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by wrs 7mo ago
There is quite a stretch from “unacceptable risk to national security” to “absolutely any foreign-made equipment”. And that stretch has everything to do with the current administration.
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by wrs 7mo ago
“Day by day?” “Tolerating?”
213.
by wrs 7mo ago
Title asks where the AI apps are. Analysis looks at Python libraries . Kind of a non-sequitur, no?
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by wrs 7mo ago
OK, that was an extremely short interaction -- which may be the problem. I left a comment with suggestions.
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by wrs 7mo ago
When CC says "Verification" at the end like that, it means it's assuming you will do the verification. But you can tell it to do it (just say "verify it yourself" or something), and then (if needed) ask it to fix
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by wrs 7mo ago
I assure you I would have noticed if the result of my Friday effort was something that didn't compile, rather than a service that seems to work just fine. I've reviewed about half the code so far and it seems quite reasonable. For
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by wrs 7mo ago
I understand (and don’t know what to say beyond “that’s weird”). I was just reacting to your equating “the first try sometimes doesn’t compile” with “it often fails”. That’s only a failure if you stop at that point.
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by wrs 7mo ago
Hmm…if you’re giving only one prompt to Claude Code, and allowing it only one output, then I’m no longer baffled at why you’re not getting good results. That’s not how it works. (That’s not how it works when I write code myself, either!)
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by wrs 7mo ago
There’s nothing wrong with it that I can see. Like I said, I’m a bit baffled at your experience. I will say, it’s not unusual for the initial output not to compile, but usually one short iteration later that’s fixed. Claude Code will usuall
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by wrs 7mo ago
I didn’t say they are equivalent, nor do I in any way consider them equivalent. One is a tool, the other is a person. I simply said the description of the problem should be broken down similar to the way you’d do it for a junior developer.
221.
by wrs 7mo ago
I’m honestly baffled by this. I don’t want to tell you “you’re holding it wrong” but if this is your normal experience there’s something weird happening. Friday afternoon I made a new directory and told Claude Code I wanted to make a Go pro
222.
by wrs 7mo ago
Just FYI, this is the same as when I left Microsoft 20 years ago.
223.
by wrs 7mo ago
"Strategy", you say.
224.
by wrs 7mo ago
Yes, you have to calibrate the effort to the task, you can't just blindly vibecode it. But if you treat it like a new college hire who still remembers their stats course, rather than a senior analyst who will just come back with the ri
225.
by wrs 7mo ago
I think you may be confusing work with "work". It's easy to find yourself spending 40 hours in an office and accomplishing 6 hours of actual work, and conversely it's easy to spend 25 hours at home and do 20 hours of act
226.
by wrs 7mo ago
Asking an LLM to analyze data directly doesn’t work. But they’re great at writing scripts to analyze (and visualize) data. Anthropic just figured this out last week and gave Claude a mode that does that for you.
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by wrs 7mo ago
On two greenfield web apps using straightforward stuff (Preact, Go, PostgreSQL) Claude Code has been very helpful. Especially with Claude Code and Opus >= 4.5, adding an incremental feature mostly just works. One of these is sort of a we
228.
by wrs 7mo ago
Once again AWS waits an inexplicably long time to fix an obvious deficiency that the other providers solved long ago, and then does it in an inexplicably hacky way. See also their recent innovation of letting you be logged into the console
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by wrs 7mo ago
I really appreciate that your response to being interviewed by an idiot is to write, not an angry rant, but an educational blog post. You are a good person and they didn't deserve you.
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by wrs 7mo ago
> So what’s the Pentagon’s plan...? The part of the Pentagon that did this is, to put it politely, not the part that's good at planning.
231.
by wrs 7mo ago
> And of course let’s not forget AI spamming OSS repos with nonsensical PRs. What’s even funnier is when the reviewer turns out to be AI too. What's even funnier is this is literally how "agent teams" (the latest hotness)
232.
by wrs 7mo ago
You're gonna be really unhappy with how domain name registrars work, then.
233.
by wrs 7mo ago
Whoops -- I meant rlogin. That had ~. and ~^Z. But you're right, rlogin got them from cu! (I'm not that old. :) )
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by wrs 7mo ago
Those aren’t “secret”, they’re obviously borrowed from rsh — oh that’s right, I’m old.
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by wrs 7mo ago
What a depressing take. The whole reason we put 435 people in the same room (well, plus 100 people in another room) to run the lawmaking process was for them to convince each other with arguments. If we're going to make decisions based
236.
by wrs 7mo ago
Somehow we have more public “discourse” than ever with less public “debate” than ever. People just yelling rude names at each other and repeating nonsense talking points, while the trajectory of what’s actually happening continues to worsen
237.
by wrs 7mo ago
> “mainline AI into the veins” of the British economy Wow, what a terrible, yet perhaps inadvertently accurate, metaphor.
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by wrs 7mo ago
Yes! If you broaden your scope beyond “Western diatonic” you get even more opportunity. “Why can’t you tune your Turkish microtonal guitar” would also be an interesting follow-up.
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by wrs 7mo ago
Not all instruments are limited to a fixed set of pitches. A good classical string player micro-adjusts each individual note to adapt to its harmonic context. For example, making all the thirds and fifths sound good even when the key change
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by wrs 7mo ago
I have a hard time with this separation of “principle” from “people”. Isn’t it people who have principles?

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