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by willio58 4mo ago
> Using existing CLI directly: No context wasted on tool definitions Can someone explain this to me? I've seen claude code try to run a not-well-known package and it basically shot in the dark a command, noticed that failed, then ra
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by willio58 5mo ago
Yeah give me the median
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by willio58 5mo ago
I love accessibility, I just want to preface what I’m about to say with that. I found this site hard to read. I’m reading on my phone btw. The text is too big for me and the line height (space between lines really) isn’t right, it’s too spa
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by willio58 5mo ago
fwiw I got one of the first products listed on amazon when you search mycorrhizal fungi and I'm seeing the same effects stated by the grandparent comment
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by willio58 5mo ago
Interesting, their price bump announcement actually just went and made me upgrade to lifetime (at $250 while I could) instead of write them off completely. Netflix will never allow you to pay a one time fee for life, neither will any other
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by willio58 5mo ago
Hop on plex amp. Take control of your music. I realize that sounds like an Ad but I’ve been using it for a few months and I feel like I’ve rediscovered my joy for music again.
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by willio58 5mo ago
I mean.. did he turn anti-Elon or did society turn anti-Elon when Elon started doing insane shit? Reminder: Elon bribed his way into leading a self-formed and now essentially defunct government organization to "save costs" but fai
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by willio58 5mo ago
> The real danger was not allowing smoking because if you ban smoking, people will smoke no matter if it's banned. This same concept is why full prohibition never works. People who want to do something will find a way and it often c
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by willio58 5mo ago
Yep, many older people right now don’t have a smart phone and never will. As long as some younger people stay that course we should be fine. Hopefully we’ll see an increase of dumb phone adoption in a growing cohort younger adults. But the
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by willio58 5mo ago
> Perhaps rather it is management that is wiping out those jobs As a manager I’d direct you to the actual decision makers for things like this, company leadership teams. They’d blame the market, yet most of the big tech companies laying
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by willio58 5mo ago
> You must be able to do your job if your AI tooling disappears While I agree with the sentiment I fear this won’t last long. I already find myself, when Claude goes down for 15 minutes due to whatever, kind of throwing my hands up and t
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by willio58 5mo ago
The same for any FAANG, money.
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by willio58 5mo ago
> AMP My god AMP was such an annoying thing ~4-5 years ago when I was working in a marketing-forward web dev shop. "Google really likes when you pipe your words into their shitty UI because it saves some time for the user" We w
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by willio58 5mo ago
In some ways it’s sad to see, but I’d be lying to say I didn’t have a little happiness seeing the actions of politicians in the U.S. catch up with them. It’s like there was this belief, we are the most powerful country in the world and we c
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Brian's Misunderstanding of Management in a World Rapidly Adopting AI(allstead.dev)
2 points by willio58 5mo ago|0 comments
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by willio58 5mo ago
What you are shipping is not the same as what Coinbase is shipping. These are vastly different things. Making a shiny app with AI is great, I'm doing it as I type this. But I am under no delusion that what I make can sustain a multi-mi
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by willio58 5mo ago
At that number I’d argue what you’re doing is not management. It’s basically “you’re the guy who fires people in this group”. For some companies, that’s fine, but those people will essentially never have your ear, and you’ll only have their
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by willio58 5mo ago
> Leaders will own much more, with as many as 15+ direct reports. As someone who did have 15 direct reports for a while, it’s a joke. You basically are their manager in name only. Your time is so split you can’t give any one direct repor
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by willio58 5mo ago
Yep I take this as a signal to remove the remaining amount of crypto I had on coinbase out. Fun thing for tonight!
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by willio58 5mo ago
It would be functionally the same as what you described if the parent company took on the debt, but that’s not how they do it. They make the purchased entity take on the debt. Hence why you often see mass layoffs in the company that was acq
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by willio58 5mo ago
Airlines basically were a regulated utility until they were unregulated to the point where normal people can barely fit in a seat and there’s basically no amenities anymore. It used to be kind of nice to fly. That’s laughable now.
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by willio58 5mo ago
I don’t find this with sonnet at all. As long as I have a solid Claude.md and periodically review the output and enforce good code practices via basic CI gates I’ve rarely ever found myself having to switch to opus
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by willio58 5mo ago
> The jams are built for one continuous arc of attention. The work is staccato. Couldn't agree more. I'm personally okay with how engineering is changing. At the end of the day, the code is a means to an end for me. That said,
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by willio58 5mo ago
I find automated tests are the only way to keep vibe coded projects on the rails, especially as you grow something beyond demo phase.
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by willio58 5mo ago
Lots of negativity in the comments and while I'm as distrusting of VC funding as the next guy I think competition in this space is something we should encourage, and bootstrapping that is hard if not impossible at this point. Obviously
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by willio58 5mo ago
The heroku mention here struck a chord for me. I don’t feel as attached to GitHub for some reason but Heroku was the first web host I used where I felt like “this is how cool a web-based tech-oriented product can be”. So crazy to see how mo
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by willio58 5mo ago
It’s always been interesting to me that multi-million and even billion dollar tech companies don’t have perfect websites in terms of UX. Just last night I was helping my GF set up an ad for her job on LinkedIn. The UX was terrible. Like awf
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by willio58 6mo ago
True that. Max 5, sonnet for 95% of things. I never run out of tokens in a week and I use it for ~5-6 hours a day.
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by willio58 6mo ago
Same at my company. Moved to teams for the lovely “cost savings”. It’s a hog, nobody likes it. So then a portion of the company went to get on Gather which is cool. And the rest of the company never gave up slack so it’s this fun thing wher
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by willio58 6mo ago
Agreed. With simple stuff it works. But then again with simple stuff it’s pretty fast to do it sequentially. With complex stuff I often have open the “thinking” output so I can stop/interrupt with guidance. Without that it’s often garb

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