briga

9 ms·

1.
by briga 9d ago
I don't think this is entirely true: let's just say the jobs boom is unevenly distributed. There are definitely more openings than there were a year ago, but it is also now much more of a challenge to effectively market yourself a
2.
by briga 26d ago
They certainly aren't politically progressive, but Boise is probably one of the cleanest, safest, nicest cities in the US. It is really quite pleasant, at least it was when I visited.
3.
by briga 1mo ago
A true casualty of AI. Em-dashes used to be one of my favorite punctuation devices, now I find myself consciously editing them out of my writing.
4.
by briga 1mo ago
What exactly makes it "obvious" that this is written by AI? I could totally believe that AI was used to generate parts of it, but I really don't get the sense that the whole thing was written that way. I've seen way wors
5.
by briga 1mo ago
Here's an idea: instead of paying your employees $800k, how about you cut their pay to $80k. See how many of them are truly in it for the mission.
6.
by briga 1mo ago
This sounds a little dystopian. How confident are they that this system is reliable? Any downtime could literally result in deaths. I would be highly skeptical of such a system being put in place in my city, not to mention the private compa
7.
by briga 1mo ago
Awful compared to what though? To our modern perspectives yes, but for subsistence farmers working in the fields 16 hours a day and rarely far away from starvation, life in a factory might not seem so bad. After all, wages were far worse be
8.
by briga 1mo ago
The central premise of this post is basically not true: working conditions and wages have pretty consistently improved over the past 200 years. The cases where it didn't were generally offset by the rest of society benefiting from incr
9.
by briga 3mo ago
With subsidization from the Chinese government they will probably be equal to or better than the models here. I mean, have you looked at the author list of any given AI paper published within, say, the past 5 years? I wouldn't be surpr
10.
by briga 3mo ago
Maybe when I found out you can use it to run terminal commands, spin up and take down dev environments, and even run other LLMs. Suddenly 90% of the difficulty of onboarding to new repos disappeared overnight and a lot of heavily CLI-based
11.
by briga 4mo ago
In the book the rules are a bit fuzzy. It's told in first person so it isn't really explained so much as related to the reader from a character who is also confused about how the time loop works. Although who knows, maybe there&#x
12.
by briga 4mo ago
Now now, when was I claiming to be a victim? Let's not be dramatic now. Also, which Alberta? Edmonton? Cardston? Fort McMurray? Lloydminster? Grande Prairie? Canmore? I guarantee you will find varying levels of Albertan identity and ma
13.
by briga 4mo ago
Thanks for sharing. I've been saying it for a while not but "independence" is a distraction and not the end goal here. The inevitable outcome would be annexation by the US.
14.
by briga 4mo ago
And you have no evidence at all
15.
by briga 4mo ago
According to this poll ( https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/poll-canadians-living... ), nearly half of Canadians think that: 1) Alberta is not a welcoming place 2) Albertans don't care about other Cana
16.
by briga 4mo ago
That doesn't make any sense, that's like saying because Trump was raised in New York and he's now president, that New York identity isn't a thing. I think the dismissive attitude here is proving my point.
17.
by briga 4mo ago
If you don't think it's a thing then you're either not from here, or haven't been paying attention. The average Canadian's opinion of Alberta is also very telling, with most of the rest of the country seeming to des
18.
by briga 4mo ago
Albertan/Western Canadian identity is totally a thing, and has been around for a lot longer than this latest round of separatist sentiment. The west has been griping about unfair treatment from the federal government for over a century
19.
by briga 4mo ago
I haven't tried Aider yet but perhaps I will. Another one that seems to be getting traction is Pi Coding Agent.
20.
by briga 4mo ago
I would say if Sonnet is a senior engineer, then Qwen3.6 (the 27b model) is probably closer to a junior engineer. Still capable of getting stuff done, just needs more guidance and makes mistakes more often. Maybe that's underselling it
21.
by briga 4mo ago
I'm running Qwen3.6:27b Q4 KM on a 4090 and similarly fast CPU and I think 32GB of RAM. Make sure the context window is set to be big enough otherwise the conversation will keep compacting. No special MCP tools set up yet. Qwen is able
22.
by briga 4mo ago
I was getting dangerously close to my weekly Claude Code limit last night so I had Claude set up Qwen3.6 with llama.cpp and OpenCode. Honestly it's a great (free!) alternative to Claude Code--certainly more than good enough for a lot o
23.
by briga 4mo ago
Sometimes it feels like Agents are just reinventing microservices. Except they are are doing it in the most inefficient way possible. It is certainly a good way for the LLM companies to sell more tokens
24.
by briga 5mo ago
Totally depends on where you are and your past experience. Being in the US puts you at a huge advantage compared to just about anywhere. Maybe you're just lucky.
25.
by briga 5mo ago
Hard pass. Their automated code screens before you even talk to a human were bad enough to deter me from applying, I will continue to not subject myself to their interview process.
26.
by briga 5mo ago
Regardless of the fact that he probably is a jerk, it doesn't seem like appropriate workplace behavior to be calling anyone a jerk. Just because you have free speech doesn't mean that your speech should have no consequences. Maybe
27.
by briga 6mo ago
Astonishingly. I just find it funny that one person can be responsible for wasting hundreds of millions of dollars and still keep their job.
28.
by briga 6mo ago
What are the odds that Zuckerberg would still be CEO if he didn't have a majority stake in the company? From the outside it seems like he has made one terrible financial decision after the next. Can anyone be surprised that things aren
29.
by briga 8mo ago
I was being partly facetious and I think this is probably the way things are going. I guess it's just hard to stomach that devs will end up relying on these tools more than their own intuition. But I suppose that ship has sailed alread
30.
by briga 8mo ago
I can foresee a future of induced demand, where by making PRs "easier" to review, you will end up with way more PRs to review, leading PR backlogs as backed up with PRs as ever. Except now dev teams will have trust-me-bro LLM revi

More ›