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by smoe 4mo ago
I had good experiences doing multi-hour refactoring/housekeeping tasks that basically consisted of applying the same steps and rules n times. Worth noting, a significant chunk of those runs involved the agent waiting for the compiler,
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by smoe 4mo ago
> I do think that over the past few months, it feels like the hype around producing unmaintainable amounts of LoC has started dying down. I wonder if a small part of this is more and more business and product people actually trying to in
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by smoe 4mo ago
I don't know how effective the French protests are, since I haven't lived in Europe for a while. But even as a Swiss, at least judging from TV, protests in the U.S. generally seem very tame. Not advocating punching the police as a
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by smoe 4mo ago
I think we too often treat other people’s jobs like spherical cows out of ignorance. Not just AI researchers. Long before LLMs, programmers regularly and massively underestimated how hard it is to automate other people’s work. Knowledge wor
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by smoe 5mo ago
Earlier this week I started testing Chinese models on my codebase. I haven’t really looked at interactive coding yet, but more at issue triage, bug auto-fixing, log analytics, etc. I used DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, Qwen, and MiMO against GPT-5.5
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by smoe 5mo ago
At least according to this, GPT-5.5 Cyber is on par with Mythic, as the only two models that were able to finish their 32-step corporate network attack simulation. https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-evaluation-of-openais-
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by smoe 5mo ago
My worry is that, at least among the artists I know, many kept themselves afloat early career by doing commercial freelance jobs like illustrations for local events or companies. Those kinds of jobs might largely vanish. On the other hand,
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by smoe 5mo ago
Having used Python on and off for 20 years, my experience with LLMs writing Python has been mixed. I don’t think that’s necessarily because of a low-quality dataset, but rather because Python’s applications are so broad and the language has
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by smoe 5mo ago
I honestly think that, given the sorry state of the pre-GenAI internet, with all the SEO optimization nonsense, clickbait, and supplement peddling everywhere, LLMs are for now actually better than Google for “doing your own research” on man
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by smoe 8mo ago
In my opinion, it has always been the “easy” part of development to make a thing work once. The hard thing is to make a thousand things work together over time with constantly changing requirements, budgets, teams, and org structures. For
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by smoe 8mo ago
I’m the same. Often the first step is a time-boxed exploration, just trying to make the key pieces work in any way to encounter major blockers as early as possible. No planning, no design, not following any best practices, often all in a si
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by smoe 8mo ago
It is kind of funny that throughout my career, there has always been pretty much a consensus that lines of code are a bad metric, but now with all the AI hype, suddenly everybody is again like “Look at all the lines of code it writes!!” I u
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by smoe 9mo ago
My favorite movie quote as it pertains to software engineering has for a long time been Jurassic Park's: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” That’s how I feel
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by smoe 9mo ago
In my experience with a combo of Claude Code and Gemini Pro (and having added Codex to the mix about a week ago as well), it matters less whether it’s CLI, backend, frontend, DB queries, etc. but more how cookiecutter the thing you’re build
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Statistical Rethinking 2026 by Richard McElreath [video](youtube.com)
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by smoe 9mo ago
I'm not against AI art per se, but at least so far, most “AI artists” I see online seem to care very little about the artistry of what they’re doing, and much much more about selling their stuff. Among the traditional artists I follow,
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by smoe 10mo ago
Do you think that for someone who only needs careful, methodical identification of “problems” occasionally, like a couple of times per day, the $20/month plan gets you anywhere, or do you need the $200 plan just to get access to this?
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by smoe 10mo ago
I would argue that many engineering “best practices” have become much more important much earlier in projects. Personally, I can deal with a lot of jank and lack of documentation in a early stage codebase, but LLMs get lost so quickly, or t
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by smoe 10mo ago
I don't think Google is bad at building products. They definitely are excellent at scaling products. But I reckon part of the sentiment stems from many of the more famous Google products being acquisitions orignally (Android, YouTube,
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by smoe 11mo ago
I switched away from Spotify a couple of years ago because of this, after having been a paying customer for around 10 years. But I fear all such services will eventually succumb to this, given just how much more lucrative ads can be compare
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by smoe 1y ago
I agree that people shouldn’t rely solely on AI to decide how to vote. Unfortunately, given the sorry state of the internet, wrecked by algorithms and people gaming them, I wouldn’t be surprised if AI answers were on average no more or even
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by smoe 1y ago
In my opinion, if those influential programmers actually architected around some concrete metrics like 1,000 TPS and 10K daily users, they would end up with much simpler systems. The problem I see is much more about extremely vague notions
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by smoe 1y ago
I’d argue that those kinds of automated tools are much more important much earlier in a project than they used to be. Personally, I can deal with quite a lot of jank and a lack of tests or other quality control tools in the early stages, bu
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by smoe 1y ago
Capability wise, they seem close enough that I don’t bother re-evaluating them against each other all the time. One advantage Gemini had (or still has, I’m not sure about the other providers) was its large context window combined with the a
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by smoe 1y ago
I agree that Gemini is overly enthusiastic, but at least in my limited testing, 2.5 Pro was also the only model that sometimes does say “no.” Recently I tested both Claude and Gemini by discussing data modeling questions with them. After a
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by smoe 1y ago
In Switzerland, where people have the legal right to control whether and how their image may be photographed and published, exemptions are made if the image/person is of public interest. This is decided on a case-by-case basis, so the
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by smoe 1y ago
I switched from Spotify to Youtube Music a couple of years ago because of Spotify showing disruptive ads/promotions on the premium plan. YT Premium for Music + Videos is worth it for me, being about 2.5USD more expensive per month than
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by smoe 1y ago
I think that is just "coding" now. Most people will make use of some form of AI-assistance to the degree it is perceived useful and permissable in the context. So the thing in between vibe coding and say artisanal coding where eve
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by smoe 1y ago
Definitely very surprised to see, that so much of the CF products that are there to compete with the big cloud providers have such a dependance on GCP.
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by smoe 1y ago
Latest Cloudflare status update basically confirms that there is a dependency to GCP in their systems: "Cloudflare’s critical Workers KV service went offline due to an outage of a 3rd party service that is a key dependency. As a result

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