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by zingar 3mo ago
This must the most compelling look I’ve seen at how software might work with LLMs doing a ton of heavy lifting. There’s something kind of amazing here in that having read about property based testing I’m pretty confident I could apply it if
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by zingar 4mo ago
This is great advice that AI (successfully) tempts me into ignoring.
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by zingar 4mo ago
What happened that made you switch away from contracting?
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by zingar 4mo ago
Yep, this was an issue long before Trump. They’ve just amped up the scale and stopped bothering with the deceit that they know doesn’t bother Americans.
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by zingar 4mo ago
To be clear these projects made it way further than they could have without AI. But any blocker that takes me out of the flow can easily become the thing that ends it. Not even necessarily because it’s a difficult problem, but just because
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by zingar 4mo ago
The “old normal” described in this article sounds hellish. This sounds like all the worst practices that need to be drummed out of people who arrive not knowing what effective engineering looks like. There’s no loss if all of this changes d
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by zingar 4mo ago
I have multiple side projects that I would never have contemplated building before but whose utility now exceeds the much lower cost to build. I got a few weeks in to each and then stalled on all of them because the effort and motivation re
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by zingar 4mo ago
What’s the difference between a pattern and an abstraction?
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by zingar 4mo ago
The rugby player, absolutely not, I know the sport well. But interestingly this fictional player did play for my local team. The neurologist I could believe exists somewhere in the world with the same last name.
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by zingar 4mo ago
I love a long form programming deep dive. I have questions, probably basic ones that belong in undergrad CS but it’s been … a while. 1. Can someone remind me why it was so important/intentional at the start of the language that every o
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by zingar 4mo ago
I love the way this starts with using emacs badly since 2008. I start my own shorter emacs story similarly: “I’ve been using emacs for 10 years, so I’m only a beginner“.
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by zingar 4mo ago
Interesting. I started on spacemacs and never left. My spacemacs is super pimped for the things I want. It feels like if I rolled my own I would end up with something like spacemacs, but not as good. So I guess you and others here have had
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by zingar 4mo ago
Bahaha apparently only in their hallucinations. I’m not a professional rugby player or a neurologist.
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by zingar 4mo ago
It would matter a lot if there were 5 people reading/writing code or 100.
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by zingar 4mo ago
Is this “hacker news”-esque in terms of being a social bookmarking site? I don’t see much by way of the same topics, and don’t think the difference is only whether it’s Indy or not.
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by zingar 4mo ago
It’s reasonable to say that there are things like discovery and validation that are necessary for every startup (to succeed) and that some techniques for these can be automated. That we can describe something like “validation” in the abstra
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by zingar 4mo ago
If this is true why am I hearing so much from “AI startups” about how they have big plans to hire?
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by zingar 4mo ago
100 feels low given I just saw dependabot do 8 in one hour. No AI required! It matters a lot what size the PRs are, and this varies wildly from place to place. I spoke to someone who instituted a “no PRs over 500 lines” rule. I would refuse
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by zingar 4mo ago
If I’m reading right you used to pay more for Claude but now deepseek has replaced that higher tier subscription. Do you mind my asking what you were paying before?
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by zingar 4mo ago
We just agreed on our team that we’re not posting AI-generated text into comms with humans.
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by zingar 4mo ago
Enjoyable list but I’m not sure the AlphaGo documentary counts as pop culture :). It’s interesting how people talk about vi vs emacs, can’t remember ever meeting anyone who chose vi over vim, let alone enough people to make th at the debate
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by zingar 4mo ago
I agree with the main point but this misses something crucial: > why wouldn’t you use it to deliver more value to your customers, faster? That should show up as MAU, conversion, revenue Most roadmaps are full of garbage and would be bett
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by zingar 4mo ago
I thought we were very close until recently but I’ve just seen a long string of very promising openings from myself and others turn into “yeh dunno, it doesn’t work, I gave up”. The effort to start is way down and drives new demand for soft
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by zingar 4mo ago
It was obvious hyperbole. I can believe that there are many companies where the boss heard about MCP and put it on a roadmap before anthropic decided that it wasn’t a good idea… and now the team is implementing this in the name of “we need
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by zingar 4mo ago
GraphQL also allows the LLM to DOS your service
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by zingar 4mo ago
Can you not just install/ restrict the available CLIs in the same way you do with MCPs? Or what else am I missing about why MCP is more secure than a CLI?
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by zingar 5mo ago
That sounds intuitively right but breaks down when you ask “inefficient at what?”. Are you efficient with CPU cycles or efficient with human working memory?
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by zingar 5mo ago
Edit: I lost the context that this is about building devtools where you can’t just throw more hardware at the problem. But perhaps my answer still explains the reality: anthropic builds Claude with Claude so Claude needs to be easy to build
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by zingar 5mo ago
The post talks about LLM+human contributions being recognized in some different category from human-only. But is it possible to spot the difference between the two?
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by zingar 5mo ago
This is a refreshing take but I’d really have liked an example for contrast.

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