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601.
by wrs 1y ago
This makes some sense. We have CEOs saying they're not hiring developers because AI makes their existing ones 10X more productive. If that productivity enhancement was real, wouldn't they be trying to hire all the developers? If
602.
by wrs 1y ago
I can see that this is potentially a good sweet spot for the current state of AI. More complex and custom enterprise BI queries can get totally bollixed up in interpretation — even humans can’t agree on definitions so there’s no way to know
603.
by wrs 1y ago
(1) Aside from having a worse (sorry, “lighter weight”) editor, how is this functionally different from Cursor? (2) A Microsoft VP of product spends enough time writing code to be a relevant testimonial?
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by wrs 1y ago
Ooh, great question. I guess “ink” traps would actually make sense for CRT displays due to phosphor bleed. (See the design of the VT100 font.) However, according to Wikipedia Airbus started using LCDs well before this font was made.
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by wrs 1y ago
There are many, many US government employees this accurately describes. Well, to be clear, many of them just got fired.
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by wrs 1y ago
Yeah, it’s funny, we may finally have a way to get developers to write documentation for other developers, it’s just that the other developers aren’t human!
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by wrs 1y ago
This and other data analysis front ends could be a fantastic application for LLMs + tool use. It’s also a market where getting the wrong answer could result in huge liability, so at this point you’re really rolling the dice that you’re a
608.
by wrs 1y ago
Anything where you care about getting the right answer?
609.
by wrs 1y ago
For new code, sure. But there is plenty of existing C code that isn’t going to be rewritten and isn’t that performance sensitive.
610.
by wrs 1y ago
AbeBooks has been a subsidiary of Amazon since 2008. (Sure, this wouldn’t give Jeff B. “all the money”, but neither would that seller’s listing on Amazon.)
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by wrs 1y ago
This is assuming they have to work for the $1M income. The point of having $30M is to make $1M income without doing anything.
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by wrs 1y ago
Sure, it's so much better to be writing massive blobs of YAML. There just seems to be some misguided human impulse to take every data serialization language and force it to be a programming language, instead of just using a programming
613.
by wrs 1y ago
My rule on edge cases is: It's OK to not handle an edge case if you know what's going to happen in that case and you've decided to accept that behavior because it's not worth doing something different. It's not
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by wrs 1y ago
Yes, and very few people working on compilers do OS kernels, and very few people working on databases do compilers, etc. etc. My point is, they're all developers, so when you say "we developers", you'd better be speaki
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by wrs 1y ago
I have to say, I used to have a similar cheat sheet, but Claude has totally solved this problem for me. Way more than that, in fact... I had a bunch of 20-year-old 8mm film transfers on DV, where the scanner had put white-on-black titles be
616.
by wrs 1y ago
You are fortunate to have the pre-AI background experience to know how to recognize the 10%. People graduating college right now may never be so fortunate.
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by wrs 1y ago
Just about every time somebody on this site says “we developers”, you can assume they’re ignoring the (large majority of) developers that don’t work on the same things they do, in the same way. Yes, all those ever-growing layers of intricat
618.
by wrs 1y ago
No actual die temperature measurements? That would seem a lot more relevant than the ambient temperature.
619.
by wrs 1y ago
Also, note that only the second of those actors is prohibited by the Constitution from infringing free speech.
620.
by wrs 1y ago
Maybe someone can do a query of URLs posted to HN to see how many are blogs, but...it's a lot of them.
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by wrs 1y ago
Congress does set tariff rules. Tell Congress to start enforcing its authority and end the fake “emergency” that supposedly justifies this executive override, otherwise it doesn’t really matter who’s nominally in charge.
622.
by wrs 1y ago
The problem is exactly that we seem to have forgotten how dangerous the early web was and are blithely reproducing that history.
623.
by wrs 1y ago
Put a modern reverse proxy in front of the legacy thing and turn off cert verification in the proxy? Or if the problem is the reverse, tell the legacy thing to use a forward proxy configured like it’s 2001 as its router.
624.
by wrs 1y ago
If you expand “More” in Gmail, there’s a Manage Subscriptions view that shows a list of senders along with unsubscribe buttons.
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by wrs 1y ago
Let me just put in a plug here for not trying to fill all of your so-called "dead time" with so-called "productive activity". Mind-wandering times like driving, showering, laundry, coffee-making, etc. can produce some
626.
by wrs 1y ago
Claude Code in a terminal. I may have done some touchups in Cursor.
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by wrs 1y ago
I’ve done a few ports like this with Claude Code (but not with a while loop) and it did work amazingly well. The original codebase had a good test suite, so I had it port the test suite first, and gave it some code style guidance up front.
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by wrs 1y ago
Cursor does show the “thinking” in smaller greyer text, then hides it behind a small grey “thought for 30 seconds” note. If it’s off track, you just hit the stop button and correct the agent, or scroll up and restart from an earlier interac
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by wrs 1y ago
If current computer science curricula is accurately described here as “syntax memorization” then we’re already in deep trouble. I hope that’s just throwaway snark. (Though this whole thing reads very much like an LLM wrote it, and LLMs can’
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by wrs 1y ago
The classic Russ Cox QArt code doesn't suffer from this. [0] [0] https://research.swtch.com/qart

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