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by zmmmmm 11mo ago
I find a good compromise on that front is not to use the chat primarily, but to create files like 'ARCHITECTURE.md', 'REQUIREMENTS.md' and put information in there describing how the application works. Then you add thos
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by zmmmmm 11mo ago
the question is, how do you want to provide instructions for what the AI is to do? You might not like calling it "chat" but somehow you need to communicate that, right? With aider you can write a comment for a function and then in
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by zmmmmm 11mo ago
I'm bullish on Apple in the long term for AI. Don't get me wrong, they will always suck at it. But it seems obvious to me that we're sailing up to an enshittification cliff in the very near future. Every provider is going to
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by zmmmmm 11mo ago
> I don't want to be tied to just one model. Very much this for me - I really don't get why, given a new models are popping out every month from different providers, people are so happy to sink themselves into provider ecosyste
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by zmmmmm 11mo ago
I think Aider is closest to what you want. The chat interface is optimal to me because you often are asking questions and seeking guidance or proposals as you are making actual code changes. On reason I do like it is that its default mode o
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by zmmmmm 11mo ago
I've found this as well. In some cases we aren't fully authorised to use the AI tools for actual coding but even just asking "how would you make this change" or "where would you look to resolve this bug" or &qu
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by zmmmmm 11mo ago
Well the article went in a totally different direction to what I expected. I do feel imprisoned by my vibe coded apps. But it's because I've lost control of them. I don't understand the code that was written well enough to wo
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by zmmmmm 11mo ago
This is a really dumb point from my point of view. People vastly over rate the novelty of software work. The vast majority of the time, it's at least got conceptual similarity to things created before. A lot of the time, being "ra
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by zmmmmm 11mo ago
do it the other way - give it images of wine glasses and ask it whether they are full to the brim. I suspect it's going to nail them all (mainly because Qwen-VL already does nail things like that).
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by zmmmmm 11mo ago
As a place with a high density of people with agency to influence the outcome, I think it's important for people here to acknowledge that much of what the negative people think is probably 100% true. There will absolutely some cases wh
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by zmmmmm 11mo ago
It is fascinating. Vision language models are unreasonably good compared to dedicated OCR and even the language tasks to some extent. My take is it fits into the general concept that generalist models have significant advantages because so
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by zmmmmm 11mo ago
It's an interesting question how AI influences this. If it scales up the scope of what an individual engineer can do, and if the primary driver of microservice scope is Conway's law, then in theory microservices should get "f
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by zmmmmm 11mo ago
It has other advantages. Operationally, it is very nice to be able to update one discrete function on its own in a patch cycle. You can try to persuade yourself you will pull it off with a modular monolith but the physical isolation of sepa
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by zmmmmm 11mo ago
Heh, split databases is the thing I think is most problematic and the first thing I would eliminate in most microservices architectures. A huge fraction of the problems of microservices come from trying to split the data model along team st
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by zmmmmm 11mo ago
you can extend that to all Silicon Valley and the US in general. It has one of the weakest social security systems. Not even proper healthcare is guaranteed. Yet it out innovates all of Europe, Canada, Australia, other places that have incr
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by zmmmmm 11mo ago
I always enjoy being wrong and I was very wrong in my predictions about Google : I thought they should theoretically win, but I was also very confident they couldn't possibly turn their execution ship around to actually pull together
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by zmmmmm 11mo ago
it's already the case that people are eeking out most further gains through layering "reasoning" on top of what existing models can do - in other words, using massive amounts of inference to substitute for increases model per
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by zmmmmm 11mo ago
Yes, I don't mean actually taking time away - more organisationally, once you assume a role that is divorced from technical aspects and then try to come back to managing those without hands on experience. You will find that other more
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by zmmmmm 11mo ago
> identifying and executing on whatever is highest value that you have the skills for There's a hidden assumption there though, that you CAN actually do that. At least management skills mostly stick over time but even a year away fr
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by zmmmmm 11mo ago
The interesting part here is what they carve out - they don't see impacts on body image or self esteem. These are classic effects identified as negative impacts of social media in general. It it would be really interesting if somehow
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by zmmmmm 11mo ago
I actually do find there is a subset of meetings that are far more productive on Zoom. We can be voice chatting on one screen, share another screen and both be able to type, record notes, pull up side research without interrupting the conve
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by zmmmmm 11mo ago
Public transport is only efficient at scale, requires up front investment, and carries lots of assumptions about population density and other aspects remaining static. Then it doesn't work for whole categories of people (families with
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by zmmmmm 11mo ago
What's truly crazy is the VR headset is the same architecture as the Steam Machine. As in, it's a completely open Linux system you can wear on your face . They are literally telling the community to go nuts and hack it and instal
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by zmmmmm 1y ago
The main issue with IaC is most of the IaC tools (looking at you Terraform) actually want to do Infrastructure as Data where everything is completely static. So you will quickly run up against multiplying complexity as you try to DRY things
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by zmmmmm 1y ago
And I'm still just using tig [0]. I miss a few of the more fancy features but it's simple and reliable and compiles everywhere I need. [0] https://jonas.github.io/tig/
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by zmmmmm 1y ago
I know this is a tangent but honestly, this is why the Google decision to de-openify Android is insane even from Google's point of view. Who would want to be an iron clad gate keeper when the world is descending into authoritarianism
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by zmmmmm 1y ago
What we really need is someone to implement this using FUSE so we can just mount the phone directly and treat its file system like .... a file system. EDIT: ok - it exists https://github.com/JasonFerrara/jmtpfs
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by zmmmmm 1y ago
It's boggling my mind that FireFox is 2% of the browser market now. I'm hoping that includes mobile where it makes a lot more sense. But even so, really sad. It is actually a great browser (putting aside this issue of AI features
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by zmmmmm 1y ago
Is it local though? I'm so confused, they have a whole page that starts with how they run everything on device[0]. But the page ends telling you how great it is that you can choose your AI service which then leads to a page where ... a
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by zmmmmm 1y ago
Yes, why not burn a forest to make a up of tea, if we can fully externalise the cost. Even if LLMs do get 10x as fast, that's not even remotely enough. They are 1e9 times as compute intensive.

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