dasil003

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by dasil003 3d ago
I think he’s referring to the separation of church and state that was codified at the founding of the US based on experience of how things went in Europe prior to that
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by dasil003 4d ago
I think the nerdiness is still a huge asset, because what I've seen is that technical people are the ones whos ceiling is raised the most by AI. Sure, anyone can make a flashy demo now, and so the signaling value of being able to cre
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by dasil003 9d ago
The first example feels like too much of a straw man, and I'm not sure how I feel about the definition of simple (and yes I've seen Hickey's talk which I very much do agree with). Obviously a cohesive general purpose progr
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by dasil003 14d ago
Judging by the comments here, this post is a hell of a Rorschach test.
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by dasil003 14d ago
ah okay, that makes sense
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by dasil003 15d ago
You're giving it too much credit. There's no master plan or secret depth to the word vomit Opus 5 was spewing. I suspect it's just the result of Anthropic optimizing other characteristics of the product like staying focused
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by dasil003 23d ago
It's interesting to see the range of reactions to this article, and it feels this is an existential moment for software engineers and an article like this has zero chance of changing anyone's mind. Personally I'm glad this ch
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by dasil003 24d ago
Here's the part that makes the most sense to me: > Meanwhile, if I build a TUI, I can be reasonably sure that Linux users are going to get the same experience I have. That’s not nothing. But remember: I’m not really building applic
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by dasil003 27d ago
I think these things are true for some people, but I think there's also a sampling bias when it comes to generalizing these things for the broader population of smart people. IMHO even just the phrase "smartest person in the room&
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by dasil003 29d ago
Civil discourse is not dead on the internet! Thank you as well.
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by dasil003 29d ago
You're right that I jumped to a conclusion, and it's possible I'm wrong. One thing that is structurally certain though: Amazon and other major corporations have almost unlimited time and direct incentives to find reasons to j
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by dasil003 29d ago
Consider that there may be large populations doing both, but the overlap might be less than the internet jockey concludes via finger-in-the-wind hypocrisy check.
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by dasil003 29d ago
I don't think that nuance changes the big picture which is that Amazon has a conflict of interest between showing you the best product that you want, and showing you the product that the seller is most willing to pay to advertise. Qui
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by dasil003 1mo ago
Correct. Don't get me started on Fidonet, as a young computer nerd in the 80s before even dial-up internet was available, that was a portal to the global internet that my adolescent shit-posting self definitely didn't deserve.
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by dasil003 1mo ago
I vaguely recall those, but they were more for normies trying to get online. For me the old web is what I saw when I logged into my university gopher server and saw the advertisement for something called the World Wide Web which I could br
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by dasil003 1mo ago
The problem is that the list of things one shouldn't do is infinite. The things one should do are narrow and get narrower along two independent axes of clarity/wisdom: system requirements and engineer seniority. LLMs overindex
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by dasil003 1mo ago
I like the idea of using claude code in a separate git-managed repo. I do this for the management side of my job, and use Obsidian as the human interface on top. However I would never use someone else's starter repo. The whole point
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by dasil003 1mo ago
When you are rich, it allows a lot more time and funding to come up with arguments supporting policies that will make you even more rich.
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by dasil003 1mo ago
The best framing I've seen so far—and boy have a lot of people tried to frame the capabilities of AI recently—is that AI shines for people who use it to extend their thinking, and fails for those who use it to replace their thinking. T
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by dasil003 1mo ago
I agree it's funny and won't really work on any kind of extended timeline. I mean Claude Code already added Auto-mode as a perfect example of this. But that said, I think it actually kind of makes sense in a transitional phase t
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by dasil003 1mo ago
The basis of my comparison was nothing to do with business circumstance, but just that Apple and Oxide both were known for having taste in software (in Apple's case faded but still apparent in the DNA), and they build their own hardw
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by dasil003 1mo ago
Sure. What's your point with regards to Oxide?
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by dasil003 1mo ago
Being the "Apple" of enterprise compute (ie. vertical hardware software integration), solving the layers of aggregrate cruft that every single player in the Linux space (including Facebook/Google and other hyperscalers to som
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by dasil003 1mo ago
It's funny you say this, because as someone that rejected emacs (default editor was XEmacs on the Sun machines in my 90s CS computer lab) in favor of vim early. I think a big part of the appeal of vim for me is that it's a great
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by dasil003 1mo ago
A lot of this rings true, but I think it's still too narrow. Sure, coding does not equal productivity, that is well debunked already. But I would argue that productivity is a product of engineering delivery + product decision making.
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by dasil003 2mo ago
The only reason they deleted the static list of identified repositories was because of the negative PR of hitting HN. Although I have no affiliation with GitHub, I would imagine that no one with any resource allocation power is incentivize
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by dasil003 2mo ago
As a hiring manager I take candidate experience seriously because I know it’s easy to get wrong and leave people with a really bad taste in their mouth at a sensitive time. As a candidate, though, I have learned not to take offense to being
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by dasil003 2mo ago
I get what you mean about the conflict of interest for consumer software, but I don’t think a product mindset is inherently toxic. It’s more a function of where you are in the enshittification cycle.
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by dasil003 2mo ago
The majority of people who use LLMs today never even heard of ML though a non-trivial percentage have heard that modern AI is powered by LLM. You can’t forget what you never knew. Such is the evolution of language when a formerly niche te
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by dasil003 2mo ago
Is this a rant from an abused 19-year old? The lack of anything resembling nuance or recognition that the world is complicated renders any of the accurate observations sterile and unactionable. For example, any who says something like this

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