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by rudedogg 7mo ago
Their rule of only releasing major software updates once a year in June is holding them back IMO. Their local LLM apis were dated before macOS/iOS 26 was even released. Just because something worked 20 years ago doesn’t mean it works t
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by rudedogg 7mo ago
> You don't have to use all of them! You sure pay for the language complexity in high compile times though. Swift is slow, like really slow. I’ve been with it since like v1.2, and its been getting progressively worse for a while IMO
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by rudedogg 7mo ago
And if Google Maps charged per tile viewed, so the user pays the same amount regardless of which maps client they used, would your opinion hold? I get that it’s a ToS violation, but I’m saying it shouldn’t be. They’re trying to make the har
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by rudedogg 7mo ago
My point is that model providers are just a compute service, and should have no say in what sends the data, or displays the data. Especially when they only bill based on the quantity of data. They are basically a utility.
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by rudedogg 7mo ago
This is more like if Google took action against Thunderbird and open-source email clients
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by rudedogg 7mo ago
> And on top of it, if you develop for native macOS, There’s no official tooling for visual verification. It’s like 95% of development is web and LLM providers care only about that. I think this is built in to the latest Xcode IIRC
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by rudedogg 7mo ago
I think the real divide is over quality and standards. We all have different thresholds for what is acceptable, and our roles as engineers typically reflect that preference. I can grind on a single piece of code for hours, iterating over an
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by rudedogg 7mo ago
Thanks for mentioning, but I did update it to High Effort when I got the notification
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Ask HN: Claude Regression for Anyone Else?
3 points by rudedogg 7mo ago|2 comments
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by rudedogg 7mo ago
I've been thinking this too. I frequently do deep research on some systems programming technique, ask it to generate a .md for it, and then I use that in later sessions with Claude Code "look at the research I collected in {*-rese
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by rudedogg 8mo ago
It's not much but I was planning to cancel my Anthropic subscription to try Codex over the weekend, but I'll skip that. I don't want to support a company with someone like this at the top. Massive donations to the administrat
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by rudedogg 8mo ago
> And if China gets AI, they're more than likely to use it to further raise people out of poverty and automate away more menial jobs without making those displaced workers homeless. Your comment is very optimistic. But the quoted pa
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by rudedogg 8mo ago
Thanks! I think I spent as much time writing the post as I did making the skill, so I’m happy someone got some value out of it.
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by rudedogg 8mo ago
A little bit! I wrote a long blog post about how I made it, I think the strategy of having an LLM look at individual std modules one by one make it actually pretty accurate. Not perfect, but better than I expected
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by rudedogg 8mo ago
I made a Zig agent skill yesterday if interested: https://github.com/rudedogg/zig-skills/ Claude getting the ArrayList API wrong every time was a major reason why It’s AI generated but should help. I need to test
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Making a Zig Agent Skill(austinrude.com)
2 points by rudedogg 8mo ago|0 comments
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by rudedogg 9mo ago
From what I’ve read there’s a pretty sizable performance gap between SQLite and pglite (with SQLite being much faster). I’m excited to see things improve though. Having a more traditional database, with more features and less historical wei
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by rudedogg 9mo ago
This is kind of where I'm at. I don't think everything is for certain though. I think it's 50/50 on whether Anthropic/whoever figures out how to turn them into more than a boilerplate generator. The imprecision of L
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by rudedogg 9mo ago
My experience with them is limited, but I’m having issues with the LLMs ignoring the skills content. I guess it makes sense, it’s like any other piece of context. But it’s put a damper in my dream of constraining them with well crafted skil
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by rudedogg 9mo ago
Yes, this is part of what is supposed to justify the premium prices, is that they can have a different business model. But it seems Tim Cook can’t leave anything on the table. I’m really going to be irritated if we end up with a premium Sir
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by rudedogg 9mo ago
If these things can ever actually think and understand a codebase this mindset makes sense, but as of now it's a short-sighted way to work. The quality of the output is usually not great, and in some cases terrible. If you're ju
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by rudedogg 9mo ago
> increasing the level of abstraction developers can work at Something is lost each step of the abstraction ladder we climb. And the latest rung uses natural language which introduces a lot of imprecision/slop, in a way that prior a
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by rudedogg 9mo ago
LSP also kind of sucks. But the problem is all the big companies want big valuations, so they only chase generic solutions. That's why everything is a VS Code clone, etc.. https://paulgraham.com/ds.html
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by rudedogg 9mo ago
Hearing people on tech twitter say that LLMs always produce better code than they do by hand was pretty enlightening for me. LLMs can produce better code for languages and domains I’m not proficient in, at a much faster rate, but damn it’
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by rudedogg 9mo ago
Also iCloud Private Relay. CloudFlare is making it impossible to browse privately
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by rudedogg 9mo ago
> JIT compilation has the potential to exceed native compiled speeds The battlecry of Java developers riding their tortoises. Don’t we have decades of real-world experience showing native code almost always performs better? For most thin
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by rudedogg 10mo ago
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately and agree. Also, it’s amazing how inefficient medium+ businesses are. I think we should see small businesses thriving due to the cost/weight of the bureaucracy they inflict on themselves, but
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by rudedogg 10mo ago
I’m saying if the law was respected at all this technology would be banned. I don’t know that I prefer that outcome, but it is the truth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St... https:/&
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by rudedogg 10mo ago
> Where did you get the idea that banning new technology that could eliminate jobs is even remotely an American value? Copyright law is another counter-example to your argument. But somehow? that’s no longer a concern if you have enough
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by rudedogg 10mo ago
Here's from 2020: https://web.archive.org/web/20201027235952/https://developer... > Use text, not icons, for menu titles. Only menu bar extras use icons to represent menus. See Menu Bar Extras. I

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