solidasparagus

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by solidasparagus 5mo ago
It was Django. But he had a very different financial situation. And a potentially fraught one as a refugee and foreigner. I would pay the bribe, but I would try very hard not to put the recipient in a position to have to do so (no criticism
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by solidasparagus 5mo ago
Specifically I was talking about this part > "At some point, one man quietly pulled me aside and suggested that if I "gave something," they could help solve the problem more easily.". You can pay that fee/bribe a
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by solidasparagus 5mo ago
That's a valid way to approach this - bun isn't valuable enough to bother with or at least wait for a while, Windows is. But I think the comparison is closer than you are making it sound. I sincerely doubt the Windows codebase was
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by solidasparagus 5mo ago
I think those studies have framing or methodological issue. I agree the maintenance burden is probably being undervalued by developers in general, but there's just no way the work I do isn't faster. I just categorically couldn&#x2
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by solidasparagus 5mo ago
I don't know if your viewpoint is uncommon or if the vibe-coding hating crowd is just louder.
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by solidasparagus 5mo ago
They support Windows, which is many millions of lines of code not written by the current maintainers.
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by solidasparagus 5mo ago
If you're asking about logistics, try reaching out to your country's embassy in Jordan and see if you can get in touch with an aid/development worker. They know how to make things happen.
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by solidasparagus 5mo ago
This is a very western approach to a very Ugandan problem. A trivial amount of money (for a Westerner) could have saved a lot of time and pain.
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by solidasparagus 5mo ago
I find that documentation creep is wildly better in AI coded environments than human ones. You can deterministic force a documentation sync process on every PR, documentation rot has gotten way better.
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by solidasparagus 5mo ago
Python being the language LLMs are best at predates SWE-Bench by years.
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by solidasparagus 5mo ago
I think we've moved away from the secure perimeter thinking and towards defense in depth - if that list of passwords helps you get somewhere other than the vault, removing the post-it improves security. Vaults get infiltrated all the t
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by solidasparagus 5mo ago
Why are two concurrent sessions updating the same memory key with different values? IMO it probably points to a fundamental flaw in how memory is being thought about and built.
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by solidasparagus 5mo ago
I'll take a look. Thank you!
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by solidasparagus 5mo ago
Interesting. I have not had this experience. I would like to learn more. Can you point me to any examples or domains where I might be able to replicate this?
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by solidasparagus 5mo ago
If you look at the actual cost of your Claude Code conversations, you'll see that the cost is overwhelmingly dominated by the cost of input tokens (cached). Because of how we construct persistent conversations, each cached input token
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by solidasparagus 5mo ago
I don't agree. I avoided grok because of Musk for a long time, but having used it more, I think it is one the best models around and grok.com is an extremely good chat app. My evaluation was based on trying it before gpt-5.5 and obviou
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by solidasparagus 6mo ago
What do you mean? Costs spiked with the introduction of the 1M context window I believe due to larger average cached input tokens, which dominate cost.
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by solidasparagus 7mo ago
I used them for repeated problems or workflows I encounter when running with the default. If I find myself needing to repeat myself about a certain thing a lot, I put it into claude.md. When that gets too big or I want to have detailed toke
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by solidasparagus 8mo ago
I don't really care if other people want to be on or off the AI train (no hate to the gp poster), but if you are on the train and you read the above comment, it's hard not to think that this person might be holding it wrong. Using
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by solidasparagus 8mo ago
> Here’s what’s genuinely interesting. That's my current AI detector smell. > He discontinued the blood exchange after data showed “no benefits.” A suspicious person might note that a vampire would say exactly this after the medi
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by solidasparagus 8mo ago
I'm not sure. The cost of replacement-level software drops a lot with agentic coding. And maintenance tasks are similarly much smaller time syncs. When you combine that with the long-standing benefits of inhouse software (customizable
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by solidasparagus 8mo ago
I pay $200 a month and don't get any included access to this? Ridiculous
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by solidasparagus 8mo ago
People want convenience more than they want security. No one wants permission grants to go away in minutes or hours. Every time the agent is stopped by permissions grant check, the average user experience is a little worse.
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by solidasparagus 8mo ago
Why do you think python without access to the library ecosystem is a good approach? I think you will end up with small tool call subgraphs (i.e. more round trips) or having to generate substantially more utility code.
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by solidasparagus 8mo ago
The first sentence of the blog post has a link to the product he is building - https://www.monarch.com/
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by solidasparagus 1y ago
Nice post! Can you share a bit more about what variety of tasks you've used agents for? Agents can mean so many different things depending on who you're talking to. A lot of the examples seem like read-only/analysis tasks. Di
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by solidasparagus 1y ago
I bet not even one user in 10,000 knows you can do that or understands the concept of branching the conversation.
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by solidasparagus 1y ago
Or is is because most text in existence is XML - or more specifically HTML.
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by solidasparagus 1y ago
They have to be competitive. TPUs are wildly ahead of the pack. And even they aren't particularly competitive. 12 years of ecosystem development by the most advanced AI ecosystem company on the planet and your (ex-Google!) researchers
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by solidasparagus 2y ago
It's the de facto tool for our industry. For the vast majority of cases, users bear the burden of that complexity without gaining much benefit. And (at least for me) it doesn't guarantee the one thing I need it to do - make sure I

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