torben-friis

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by torben-friis 5mo ago
>If shipping code is a commodity then why is everyone's immediate priority seemingly to ship 10x more code. I wonder how much of current engineering practices can be traced to what's pushed to company leaders on LinkedIn. Every
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
>A caveat: Lines of code is an imperfect measure, as it measures quantity over quality. So 8× lines of code/engineer/day in the second quarter of 2026 is almost certainly an overstatement of the true productivity gain. Nonethel
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
You missed the most important part: the site provides something for free. There's no "if you want to keep learning check my book/course". It's not a funnel entrance, it's not adversarial to you as a reader. I r
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
That's a judgemental approach to a pattern that has all the marks of addicting behavior. Of course many people in a competitive environment will click the autosolve button if available. This is a reason to think how to redesign the sys
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
In terms of material learned maybe, in terms of shaping logical thinking and tackling hard problems there is a huge benefit.
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
>We used a vibes based system based on how compelling a sob story you could concoct whilst staying on the good side of fraud. Besides lost meritocracy, that is accidentally filtering for ability and willingness to manipulate others emoti
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
>even stuff that used to be routine when I started coding now feel heavy. The same weight feeling heavier is a sign that your muscles are weaker :) There's many areas in life were we look back a few decades and think "people us
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
One rips off codex and the other rips off cursor? Only half joking.
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
>Microsoft Scout connects to apps such as Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, and SharePoint, and accesses data from chat, email, calendar, and contacts. There's a running joke that you don't pay some mariachis for singing, you tip them
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
I'm not, I'm saying the spammers are proof that ignoring social awareness in business is not always a positive.
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
Maybe a bit of fear of rejection is nice on second thought. Particularly if you're being rejected due to being an asshole.
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
>If 1B people consume via personally or their employer on average $100/mo of tokens or services that solves the problem right there 0.15B is the full actively employed population of the US. 0.2 extra for the full EU, and we're
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
>it's kind of inevitable and I haven't really heard a coherent steel man argument for why "killing whole industries" is somehow a far-fetched idea. They don't only require "good enough to kill industries&quo
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
Token cost might be sustainable but still not profitable enough to make up for the costs of either training or the investments gifted away until it became profitable. They also might have no relevant moat that allows them to enshittify enou
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
They need a price consumers can't stomach or are unwilling to pay, and without that the company is profitable but not able to justify investments. That's the argument.
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
How is this "embarrassing" instead of subject to legal liability? We really need similar rules to other engineering disciplines. If your building falls with people inside, you killed them.
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
Yeah a lot of authors nowadays just write screenplay, either thinking on licensing or just by being influenced by tv. Sanderson and Abercrombie come to mind as other authors that basically have action scenes and movie cuts baked into the bo
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
I'd say sad more than ironic. It's a person accepting to engage in discussion about a technical matter and unknowingly speaking with the machine, literally.
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
I don't see it as fundamentally different to licences dictating personal vs commercial use, requiring attribution, etc. People share their intellectual property however they see fit. That's speaking about the general principle, I&
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
That was kind of my question, whether it was restricted to downloading notarized apps (which is at least something) or whether they were circumventing that somehow.
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
>"Read this PDF" installs a pdf reader executable. How does this work regarding Macos notarization btw?
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
Wuthering Heights was a remake, and Hail Mary was also a safeish bet since it's a novel by the same guy as The Martian. Not to say that it isn't an improvement, but we're still pretty far from seeing American cinema catching
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
I'd have been happy to pay for a WhatsApp-like service if they had not been acquired. Flawless service for like a decade, no complains. Only issue was the difficulty of moving between Android and iOS. Meta? Fuck off. We all know they&#
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
So many people get buried in tech debt due to constantly choosing "let's be productive now and iterate later". Then later never comes. This was already proof that, when a company is given the chance of getting a reward now an
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
Yes, this should be higher. I fucking hated that.
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
Uh, you seem to be right. I can't check oxford to confirm because there's a paywall, apparently. The mental model I've always been taught is: False, well intended -> mistake False, bad intention -> lie True, bad intenti
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
>I think that's _you_ turning the statement into something much broader than intended. My point is that it is possible for a reader to turn it that way, for a variety of reasons (lack of understanding of statistics, preexisting bias
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
>Something can be simultaneously "misleading" and either true or false. Which category should something go in if it's "mostly false"? Disagree. The definition of misleading is a true fact that is presented in a w
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
Nope, I'm not a native speaker and the damn thing has probably already affected my perception of what's idiomatic. Ugh.
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by torben-friis 5mo ago
>But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI’s answer. This is the killer issue. It's so profoundly saddenning, it feels like watching an adult being asked a question and calling mom to answer

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