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by senko 10d ago
> Just five years ago, the only way to build a working project of moderate complexity was to learn the basic to intermediate concepts required to make an MVP. > Now, if you can steer an LLM reasonably well, you can quickly build an
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by senko 16d ago
Maybe not to the same extent. In a company I worked with recently they used it a lot but didn't store data in it, meaning there was very little lock-in: mostly inertia/convenience. If BS slightly raise the price and ruthlessly cut
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by senko 16d ago
Shit that sucks. They'll probably all be let go if BS do their usual thing.
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by senko 16d ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643848 (this one is older but the other one got to the front page and will accrue more discussion)
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by senko 16d ago
Bending Spoons is on a buying spree! Miro acquired my startup back in '21[0], so this is bittersweet as our users will be (eventually) affected by this. Founders and employees at Miro definitely deserve to cash out for their hard work
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by senko 16d ago
> Wasn’t a whiteboard replacement. > Wasn’t a PM tool. I know a lot of people who used it for one or both of these. Also for architecture/system design (ie. not UI - although I guess some used it for user journey or wireframing).
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by senko 19d ago
SVG pelicans count
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by senko 19d ago
I'd make a distinction between youtubers who are incentivized to dial their reactions to the max for everything[0] and people doing silly tests but keeping their expectations and reactions real (most famously, Simon's pelican test
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by senko 20d ago
I use Minecraft (and Warcraft and an arcade flying simulator) as a silly but directionally correct indication of the models' capabilitites. Compare Astra[0] with GPT 5.4[1] which was OpenAI's state of the art just six months ago.
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by senko 28d ago
That's incorrect. There are no roaming fees. Instead, some telecoms give you a generous number of "credits" for calls, transfer, etc, and sometimes try to limit these to your own country. Then you have to pay overage fees (th
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by senko 1mo ago
There are even festival of AI films like https://www.cinemashiftfestival.com/ We all live in our personal info bubbles and sometimes it's hard to find information if you don't actively seek it out. This doesn&#x27
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by senko 1mo ago
I love Lack, really versatile piece of furniture/equipment! Not lacking at all :)
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by senko 1mo ago
My favorite is `fejka` for the artificial plant/flower. I think "being as widely-understandable pun as possible" is definitely one of their naming priorities.
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by senko 1mo ago
This is my experience as well -- unless I'm using Fable. That one burns through tokens like a lightsaber through butter.
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by senko 2mo ago
Yeah I basically did that, just with Claude Code and Playwright. It's a fickle setup, LinkedIn keeps trying to block it so there's a bunch of manual work to re-login, Claude sometimes misses a few posts, etc. Doable but annoying.
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by senko 2mo ago
Nope. I tried both the data export (I'm in the EU) and looked at the API they provide. I was able to export articles (which I don't do), but not posts .
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by senko 2mo ago
Indeed Twitter has seen a resurgence among the (serious) AI crowd in particular. For example Bluesky (not to mention the fediverse) can get aggressively negative towards authors posting what seem to be pro-AI posts. Ignoring the political i
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by senko 2mo ago
Yup, two. A personal one at https://blog.senko.net/ (general and more opinionated stuff) and more corpo oriented at https://senkorasic.com/articles/
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by senko 2mo ago
I found the bad S/N ratio on LinkedIn to be freeing. I have a blog as well but often suffer from writer's block and trying to write really good content. On LI the majority of the stuff is so bad, I have zero self-awareness and jus
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by senko 2mo ago
Audience. With the Elonification of Twitter there has been a splittering of tech/biz audiences across different platforms, each with their own problems, and the split is different in different parts of the world. It so happens that LI
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by senko 2mo ago
I frequently post on LinkedIn, on topics related to AI, startups, open source, etc. I try to have a pragmatic and realistic take and don't use AI to write the posts. I find that just by not being cringe, obviously AI or obviously over
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by senko 2mo ago
This looks great! I have a half-assed bwrap-based solution of my own, but flar seems much more thorough, and I like that it's a single binary with sensible defaults.
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by senko 2mo ago
OP here. You're absolutely right, I just want to add that "other things" include being a programmer since the nineties :) Edit to add: instead of "adapt" (which would imply "embrace AI", which I didn'
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“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers(blog.senko.net)
946 points by senko 2mo ago|590 comments
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by senko 2mo ago
Just asking these questions underscores lack of understanding how things are usually done in Django and Python in general. In Django you'd typically use simple classes (models or forms, or even dataclasses nowadays) more than dicts eve
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by senko 2mo ago
Yes, if you attempt to use Django like you'd use your typical Java, Swift, C#, or Objective-C framework, you're not going to have a good time. I've seen the horrors Java devs start doing on a Python project when trying to &qu
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by senko 2mo ago
To everyone saying "this is just REST": no. It's just RPC (in case "jsonrpc" in the payload didn't give it away). If we're talking protocols, it's useful to know the distinction. There have been many
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by senko 2mo ago
Meta: this reads like a corporate article, info-selling a solution to enterprises. The style is a far cry from anything Mario or Armin usually write. First indication of business strategy around Pi's reverse acquisition of Earendil, pe
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by senko 2mo ago
Some people, when they want to hide an option, think: " I know, I'll use an option. " Well, now they have two options.
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by senko 2mo ago
> Tesla Cybercab has about three or four times the efficiency and like a fifth of the price by having smaller, two person vehicles I read this as Tesla Cybertruck and was mightily confused for a minute. Looking it up in Wikipedia I s

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