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by coltonv 1y ago
Thanks for this. The guy really wants to pin me on the 10x thing coming from him but I keep saying it's not and he keeps ignoring me. The claims of his article are extremely plain and clear: AI-loving engineers are going "rocket f
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by coltonv 1y ago
I'm happy to hear that! A lot of people posting their hot takes here about how AI is actually great or actually awful, but I was hoping to have more conversations like this in the comments. I'm glad I can help people feel better.
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by coltonv 1y ago
Yes but if I set it above ~16K on my 32gb laptop it just OOMs. Am I doing something wrong?
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by coltonv 1y ago
What did you set the context window to? That's been my main issue with models on my macbook, you have to set the context window so short that they are way less useful than the hosted models. Is there something I'm misisng there?
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by coltonv 1y ago
I've done a few of these types of hands off and go to a meeting style interactions. It has worked a few times, but I tend to just find that they over do it or cause issues. Like you ask them to fix an error and they add a try catch, sw
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by coltonv 1y ago
If you really need some, there are some links in another comment. Another one that was made me really wonder if I was missing the bus and makes 10x claims repeatedly is this YC podcast episode[1]. But again, I'm not trying to write a p
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by coltonv 1y ago
Very interesting perspective. Thanks for sharing!
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by coltonv 1y ago
Has happened to me before. It seems they change anything that has a negative connotation to try to take something more positive out of it. I don't love that they do that without asking or confirming with the author. But this title is a
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by coltonv 1y ago
What I'm saying is that the model will get into one of these loops where it needs to be killed, and I'll look at some of the intermediate states and the reasons for failure and they are because it hallucinated things, ran tests, g
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by coltonv 1y ago
I think I may have worded this poorly. I mean the total amount of code review time that goes into 3 months of work (likely on hundreds of PRs) can't be compressed into 1.5 weeks at the same portion of time being allocated to code revie
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by coltonv 1y ago
Appreciate the comment! > I mentioned in another comment the major flaw in your productivity calculation, is that you aren’t accounting for the work that wouldn’t have gotten done otherwise. That’s where my improvements are almost univer
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by coltonv 1y ago
I'd call that "Making developer experience investments that save everyone just a bit of time on every task."
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by coltonv 1y ago
I'm happy to hear that! I hope you felt seen by this line from the article: > Oh, and this exact argument works in reverse. If you feel good doing AI coding, just do it. If you feel so excited that you code more than ever before, th
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by coltonv 1y ago
I mean throughput, not latency. As in if you ship 10 meaningful changes in a month before you now ship 100. My point around waiting for things like code review is that it creates a natural time floor, the context switching takes time and sl
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by coltonv 1y ago
This is precisely what I suggest, companies should pay for team plans like the one you are describing and see what comes of it.
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by coltonv 1y ago
With terraform, using a property or a resource that doesn't exist is effectively the same as an API call that does not exist. It's almost exactly the same really, because under the hood terraform will try to make a gcloud/aws
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by coltonv 1y ago
> Wait, now you're saying I set the 10x bar? No, I did not. I distinctly did not say that. I said your article was one of the ones that made me feel anxious. And it's one of the ones that spurred me to write this article. I dem
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by coltonv 1y ago
Perhaps that's my fault for making the title almost clickbaity. My goal was to get people who felt anxious about AI turning them into dinosaurs not feel like they are missing some secret sauce, so hopefully the reach this is getting co
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by coltonv 1y ago
Perhaps I was not clear here. My point isn't to say that one PR gets merged in 3 months. My point is to say that, lets say, 15 PRs from one dev get merged per quarter in the old days, for a 10x productivity boost that means that roughl
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by coltonv 1y ago
My goal here was not to publicly call out any specific individual or article. I don't want to make enemies and I don't want to be cast as dunking on someone. I get that that opens me up to criticism that I'm fighting a strawm
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by coltonv 1y ago
Thanks for the comment Simon! This is honestly the first one I've read where it feels like someone actually read the article. I'm totally open to the idea that some people, especially those working on the languages/tools that
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by coltonv 1y ago
Hi there! I appreciate your comment, and I remember reading your article about AI and some of the counterarguments to it helped me get over the imposter syndrome I was feeling. To be clear, I did not classify "all the AI-supporters&quo
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Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome(colton.dev)
949 points by coltonv 1y ago|649 comments
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by coltonv 1y ago
I should have phrased this better. My point isn't to say that a bundler is a bad idea (I of course use bundlers on most projects at this point). My point is to say that a library that feels like it does so little still requires a bundl
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by coltonv 1y ago
I do think you should look at it further! It's a great library, though I can see why people won't like it for the reasons I mentioned in the article (i.e. having to build and enforce your own constants system). If you are going to
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by coltonv 1y ago
> If Tailwind is so bad and has literally no upsides then how on earth it managed to take the frontend world like a storm? In authors eyes frontend developers have to be either stupid, or ignorant, or both if they decided to choose such
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by coltonv 1y ago
I'd really appreciate reading the whole article before commenting like this. I point out the problems with CSS-in-JS and do not wholly endorse it, and I do recommend using simple CSS as a solid solution for many people.
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CSS's problems are Tailwind's problems(colton.dev)
126 points by coltonv 1y ago|174 comments
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Mimir (YC S15) Is Hiring a Product Designer to Help Us Improve CS Education(hire.withgoogle.com)
1 points by coltonv 7y ago
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by coltonv 7y ago
If someone compromises the server itself there's basically no form of security from that point that would help. The attacker could just put anything on the downloads page, including a new checksum for the compromised download. Nothing

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