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by codingdave 8mo ago
Nope, that sounds like a small iteration on UX, not a revolution, so it is not worth the massive cultural change to make it happen. After all, despite what tech folk think, most people really dislike change. So we'll probably stick wit
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by codingdave 8mo ago
Well, now you are including cultural acceptance as a requirement for creativity, which is definitely not a given. As you were saying, many new works take time to gain acceptance, but that does not mean they were not creative works. I think
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by codingdave 8mo ago
Being able to follow a formula to generate specific types of content is kind of the opposite of creativity. If you really want a creative benchmark, you need to have an LLM devise a completely new structure/formula, create works with i
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by codingdave 8mo ago
Read: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html Specifically: "Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regul
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by codingdave 8mo ago
The only places where I've encountered that kind of culture is in the enterprise IT world, with my worst anecdotes coming from the insurance industry. Startups, small companies, and government have all been far more engaged with their
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by codingdave 8mo ago
I'm not sure I follow the correlations of cool startup/government as it relates to boring/meaningless. You can have both boring and interesting people in both startups and in governments. Likewise with meaning - there are sta
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by codingdave 8mo ago
> Is “you don’t really understand the code, so it’ll hurt you later” still a meaningful criticism? That is one of the strongest valid criticisms. Even if we ignore the possibility that the code that is vibed will be buggy and insecure, t
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by codingdave 8mo ago
Are you caching the results of your queries? I find that is typically a really solid first step at reducing API calls.
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by codingdave 8mo ago
Everyone could build a SaaS before, it just is quicker and cheaper now because you don't have to hire a coder. The difference between success and failure is still building the "correct" product, for both meanings of "cor
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by codingdave 8mo ago
Not likely to actually go anywhere. It hasn't even gone to committee. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/s3283 Still, good to be aware of what is out there. Call your representatives on anything
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by codingdave 8mo ago
"slow is smooth, smooth is fast" Take the necessary time to communicate well, without guilt. Even if it does take extra hours out of your day, clarity in communication will speed up everything else. At the same time, understand wh
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by codingdave 8mo ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46733063
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by codingdave 8mo ago
I must be overly idle during this storm and reading HN too much, because this is two days in a row when I get on HN and see you breaking the guidelines to say "Buy my book!", which as I stated yesterday is not really appreciated h
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by codingdave 8mo ago
> the writing is on the wall that eventually we will automate virtually all jobs out of existence No, it really isn't. We've already been down this road, multiple times over history. Look at the jobs people did 100 years ago, o
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by codingdave 8mo ago
Read: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html Specifically, "Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regul
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by codingdave 8mo ago
If your good gloves are failing you, you need to find even better gloves. You can buy gloves rated for tens of degrees below zero for less than $100. That isn't cheap, but would certainly be less than mechanical fingers.
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by codingdave 8mo ago
Ever? More like always. Keeping humans in the loop is the current best practice. If you truly need to automate something that cannot afford a human checkpoint, find a deterministic solution for it, not LLMs.
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by codingdave 8mo ago
There is a long history of non-tech users being able to create apps. LLMs are the latest flavor, but there have been no/low-code platforms around since at least the 90s. Small apps used by a few people tend to work just fine, don'
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by codingdave 8mo ago
The idea isn't bad, but the execution of the idea will make it or break it. If you code up a simple LLM wrapper, it will suck, because it will just hallucinate. At the other extreme, if it just spits back URLs that look interesting, yo
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by codingdave 8mo ago
> until someone ruins it Yeah, counting down in 3, 2, 1... Seriously, I'd not wait to shut this down. Your best case scenario is just piles of spam. But the pure hatred and vitriol that can also show up isn't worth the lols fro
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by codingdave 8mo ago
Check this out: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html Not a bad list, just not a Show HN.
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by codingdave 8mo ago
Well, I certainly don't want non-deterministic results for anything related to the actual functionality of the car. And the use cases in the article sound like questions I'd be asking at home, not from my car. The integration with
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by codingdave 8mo ago
Scroll to the bottom of the article to see the averages compared with the medians. The concept that older people have more holds true, but the medians are predictably far lower.
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by codingdave 8mo ago
If you despise the term, why validate it by writing an article about it? Not only does the article give such validation, it actually encourages the term to be used because it expands the term to include all types of AI-assisted coding. It s
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by codingdave 8mo ago
Yeah... stop. Just stop. Check the guidelines here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Specifically, self-promotion is not the reason to be on HN, though it is allowed in small doses. Pimping your product on m
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by codingdave 8mo ago
> I don't know how else to say that. Yep, exactly. The failure to realize that you mean different things when talking about "larger abstractions" is exactly the kind of miscommunication that software people will need to n
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The biggest gotcha is that if existing products were developed over a decade or more, that is decade of iteration over details and customer feedback. You can see the final result, but not the rationale behind 10+ years worth of decisions an
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by codingdave 8mo ago
To start with, I'm not coordinating across multiple systems or chaining LLM calls. I write all data to a central data store, run a state machine on it, and each LLM call then operates independently. At that point, you can measure and o
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by codingdave 8mo ago
It doesn't have to be an office - young people just need to get out and engage with the world in whatever way works for them. I tell this to my teenagers all the time. They are used to our nice house in the woods, 10 minutes outside of
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by codingdave 8mo ago
> ... that I would not be great at teaching... First, don't limit your child's education to what you are good at. That is doing them a massive disservice. You don't have to be good at teaching something for your child to l

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