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by tern 6mo ago
Yup, 27" 4k with a Mac is truly awful. Don't do it. Get a 5k display.
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by tern 6mo ago
Ah, thanks so much for this question. I ended up building a tool that agent can use to track 'compounding' in my corpus of .markdown files. Keep iterating and thinking about it, and you may find you can do the same for your proces
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by tern 6mo ago
It's too early. People are trying all of the above. I use all of the above, specifically: - A well-structured folder of markdown files that I constantly garden. Every sub-folder has a README. Every files has metadata in front-matter. I
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by tern 7mo ago
Came here to say something similar. For me, the craft aspect is now even more exciting because I can craft more ambitious things without getting bogged down in the details. For me, refining my conceptual model, drawing diagrams, finding the
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by tern 7mo ago
There are a handful of these. I've been using this one: https://github.com/smart-mcp-proxy/mcpproxy-go
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by tern 7mo ago
Yeah, I know what you mean. I do my best to check myself and also run things by people I trust, but there's an ever-present risk I'm going insane. As a test, I've been attempting an incredibly complex project that goes far be
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by tern 7mo ago
Honestly, based on where this is going, I suspect we might agree more than it appears in this short exchange. As for the point about complexity, I will meditate on it. My first cut is that what you're getting at is something like: you&
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by tern 7mo ago
Appreciate this very direct and real share. I pray that you find your way to a more merciful part of this life game, or that somehow all that you're going through now is worth it for something later.
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by tern 7mo ago
I hear you, but I have subtle disagreements: > Why not read books, manuals, or take online classes? There is free access to all these things, the only cost is time and energy. Sure, but it's just way faster now . I can get the exac
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by tern 7mo ago
You seem to be saying two things. For me, the answer is: I've been somewhere in the middle—working on real projects, sure. I've been employed as a software developer in the past, and I've worked with startups and corporations
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by tern 7mo ago
Yeah, you're absolutely right. I was just thinking yesterday ... that because the majority of reading I do now is output from chatbots, I'm starting to think and write like a chatbot. A little terrifying. Probably the solution is
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by tern 7mo ago
I know it's not anyone's fault exactly, but the current state of systems in general is an absolute shit show. If you care about what you do, I'd expect you to be cheering that we just might have an opportunity for a renaiss
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by tern 7mo ago
I am solidly in this "curious" camp. I've read HN for the past 15(?) years. I dropped out of CS and got an art agree instead. My career is elsewhere, but along the way, understanding systems was a hobby. I always kind of want
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by tern 7mo ago
0xparc is a research lab. They may be wrong or mislead, but they work on this stuff every day—it's not some guy stumbling across something.
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by tern 7mo ago
I know I'm just adding to the noise here, but it seems like half the time I look at comments on posts (anywhere) I see a claim like this. I think you're probably just trying to warn people so they don't waste their time, but
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by tern 7mo ago
I had a very similar experience. I have different preferences, but ultimately, my takeaway was that if I want to follow my own version of their philosophy, I should just create my own thing. In the meantime, the codex/cc defaults are b
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by tern 8mo ago
This article sounds like it's written from the perspective of alien artificial intelligences discovering humanity
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by tern 8mo ago
It's possible an ordinary R-LCD would be good enough , perhaps with a DIY diffuser over the screen
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by tern 8mo ago
Music, unfortunately, has a very different business model not just because of the difference in medium, but because it's copyable. You can share a photograph of a painting, but it's, just, not the painting. A rip of a CD is nearly
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by tern 8mo ago
I'm specifically trying to counter this kind of defeatism. Individual employees can and do make a difference.
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by tern 8mo ago
This take is overly cynical. Every major corporation has people with influence who care and fight for good outcomes. They win some fights, they lose others. The only evidence you need is to notice the needlessly good decisions that were mad
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by tern 8mo ago
Claude's brand is sliding dangerously close to "the Microsoft of AI." DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS I write mainly out of the hope that some Anthropic employees read this: you need an internal crusade to figh
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by tern 8mo ago
Historically, it leads to more humans—not fewer—and they get to do something else. Whether the new things they get to do are better is a matter of some debate.
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by tern 8mo ago
If you want to play that game, you need to offer a fair comparison against the cost of "operating" the equivalent human being(s), measured in caloric input, waste output, etc.
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by tern 8mo ago
I think this is the wrong mental model. The correct one is: 'AI makes everything easier, but it's a skill in itself, and learning that skill is just as hard as learning any other skill.' For a more complete understand, you al
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by tern 8mo ago
I'm mostly vibe-coding a system of comparable complexity in Elixir/Ash right now and it's an insanely good ecosystem for the use-case. The combination of credo, dialyzer, and tidewave means you have an iterative feedback loop
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by tern 8mo ago
I had a flight delayed (or cancelled, can't remember) once in LAX. They lead us to a lounge area nearby that had cabinets filled with cots. I was given a cot and a blanket and slept OK. Had no idea this was a thing.
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by tern 8mo ago
A lot of people use apps like this lately: https://untitled.stream/ , https://gatefolded.com/ , https://samply.app/
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by tern 9mo ago
While I remember $5 Ubers fondly, I think this situation is significantly more complex: - Models will get cheaper, maybe way cheaper - Model harnesses will get more complex, maybe way more complex - Local models may become competitive - Cap
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by tern 9mo ago
I've recently become interested in using LLMs for things that are actually beyond human comprehension by using kind of insane prompts and then consistently having the model create i.e. "a coherent mathematical model" of the c

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