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by whstl 5mo ago
They're only called CTO if they're from CTO region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling AI-Cheerleader.
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by whstl 5mo ago
It's perfectly possible to put that sort of knowledge into words, but not in a condensed "recipe" that can be explained in a meeting, that will go into a single Hacker News comment, that will cover all cases, or that will sat
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by whstl 5mo ago
I enjoy the syntax and the defaults he picked, and it matches the way I use C++. I prefer it to all the C/C++ alternatives.
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by whstl 5mo ago
I personally really like the syntax and the defaults, and I like it more than the C++ alternatives.
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Working occasionally with modern Python helped me love and respect C++ even more.
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That's a shame! It's a lovely language.
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YC startup. Toolchain was Clang and sh. Chromium is gonna be more conservative than that for sure.
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by whstl 5mo ago
I find C++ not hard at all when working with familiar idioms, restrictions and toolings (familiar to me). But it's hard jumping into new codebases and adjusting yourself to new patterns. Recently I did a lot of programming using C++23
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by whstl 5mo ago
Lots (most?) of statically typed languages also do near zero runtime checking. They naturally use types for compilation, but the type system is trusted to forbid some invalid states. Underneath it’s all bits and bytes. Even in safe language
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by whstl 5mo ago
Seems similar to what Microsoft is doing lately: https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/microsoft-doubles...
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by whstl 5mo ago
I've had a few situations where developers and made a lot of important decisions in person, and then the one person who was almost-always remote felt left out. It was a bit of drama and the person ended up leaving because they wanted o
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by whstl 5mo ago
Oh I also do this all the time. What I mean by "too fast" is opening 50 pages in the span of two or three milliseconds. Either way, I'm not blocking. The CDN is handling the traffic alright.
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by whstl 5mo ago
I run a quite large website and there are a few patterns. The usage is extremely quick, and follows easy-to-spot patterns. We noticed a spike in bounce rate. They never come from Google, and the bad programmed ones just crawl several pages
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by whstl 5mo ago
It really depends on how mature the developer is. If they have the soft-skills to do it, then by all means. If not, they need to upskill their soft skills before tackling anything big.
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I understand both sides. Quality must come from engineering. If you’re depending on a product manager to ask you that you can improve the quality of the code, you already lost. So it requires soft skills, proper framing and ability to ite
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by whstl 5mo ago
From my POV, the main thing that's really broken with interviewing right now is the filtering process, even before candidates do a take-home test. In the last few years I was the main tech interviewer for a 300-employee fintech. For a
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by whstl 5mo ago
Fine, but that’s was clearly not enough to stop the spam, nor it was enough to satisfy everyone. There are some apps I can’t afford to mute or uninstall, such as phone, transportation, communication and work. I wish I could, but I currently
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by whstl 5mo ago
It should but apps don't let us decide. An intermediate seems to be trying to fix it. Is it ideal? No. But it's the spammers who are to blame.
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by whstl 5mo ago
Same for things like Uber. I do want to know when a car is arriving. I don't want messages asking if I'm hungry.
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by whstl 5mo ago
The same issue happens on desktop but it requires zooming a bit more than 110%, and is screen-size dependent.
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by whstl 5mo ago
I don't see how this has anything to do with my message, sorry.
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It's probably some internal conflict between following the original training and following user prompts. Also reminds me of the gremlin issue with GPT. An (internal) prompt saying "don't say gremlins" wasn't enough.
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by whstl 5mo ago
If compaction is throwing away crucial prompting instructions even when it's at a 1% of maximum token usage (like my example), then it's a software bug, not an LLM artifact.
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by whstl 5mo ago
I’m not talking about large amounts of text, I’m talking about a couple sentences back and forth. It disregards things like “no follow up questions”. Haiku, for example doesn’t. This bias is a very human thing, actually now that I think abo
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by whstl 5mo ago
I don't believe this is a context problem. Claude Opus 4.7 has a very large context compared to itself, but IME it is the worst at following instructions, and completely disregards the (small) preferences prompt, even in the first or s
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by whstl 5mo ago
Are you assuming that "using a LLM" automatically means "vibe coding"? Is it not engineering anymore even if you micromanage and relegate the machine to a better typist, following patterns and doing research around?
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by whstl 5mo ago
A team I worked with once optimized a website, and cut about 400k of cruft, down to under 200k total. I did shit that was career-damaging, such as deciding not using heavy libraries that a platform team was pushing me to do (thus affecting
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by whstl 5mo ago
The blame for this is 100% on Google. They constantly reward websites that are on a hamster-wheel of chasing the latest SEO trends, while penalizing websites that have actual information for not jumping through the same hoops. A company I k
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by whstl 5mo ago
A project I work at uses a similar pattern (similar from what I can see): func Login(req LoginRequest, cookies Cookies, db *sql.DB) (LoginResponse, error) { ... } router.HandleFunc("POST /signup", fw.Wr
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by whstl 5mo ago
Most projects I see use the standard library for almost everything, but everyone leverage a few libraries here and there for one thing or the other. It's just a different philosophy, but it's really not unlike Rails users importin

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