codingdave

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   by codingdave 4mo ago

   Are you saying that you are using LLMs to give yourself a filtered UX on the people and topics you want to respond to, but then still doing your own comments and voting independently from LLMs? If so, that seems fine. There are plenty of al
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   by codingdave 4mo ago

   I guess that depends on how old you are. The internet itself is a strong contender for being a bigger innovation. And the web. The personal computer. Smart phones, and even cell phones in general. Oh, I almost forgot GPS. And that is all ju
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   by codingdave 4mo ago

   This is missing the non-exiting, but completely viable path: Accept it. Do your work. Collect your paycheck. Go home and live your life. Save and invest. Build wealth from your 20s through your 40s, still be wealthy and independent in your
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   by codingdave 4mo ago

   IPOs solve two problems: They help the investors/owners increase their personal wealth, and they give the companies a large inflow of both cash and and new structure for their stock. The question becomes what are the companies going to
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   by codingdave 4mo ago

   In the actual writing? Zero. To bounce a draft of something off an LLM and get a critique? Frequently. But I include in my prompt to never re-write or suggest improvements, and to solely offer critique. I do my own fixes.
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   by codingdave 4mo ago

   Since when were we the customer? They are helpful to the people who buy the ads, not those of us who have them injected into our experiences.
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   by codingdave 4mo ago

   Start here: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/18/spacex-worker-injury-rates... Drill down into the links from there. Or do a search. Or ask an LLM. I have a hard time finding any data that doesn't think the
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   by codingdave 4mo ago

   You're joking, right? Starbase is notorious for high accident rates.
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   by codingdave 4mo ago

   > I don't really have the network to vet my idea Then do not do it. Without a network to vet the idea, you don't have the network to get your initial sales either. You are coding blind, hoping you land in a place the market act
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    by codingdave 4mo ago

    The only thing we're talking about here is the difference between <p>Hard-coded string</p> and <p>${strings.notHardCoded}</p> That is really just some file organization and some code syntax, not a majo
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    by codingdave 4mo ago

    Counter-point: Don't hard-code all your UI strings, thinking you'll never need to be multi-lingual, because then you are setting yourself up for a massive re-work if that need arises. And even if you stay at one language, you real
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    by codingdave 4mo ago

    Standard mantra at this point: "Someone who will personally benefit if AI takes over is telling everyone that AI will take over."
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    by codingdave 4mo ago

    You don't sue because laws were broken. When you sue someone, it is a civil case, not a criminal case. You are examining case law and contracts to determine whether there is a viable torts case or contract violations that would result
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    by codingdave 4mo ago

    Do you have a specific task you need to do in this code? If so, search for something related to whatever that is - text from the UX, data, fieldnames, etc. Once you find one spot in the code related to your task, follow the code back and fo
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    by codingdave 4mo ago

    Don't most note-taking software products already sync to multiple devices? I'm unclear what new idea you are trying to add in? If you are suggesting that putting a git repo behind it would be an improvement, I'd question that
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    by codingdave 4mo ago

    Just because people do it does not mean that it is a good idea.
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    by codingdave 4mo ago

    > 10 SaaS ideas validated in 30 days using fake door landing pages. Not SaaS apps - landing pages. 10, in 30 days. wat. That feels like something that AI should be able to spit out in 30 minutes. Or, frankly, not even be needed at all. I
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    by codingdave 4mo ago

    Yeah, that response trivializes the massive burn that power plants perform each day. When I worked in a midstream gas company, I recall a meeting when we were explaining the business to some new IT folk, and talking about the plants that pr
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    by codingdave 4mo ago

    > In software, the things that matter are durable artifacts: diffs, commits, PR conversations, failing tests, logs, benchmarks, small design notes, repro scripts, traces. That’s what you actually reason with. No, the author utterly misse
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    by codingdave 4mo ago

    > ... data centres that won’t have an environmental impact here on Earth. Really? I wonder how they are going to get them up there without rocket launches?
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    by codingdave 4mo ago

    I live in a tourist town. 3000 residents, 4 million visitors each year. And I'm just fine with the tourists not going to the places I go - we tend to like the quieter, more affordable places vs. the big fancy price-gouging places. But
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    by codingdave 4mo ago

    You are not alone, but it is not the future. I currently am working a short-term gig within a company with a similar setup - the leadership wants to go that way, and some teams are doing so. Those teams are also failing. Their code passes t
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    by codingdave 4mo ago

    I sympathize with their plight. I worked way too many hours the last 2 weeks when bots took down my servers, too. But rather than try a grass-roots effort to try to change legislation, we tweaked the rules on the AWS WAF. They have built-in
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    by codingdave 4mo ago

    I agree with the sentiment, but would not be so harsh on the details. Succeeding in a different technical industry does offer some validation that they can succeed in this industry. Dismissing their achievements as irrelevant, even if true,
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    by codingdave 4mo ago

    > watches a non-engineer ship a working product I have not seen that happen. Ever. I've seen engineers put up the guiderails that allow vibe coding to build a base of a product, which they then finish out either by hand or by spendi
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    by codingdave 4mo ago

    The disconnect here is a lack of proof that your increase in personal output actually increases the speed of software development. Considering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety%E2%80%93ninety_rule as a joking, but
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    by codingdave 4mo ago

    If what we learn shows that we can model the most basic components of it on a breadboard, yes.
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    by codingdave 4mo ago

    That would be the little downwards-facing arrow to the left.
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    by codingdave 5mo ago

    > an entire app ready to be used today. That is exactly where the disagreement stems from. That app is a draft version that might work for a couple people. It won't scale. It won't be secure. It won't handle edge cases. It
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    by codingdave 5mo ago

    ... which is exactly how we know that LLMs are not conscious. We can't really explain consciousness. We can absolutely explain LLMs. The math is heavy and massive, but explainable. We can explain it layer-by-layer until we show that at