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by deterministic 4mo ago
We still don't have AI robots that can reliably (and more cheaply) assemble a burger at McDonalds.
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by deterministic 4mo ago
30 years of experience writing bad code, with no effort to improve, doesn't make you any good. You need to right attitude and humility to become good. Some of the worst programmers I have ever worked with had 30+ years of experience. T
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by deterministic 4mo ago
That is correct. Using an AI to generate code and then not verify it yourself is IMHO unprofessional and should get you at a minimum a verbal warning. YOU are responsible for the code NOT the AI.
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by deterministic 4mo ago
I completely agree. I have tried N different ways to use AI and the one that really works for me is to step by step getting the AI to build one modular feature at a time (a method, a basic class etc.) I then review and fix if necessary. I
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by deterministic 4mo ago
My experience as well (30+ years developing software for a living). I have tried everything from generating a complete, detailed spec using AI and then one-shot generating the code, to generating code one step at a time with me reviewing ea
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by deterministic 4mo ago
Don't get me wrong. I highly recommend writing your own compiler for any language. It is fun and you learn a lot. However if you make your own programming language and want to post about it on HN, please add something new to the lang
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by deterministic 4mo ago
> Trumpers were brave and full of bravado Agreeing to drop bombs on people far away, without being in any danger yourself, is not being brave.
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by deterministic 4mo ago
> The code they [LLMs] produce is often fine. It works. It passes tests. It might ship as-is. Often is not goo enough. I always carefully review AI generated code and sometimes find and fix bugs. Apparently (according to a Google survey
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by deterministic 5mo ago
I spent 5 weeks in southern Italy last year. It felt like visiting a third world country. My guess is that it is primarily a culture issue.
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by deterministic 5mo ago
I highly recommend writing your own toy version of LISP in whatever language you already know. Just enough to get the basic eval loop working (+ macros if you feel brave). It is fun and IMHO the best way to learn LISP. If you get stuck read
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by deterministic 5mo ago
Not my experience at all. I’ve been using Claude Code on a large "hand written" project and it’s genuinely excellent at finding bugs and generating new methods or classes. That said, it still frequently introduces subtle bugs, so
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by deterministic 5mo ago
> When people advise you to switch to Linux if you can, they are giving solid advice. I am forced to use Linux at work and I dread updating anything because the result is usually a broken system. I never have that problem with Window
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by deterministic 5mo ago
If we assume that nature is fundamentally computational, and that our brains are 100% physical (no supernatural soul or whatever) then our consciousness is computational physics. In other words, yes AI's could in principle have conscio
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by deterministic 5mo ago
Check out SeL4 (a proven correct micro kernel used by billions of devices worldwide) and CompCert (a proven correct C compiler used by Airbus).
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by deterministic 5mo ago
One of the best reads on AI I have read so far. Bravo!
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by deterministic 5mo ago
I am using AI at work. And it definitely makes me (say) 10% more effective. However my #1 productivity tool is still a custom code generator I have been using for years. It routinely generates 90+% of the code needed to write a typical biz
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by deterministic 5mo ago
A great overview of the problems we all know we have. And zero new ideas on how to fix it. Developing a "new kind of programming system" has been done many times before. Think case tools, functional programming, object oriented
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by deterministic 5mo ago
Take away automation from our factories and farmers and see how quickly civilisation will fall apart.
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by deterministic 5mo ago
Learning how to program from tutorials is like learning how to ride a bike from watching YouTube videos. You kinda feel that you are learning something but you only truly learn when you have to do it from scratch.
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by deterministic 5mo ago
The vast majority of people using UI's want predictability. Not "guess how this UI works!" games where you have to click on things at random to figure out how the UI works. If you are an UI designer and want to create art the
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Why Companies Are Quietly Rehiring Software Engineers(youtube.com)
3 points by deterministic 5mo ago|1 comments
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by deterministic 5mo ago
Whatever you do don't waste your time on the "Dragon" book. Google "recursive descent parsing" and it will tell you everything you need to know about the front-end of a compiler. Google "My First Language Front
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by deterministic 5mo ago
"The two bugs that were found both sat outside the boundary of what the proofs cover. The denial-of-service was a missing specification. The heap overflow was a deeper issue in the trusted computing base, the C++ runtime that the entir
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by deterministic 5mo ago
Recognise that waiting for motivation to strike is a bad idea. Instead just get started with the smallest possible step you can just about manage to do. And then do another smallest step. A lot of times you almost automatically keep going a
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by deterministic 5mo ago
Beyond Meat might be the most ultra-processed “food” I’ve ever come across. It's actually really simple to eat healthily: Cook yourself using real (non-processed) food. The kind of food that doesn't need a label.
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by deterministic 5mo ago
You can't create and enrich nuclear materials inside a datacenter.
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by deterministic 5mo ago
Hmmm I would personally pick nuclear weapons as the #1 scary tech. And a close (non-tech) second is the ruthlessness of sociopaths seeking power.
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by deterministic 5mo ago
What an excellent read. Balanced and full of real insight. How rare that is nowadays.
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by deterministic 5mo ago
Different strokes for different fokes. In 2026 I don't want to use a slow interpreted non-typed language like Python. C++ (for example) has excellent super fast matrix libraries where you can do AxB.
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by deterministic 5mo ago
Asking that kind of minutia detailed question in an interview is seriously bad practice. It is easy to come up with questions that the author would fail in an interview. Simply because there are thousands of minutia details that most senior

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