Xenoamorphous

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by Xenoamorphous 5d ago
I see two groups of optimistic people about all this. First, the “OMG I’ve always been a builder , I’m having so much fun”. Yeah, building hobby projects. They’re called a hobby for a reason, they are not means to sustain yourself or your
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by Xenoamorphous 5d ago
I think the “I’m sad” camp are mainly worried about their livelihood. You’re having fun but all of those things you listed are mere hobbies that won’t generate any money, particularly in a world where the next guy can spin up some AI agent,
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by Xenoamorphous 6d ago
Sad as it might sound, I think we might have to stop worrying about the code.
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by Xenoamorphous 13d ago
That’s like that scene in the I, Robot movie when Will Smith’s character is asking the robot “can you turn an emtpy canvas into a work of art, or compose a symphony?” and the robot replies “can you?”.
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by Xenoamorphous 1mo ago
Need one for hair loss ASAP.
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by Xenoamorphous 2mo ago
Some thoughts: - just because it doesn’t help 99.9% of the companies today it doesn’t mean it won’t help them tomorrow - 0.01% of the companies employ a much bigger percentage of people - 99.9% of companies won’t need to do a project of thi
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by Xenoamorphous 2mo ago
> we’re approaching $800k in money spent on this rewrite. That’s peanuts, if not the shells of the peanuts, for a project and company of this magnitude
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by Xenoamorphous 2mo ago
> I guess I am one of those "architects" that imagines they need an actual date/time storage class instead of some stringly-typed text column that I hope will contain a parsable ISO8601 datetime string when I try to read i
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by Xenoamorphous 2mo ago
I’ve literally calluses on my wrists from those edges.
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by Xenoamorphous 2mo ago
So sad. Jurassic Park had a tremendous impact on me as a dino obsessed teenager ( was 13 when it came out). RIP.
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by Xenoamorphous 2mo ago
A butterfly flaps its wings in Tokyo and we lose a leap second.
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by Xenoamorphous 2mo ago
A few years back I got a couple of Adidas running shorts. Instead of the typical drawstring they had some continuous string. To this day I've no idea how it was supposed to be used, I just cut it off and voila, a regular drawstring.
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by Xenoamorphous 3mo ago
The current government has little chance to get re-elected, and the next one will revert most of these decisions.
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by Xenoamorphous 3mo ago
To me the build step is a good thing. It's a simple script in npm, and it means I only keep what I need (the JSON Schema, which I don't need at dev time) in runtime and whatever package generates those schemas out of TS types can
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by Xenoamorphous 3mo ago
Obviously it's not ideal, but IMO it's the better option. Much better than `z.number().integer().min(0)` or whatever zod equivalent there is and then have to deal with the inferred types which among other things tend to suck for I
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by Xenoamorphous 3mo ago
I don't like zod. I want to define my types, not write schemas. And I don't like that then I have to use the types derived from those schemas rather than types I've defined myself directly. So I just define my types and then
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by Xenoamorphous 3mo ago
Another strong possibility is that you might be working on something that’s not very prevanlent in the training set. Even the choice of programming language matters, e.g. Java or Javascript vs some niche one.
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by Xenoamorphous 3mo ago
Indeed. Most people have more arms than average, which must be 1.9 something.
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by Xenoamorphous 4mo ago
It does.
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by Xenoamorphous 4mo ago
> Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something. From Crichton's book Jurassic Park, which like most of his books is
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by Xenoamorphous 4mo ago
Even if agents failed at that I'd wager that's a very small percentage of software projects anyway.
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by Xenoamorphous 4mo ago
Yeah, just read the first couple of paragraphs and then stopped because that’s not my experience at all with Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7. If you ask it with a prompt that leaves room for criticism it’ll definitely go for it when warranted.
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by Xenoamorphous 4mo ago
Pelican in a white Testarossa.
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by Xenoamorphous 4mo ago
If it’s a retry of the same request it should have the same key. If it’s not a retry, a different one. I don’t see the issue. If the client sends the same key but a different payload that’s a 400 or 409 in my eyes.
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by Xenoamorphous 5mo ago
Has SQL somehow become less relevant?
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by Xenoamorphous 5mo ago
Receiving one of those sounds really scary.
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by Xenoamorphous 5mo ago
Couple of people in my company have vibe coded some chat interface and they’re passing skills and MCPs that give the model access to all our internal data (multiple databases) and tools (Jira, Confluence etc). I wonder if there’s something
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by Xenoamorphous 5mo ago
Grok.
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by Xenoamorphous 5mo ago
I use both and don't feel they're mutually exclusive. E.g. if I have some ElasticSearch cluster, I use a skill to describe the data, and if I ask the LLM to write code that queries ElasticSearch but to test it first it can use a c
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by Xenoamorphous 5mo ago
Scott Alexander are his first and middle names, and Siskind his last name, or that's what I've understood.

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