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by _fat_santa 8d ago
At least with Codex, this has not been my experience at all. It still screws up sure, but in every case I can ask "why did you do this" and it can trace back what made it take that particular decision. Typically it's always t
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by _fat_santa 8d ago
Part of the issue is many TV's these days are essentially bricked until you connect them to the internet to "activate".
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by _fat_santa 8d ago
I bought a Hisense TV a few years back and when I set it up, I could not proceed without downloading the companion app. I was curious so I called support and told them that I didn't have a phone and asked how I could activate the TV. S
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by _fat_santa 14d ago
This is just the 2020's version of "StackOverfow is down"
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by _fat_santa 14d ago
I've personally adopted doing multiple refactoring passes after any large code implementation done by AI. In pretty much any scenario where I'm adding code using AI, it's 1 turn to add the feature and and then another 4-5 tur
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by _fat_santa 17d ago
I just switched over to it from Ubuntu. So far the nice thing is that it gives you a fully decked out hyprland setup without any of the hassle and pretty good UX. The problem I've always had with trying out a tiling window manager like
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by _fat_santa 20d ago
I agree, presentation is a big issue with PWA's since you have to know how to add it vs just searching in the app store. I'm sure were going to get a native app eventually, though customers have not asked for one yet and seem to b
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by _fat_santa 20d ago
A little off topic but for anyone using Thunderbird, I highly recommend BetterUnsubscribe[1] to help combat spam. Since installing I've basically eliminated marketing emails from my inbox. I've used tools like unroll.me in the pas
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by _fat_santa 20d ago
You must be following the wrong people.
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by _fat_santa 20d ago
This is a constant argument i have with by business partner. He's always asking me "when are we making an app for our <SaaS>" and I always reply back: "We already have an app! It's just a PWA" PWA's
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by _fat_santa 20d ago
When it comes to the AI backlash, I think a big problem is that we have absolute terrible messengers and they are spreading terrible messages. If I go on X, the vibe there around AI is amazing. You have folks constantly talking about cool t
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by _fat_santa 23d ago
This has largely been my experience. On the one hand I now have AI writing 99% of my code. On the other hand I'm not dealing with a whole new class of problems that come out of that.
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by _fat_santa 23d ago
TBH I find it very out of touch to ask that kind of a question. Among regular people, everyone works for money. I consider myself a "mission" driven person but that "mission" is 4th of 5th on the list of reasons to join
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by _fat_santa 23d ago
I did a comparison between Opus 5 and Sol and the results were night and day. Basically took a feature in my app and asked it to explain to me how it works. Sol gave me a straightforward bulleted list, easy to scan and read. Opus 5 though..
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Show HN: PWA that lets you see which cities are beneath your feet(earthview.sunny.gg)
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by _fat_santa 1mo ago
I've heard the same thing about Bloomberg's chat many years ago. Since everyone you're chatting to also has to fork over ~$30k/yr to use it, there's the implicit assumption that you're talking to a serious pers
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by _fat_santa 1mo ago
My team is currently developing our 3rd product this year where 99% of the code is written by an agent. One thing I've definitely noticed is our problem solving hasn't stopped, it just moved up the stack to the "agent layer&q
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by _fat_santa 1mo ago
I don't find the "AI will cause mass unemployment" argument compelling, in fact I see the opposite as being true. The reason we are talking so much about that now is that at the current level of productivity, we just don&#x27
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by _fat_santa 2mo ago
> Building a Saas product seems somewhat trivial at this point. The trap here is the word "seems". When I started building my SaaS years back I thought the problem space was trivial (even joked to my business partner that I cou
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by _fat_santa 2mo ago
> If AI can build anything. Why do you need a human in the loop? I'm currently building a SaaS with my business partner. I'm the "tech guy" while he has decades of industry experience with the industry that our SaaS i
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by _fat_santa 2mo ago
It's useful for running multiple long running tasks alongside your "primary" work. As an example I currently have 3 tabs open running a PR review, 1 tab running "autonomous development" for a small time feature and
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by _fat_santa 2mo ago
At my org we've been building AI agents and one internal rule we have is to use at most 50% of the models context window with the recommendation to not go over 25% for large context window models. Anytime I see a "1M Context Windo
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by _fat_santa 2mo ago
Another commenter posted the complaint: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28513012-samuel-tuni... The terrifying line of this for me is: "before and during the search", namely the "before" par
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by _fat_santa 2mo ago
> The fundamental problem with the internet is that hosting sucks and no one wants to do it. It's thankless and it's expensive to maintain, both time and money. Apps are a way to not worry about that. No it's not. Hosting
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by _fat_santa 2mo ago
When me and my wife were purchasing our first home, we had everyone from mortgage people to realtors to our own friends and family that owned homes tell us to never use our home insurance unless it was something truly catastrophic. Currentl
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by _fat_santa 2mo ago
What does the financial compensation need to be for an engineer to actually do this? I'm gonna assume that if you work at Apple and are being recruited by OpenAI, you are not a dummy. Then you probably know that doing something like th
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by _fat_santa 2mo ago
I see this case pretty simply. The states want to prove that Meta knew what it was doing to kids and did it anyways to raise engagement. Meanwhile it looks like Meta is trying to sidestep that argument entirely by stating that social media
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by _fat_santa 2mo ago
I think what everyone underestimated was the absolute bonkers amount of compute it will take and how that compute must scale in order to keep up with larger and larger models.
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by _fat_santa 3mo ago
I still use GPT-5.3-codex-spark which also runs on the Cerebras chips. Spark can run at >1000 tok/s but it's highly limited in it's context window size so it's not suitable many workflows. Granted this will be a bit s
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by _fat_santa 3mo ago
> If anything these models should be compelled to be public since they have been trained off public data I'm starting to come around to this idea TBH. For a while my position was: "these companies have invested billions into tr

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