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by adamddev1 5d ago
The first thing I notice is an AGENTS.md in the repo.
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by adamddev1 5d ago
There's also often the obligatory "well, we still have to use these tools so perhaps we could use them better like this." As if just not using them wasn't an option.
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by adamddev1 9d ago
Reminds me of the good 'ol Apple II BASIC. You can name your variables whatever you want, but only the first two letters matter.
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by adamddev1 17d ago
It was a joke if you read the article.
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by adamddev1 18d ago
Right, programmers also use randomly generated info from property based testing for example? But I was referencing the analogy to the abacus, calculator, logarithms, analysis, and higher level languages.
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by adamddev1 18d ago
> Have mathematicians become "less savvy" since the invention of the abacus or calculator? The invention of logarithms or analysis? This is not a fair analogy. Those things are like compilers, languages, and type-checkers. Th
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by adamddev1 18d ago
> “I’ve told four separate therapists about Typebase. Two stopped taking me as a client. The other two are now shipping an app with it.” So good. I laughed out loud at this.
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by adamddev1 19d ago
It would be amazing if everyone would boycott the app stores as much as possible and normalize PWAs. People would learn if they got common enough. But alas, I doubt this will happen.
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by adamddev1 19d ago
I love having auto-generated subtitles available, but I am still skeptical that we can call them "accurate" yet. For many languages the models are quite weak, and even for English and German on YouTube I see errors all the time.
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by adamddev1 20d ago
> it will also unlock pretty insane scaling and productivity Insane scaling of bloat, bugs, and technical debt I'd say. > We will manage it on either end via requirements and tests It is so crazy that this is being touted as
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by adamddev1 21d ago
It is self-serving to say "the code base is no longer important" for companies that want to sell you LLM tokens for swarms of agents to have to constantly burn away at a pile of increasingly messy and broken code. If they can conv
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by adamddev1 21d ago
The graph of the engine efficiency vs number of horses per person at the end doesn't fit IMO. I am tired of people trying to make these analogies between the following transitions: - Horses to Engines (non-deterministic to deterministi
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by adamddev1 22d ago
I don't understand how people talk about how Python is "easy to learn for beginners" or "easy to understand." To me it's so hard to remember and follow all the weirdness. Racket / Scheme / I dare say
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by adamddev1 23d ago
ASM to a higher level language is a jump to a clearly defined higher level language through a deterministic compile step. The jump away to LLMs is something completely different.
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by adamddev1 23d ago
We are spending sooo much for our intellectual time and energy on discussions about alchemy-like experiments with different models, agents, harnesses, orchestrations. And there are huge amounts of time, energy, and writing sunk into arguing
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by adamddev1 26d ago
Tests do not prove the absence of bugs.
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by adamddev1 1mo ago
I just SSH into the servers when I need to. I don't have any VPNs with these servers. I just try to follow normal server security setup practices, disabling password authentication etc.
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by adamddev1 1mo ago
Furiously prompting Claude, "please, please fix this!!!!"
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by adamddev1 1mo ago
I was in a very similar situation and this is what I did: - put Forgejo on a little $5 Vultr VPS (I share the VPS with other things, Forgejo doesn't need much resources. I also added some block storage to host my Docker containers in t
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by adamddev1 1mo ago
This looks like a really cool idea. But since it's a new project and has all the Claude stuff I immediately feel unsure about the solidity and reliability of a security-critical piece for software like that. I wish I could go back to m
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by adamddev1 1mo ago
One of my favorite memes shows a kid having a conversation with his father in the car: Kid: Dad, why is my sister named Rose? Dad: Because your mother really like roses. Kid: Oh, ok, thanks Dad! Dad: No problem, Costco Hot-Dog!
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by adamddev1 1mo ago
> "Exponentially growing costs" I don't think people thing don't think enough about the exponentially growing costs with AI. The cost of tokens, the cost of bugs, the cost of technical debt, the cost of software bl
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by adamddev1 1mo ago
I moved to a self-hosted Forgejo, with a self-hosted runner on another cheap Hetzner server. It's amazing how clean, snappy, and reliable it is.
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by adamddev1 1mo ago
Here's a guy who does more than make simple, bloated end-user apps. He tries to dig into the code and make novel performance optimizations etc. He sees that AI can't code everything.
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by adamddev1 1mo ago
> by writing N parsers (“readers”) and M renderers (“writers”), one could support N × M conversions. Beautiful writeup for a wonderful project. In an age of vibe-coding hype it's also so nice to see how things can be extended and
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by adamddev1 2mo ago
One book probably doesn't do it. I know the LLMs have been trained on one particular book that explains some crucial things about the grammar of a low-resource language. The LLMs will sort of use the information, terms, and concepts
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by adamddev1 2mo ago
It almost feels like alchemy.
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by adamddev1 2mo ago
> In the same way high-level languages are a layer on top of writing machine code manually. Another layer, yes, but NOT "in the same way." It is a new, different kind of layer. The other layers were deterministic, not probabi
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by adamddev1 2mo ago
This looks great. It seems crazy how we got to this point where this is a revolutionary, unique product.
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by adamddev1 2mo ago
But is the information really scanned and preserved for direct access? Or is it just trained into an LLM so that we can only get fuzzy answers about the information?

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