Greed

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by Greed 1mo ago
In the context of what I was replying to: > This is a chicken and egg problem I find hard to resolve with LLMs. If we're pushed to delegate most work to them, how do you build that expertise? Learning from LLM written code is signif
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by Greed 1mo ago
But how would you know? If you're an inexperienced developer you may well end up ingraining bad patterns without even realizing it.
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by Greed 1mo ago
What if the code sucks, because it was vibe coded by an LLM over a dozen disparate sessions?
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by Greed 2mo ago
Will second this, as someone that took the same path. Alternatives like Fastmail are so, so cheap when compared to the headache of building, maintaining, and troubleshooting a DIY stack. For something as fundamental as email you really want
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by Greed 2mo ago
Hats off to the folks behind this for keeping such a cool project alive! This, ReactOS, and TempleOS have been my answer to the question of: "what should I install if I'm looking for something interesting?" for at least a dec
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by Greed 4mo ago
What is your definition of "known to be a clown"? I'm not sure how one would even begin to evaluate that at scale. Or what practical impact that would actually have for anything but the most critical of dependencies that migh
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by Greed 4mo ago
You're implying that reckless rewrites within the JS ecosystem are a novel event, or more specifically that surprise language changes over a short period of time are. And yet... I can think of at least six times in which exactly this h
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by Greed 4mo ago
Enough to make judgement calls on them based on the individual Twitter posts of each of their developers? Absolutely not! If I go beyond the initial vetting, that's a minimum of 30+ projects multiplied by however many contributors each
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by Greed 4mo ago
I don't have the personal investment that you appear to have with Bun, but why does this matter? Do you scrutinize the rest of your dependencies this way? Much of working in the JS / NPM ecosystem is already pure faith on un-vette
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by Greed 5mo ago
As others have mentioned: battery, build quality, Linux-ish ecosystem. If I could get all three in another laptop I would go for it, but nothing comes close at the moment. There was a very brief moment in time where the XPS came close, an
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by Greed 6mo ago
Would definitely tend to agree. Whenever I read complaints about accuracy of LLMs with complex systems, it has generally been from those that aren't thinking very critically about how they're using them in the first place. If you
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by Greed 7mo ago
Getting Opus to call something local sounds interesting, since that's more or less what it's doing with Sonnet anyway if you're using Claude Code. How are you getting it to call out to local models? Skills? Or paying the API
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by Greed 7mo ago
Assuming you ran the gamut up from what you could fit on 32 or 64GB previously, how noticeable is the difference between models you can run on that vs. the 512GB you have now? I've been working my way up from a 3090 system and I'v
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by Greed 7mo ago
You would still have to do some pretty outstanding volume before that makes sense over choosing the "Enterprise" plan from OpenAI or Anthropic if data retention is the motivation. Assuming, of course, that your legal team signs of
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by Greed 7mo ago
But why? Spending several thousand dollars to run sub-par models when the break-even point could still be years away seems bizarre for any real usecase where your goal is productivity over novelty. Anyone who has used Codex or Opus can at
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by Greed 7mo ago
If 40k is the barrier to entry for impressive, that doesn't really sell the usecase of local LLMs very well. For the same price in API calls, you could fund AI driven development across a small team for quite a long while. Whether that
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by Greed 8mo ago
I don't think the concepts are as unrelated as you're suggesting, they both tend to operate on the premise that they can be more effective than others because they're able to bypass the lanes that everyone else is taking. And
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by Greed 8mo ago
I don't know that I care much for the mythologization of effective developers as "Wolves" and "10x-ers" which are this decade's equivalent of Ninja / Rockstar / Guru, but a similar less tech-centric v
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by Greed 8mo ago
I was part of a user study on Azure back when it first rolled out-- they were looking for seniors with an AWS background to participate in UX research, and I remember walking out of that study with imposter syndrome for the very first time.
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by Greed 9mo ago
I maintain to this day that the Zune was one of the best designed hardware and software platforms I've ever used. Probably the only truly design forward product that MS ever produced.
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by Greed 9mo ago
It's arguable, even if you're right, that the net loss to humanity is still far greater without these restrictions than with. Modern social media is leading to multiple generations of emotionally stunted, non-verbal children. Many
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by Greed 9mo ago
Yes, this is the true dividing factor for me. The battery life of the new ARM laptops is an astounding upgrade from any device I have ever used. I've been a reluctant MacBook user for 15 years now thanks to it being the de-facto hard
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by Greed 10mo ago
As I'm sure the author now realizes: truly elite skill among those working in the trades is in wildly high demand as compared to what someone might expect coming from the software industry. If just 1% of all software developers are wri
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by Greed 10mo ago
This comment makes me feel so sad. I lack the words to describe what critical essence this question is missing, but technology used to mean a hacker ethos of just doing things because they seemed cool and worth doing and even just the ask o
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by Greed 10mo ago
Absolutely. The value proposition for me with rideshare services has ALWAYS been the conversations and experiences you get to have with a diverse cross section of humanity. I'd take the bus / train otherwise.
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by Greed 11mo ago
Wow, I've never considered this aspect of it but you're right. If you want widespread access to incoming developers that can contribute to your project, that really does mean Rust by default at this point if you want a low level l
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by Greed 11mo ago
The argument there is a little dishonest, given that if you only had the option of riding public transit that your schedule would indeed be well conformed to using public transit. I think everyone understands VERY well that they could get f
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by Greed 11mo ago
I might be missing something, but what does this do that an app like AnyDesk doesn't? Is there something inherently better about remoting in with dedicated hardware rather than using any of the free and widely available software soluti
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by Greed 11mo ago
Self taught in the programming sense, or the people management sense? Because I feel like the letter is much more common than not in software. Just curious in case there's an expected background you're thinking of when you say tha
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by Greed 1y ago
Agreed. Even as an enthusiast if I could take the performance hit and keep the M4's battery life, I'd do it in a heartbeat just for the ability to run linux.

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