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by conrs 1mo ago
Love this post. Surprisingly controversial; it hasn't made me very many engineering friends.
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by conrs 1mo ago
Congrats! That's pretty cool. I find in software the more constraints I can find the better the innovation ends up being, and business model is an excellent constraint - even just knowing what a responsible amount of effort is versus t
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by conrs 1mo ago
The world runs on spreadsheets! How do you plan on sustaining the business?
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by conrs 1mo ago
I'm figuring out stepping stones in getting closer to user data autonomy. A natural starting place is our professional history. So, I'm building a compatibility layer; something that works with everything - including your own vibe
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by conrs 2mo ago
Fair, my mistake. I've built a lot with LLM's, my experience sort of but not really tracks that. I've had to course correct a few bad abstractions but the larger the code base becomes the better it seems to be at reusing thin
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by conrs 2mo ago
I think the trick here is plural; I guarantee no single human knows all 1 million lines. Note this is different than knowing how to orient yourself in a million line codebase quickly. The limit here I think the ancestor comments are getting
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by conrs 2mo ago
This is an interesting idea. I'm building https://tend2thrive.com - I could see an interesting collaboration here. Always looking for ways to re-engage your network without it feeling heavy.
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by conrs 3mo ago
Things like this have existed for awhile. The challenge is always rolling it out to peers. It's confusing to them, and kills their velocity. Just like functional programming paradigms themselves - objectively better, but also objective
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by conrs 4mo ago
Yeah, echoing the comments here. It's a good idea - kind of - but it is all about digging deeper when it is sus. The tool assumes so much. That it is fine to kill a process itself versus just asking you to kill the process. That everyo
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by conrs 5mo ago
yeah, I think there's the marketing and then there's the actual true utility. AI isn't a better computer program. It's not going to be able to do everything you want autonomously. But, it's pretty good at some stuff
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by conrs 5mo ago
Fair. I have high hope for local inference, feel like right now it is simply cost prohibitive to get the hardware. It will be interesting to see what happens.
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by conrs 5mo ago
IMO It's a different and new model. We're engineers, and we're rich. It's not going to be good enough for us. But the much larger market by far is all the people who used to HAVE to work with engineers. They now have opt
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by conrs 5mo ago
I'm curious - why for now? This stuff is practically commoditized. Trying to think of anything that ever successfully got back into proprietary land from there.
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by conrs 6mo ago
Nice, you beat me to this concept. I finally planted a flag and decided to dev entirely on an M3 with 8Gb. It is completely feasible, and the battery life - amazing. Even when running a whole pile of Kubernetes services.
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by conrs 8mo ago
As an engineer, I want to believe this, but really - does it? Most folks use frameworks because it's easier than learning how to build it all yourself - things are done for you instead. This niche is now getting eroded by AI and low-co
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by conrs 9mo ago
I've been exploring decentralized trust algorithms lately, and so reading this was nice. I've a similar intuition - for every advance in scraping detection, scrapers will learn too, and so it's an ongoing war of mutations, bu
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by conrs 9mo ago
> What made it worth it for you? - Like you mentioned, it helps me learn more about a topic/explore it more deeply, I usually begin with an intuition and then explore outwards. - Folks positively mention my articles - both current c
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by conrs 9mo ago
Cooperatives do not get rid of the net negative cycle. Ultimately whatever the benevolent entity ends up being, it becomes a contest of who can bear to lose more money. Cooperatives distribute the losses but it is still a money pit.
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by conrs 9mo ago
Good question, was on my mind too. The problem I could see is Walmart style - the predator will beat the prices of the non-predator down until the non-predator goes out of business, then raise their prices again. They can do this because th
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by conrs 10mo ago
Stay humble, stay hungry. Nice post.
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by conrs 10mo ago
I went ahead and implemented it locally, then tried pointing your preferred RSS reader to my site... and it worked! (facepalm) I already had an RSS feed, must be some Jekyll magic.
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by conrs 10mo ago
Where's the how?
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by conrs 10mo ago
This was the prompt I needed to re-visit making sure my site had RSS! Maybe we'll roll together some day.
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When Builders Became Bullies(blog.con.rs)
1 points by conrs 10mo ago|1 comments
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by conrs 10mo ago
Builders once disrupted the tech world, but now they’re the gatekeepers. As their success made them risk-averse, they see any change as a threat. Today, they’re bullies - ripe for disruption. This is nothing new - we’ve watched this same st
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by conrs 1y ago
It's uncontroversial that with high traffic websites these sort of frameworks are necessary, but the decision to use React is much more commonly being applied at tiny companies as the new "right way" of building things. What
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by conrs 1y ago
The trouble is this calculus is being done at the local level despite the mantle of responsibility of management; the manager decides it is not worth their personal effort to lose a low performer, because they will generate more work for th
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by conrs 1y ago
Yes, a lot of folks really don’t want to have to care about work. I think it’s simply rubric achieving - them playing out the same thing they did in school. Operating under the constraints of their roles only enough to sustain them, so they
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by conrs 1y ago
Yes, I feel like most Product Managers I’ve worked with are more like Project Managers - all about deadlines, largely just accepting requirements rather than refining, etc.
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by conrs 1y ago
That and having knowledge of the constraints helps us build the best systems. Often I’ll see Product decide an initiative is a 2 quarter affair, then from then on it is always in the backlog, never to be worked on. Meanwhile we could deliv

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