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Surprise, pay $1000(forestwalk.ai)
394 points by apike 3mo ago|219 comments
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We Can Do Hard Things(allenpike.com)
4 points by apike 5mo ago|0 comments
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by apike 7mo ago
How well agents can do this is mostly proportional to how well they can understand and navigate your codebase broadly. There are various contributing factors to this, but they include clear docs, notes and refactors that clear up parts the
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by apike 7mo ago
This is a great technique! In this case, I had made an overlarge squashed merge that included both the Intercom integration (a suspiciously likely cause of slowness) and the feedback button that added the heart – so I needed to go deeper to
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by apike 7mo ago
Not off topic at all! While in this case we’d included the emoji font for displaying user content in another part of the app, the hazard of letting a “simple” approach expand and get out of hand is part of what I wanted to convey in writing
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by apike 11mo ago
The FDA (or equivalent in the relevant country) regulates whether an approved drug requires a prescription based on the safety profile. To be approved for OTC, there is a much higher bar in terms of ease of misuse, side effects, and so on.
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by apike 11mo ago
My experience raising in Vancouver is that there are two angel communities. There is an easier to find Vancouver-centric investor group that behaves as a you describe. Many of these investors didn’t come up as tech founders. I was advised n
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by apike 1y ago
Thanks Grey – other than the presenting-at-an-event flow I do really did like the Figma Slides experience, so this is great to hear. The world is better off with a strong Figma.
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iMCP: An MCP server for your Mac Messages, Contacts, and more(github.com)
2 points by apike 2y ago|0 comments
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by apike 2y ago
This is interesting, but the values could use some refinement: gpt-4o: speed 3/5 gpt-4.5-preview: speed 3/5 gpt-3.5-turbo: speed 2/5 In practice 3.5 turbo is, what, 5-10x faster than 4.5 preview?
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by apike 2y ago
I mentioned Ruby and Python in this vein, but PHP with Laravel would count in my book too. That said, PHP may be nearing the stage Java has gotten to, where it’s well-understood but is perceived as outdated enough that it causes hiring and
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Don't Animate Height(granola.ai)
3 points by apike 2y ago|0 comments
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Once a Month(allenpike.com)
3 points by apike 2y ago|0 comments
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by apike 2y ago
While this can be done in principle (it's not a foolproof enough method to, for example, ensure an LLM doesn't leak secrets) it is much harder to fool the supervisor than the generator because: 1. You can't get output from th
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by apike 2y ago
Yeah this is an interesting point. Other threads make the point about the "bitter lesson", and how expert-trained ML has historically not scaled, and human-generated LLM training data may just be repeating that dead end. Maybe so.
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by apike 2y ago
I think this is a valid criticism. I weighed a few different titles that would fit in my (arbitrary) title length limit, but on reflection the one I chose was too glib. My core point is that the “Trained On the Internet” mental model is bec
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by apike 2y ago
> Also "generate some better examples" sounds like fudging data to fit the expected outcome. LLMs are tools. As a tool author, you have certain desired outcomes for certain use cases. If the current data you’re training on isn’
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by apike 2y ago
https://archive.is/Yi6p3
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Apple explores home robotics as potential 'next big thing'(bloomberg.com)
69 points by apike 2y ago|155 comments
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by apike 3y ago
Yes, good point – I should have written towns, rather than cities. I just pushed a fix, thanks.
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by apike 3y ago
> be sure to do it strongly in one direction or the other, so that you set the direction of exploration, too. This reminds me of a game design technique Blizzard learned to use back in the day when balancing their RTS games. Sometimes th
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by apike 3y ago
https://allenpike.com/ I’ve been writing monthly for 10 years, and otherwise for 20. Topics have ranged from product development to leadership to breakfast cereal selection techniques.
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by apike 3y ago
I too find this frustrating, but I’m curious about the claim that Chrome is the most common browser on Mac. I sometimes see this claim, but I struggle to find any data to back it up. The US government web analytics ( https://analy
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by apike 4y ago
I’m susceptible to this too, but I believe the two reasons VR motion sickness is much less discussed nowadays are: 1. Often it’s triggered by frame rate hitches, which seems solvable with the usual advance of software and hardware over time
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by apike 4y ago
> For example, if a user calculates "89 x 15 = 1335" on one calculator and taps the arrow key, the result "1335" will be displayed on the other calculator, allowing the user to continue a problem while the previous eq
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by apike 4y ago
Vancouver could certainly increase property taxes across the board – a very divisive issue with strong support in some corners and vociferous opposition in others – but the city doesn't have the authority to adjust property taxes in sp
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by apike 6y ago
Firebase includes a wide umbrella of services, which include what used to be Fabric Analytics and Crashlytics. From Apple's perspective, sharing data with these services may count as "sharing data with entities who display third-p
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by apike 6y ago
Yes, but – Apple's documentation says that the upcoming opt-in requirement is for more than for IDFA-based tracking. https://developer.apple.com/app-store/user-privacy-and-data-... According to Apple, the opt-in A
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by apike 6y ago
Thanks for the heads up and especially putting that tool on my radar – spelling audit tools I’ve seen tend to just flag a lot of properly spelled technical terms and proper nouns, whereas this Pagewatch tool seems to do a good job of flaggi
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by apike 6y ago
Yeah, I think ideally the copy strategy should be part of the development process. Rather than expecting to develop exactly correct copy up front, if it’s iterated along with the rest of the product, the end result comes out better.

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