roncesvalles

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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
Those are killer salaries for the ones not in the US. Imagine earning $160k USD in Morocco, Nigeria or Panama. 99.9th percentile.
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
>This is such a strange perspective to me. I wouldn't describe anybody I know in this way. Only a minority of jobs require the person to wrack their brains very hard. Most jobs just involve learning a routine and performing it on re
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
I fear more for the future where you're forced to offload your thinking to AI. Everything you say must be cited with LLM, everything you do must be signed off by The LLM. If you're in a meeting and have an idea, but Fable 9 says
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
>We’re supposed to let the Tech Bros go on about how cutting corners is some genius productivity hack. Vibecoding in a nutshell
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
I just don't think AI is any of those things. I understand that my argument is anecdotal and qualitative, but I just don't see AI (LLMs) materially increasing net productivity in the economy.
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
It's unusable only because I can't set 5.6 to Extra thinking in the "Chat" tab, and the "Work" feature that does let me use Extra is totally gimped for coding tasks. I'd rather use Opus 4.8 Extra/Max
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
>5.6 Sol, competitive with Fable (or close enough), and it's available via subscription (even the $20 subscription!) It's not comparable because OpenAI caps thinking to High in the ChatGPT "Chat" interface (and the &q
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
I still think the best way to build software using LLMs is to copy-paste snippets/files into the chat and manually guide the work. Humans are still the best orchestrators. Yes the human has to now be hyper-focused and juggle various wo
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
Wails is another cross-platform GUI framework in Go: https://wails.io/
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
Not to forget the whole thing with Free Basics. Zuck is smart enough to know why trying to subvert net neutrality in developing countries is a bad thing, and he did it anyway. Of all the vilified tech billionaires, Zuck is the only one that
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
I'm guessing if you can "see" Wifi through a wall, you can also infer some things about what's behind the wall, because the signal will have certain obstruction patterns. It becomes an xray.
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
It seems in mathematics that the utility of a problem is directly correlated with how difficult it is to solve, for some odd reason. If I defined some pointless construction and it turned out to be very difficult to prove, it would automat
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
I think it is widely known by now that instructions to alter the LLM's "tone", things like asking it to adopt a persona ("you are the world's best programmer"), and overly broad directives ("make no mistak
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
Also consider that Fable launched on June 9. Many people including myself bought a 1-month Anthropic subscription just to use Fable. By extending it to July 12, they're gonna get a second month out of a lot of such people. If it really
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
On this note, (from a web dev perspective) I think we've overdone making the static build as lean as possible and pushing everything into the backend. E.g., if a 2MB dataset will make a search/select bar return results instantly i
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by roncesvalles 3mo ago
There is a pop theory that aging is just scurvy in slow motion and Vitamin C hypersupplementation actually goes a long way in staving it off.
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by roncesvalles 4mo ago
To be pedantic, master-master implies the same row can be committed to at the same time at different master nodes (without an immediate causal connection between the two). Very few databases allow this.
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by roncesvalles 4mo ago
You need replication for HA. Otherwise the only HA you have is the RAID setup on the one machine. The reason people go horizontal is rarely scale. And if you're doing that you might as well use the passive replica as a read replica.
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by roncesvalles 4mo ago
It is a search engine in the sense that it's returning to you a subset of knowledge from a large body of knowledge stored within it. Natural language is simply the interface by which you make the query and by which it can return its
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by roncesvalles 4mo ago
>They speak fluently and confidently about experiences it’s impossible for them to have. But they're echoing these things from people who really have. The key is to not forget that LLMs are just next-generation search engines, inste
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by roncesvalles 4mo ago
The causality might not be what you think. You're happy with what you have because you don't see a path to getting substantially more.
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by roncesvalles 4mo ago
I would say Europe in general. And I get the sense they don't aspire to social mobility either, the way Americans do.
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by roncesvalles 4mo ago
there are only 2 and they don't seem to be AI-written
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by roncesvalles 4mo ago
At many companies (I want to say most), Redis is seen as an actual durable production database and operated that way, not just as a cache that can disappear at any time. It's not unreasonable for a new dev to assume this unless told ot
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by roncesvalles 4mo ago
Yes but not very different results (unless you're adding new information to your prompt or reducing some ambiguity). Prompt engineering is mostly pseudoscience.
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by roncesvalles 4mo ago
A lot of people who write code aren't professional SWEs. A lot of professional SWEs especially on Blind aren't typical SWEs at typical companies. A lot of people who claim to write code are lying. I mean would you take Gary Tan as
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by roncesvalles 4mo ago
You aren't allowed to block PRs for being too large anymore. The objective that every engineer should be 2x/3x/5x more productive can only be achieved if you go totally lax on code reviews. Because if all your SWEs produce 5x
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by roncesvalles 4mo ago
>This is mostly due to incredible pressure from the C-level for every engineer to be using as much AI as possible I think this is an important point. Software engineers always had the right instincts on how to approach AI for coding -- c
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by roncesvalles 4mo ago
It was never the same quality though. A VM at AWS or GCP is not even remotely comparable to a VPS at some low-end provider. Things like RAID, network/powersupply redundancy, internal privacy controls (nothing stopping a VPS provider fr
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by roncesvalles 4mo ago
OS X was never good and still isn't. I need to install like 7 third-party usability tools to make myself productive on a Mac, including a tiling manager, a clipboard manager, and a not-broken replacement for Spotlight - very basic thin

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