another_twist

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by another_twist 1mo ago
I am okay with companies shilling their tools. Ultimately I'd want my employer to buy good tools that make our lives easier specifically wrt debugging which I genuinely hate. However this post could have been a better walk through abou
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by another_twist 1mo ago
This is an interesting direction. I wonder if Open LLM models can help with this sort of thing.
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by another_twist 2mo ago
I think its also about tolerance for failure. For software that must not fail or where reliability commands a premium you would be wise to invest in formal methods. Core systems at aws for example. For throwaway CRUD code its just easier to
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by another_twist 2mo ago
Wtf does Palantir have to do with AI. Nobody at Palantir can train an LLM from scratch or even fine tune.
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by another_twist 2mo ago
This is the thing. You "spend" lines of code, you dont produce it. The produced part is the outcome - a functional feature, stability improvements, some business outcome. Measuring productivity with LoCs is like measuring output
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by another_twist 2mo ago
Same sentiment here. B-tier hit factory stuff is easy to catch and easier to ignore and move on from. Also happy to recognize a fellow Stevie Wonder fan.
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by another_twist 2mo ago
I want to use shad-CN but instead end up defaulting to Mantine everytime. Its just so much faster than having to remember which contexts to wire in.
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by another_twist 3mo ago
Been a fan of searX for a while. Not sure if this is the same thing but there were plenty of hosted versions too.
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by another_twist 3mo ago
i am not sure if a lean port is important. TLA+ could do with a bit more TLC (pun intended) with regards its devEx. Also congratulations to the author, I'll try and reproduce this over the weekend.
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by another_twist 4mo ago
> high availability / redundancy, hosting, backups, business continuity, audits, someone to grill when there is a leak. All but one of these is a tech problem though.
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by another_twist 4mo ago
No, he replaced older workers with new cheaper ones. Can't say that out loud or it might lead to lawsuits.
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by another_twist 4mo ago
What was the compostion of folks let go by Cloudflare ? How many working in profitable lines ? How many in loss leaders ? How many engineers ? How many supporting business functions ?
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by another_twist 4mo ago
I mean this students parents were likely big donors. That would explain a lot.
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by another_twist 5mo ago
I've noticed laziness in claude repeatedly. It sometimes takes the shortest way out even when asked explicitly to do the "right" thing.
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by another_twist 5mo ago
Is it just me that I simply don't care ? I never one-shot these tasks, always provide a breakdown and always give the AI straightforward tasks that would take too much typing. The approach seems to work just fine regardless of the mode
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by another_twist 5mo ago
Underrated advice here.
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by another_twist 5mo ago
I guess the question is who is your customer or more specifically who's your buyer, who's your user and where do they hang out ? Also how do people find out about you product ? Distribution takes time, so I think its important to
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by another_twist 6mo ago
I dont think the Spring ecosystem is bad. In fact, its one of the more stable frameworks. Even spring AI which is built for AI agents a new use-case is very intuitive if you take time to learn its abstractions. Usually doesnt take more than
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by another_twist 7mo ago
GPT doing a great job summarizing and providing a counter: what's they key thesis here and the argument ? *Key thesis:* When technology eliminates meaningful performance differences between products, industries shift from competing on
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by another_twist 7mo ago
Congratulations to the creator of this site and thank you so much for posting it ! I have to (unwillingly) do frontend work so I recently read up on CSS quite a bit. I have always thought that using computed numbers for styling is bonkers.
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by another_twist 7mo ago
Vim is a ironically far better suited to agectic coding than any other ide in my opinion.
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by another_twist 7mo ago
Number of features shipped. Traction metrics. Revenue per product. Ultimately business metrics. For example, tax prep effectiveness would be a proper experiment tied to specific metrics.
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by another_twist 7mo ago
Curious: whats your primary programming language and what sort of development do you do ? In my experience with LLMs agentic coding paired with a good IDE works wonders. Its also allows me to surgically write critical bits of code myself wh
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by another_twist 7mo ago
Thats great. I think we need to start researching how to get cheaper models to do math. I have a hunch it should be possible to get leaner models to achieve these results with the right sort of reinforcement learning.
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by another_twist 7mo ago
Why should these guys bother with people who won't pay for their offering ? The community is not skilled enough to contribute to this type of project. Honestly most serious open source is industry backed and solves very challenging dis
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by another_twist 7mo ago
I think the issue is answering the question whats the business model ? If the team makes money consulting on clojure, then thats likely a bad model since I have not seen a single example of people paying for advice on coding. Usually the an
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by another_twist 7mo ago
My other hangout is cracked.com. Another corner with really niche and weird content.
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by another_twist 7mo ago
Self study is the best study. Out of all the bloatedness of modern education, one thing that doesnt bother me is the high cost of textbooks. High quality books and a habit of studying yourself enables you to learn high skill disciplines on
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by another_twist 7mo ago
Then build houses. Giving away real estate for basically 10 more jobs and a highly automated facility is bad bargaining.
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by another_twist 7mo ago
Mistral can really end up having its RedHat moment. I think open models will only get more interesting from here.

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