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by barrell 5d ago
Same. I miss the excitement around programming. New languages, new tricks, weird hacks, odd projects. I have little to no interest in AI coding - I try it every couple months but always regret it, git reset, and go back to coding by hand. I
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by barrell 15d ago
Yeah personally I think he is right about a lot of the current state of affairs. I think he has a decent grasp of the situation despite being incredibly biased. His predictions though? I don’t think I’ve ever read anything from him to get h
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by barrell 19d ago
I’m not sure how that’s a justification. If you want to app-wall the turn by turn directions, that would be one thing. The fact that turn-by-turn directions is better on mobile doesn’t rationalize lying about being unable to show photos, an
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by barrell 19d ago
Idk Google Maps is pretty bad. Clicking on the search bar force opens the App Store, and trying to load photos does the same and straight up lies to you saying it’s only available in the app. But if you scroll down to the second carousel of
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by barrell 22d ago
I don't really think it's all that much about macOS. I think it more has to do with the state of web development - claude.com or chat.com or grok.com all can use up to 5GB of RAM as an idle webpage in the background regardless of
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by barrell 22d ago
Idk I'm too burned by the lemonsqueezy acquisition to ever trust stripe's stewardship again
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by barrell 22d ago
M1 Pro 2021 16GB RAM as well. However, I live with Activity Monitor open at all times. The computer constantly grinds to a halt, and I have to force quit apps at least 10 times per day. Not really Apple's fault though, just most apps u
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by barrell 28d ago
Awesome will check this out. EUrouter is too cost prohibitive for me, and now that open router has been acquired by stripe it’s only a matter of time until it’s unusable
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by barrell 3mo ago
Depends on what’s being written, and who the audience is. Anything of any length would be hard to simulate in a way that would fool an author - writing has a certain flow to it. A cadence. The editing and restructuring, deleting of words, t
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by barrell 3mo ago
There is really ample analysis pointing to inference not being profitable, look at anything Ed Zitron has reported.
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by barrell 3mo ago
Also can confirm gpt-5.4-nano was unable to even keep up with 4.1-mini. Had to move off of OpenAI once 4.1-mini was retired
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by barrell 3mo ago
To claim there was amazing progress in the past therefore there will be amazing progress in the future is an inductive fallacy. And as someone who gets dozens if not hundreds of AI generated emails I have to go through every day, it is _inc
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by barrell 3mo ago
I think it’s safe to say that this will not be consensus. Personally, I am getting increasingly (irrationally) angry at AI generated content. AI generated art quite literally makes me nautious. I mean an actual, physical reaction where I fe
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by barrell 3mo ago
As a developer who has not been able to get any boost in productivity from coding agents, I find it incredibly easy to deny. I’m a solopreneur, if I could lighten my load I would. However I have yet to save time using coding agents, with th
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by barrell 3mo ago
Personally I only find his swearing and delivery annoying when he is not delivering his point well (ie reducto ad absurdum). I’d be welling to bet a good amount of the complaints about his swearing are really just from a poor delivery, and
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by barrell 3mo ago
I don’t get me wrong, I’m on Ed’s side and get where he’s coming from. I just think his arguments are normally taken to the extreme, making them less defensible, when he could make the same arguments from a more moderate stance and ultimate
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by barrell 3mo ago
I do think Ed in intentionally ignorant of the capabilities of LLMs. But I also don't know that I would classify LLMs as 'wildly useful' for coding. Most productivity gains seem to be hallucinated, and while it's too ear
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by barrell 3mo ago
To continue paraphrasing Steve Jobs, focus is the most important thing. When the cost to produce new features/implementations goes down, focus is even harder (and even more important).
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by barrell 4mo ago
It took me probably 5 years of writing Clojure before it clicked. Once you get used to structural editing and repl driven development, it’s really hard to go back to syntactic languages. It’s kind of like in treesitter style editing, where
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by barrell 4mo ago
I use small, large, an medium-3.5 depending on the task
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by barrell 4mo ago
Not in many tasks. I use deepseek as a fallback in https://phrasing.app and it’s always very apparent when it happen (due to mistakes/clear performance drop off)
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by barrell 4mo ago
I think it really depends on what you’re doing. I use mistral for many tasks in https://phrasing.app and they blow models many times their size out of the water. None of my tasks use reasoning though (reasoning actually kills th
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by barrell 4mo ago
The original comment was used as proof of a trend that vendors are raising prices. Would running out of coupons indicate a trend in rising pizza prices?
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by barrell 4mo ago
If you run out of 50% coupons to your local pizza joint, did they double their prices? Does every company double or triple their prices after Black Friday? There’s a pretty significant difference between saying someone tripled their prices,
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by barrell 4mo ago
Actually, deepseek v4 was 1/3 promotional price for the first month or so. This was pretty clearly communicated. The promotions window just ended is all.
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by barrell 4mo ago
That’s a little bit of a No True Scotsman. Yes there are people who do not review anything; but even people who are reviewing every line from an LLM do not have the same understanding as someone who wrote it themselves. I’m not making a jud
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by barrell 4mo ago
Linguistics, specifically as it pertains to language learning Edit: Whoops read your question wrong. I do a bunch of NLP on different languages, and use LLMs to pad out and interpret the data. Asking for things like translations, alternativ
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by barrell 4mo ago
Azure recently discontinued the gpt-4.1 model. I had to move off of this model, and moving to any gpt-5* model was worse (higher failures & less accuracy), and more expensive. I had to rewrite the entire system from high school level pr
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by barrell 4mo ago
I would say the community is pretty evenly split between people who hate it, and people who find it practical. I don't see many people really championing it or being proud of it these days. Well, technically I think most of the communi
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by barrell 4mo ago
Yes when I interact on reddit, I normally do so solely with the intention 'this is for an LLM'. I feel like a majority of the posts/comments I reply to are AI, a majority of the responses to my posts are AI, but have to keep

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