wilsonnb3

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by wilsonnb3 10mo ago
> "Why is Claude writing TypeScript I'm supposed to read?" 40% of code is now machine-written. That number's only going up. How much of the code is read by humans, though? I think using languages that LLMs work well w
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by wilsonnb3 10mo ago
> Do you debug JVM bytecode? V8's internals? No. You debug at your abstraction layer. If that layer is natural language, debugging becomes: "Hey Claude, the login is failing for users with + in their email." I debug at my
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by wilsonnb3 10mo ago
> making mandatory perpetual payments to be allowed to use tightly-controlled devices that they must manage their entire lives through This is the mainframe experience for companies that run on z/OS, the licensing makes Azure look s
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by wilsonnb3 10mo ago
The old context menu can get slow as hell too, there have been third party tools to manage it for ages, like https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
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by wilsonnb3 10mo ago
This is the fault of whoever is administrating your Windows machines, Teams and Outlook are perfectly capable of opening links in your configured default browser.
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by wilsonnb3 10mo ago
How would rebuilding Windows on top of Linux help anything? Nobody is complaining about the NT kernel and none of the Linux DEs are clearly superior to the Windows userland, they all have at least as many bugs and warts.
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by wilsonnb3 10mo ago
See season 7, episode 4 (“Sex Ed”) of The Office for a non-cartoon media reference :)
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by wilsonnb3 10mo ago
An order of magnitude, really? An experienced user with an LLM is going to accomplish in 2026 what would have otherwise taken until 2036?
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by wilsonnb3 10mo ago
Assuming 40 hours a week of work time, you’re claiming a ~25x speed up, which is laughably absurd to me. It will take you 2.5 months to accomplish what would have taken you five years, that is the kind of productivity increase you’re descri
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by wilsonnb3 10mo ago
Don’t a lot of Android devices come with Gemini Nano on the device? Probably not as many out there as there are Apple devices because it is only the high end ones at the moment. I don’t think they are that far behind in numbers though.
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by wilsonnb3 10mo ago
I feel like this is 5 or so years out of date. The fact that they actually have an Apple Music app for Android is a pretty big push for them. Services is like 25% of their revenue these days, larger than anything except the iPhone.
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by wilsonnb3 10mo ago
Track changes and collaborative editing are both pretty important features IMO
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by wilsonnb3 11mo ago
Had a lot of fun with this, great job on the concept and presentation!
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by wilsonnb3 11mo ago
I think it might still be a toggleable option but the “new calendar” experience in teams is exactly the same as the outlook web calendar.
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by wilsonnb3 11mo ago
In Windows-land everything is so inconsistent that it doesn’t really stand out like it does on MacOS. 97% of Windows users wouldn’t notice if it followed OS conventions and the remaining 3% would complain that it was following the current c
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by wilsonnb3 1y ago
It’s actually much more than that, $20 billion per year
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by wilsonnb3 1y ago
I think you are about a decade off on your first git commit, unless you meant they went cvs -> svn or something and then ended up on git later.
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by wilsonnb3 1y ago
This is about keyboard navigation rather than TUI vs GUI, there is no reason you have to render your app with plain text to support efficient keyboard nav.
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by wilsonnb3 1y ago
I can’t get it to use my password manager on that screen either, and navigating to another app closes the modal so you have to copy your password and then start over.
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by wilsonnb3 1y ago
Last I checked, shorts are disabled if you disable recommendations.
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by wilsonnb3 1y ago
It is quite bleak to me. Thinking has always been an important part of what makes us human, much more so than physical labor. Craftsmanship and tool usage are physical activities that also define us as a species and you will find no shortag
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by wilsonnb3 1y ago
> This is the part where I simply don't understand the objections people have to coding agents. It seems so self-evidently valuable --- even if you do nothing else with an agent, even if you literally throw all the code away. It sou
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by wilsonnb3 1y ago
“Chat” is already in the youth lexicon, originally referring to an amorphous blob of live stream viewers. It now kind of refers to a non-existent but omnipresent viewer of your life. I think ChatGPT might turn into just “chat” as the next e
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by wilsonnb3 1y ago
GitHub Copilot has a CLI now, I think it is in beta. It also supports background agents that you can kick off on the GitHub website, they run on VMs
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by wilsonnb3 1y ago
Sure it does, you wouldn’t call a photographer a painter. Really depends on the tool.
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by wilsonnb3 1y ago
I feel like “memetic” is probably the best descriptor, you either love it or hate it but either emotion is a good way for something to stick in your brain. I am on the stupid side, personally.
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by wilsonnb3 1y ago
I dunno, I feel lately like we are right at the tail end of the honeymoon era and about to enter the era where the blog topic du jour is “use LLMs, not too much, mostly on a short leash”. Not much to base that on other than vibes, though :)
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by wilsonnb3 1y ago
shrug life as a developer in Microsoft-land is pretty nice these days. I quite like Azure Functions and Azure SQL Server, C# is great, Visual Studio is kind of slow but better than anything not made by JetBrains. Really my only complaint
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by wilsonnb3 1y ago
> It wasn’t practical to convey knowledge in a short form previously because printing and distributing a blog post worth of info was too expensive. I don’t think this is true, people have been printing newspapers, pamphlets, and leaflets
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by wilsonnb3 1y ago
They probably weren’t. Samsung does just enough work so that they could feasibly create their own fork of Android in the event of Google trying to fuck them. The Galaxy store is more of an insurance policy than a real product they expect pe

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