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by altern8 7d ago
I feel like the aspect ratio is a lot better than existing phones. It's basically a tablet.
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by altern8 8d ago
With Claude—and I feel Opus 5 in particular—I always feel like I'm talking in circles. Just when I think the task is finally done, it mentions a caveat that might invalidate the whole thing. Or it adds a hint at the end about something
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by altern8 9d ago
Right now they're losing billions/year, it's not sustainable
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by altern8 14d ago
I see. Just making sure I had it right :-)
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by altern8 14d ago
Aren't major versions supposed to indicate breaking changes..? That's how I thought semantic versioning worked
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by altern8 15d ago
Even with LLMs, they can't ship a GET endpoint..? I feel like there are a lot of people nowadays that are just pretending to be devs and ship things to prod using LLMs
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by altern8 15d ago
Is this another marketing paid post from Apple..?
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by altern8 17d ago
Is this a bot, or real..?
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by altern8 17d ago
I'm not OK with it, but I have no choice besides maybe quitting my job. I've also tried to understand the code that AI writes, but it's often insane and untangling it would slow me down so much that it would nullify the gains
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by altern8 19d ago
Very nice
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by altern8 19d ago
Ryan Air just introduced the super-annoying requirements of needing the app to download your boarding pass (which of course they could just provide from the website). I think they do it to be able to send you notifications and sell you more
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by altern8 20d ago
I have a non-negotiable rule to start responses with a TL;DR and omit any follow-ups, potential caveats, and "you should know that"s unless they can lead to destructive actions or loss of data. I also forbid replying with anything
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by altern8 1mo ago
Maybe the em dash and the fact that it says "its name" instead of "it's name"..? :-D Seems like normal text to me, I don't think we need to scrutinize every sentence, now. Who cares if they used AI?
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by altern8 1mo ago
Nope, you're definitely not the only one. It's just really hard to understand what it's trying to say. Another rule that was really helpful for me was to disallow anything that isn't yes/no for yes/no answers.
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by altern8 1mo ago
Yes, that's my preference too and nobody can convince me that an AWS setup is better unless you have millions of users. I think that a lot of devs just think they _have_ to do it that way, or they over-optimize too early and build the
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by altern8 1mo ago
I feel like it works A LOT better than Opus 4.8 + Sonnet. I now use it exclusively at high effort for planning and low effort for writing the code (instead of Opus 4.8/Sonnet). However, it's absolutely exhausting to use because of
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by altern8 1mo ago
Yes! That one, thanks.
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by altern8 1mo ago
I forget where I read this but I agree that if you want to know the real reason for a government policy, look at the effect is has. It's pretty obvious what they're doing.
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by altern8 1mo ago
Using the web is basically impossible without an ad blocker, and having a phone is basically impossible without a call blocker. Spam has taken over every form of communication, but luckily there are easy ways to stop it. I use AdGuard as ad
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by altern8 1mo ago
I do! You invented the crayon picker in MacOS..?
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by altern8 1mo ago
Has been true my whole career as a freelance web developer. It's been mostly gathering requirements, trying to understand why something was getting build and chasing clients to get paid.
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by altern8 1mo ago
I've been trying to figure out how to make money with trading for years (and I _might_ be getting closer, now). Trading is the only way to make money I can think of where you don't have customers/clients and are truly in cont
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by altern8 1mo ago
Will they actually pay the fine..?
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by altern8 1mo ago
I mean... Not that many. I've watched a few documentaries and there are barely a handful of houses let's say in Death Valley. And Death Valley is a lot more hospitable than Mars. To each their own, though, sure!
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by altern8 1mo ago
Why would anyone want to move to Mars? It's like moving to a desert.
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by altern8 1mo ago
Character limit..?
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by altern8 1mo ago
I can't remember of any product in my lifetime that was more over hyped than AI. It's a huge piece of shit and if I wasn't forced to use it at work I would never use it. It writes dumb, throw-away code and adds thousands of d
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by altern8 2mo ago
Yes. Bootstrap and all other CSS frameworks before Tailwind did it, too. It's a matter of preference, but many times it's easier to have single classes so that all your buttons are consistent. People should just use the tool they&
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by altern8 2mo ago
That looked to me more like a coordinated invasion, but OK
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by altern8 2mo ago
From my experience, a snippet of code will look good. But LLMs seem to have a hard time getting the big picture and reusing code that is already implemented and ALMOST does what you want vs. rewriting everything from scratch. AI code is ext

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