camdenreslink

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by camdenreslink 5d ago
One lesson that could be applicable, is that your passion doesn't necessarily have to be your "job". You can perform music on the weekends, or be an active participant in your local indie dev gamer community while having a to
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by camdenreslink 5d ago
I think your ability to market will matter the most (which is also pretty much the same as ever).
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by camdenreslink 7d ago
I think their business model was sustainable, but depended on SEO. AI made it so people would either use the LLM generated tailwind syntax, or the "AI Overview" at the top of the Google search results and never land on the officia
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by camdenreslink 10d ago
Probably “Alcoholics Anonymous”
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by camdenreslink 13d ago
You can imagine with more operations being available to be done more cheaply and quickly the LLM doesn't need to "one shot" a solution. It could try many solutions, test them, throw some away, wiggle some of the parameters li
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by camdenreslink 22d ago
I think the scrapers have gotten pretty good and can imitate real traffic. And it isn’t just scraping for model training. A large amount would be LLM tool calls searching the web (and HN) for info about some prompt.
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by camdenreslink 24d ago
There is caching to consider. Switching models throws away the cached tokens.
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by camdenreslink 28d ago
This is basically what my life is like (going on 9 years now). I don't think it has necessarily led to burnout for me. Keep in mind that time spent with your children isn't all work. There is some fun and leisure in there as well
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by camdenreslink 29d ago
When you work at an enterprise that depends on Github, frequent outages are actually a pretty big deal and begin to impact productivity in a real way.
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by camdenreslink 1mo ago
There are nasty things we can do in software that can indeed make debugging difficult (for instance in the “make everything reactive” craze, some random subscriber could trigger from some piece of state changing that isn’t obvious at all an
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by camdenreslink 1mo ago
LLM output is not like IKEA furniture at all. IKEA furniture is mass produced, identical, furniture that can be combined to accomplish some lifestyle goal. LLM code is different every time. Sometimes it’s better than the finest custom carpe
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by camdenreslink 1mo ago
Some people (not Anthropic necessarily) are claiming 5x or 10x productivity improvement. So it is relevant, as it is being somewhat oversold by some.
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by camdenreslink 1mo ago
I find that LLMs also generate a lot of false positives, or extremely minor issues that don't warrant a fix (that are always overstated by the LLM as very important!). Signal to noise is still not great and requires somebody to wade th
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by camdenreslink 1mo ago
I have had to force quit Spotify a couple times recently because it was using many GB of memory to the point where it was unresponsive.
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by camdenreslink 1mo ago
Agreed, considering "taste" to only mean UX or aesthetics is taking things too literally in my opinion.
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by camdenreslink 1mo ago
It does make you wonder if the July shedding of jobs could be lowered even further to ~100k+ jobs lost (since they revise down very consistently).
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by camdenreslink 1mo ago
You can be 10x more productive if you don’t verify anything the LLM generates and just YOLO it into your codebase. I wouldn’t recommend it.
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by camdenreslink 1mo ago
Is this actually happening anywhere in a medium-large business with an established product and real customers?
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by camdenreslink 1mo ago
You overestimate the average person
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by camdenreslink 1mo ago
The interesting question is "Which problems are LLMs good at solving, and which problems are LLMs bad at solving?", which could also be restated as "Which problems are cheap for an LLM to solve?". So cost is relevant her
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by camdenreslink 1mo ago
If the prompt was crafted by an expert mathematician with pages of context and insights provided to the LLM to put it on the right path, that is a lot less impressive than a prompt that just says "find a counterexample to this conjectu
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Show HN: Python Projects in the Browser – Event ticket preview(codembark.com)
2 points by camdenreslink 1mo ago|0 comments
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by camdenreslink 2mo ago
Hey, thanks for trying my thing! The first couple of steps in the project are sort of "welcome/intro" steps. Once you move a few steps forward then you will actually be in the spider project code. I'm wondering if it mig
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Show HN: Interactive Python Projects in the Browser – Trading Card Builder(codembark.com)
4 points by camdenreslink 2mo ago|0 comments
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by camdenreslink 2mo ago
This is very cool, I've never heard of Scastie, I'll need to take a closer look at that. I created a similar platform for Python (actually submitted to HN earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4908314
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Turtle-inspired interactive Python project(codembark.com)
15 points by camdenreslink 2mo ago|4 comments
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by camdenreslink 2mo ago
The subtext of this whole post (or at least a subtext that some might read), is "we don't need mathematicians/programmers anymore" or "we will need much fewer mathematicians/programmers". So the fact that
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by camdenreslink 3mo ago
I wonder about his marketing channels. If it was primarily SEO, that has taken a huge hit especially for programming related searches since AI answers showed up at the top of the SERP.
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by camdenreslink 3mo ago
Really depends on the suburb. Where I live in NYS (a suburb of Buffalo) all of those things are within walking distance if you live within the village limits.
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by camdenreslink 3mo ago
In some languages you can create a type that is equivalent to a string, but it’s own distinct type (sometimes called the New Type pattern). Which I guess is the same as a struct with a single field, but languages have syntactic sugar, and d

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