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by usewik 6d ago
Effective use of frontier models involves "driving the build". They can't really do it themselves, human is still involved to tie break complicated tradeoffs and take on deployment, security, financial and other risks. The in
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by usewik 6d ago
Good point. The other corollary is: why would you want to, if you can solve your problem by more easily finding and reusing existing building blocks with a bit of glue code.
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by usewik 6d ago
Humans will evolve. Some will keep trying to think more. Many others won't. I'm not sure this is that different from previous disruptive tech in that regard. It could be that AI is the tool the world needs to solve problems the wo
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by usewik 6d ago
While humorous and technically true, I believe this misses the point of the comment. It became a lot easier to build your own version of systems to satisfy one's own unique mix of requirements while not worrying so much about everyone
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by usewik 8d ago
yep, and all those fired and remaining are busy ai-native proofing their careers and tokenmaxxing everything including copy
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by usewik 8d ago
how long until someone's agent sets up a tunnel for the world to see one's most sensitive, private and embarrassing information or insecure work-in-progress app? granted, for the brew install some massive permissions are needed, s
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by usewik 10d ago
This was a kind of example, and not really the point of my comment. Though to illustrate further, there are many examples one might find of US acting undemocratically even 40 years ago. So, politicians will talk, governments will be in powe
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by usewik 10d ago
Eh, on a long enough timeline we have seen this and been there before. US is the beacon of democracy and the free world until it is not, and then until it again is. Depending on who is speaking and about whom and when. Most of these attenti
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by usewik 10d ago
Eh, I prefer to lean on the less dramatic Peter principle.
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by usewik 10d ago
Oh, the positive externalities of unsolicited penetration (testing).
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by usewik 10d ago
GitOps offers more benefits than downsides if configured correctly. It is more secure and scalable and auditable than manual apply from workstations. However it should be using short lived (e.g. workload identity), minimum privilege creden
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by usewik 10d ago
This is the way. And the benefit that still makes it more worth it today, is the fact that you can have truly self-service and peer reviewed infra provisioning and don't depend on a single sys admin or several of them colliding on thei
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by usewik 11d ago
Feelings don't really matter in the legal world. Statements and actions do.
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by usewik 11d ago
Agreed. Pretty sure you are supposed to ask for permission before pentesting someone. Hopefully they, being a security company, know that.
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by usewik 11d ago
I do like when books are wrapped, but to the idea of separating them into parts, I would say probably not worth it. Most books I find myself reading lately are pretty dense, and so my focus is on fitting material in my mind and imagination,
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by usewik 11d ago
It depends, probably. If we are talking about high end, off the beaten path places, marketing is important. For the $1.50 slice pizza at the hole in the wall in Times Square? I doubt those places are cleaned and no one is checking the revie
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by usewik 1mo ago
The point of his argument is that if it isn't obvious from code, there is usually an opportunity to make it obvious by rewriting the code. This is often not practical, but it doesn't make it less true in the abstract. E.g., in you
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by usewik 1mo ago
I find his particular style far from extrimist. I see the delivery as artistic style, serving to make a point. A kind of thought-bait, inviting one to consider the reason behind a jarring argument and hopefully arrive at a useful, even if m
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by usewik 1mo ago
Agreed. Asking for small PRs or commits can backfire, unless the work is deliberately scoped into smaller pieces from the beginning. This requires a human design review and planning and is one of the reasons I don't outsource that part
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by usewik 1mo ago
> If your variable is not named well and you need a comment, name your variable better. 100% agree. While you are at it, consider naming and writing your functions in such a way that doesn't require a wall of comments. Clean Code un
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by usewik 2mo ago
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