bfeynman

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by bfeynman 7d ago
Like Airtable - they probably started seeing revenue growth/acceleration plummeting due to vibecoding being able to replace the product and are pulling plug early instead of letting it grind out to 0.
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by bfeynman 1mo ago
This would be incredible for innovation if we can bring this back domestically. It's very hard given lack of raw materials and the supply chain around it often also requires robust network but hopefully this spurs something. This is s
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by bfeynman 2mo ago
Can someone give me an example where this is truly and uniquely useful? I've seen so many of these things and I can't tell if part of it is like mostly for enabling nontechnical folks to do more things or if it's some unlock
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by bfeynman 2mo ago
this is not noteworthy - simple misconfiguration and over-provisioning can result in same thing, and that happens all the time.
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by bfeynman 2mo ago
is this an ad? | Harvey's legal agent beats GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 on its own rubrics, and Intercom's Fin Apex resolves more support issues at lower cost. The rubric and cost argument here just casually ignores all of the oth
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by bfeynman 2mo ago
kuzudb was sunsetted. I think for graph workloads duckdb is best bet, even though this is just a community plugin the upstream duckdb has really robust community doing a lot of heavy lifting and updates.
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by bfeynman 2mo ago
Trying to ascribe causality on macro/global level when the interesting tidbits are certainly on the regionalized scale seems mostly useless, although somewhat there is irony in again a man writing about why he thinks women having less
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by bfeynman 2mo ago
despite having multibillion dollar valuation and a real product and service doordashes tech blogs have always been surprisingly simplistic and borderline elementary or in this case, kind of just slop. I remember reading their early data sc
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by bfeynman 2mo ago
The whole point of agentic tool calling is for there to be runtime decisions made by the agent based on the outcome of a tool call. Anything that can be serialized like this could effectively be rewritten as a single tool call which this s
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by bfeynman 3mo ago
fwiw, this could be a bug but the submitters level of arrogance places this rather high on the dunning-kruger side of things. There are multiple other plausible explanations, but this person is probably vibe coder who believes anything an l
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by bfeynman 3mo ago
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by bfeynman 3mo ago
The massive information loss from officials who do not understand tech communicating about this has lead to these outrageous claims. I am super interested into what actually the researchers found, as the summarized headline seems highly unl
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by bfeynman 3mo ago
What I've finally come to understand is that there is a large amount of people who are now able to write and use software through claude and coding agents. Those people have different needs than more traditional software engineers who
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by bfeynman 3mo ago
probably all AI slop but I find it hilarious in the blog post they actually posture like they would know how to fine tune a model to sound like them given that what they actually did is something that you could one shot with claude if you k
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by bfeynman 3mo ago
This article and ones like it are nonsense, there is really no control group as they try to make like an absolute comparison of things instead of relative to in office work. You don't just take pros and cons with respect to a vacuum.
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by bfeynman 3mo ago
factors are not invariant under different economic levels though. For example - if you didn't need to work you can spend all the time in the world with your kids. Someone who has no money and relatively low mobility and has to work n
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by bfeynman 3mo ago
can someone tell me the actual market size for technophiles who I think are only people who use this stuff? I get lost in fact that people can't really understand that end of day this is just llm calls with like sqlite facade. I see t
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by bfeynman 3mo ago
they kind of do.. gcp has their lambda equivalent which i believe comes with chromium preinstalled, its how major search tools like jina work, sure thre problaby somethign about session management that they probably neuter to prevent abuse
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by bfeynman 3mo ago
Given it was made by cognition (team behind devin flop) who now just got to wait out until claude and gpt5 basically do all of the work for them - not very. When you read about it, the framework is highly subjective. Which very quickly be
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by bfeynman 3mo ago
In what world or frame of reference would doing TDD have "little" bearing on output quality? If you build a system around satisfying some set of requirements it seems logical that output quality would have pretty heavy correlation
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by bfeynman 3mo ago
I hate to break it to you but those are almost all economic problems in the grand scheme of things.
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by bfeynman 3mo ago
This is talked about all the time in the US as a huge impending problem with articles about all the time. You have segment of population with higher education and higher wealth that are having fewer children and later in life as it takes m
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by bfeynman 3mo ago
why is "solving" the issue somehow the bar? software engineering has more practices rooted in psychology than engineering, its a moving and ambiguous target. Using conventional commits gives you a framework and mechanism that und
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by bfeynman 3mo ago
From my own experience in big tech and various OSS things, the crux of this piece rests on this whole scope not being focal point misses that in general the other practice is making sure PRs have limited scope in general so it's margin
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by bfeynman 4mo ago
You are missing the point. Of course people want to live in one of the most vibrant cities in the world. People also want a vacation home at the beach or in the mountains thats private and beautiful and easy to get to. Except if we built
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by bfeynman 4mo ago
Eh, I would only think if its like at the top of the park where less people/tourists ever visit.
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by bfeynman 4mo ago
I am a New Yorker, people want more housing but there is still NIMBYism because they want to preserve the charm, and I'm mostly only talking about manhattan. While people are not fans of the low density luxury skyscrapers popping up in
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by bfeynman 4mo ago
That only seems plausible if whatever corpse of xAI is around is giving them engineering time. I don't know if they hired a bunch of ex frontier lab staff but its unlikely they have the technical capability to train their own frontier
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by bfeynman 4mo ago
is that really what people want? The fact that people say why not have 50 story concrete blocks everywhere to get more people feels like exact thing that would destroy what makes living in the city nice... Tenement housing sucked, why add
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by bfeynman 4mo ago
probably just AI slop and using wrong semantics, they mean speedup ratio.

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