zoogeny

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by zoogeny 1y ago
> I see the burden of proof has been reversed. Isn't this just a pot calling the kettle black? I'm not sure why either side has the rightful position of "my opinion is right until you prove otherwise". We're talk
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by zoogeny 1y ago
Just tangentially related, but a few days ago I did a quick analysis on lint/format options for a TypeScript project and I ended up picking eslint and prettier over BiomeJS. The main reason was eslint/prettier are a bit more battl
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by zoogeny 1y ago
Sure, however I made the point "how quickly JS libraries tend to change" and "the typical JS server project has dozens of libs". That can add up to a lot of context. I suppose a point could be made that I could keep the
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by zoogeny 1y ago
My language is inflammatory for certain, but I believe it is true. I don't think most minds are capable of having to reevaluate their opinions as quickly as AI is demanding. There is some evidence that stress is strongly correlated to
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by zoogeny 1y ago
I think they might have made a change to Cursor recently as well. A few times I've caught it using an old API of popular libraries that have updates. Shout out to all the library developers that are logging deprecations and known incor
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by zoogeny 1y ago
I mean, I have. I use them every day. You often see them literally saying "Oh there is a linter error, let me go fix it" and then a new code generation pass happens. In the worst case, it does exactly what you are saying, gets stu
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by zoogeny 1y ago
I think it is pretty simple: people tried it a few times a few months ago in a limited setting, formed an opinion based on those limited experiences and cannot imagine a world where they are wrong. That might sound snarky, but it probably w
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by zoogeny 1y ago
In addition to choosing languages, patterns and frameworks that the LLM is likely to be well trained in, I also just ask it how it wants to do things. For example, I don't like ORMs. There are reasons which aren't super important
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by zoogeny 1y ago
For several moments in the article I had to struggle to continue. He is literally saying "as an experienced LLM user I have no experience with the latest tools". He gives a rationale as to why he hasn't used the latest tools
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by zoogeny 1y ago
> Philosophy’s logical conclusions are relativism and nihilism Some philosophers, notably Jacobi [1], have argued this (he is credited with popularizing the term nihilism). He was arguing against enlightenment thinkers, especially Spinoz
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by zoogeny 1y ago
Moments like these make me reevaluate the AI doomer view point. We aren't just toying with access to dangerous ideas (biological weapons, etc) we are toying with human psychology. If something as obvious as harmful sycophancy can slip
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by zoogeny 1y ago
Interesting, it looks like redpanda is a Kafka replacement and redpanda connect is a Kafka connect replacement but with a supported set of connectors (sources and sinks). I (once upon a time) had to write a Kafka connector myself so I get t
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by zoogeny 1y ago
Yes, I've used Fivetran at VC funded startups that I worked at and I understand the value of not having to build this piece of common infrastructure. Although we did experience regular (probably once every couple of months) issues with
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by zoogeny 1y ago
Good to know about but looks more like an open source snowflake (e.g. data lake). Fivetran and Census are the in/out process layers that bookend the data lake. Although, Hudi does look like it has some of that functionality baked in.
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by zoogeny 1y ago
Cheers, that is what I was thinking must exist but didn't know about.
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by zoogeny 1y ago
Sure, SQL + something like metabase is a decent starting point (ideally running on a read-only replica). However, there is room to improve over that. It's like logging. Yeah, there is sentry, papertrail, splunk, datadog and the like. B
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by zoogeny 1y ago
All of these tools are insanely expensive (from my own experience at companies that have used them). I understand it, since building your own pipeline to handle the kind of throughput analytics takes is expensive and time consuming. Busines
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by zoogeny 1y ago
They offhand mention OAuth integration in their discussion of Cloudflare integrated solutions. I can't see how that would be any less secure than any other OAuth protected API offering.
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by zoogeny 1y ago
JIRA is more than just ticket management for most big orgs. It provides a reporting interface for business with long-term planning capabilities. A lot of the annoying things that devs have to do in JIRA is often there to make those function
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by zoogeny 1y ago
Honestly, that backlog management idea is probably the first time an MCP actually sounded appealing to me. I'm not in that world at the moment, but I've been the lead on several projects where the backlog has became a dumping grou
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by zoogeny 1y ago
I'm curious what kind of research people are doing that takes 45 minutes of LLM time. Is this a poke at the McKinsey consultant domain? Perhaps I am just frivolous with my own time, but I tend to use LLMs in a more iterative way for re
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by zoogeny 1y ago
I am starting a new web app project and I wanted an in-memory store for session data. I just defaulted to Redis, literally yesterday doing the `npm install`. I mean, I remembered the whole Valkey saga after the license switch. I guess I&#x2
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by zoogeny 1y ago
> You get three videos before it inserts completely irrelevant and unrelated algorithmic recommendations This has become increasingly annoying for me. Sometimes I want to find a reference I saw a few years ago on some topic. Even if I kn
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by zoogeny 1y ago
This is one of the reasons I like the massive context window in Gemini. You can do this as part of the message chain. I don't try to one shot it, just use the same idea across 3 messages. 1. Figure out a plan (it responds with the plan
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by zoogeny 1y ago
I do the same, and I have one other technique. I will often have a few chats going for a project, but with different contexts. For example, one might be tech focused, another marketing focused, another with some context on my personal goals
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by zoogeny 1y ago
That is exactly what I am working on actually. I am trying to build a web app where the LLM writes 80%+ of the code. The end goal is to present the learnings as encountered on a realistic project. I am currently streaming it on Twitch but t
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by zoogeny 1y ago
So we are clearly having the same experiences using LLMs, I can tell based on your comment. I was doing exactly like you. There is a budget with Cursor and I hit it one day. I was "iterating" with the LLM and getting it to make sm
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by zoogeny 1y ago
> AI is fundamentally changing the ways developers work. Our analysis implies that this is particularly true where specialist agentic systems like Claude Code are used, is particularly strong for user-facing app development work, and mig
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by zoogeny 1y ago
I think we should be careful of too much cynicism (although too little is bad as well). There is the old Aesop tale of the fox and the grapes. Being unable to reach the grapes the fox sulks away saying "they were probably sour". T
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by zoogeny 1y ago
It is a bit chilling because of the compound interest that this kind of policy incentivizes. Once you have a handful of powerful X accounts, you have the ability to generate more. So not only can you work to silence others, you can work to

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