, but it doesn't look to be very different from either a new SaaS dependency or racking new
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
>Users began expecting something fundamentally different from software: not just tools that store and retrieve, but products that reason, generate, and respond. Not really. >Every inference call costs money. Not really, either. If you
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
And what about the terrorism that exists today?
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by roncesvalles 2mo ago
Many cancers are "cured" in the sense that they're detectable and treatable. My grandmother lived 35 years longer than she would have by detecting breast cancer early and getting a mastectomy. There is currently a $800 SOTA b

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