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by wwind123 3mo ago
Hmm, thanks. Didn't know about this. But looks like a bunch of hassle to set it up?
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by wwind123 3mo ago
I've been using Claude Code, Codex, Gemini (now Antigravity) at the same time for half year now, ever since I dipped my toe into agentic coding. I'd say in general Claude Code and Codex are equally powerful, Gemini is lagging behi
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by wwind123 3mo ago
On one hand, I understand that some old code is hard to delete because it's hard to detangle a lot of the legacy dependency. On the other hand, too much useless old code existing in the code base by itself could become a big maintenanc
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by wwind123 3mo ago
Half year ago I tried to use Codex, Claude and Gemini build the same scripts to automate various things on my machine. Claude was the clear winner back then, making the most reasonable assumptions, presenting results in the easiest-to-read
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by wwind123 3mo ago
I think LLM-driven agentic flow is useful in some cases, but in many other cases, deterministic code would be indeed much safer and more reliable. In the ideal world, people can build a proof-of-concept with LLM agentic flow quickly, and if
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by wwind123 3mo ago
Famine could be caused by drought or flood or other numerous things. When the country can't produce enough food, its people would need to rely on food from outside.
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by wwind123 3mo ago
It's about how to benefit the entire human species, or at least to reduce human suffering across the board. If there is famine in North Korea, then the surplus food from the world flowing into there won't be an issue right?
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by wwind123 3mo ago
I agree UN sounds like a good organization to help distribute the wealth created by AI to the world. But this idea won't be considered by the current U.S. administration. In that case what other countries can do is probably to tax the
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by wwind123 3mo ago
That's a great question. Some form of union has already started in some companies, as far as I know. But not many employees have joined those unions. Probably because most employees have high income and don't really feel like they
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by wwind123 3mo ago
I can feel for both camps. Some of my published work is pirated heavily. That's not my main income source, so I just shrug and let it go. If anything, I'm probably happy that people are reading my work. Especially if it's peo
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by wwind123 3mo ago
I kind of understand your frustration about the ad-hoc nature of the Inflation theory. When I was younger I believed the truth must be simple and beautiful - if a theory is complex and ugly then it's not the real truth. But as I get ol
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by wwind123 3mo ago
It's not a brand new project, but a project I've been working on and off for the last half year. I was trying to add a major feature which required some big refactoring of the current structure of the code. With the previous model
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by wwind123 3mo ago
With modern cryptography techniques, Apple could certainly do it if they cared enough. I guess the potential benefit doesn't justify the potential effort and cost related to the change, from Apple management point of view.
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by wwind123 3mo ago
I make Claude, Codex and Gemini review each other's design plan and implementation. Each always found a lot of things the others missed...until Fable 5 came out. Whatever plan or code Fable 5 comes up with, now it's very hard for
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by wwind123 3mo ago
For some of the things I buy, I prefer just doing online, because it's often not easy to figure out where one particular thing is in the store. But when I have time, I do enjoy browsing in the store and discovering new things to buy th
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by wwind123 3mo ago
If a notification is dismissed on iphone, there's indeed no central UI to see it again on the phone. That's a sad state of iphone. Many people have asked, but Apple just doesn't care enough to do it. Now I hope this kind of h
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by wwind123 4mo ago
I used to hate phones without the headphone jacket too, even though my headphone lines always needed some detangling out of my pocket when I needed them. But then I tried a pair of Bluetooth earbuds (two earbuds connected with a plastic ban
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by wwind123 4mo ago
In my experience, for more mechanical refactoring work (like splitting a big source code file into multiple smaller ones), GPT 5.5 runs way faster than any of the Claude models. But for other tasks that require deeper reasoning, it's n
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by wwind123 4mo ago
Who knows. Maybe Mythos 5 already found a hole in SHA256, so this won't be too hard. :)
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by wwind123 4mo ago
This kind of approach would generally still need human guidance, otherwise these models might get stuck in weird niche corners of the problem space that would not be relevant to any real world project.
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by wwind123 4mo ago
In the grand scheme of things, programmer might just be an interim profession between when computer was invented and when AI starts programming everything. Future generation problem solvers would just have AI write the programs to solve pro
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by wwind123 4mo ago
I guess in this AI age, verbose language features may burn more tokens than terse versions. In that sense, it's probably more economical for the AI to consume and produce terse code. But of course, if the code is to be read by humans e
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by wwind123 4mo ago
The "Metaverse" bet was a bold but lost bet, in hindsight. Mark is fortunate that the Facebook empire is still printing a lot of money to burn, so he could switch his focus to AI now that it's clear AI is the real thing for t
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by wwind123 4mo ago
To do regex matching efficiently, you need to compile the pattern before using it. That'd exclude dynamically "calling" other regex patterns. But bigger regex pattern strings can be composed from smaller regex pattern strings
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by wwind123 4mo ago
Yeah, very commendable. Now I just wish the closed-source software that have lost support could similarly be supported this way, with the help from AI, so we don't have to throw away that many hardwares when their software can no longe
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by wwind123 4mo ago
We used to say genius is 1% inspiration + 99% perspiration. Now we say genius is 1% inspiration + 99% tokens. I was able to enjoy the subsidy from these AI companies to build some projects quickly. Even my wife (non-techie) is able to get a
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by wwind123 4mo ago
Hmm, yeah some people feel that plain emails are not secure for sensitive information. As a result, some banks provide a "secure email" box that's usually PITA to use. It'd be great if there's a unified API for all
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by wwind123 4mo ago
Yeah, it's tough either way. Some managers might be biased and keep praising some of their reports that don't actually provide good value for the company. For an outside observer that has no intimate knowledge to the work, how cou
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by wwind123 4mo ago
Yeah, this one is easy: I have been doing this for half a year. I have a couple of projects worked out this way, all green-field projects, code base grew from 0 to tens of thousand of lines each.
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by wwind123 4mo ago
Cool. Yeah it's important to have a big picture of the product, to steer the AI's towards the right direction in their work.

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