adampwells

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Gemini's brutal assessment of a vibe coding session
17 points by adampwells 1y ago|3 comments
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by adampwells 1y ago
I have had very good results using Claude to write Rust. My prompting is often something like 'I have a database table Foo, here is the DDL: <sql>, create CRUD end points at /v0/foo; and use the same coding conventions
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by adampwells 1y ago
I find that Claude writes boilerplate SQL very well, and is effectively an 'ORM' for me - I just get plain SQL for CRUD. Complex queries I write myself anyway, so Claude fills the 'ORM' gap for me, leaving an easily un
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by adampwells 1y ago
https://www.science.org/content/article/dragon-man-skull-bel...
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by adampwells 1y ago
I have been writing software for about 20 years (following on from OChem PhD and research for a few years). I am 'senior' and get paid plenty in Oz... I have aphantasia - I can't visualise/picture things in my mind, so I
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by adampwells 1y ago
> However the novelty of what can be solved is very surprising. I've read that the 'surprise' factor is much reduced when you actually see just how much data these things are trained on - far more than a human mind can p
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SpaceX Starship Lost(smh.com.au)
11 points by adampwells 2y ago|1 comments
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by adampwells 2y ago
"The purpose of economics is to make astrology look respectable!"
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by adampwells 2y ago
I program Rust using the Axum framework and Sqlx. Github copilot is so good at writing CRUD db queries that it feels as easy as an ORM, but without the baggage, complexity, and the n+1 performance issues.
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by adampwells 2y ago
I got a PhD in Organic Chemistry in 1994. I was a researcher for a few years and converted to software in 2000. The degree turned out to have a lot of transferable skills - especially in researching and solving problems. Just 25 years later
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by adampwells 2y ago
Check out the fingers on the AI generated images!
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by adampwells 2y ago
My journey has been from JVM (Java, Scala, Kotlin) -> Go -> Rust, writing web backends, APIs, integrations etc. I don't write 'clever' code, just sticking stuff into Postgres/PostGIS/Neo4J/Clickhouse, som
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by adampwells 2y ago
wow, sounds like someone is taking the back story of Snow Crash a bit too seriously!
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by adampwells 2y ago
I work at an ISP that offers fixed wireless Internet. For marketing purposes I generate viewsheds around each of our ~500 towers, so we can get an idea which suburbs to market to. At the time of sale, my system will calculate the line of si
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by adampwells 3y ago
In keeping with the spirit of no-code, this article appears to have been written by ChatGPT... Apart from the mention of some no-code frameworks it is pretty much content-free.
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by adampwells 3y ago
I have recently introduced Rust into my workplace. We do basically Go microservices supporting VueJS front ends. In my opinion Rust is generally superior to Go for basic JSON web services communicating with the usual suspects; Postgres, Rab
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by adampwells 3y ago
I think they make a category error by putting ChatGPT etc in the General column. As far as I can tell we only have narrow definitions of 'intelligence' and ChatGPT falls into one of those. I don't know of a general agreement
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by adampwells 3y ago
I suspect we are 'looking for the keys under lamp posts' - ie looking where we have the most / easiest to get data.
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by adampwells 4y ago
it seems that 'making a better' GPT-3 or similar model is like climbing higher up a tall tree and claiming you are closer to the moon... technically true, but...
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by adampwells 4y ago
There is a podcast interview [1] with Nick Lane by Sean Carrol that goes into more detail along these lines - a very compelling argument! [1] https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2022/05/23/198-...
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by adampwells 9y ago
Megaport is headquartered in Brisbane and we are hiring! Looking for senior and intermediate Java/Kotlin/Sacala devs