cmiles74

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by cmiles74 4d ago
Will the LLM tools be able to maintain this pile of code either? In my experience there seems to be some complexity maximum to a project that, once reached, the LLM tooling doesn't seem able to manage it either.
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by cmiles74 4d ago
For sure, there have always been obnoxious people trying to gatekeep who they feel met their arbitrary bar of "good developer" with trivia or a command of arcane details. It makes the work harder and it discourages talented people
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by cmiles74 4d ago
Agreed, there may be people working with their LLM tool to learn something new. In my experience this isn’t the way these tools are marketed, from where I sit it looks like this is being discouraged. If you aren’t really learning anything t
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by cmiles74 4d ago
I’m sure there is some of that, people looking back at years of learning a skill, maybe even turning it into a productive career, and being upset that anyone can pay for an LLM tool and get output they believe is comparable. In my opinion,
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by cmiles74 5d ago
I’m not sure how this is responding to the post… I think the author is going for something different, and that it’s not necessarily about getting things done quickly or implementing every feature on their list. More about the journey and le
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by cmiles74 6d ago
The larger the list of thing minors cannot do, the more they will resent the constraints.
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by cmiles74 6d ago
Personally, I'm not in love with the idea that something harmful to children is totally okay for adults. If social media is that corrosive to young people, maybe we should take a look at that and make it less corrosive for everyone. So
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by cmiles74 6d ago
I have children and I am very much against the implementation of age verification in the US. It strikes me as a thinly veiled attempt to collect event more data about people. I'm skeptical that it will prevent children from accessing t
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by cmiles74 19d ago
For sure, an argument can be made that the text of the law could be tightened up. In my opinion, there's nothing in that text that would exclude these generators. In addition the rationale provide for excluding these generators seems..
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by cmiles74 19d ago
Are they clarifying? It reads to me like they are making up an exception for data centers out of thin air.
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by cmiles74 21d ago
I believe they are saying that only the portion of premiums paid by UHG customers _that are not_ spent on paying out claims should be counted as UHG revenue. That is if I and my employer pay UHG $18,000 over the course of the year and UHG p
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by cmiles74 25d ago
I can sort of see what they mean if I squint some. Sure, destroying evidence to avoid a warrant is a crime and people understand this. OTOH this was a warrantless search, I’d argue this is materially different. AFAICT, people can still refu
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by cmiles74 25d ago
I don’t think any company has “morals”. For sure individuals might but a big advantage of the corporate structure is this diffusion of decision making and blame. Anthropomorphizing corporations isn’t helping us get a clearer picture of how
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by cmiles74 28d ago
I'm not sure that Zoom is the highest quality software. I find it crashy and weird under either X or Wayland.
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by cmiles74 1mo ago
It's not for everyone, but I write all the code and then I ask the LLM for a review. It catches something minor thing every single time (out-of-date comments on a function or method, typo, etc.), something that's clear a mistake m
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by cmiles74 2mo ago
Oh man, if you weren't sure if the administration is staffed with people who do not understand the technology they are trying to manage, doubt no more! From the article... Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday on Fox Business’
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by cmiles74 2mo ago
It's really tough on people with a particular health condition and it can turn into an additional expense if a critical provider is suddenly out-of-network. Employers have definitely given me side eye when I've asked for details o
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by cmiles74 2mo ago
Agreed. I was thinking more along the lines of what does it mean to say "I want to hire the next Steve Jobs as our CEO"?
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by cmiles74 2mo ago
Yes, my opinion is that after being the CEO of Next and Pixar he became the CEO we associate with Apple's success in the 2000s.
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by cmiles74 2mo ago
Is Steve Jobs even a good example of "the type of person I want to hire as CEO"? I think he probably is not. He was a demonstrably bad CEO, so much so that the Apple board fired him. He then went on to get better at the job throug
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by cmiles74 2mo ago
IMHO, municipalities are much more serious about these permits and, at the same time, neighbors seem even more sensitive to any kind of noise or even a visual disturbance. If your house is close to the street, good luck keeping any kind of
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by cmiles74 2mo ago
I have worked with people who have this attitude ("do the story, now!"). I think it eventually de-motivates people and you get a lot of bare-minimum type work from the development team. There's often a lot of stressful priori
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by cmiles74 2mo ago
Does not at all appear to be a game you run in the console. The first video on the Steam page does include a lot of stylized Hacknet-ish looking text. https://store.steampowered.com/app/254320/Duskers/
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by cmiles74 2mo ago
I think both things can be true: new models benchmark higher and eat more tokens.
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by cmiles74 2mo ago
I’m not so sure this matters. My team manages a couple pretty new projects and I still see LLM tools doing this. I’m starting to suspect that vendors are building in these behaviors to ensure the output compiles (never throw an exception, n
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by cmiles74 2mo ago
I’d be curious to see the financials on the Kindle readers, my suspicion is that they very quickly make the cost back through book sales. If retaining customers was a concern they could simply ship people the cheapest reader before cutting
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by cmiles74 2mo ago
Strong disagreement on this one, I think the coverage has proven that the current crop if anti-LLM sentiment is a much bigger thing then whatever is happening on this website. In the case of AI generated imagery, maybe it will get to the po
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by cmiles74 2mo ago
I feel that "good" music has some emotional resonance with me, at some level. In my opinion AI won't ever be able generate what I'm looking for, it always strikes me as somewhat bland or seems too much like another track
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by cmiles74 3mo ago
I thought the NY Times article was pretty good, they had some nice illustrations. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/07/01/science/spudc...
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by cmiles74 3mo ago
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/SecurityB... > This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a

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