MattGaiser

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by MattGaiser 4d ago
This whole discussion is basically a field demanding that their field be preserved for them alone to discover. No competition allowed besides the monks of mathematics.
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by MattGaiser 4d ago
A lot of this was self inflicted by Florida. Between their roofing coverage laws and their attorney fee laws, suing for new roofs was basically free, so everyone and their dog did it.
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by MattGaiser 5d ago
Lots of music is just filler. It’s not intended to be really listened to, but to break up silence.
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by MattGaiser 13d ago
I mean, the lesson from AWS has largely just been to accept it as if US-East-1 blows up, everyone is screwed anyway so you cna just shrug it off.
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by MattGaiser 13d ago
Yeah, just tried to switch over and now getting errors there too...
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by MattGaiser 13d ago
As is Codex
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by MattGaiser 14d ago
The coordinators enable extra coordination that is not worth doing. The coordination itself is the problem.
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by MattGaiser 17d ago
The thing is thought that business seems quite happy with the AI prompting. Business has never paid a premium for slop vs knowledge when it is good enough.
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by MattGaiser 22d ago
Most people can’t optimize for 1-3%. Life is flooded with 1-3% choices. Even as someone who is a credit card optimizer, I also ignore numerous 1-3% choices a day. Many people also spend more than they can cover on it.
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by MattGaiser 23d ago
The results of startups flouting laws though have been such that even when faced with determined opposition, in the end they are defeated. Airbnb and Uber ran roughshod over the law and faced determined taxi commissions and groups that usua
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by MattGaiser 23d ago
In America, solving something is to exempt the individual from the problem. So it solves it by letting you pass the tech interview.
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by MattGaiser 23d ago
Do they care? Just cheat the people in the next round!
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by MattGaiser 25d ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/trump-tari...
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by MattGaiser 27d ago
> This attitude is wrong IMO. The issue with high-profile half-baked interventions is that they distract from real unsexy solutions like grab the plastic in rivers BEFORE they make it to the ocean. This system change nonsense is why no p
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by MattGaiser 1mo ago
What is “it” specifically and what languages are you using?
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by MattGaiser 1mo ago
Are there any other large online communities that are publicly searchable other than Reddit, particularly ones organized by topic? Hacker News is not organized by topic. Even within the walled garden of Facebook, search is awful. Stack Exch
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by MattGaiser 1mo ago
The thing they didn’t want to say is that the problem is that Bank of America has legal reporting and compliance obligations. On that one, they were right enough that there are an enormous number of businesses that use crypto to avoid somet
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by MattGaiser 1mo ago
A tool like this never sees the light of day without an LLM. Git is complicated and use case for this is rather niche.
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by MattGaiser 1mo ago
Its astonishing how many people miss that if you have servants, you must be an elite, as by definition, we cannot each have 5 servants.
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by MattGaiser 1mo ago
I guess a lot of this depends on whether you consider juniors to be part of your talent pool. Unless you are retaining them, it is just subsidizing industry at large to train them. I stayed less than a year at my first two jobs. They bet wr
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by MattGaiser 1mo ago
What terminology is required to make Claude Code write code? My experience with friends has been the opposite. A PM friend made a custom tool. A friend who has never written a line of computer code has an app. If you tell Claude Code "
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by MattGaiser 1mo ago
Gambling has consistently ranked above family for many in human history, so while it hurts a third party, the people involved genuinely believe in it.
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by MattGaiser 1mo ago
Knowledge is knowledge, as long as it can be proven true.
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by MattGaiser 2mo ago
A lot of LLMisms are just poor flowing writing, no matter what the use case.
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by MattGaiser 2mo ago
An enormous amount of on-call debugging is just natural language reading of logs.
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by MattGaiser 2mo ago
That time is otherwise worthless, so yes? I don't value my travel time at all, but it used to be wasted on travelling.
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by MattGaiser 2mo ago
This speaks to OpenAI's approach to things. But it doesn't speak to Microsoft and Microsoft would need to provide the access.
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by MattGaiser 2mo ago
The problem is that someone has to oversee the junior and the multiplier on productivity also applies to the overseer. So you could have the senior oversee the junior or just have them oversee Claude.
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by MattGaiser 2mo ago
Not at all. I’m a run of the mill dev who would like to stay ahead of the AI wave.
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by MattGaiser 2mo ago
I think it depends on what kind of senior you are. Juniors are by their nature mostly order fillers. Seniors can be anywhere from more complex code order fillers to fairly well developed experts in business logic.

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