siscia

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by siscia 8d ago
It seems VERY cooperative. If you can afford that, with all the coordination costs that it comes from it, good. An alternative is just to let the downstream service own the retry logic. Too many requests? Just error out as soon as possible.
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by siscia 8d ago
> If you can't spend the time to write it, why should anyone read it? Because the value of writing are not the words on a piece of paper but the idea they convey. Politicians speech are not worth listening too because they have a co
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by siscia 15d ago
Do you have specific examples of what you mean here?
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by siscia 15d ago
It is not clear to me how the verbosity metrics works. Can someone shades more light on it?
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by siscia 16d ago
I am building software factories and deepseek IS the workhorse. I personally found V4-flash an amazing model and really hungry to try 4.1-flash For software factories, cost is much more a concern that standard development workflow and using
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by siscia 18d ago
You are not wrong but if we go deeper we will find more nuances. > tests should test behaviour and not structure. Of what? The whole idea of software architecture, and underlying of my messages, is to structure the code so that it is eas
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by siscia 19d ago
It is still early, but I find that this experiment makes little to no sense and it is barely useful. The way you test code cannot (and should not) be decoupled by the way in which you architect the code itself. 80%+ of effective testing is
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by siscia 20d ago
It is not clear to me what the author is SPECIFICALLY against. Only saying "LLM writing" is honestly lazy writing. Specifically what? I get the glaring cases, I get the idea that if the prose is generated then maybe also the idea,
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by siscia 21d ago
What breaks? I am trying to understand in your view what are the parts that actually breaks and what kind of improvement we would need.
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by siscia 1mo ago
From one perspective I am not against lobbying in general. The idea is that legislator don't have the full context and don't know the impact of their work - so they welcome industry or matter experts. Which is quite reasonable. I
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Show HN: Structo – Claude Code for short form writing(structo.redbeardlab.com)
2 points by siscia 1mo ago|1 comments
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by siscia 6mo ago
> Claude applied techniques I didn’t expect, from disciplines I wouldn’t have thought of Do you have any example?
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by siscia 6mo ago
Lately I am finding myself doing more and more of what I called "ambient coding" so that I am not directly using anymore all of those coding harnesses. https://redbeardlab.gitbook.io/acem/essays/ambient-d
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by siscia 6mo ago
It is not clear to me how much CPU I get. "Unlimited" as in 8vCPU and then I am billed for it on consumption?
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by siscia 6mo ago
There is a lot of positive comments in this comments section that I don't mind being a bit rough. I think we can do much better. The workflow of copy to chatgpt and getting feedback is just the first step, and honestly not that useful.
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by siscia 7mo ago
I think you guys are doing pretty much everything right.
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by siscia 7mo ago
Another trick that I use. I force the code to be almost 100% dependency injection-able. It simplifies a lot writing tests and getting the coverage. And I see the LLM being able to handle it very very well.
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by siscia 7mo ago
Yes it is passable. Good enough that I don't review it. Granted, it is a personal project that I care only to the point that I want it to work. There are no money on the line. Nothing professional. I believe that part of the secret is
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by siscia 7mo ago
What I found more useful is an extra step. Spec to tests, and then red tests to code and green tests. LLMs works on both translation steps. But you end up with an healthy amount of tests. I tagged each tests with the id of the spec so I do
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The Model, the Chat and the Application(slowtechred.substack.com)
3 points by siscia 7mo ago|0 comments
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by siscia 7mo ago
I just made an app that read GitHub issues. If they have a specific tag, the agent in the background creates a plan. If they have another tag, the agent in the server creates a PR considering the whole issue conversation as context (with th
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by siscia 8mo ago
I am somehow close to what MSFT and GitHub are doing here, mostly because I believe it is a great idea, and I am experimenting on it myself. Especially on the angle of automatic/continuos improvement ( https://github.github.i
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by siscia 8mo ago
What's the hard part?
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by siscia 9mo ago
I think that the wider industry is living right now what was coding and software engineering around 1 year or so ago. Yeah you could ask ChatGPT or Claude to write code, but it wasn't really there. It needs a while to adopt the model A
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DevX to BotX(slowtechred.substack.com)
2 points by siscia 9mo ago|0 comments
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by siscia 9mo ago
In general when you try a new tool or methodology you tend to start with a small class to see the results first.
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by siscia 9mo ago
This is not an AI tool, this is a CLI that has very verbose output and documentation. It can be used by human or by AI agents. I experiment the same with other mechanisms, and CLI are as effective - if not more effective - than MCP. Granted
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by siscia 9mo ago
You don't need AI for it. You can just install the tool and use it. It is a CLI with very verbose output. Verbose output is good for both humans and AI.
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by siscia 9mo ago
The perspective from an educator is quite concerning indeed. Students are very simply NOT doing the work that is require to learn. Before LLMs, homeworks were a great way to force students to approach the material. Students did not have any
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by siscia 9mo ago
I created something similar, but instead of final oral examination, we do homework. The student is supposed to submit a whole conversation with an LLMs. The LLM is prompted to answer a question or resolve a problem, and the LLM is there to

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