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by zingar 9mo ago
Refactoring is a very mechanistic way of turning bad code into good. I don’t see a world in which our tools (LLMs or otherwise) don’t learn this.
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by zingar 9mo ago
Hang on, is Claude running on your phone/tablet and installing large dev dependencies right there? Or which parts of this stack are you replacing with termux?
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by zingar 9mo ago
My introductory course used that exact textbook and I still have it on my shelf :). It has a chapter or two on NNs and even mentions back propagation in the index, but the majority of the book focuses elsewhere.
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by zingar 9mo ago
I have lots of non-AI software experience but nothing with AI (apart from using LLMs like everyone else). Also I did an introductory university course in AI 20 years ago that I’ve completely forgotten. Where do I get to if I go through this
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by zingar 9mo ago
Is the package manager a significant amount of time compared to setting up containers, running tests etc? (Genuine question, I’m on holiday and can’t look up real stats for myself right now)
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by zingar 9mo ago
What is the point that you believe would be demonstrated by a new text editor running at the limit of hardware in a compiled editor? Would that point apply to every other text editor that exists already?
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by zingar 9mo ago
Could you give us an idea of what you’re hoping for that is not possible to derive from training data of the entire internet and many (most?) published books?
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by zingar 9mo ago
How does this stack up in 2025/6?
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by zingar 9mo ago
> they attribute their success to morally inferior conduct I’m not seeing accusations of morally inferior conduct here. Tech people like to dunk on marketing people no matter where in the world they are.
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by zingar 9mo ago
> People literally built OpenManus the next day after Manus' launch marketing This is not a good sign but may not be as terrible as it used to be: it seems like as soon as one idea makes money someone else is able to reproduce it fa
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by zingar 9mo ago
AI influencers on YouTube were going wild with demos for about 2 weeks around the middle of this year. It was enough to get me to sign up to the manus wait list but by the time they told me I was in I’d realised how superficial the recommen
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by zingar 9mo ago
What’s your definition of “good at AI” sufficient to get 1m+ at a company already bursting with AI people?
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by zingar 9mo ago
I find that often tasks and code which don’t match the checklist of cases where agents are useful can be broken down into tasks that do match the criteria. Sometimes when the context is wrong for the tool we are guilty of assuming that ther
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by zingar 9mo ago
Do you use a mouse most of the time? That’s the other variable I wonder about. When I used Linux I found it normal to plug in a mouse whenever possible, but when I switched to macOS and got used to the trackpad I stopped using a mouse or ke
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by zingar 9mo ago
> Making high-level architectural decisions > Understanding unfamiliar codebases quickly > Debugging systems you didn’t write > Reasoning about scale and failure modes > Keeping systems secure > When you look at that list,
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by zingar 9mo ago
> Guardrails matter here: mandatory human authored test specs (in partnership with an experienced engineer), strict code review, and explicit reasoning requirements (“explain why this change is correct”) help prevent silent failure modes
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by zingar 9mo ago
I’ve work as a consultant for a few different tier 2 Ruby organizations and many startups myself and haven’t seen any typing in production. I suppose reconciling our different experience requires data about whether “most” Ruby programmers a
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by zingar 9mo ago
And you’re finding that it can’t do that without tmux?
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by zingar 9mo ago
Thank you, this is the sort of response I need to take framework seriously. I asked because had genuinely never found anyone who could make an honest comparison (I used Linux in pre macOS days but that was a decade ago).
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by zingar 9mo ago
I don’t see anyone in these replies really addressing the touchpad. Would love to hear from people who have used macbooks if they have found a Linux machine that matches the Apple trackpad. “Never tried a MacBook, my Linux machine trackpad
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by zingar 9mo ago
Without arguing with the main point I do want to say that although I didn’t ask for increased control size from 18 to 26, my hands are really appreciating it.
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by zingar 9mo ago
Very interested to read the blog post about the results.
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by zingar 9mo ago
I could say the same about any AI architecture. By definition cloud = cloud, local = not cloud. So when coderunner advertises ~ “more privacy because less cloud” I’m not sure what it is about coderunner that helps me get less cloud than any
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by zingar 9mo ago
What are you asking/expecting Claude to do with tmux?
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by zingar 10mo ago
Haha “tell me you work at Stripe without telling me you work at Stripe”
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by zingar 10mo ago
Just to clarify, are you saying SQLLite is a good example that we should emulate?
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by zingar 10mo ago
I don’t like types in separate files but I also don’t want them cluttering my signatures. Types in comments would be my ideal, am I the only one who prefers this? Edit: I see sorbet supports this as an experimental feature https:/&#x2
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by zingar 10mo ago
I don’t think the existence of a library to do something is evidence of the community shifting. For me the complete absence of types from any Ruby I see IRL or in examples from conference talks, readmes etc is evidence that the community is
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by zingar 10mo ago
I’d love to hear from you or someone in your shoes: what are some patterns or examples of tests that are made redundant by types? “It has a field of type X” has never been a useful test for me, my tests are always more like: “if I send mess
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by zingar 10mo ago
I’m still not sure why sending files to the cloud is supposed to be a disadvantage of other approaches but not this one. Whether you run your LLM’s commands in this sandbox or not, content is going to the cloud if the LLM is in the cloud, a

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