devin

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by devin 5d ago
This is happening all over the place right now. There is a ton of greenfield happening, which further adds to the illusion of speed. Eventually you produce a big old pile of shit that even with the help of the LLM is weird to reason about
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by devin 6d ago
Let’s start with “what would happen” and run the experiment instead of starting with “they could probably”.
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by devin 6d ago
> Where it actually breaks I had a sensible chuckle when I got to this part. This kind of article "____ is all you need" is like another case of Betteridge's Law of Headlines. The answer is "that's not true"
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by devin 13d ago
"Latent" is another one, as in "latent bug" or in one particularly odd case "latent twin".
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by devin 13d ago
Reading this made me ill. Nice job!
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by devin 14d ago
Here are some. I typed them just for you.
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by devin 14d ago
It's a hedge against the risk of the current government. Leaving a bunch here is part of the hedge. It's not as "multifaceted" as you're making it out to be.
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by devin 23d ago
Yes, there is a post that made the rounds not long ago entitled Taste Is All That's Left: https://notashelf.dev/posts/taste-is-all-thats-left Knowing what not to do has always been important, but it is perhaps mor
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by devin 23d ago
This reminds me of a story I heard (read?) a long time ago. At Disney World they had a rule about a garbage can being within a 10 foot distance of basically anywhere in the park. The logic was that when a garbage can is nearby, there is add
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by devin 26d ago
This is kind of a shallow assessment of "slowness". Slowness is a feeling, not a fact. Network is slow as a rule relative to other parts of the stack, but it is not usually what contributes to the feeling that your software is slo
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by devin 26d ago
I agree, but it won’t be because we can’t do it. It will be easier than ever to achieve, but of course money for the tokens to do it will go toward some other aspect of the business. That the products get worse seems to be the rule.
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by devin 26d ago
The very first thing many people did with AI is start calling the automated tests it writes good enough to capture the desired behavior. Writing tests isn't a whole lot of fun for most, so now the thing that it is supposed to help ensu
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by devin 26d ago
I would be genuinely interested to see how it evolves the same program over a large number of generations. Given a whole lot of software is more a collection of programs rather than a singular "program", I have to imagine that the
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by devin 26d ago
No, "any" flight attendants are not going to have disrupted sleep schedules. Many FAs sleep in their own beds consistently. Not all FAs fly long haul. Most of them _don't_ fly long haul routes. Domestic carriage is dominant.
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by devin 26d ago
I handed it a downvote. Here's why: > Older flight attendants look really damaged by the job. First off, this is just anecdotal and I know FAs who do _not_ look "damaged by the job". So, we're off to a bad start. >
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by devin 26d ago
Anchoring your identity to brands is tragically uncool no matter how you slice it.
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by devin 27d ago
Running a small ES with dual save alongside your relational store is trivial. Kafka I will grant you is a lot to operate, but I would not choose Kafka unless I have a Kafka-shaped problem, and if it looks like that I would never, ever choos
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by devin 27d ago
What do you know about full text search? Faceted search? Custom tokenization? It is wild to see people talk about Postgres fulltext like it’s all you could need, even for small apps.
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by devin 27d ago
This is a ridiculous cutoff. Are you kidding?
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by devin 28d ago
If you actually start looking into these things, you often start looking at custom pg extensions, which means you just made the decision to "simplify" your stack by maintaining your own postgres cluster with custom extensions. Thi
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by devin 28d ago
This kind of post (Postgres! It's all you need!) is getting pretty tiresome. Postgres does not even come close to a full replacement for Elastic, and that's just the first bullet. Looking down the list it is pretty easy to go: Yes
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by devin 29d ago
Etsy suffers from the same review astroturfing and product category crowding that Amazon does, but the product categories tend to be narrower so it's never quite as bad. Etsy is certainly _bad_, but getting to Amazon levels is a whole
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by devin 1mo ago
I can appreciate that, but GitHub was acquired nearly 10 years ago. Let's not sit around pretending that GitHub was some fully autonomous business unit when they had a "CEO". Maybe it was _better_, but I would still imagine i
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by devin 1mo ago
In name, sure. Does it matter who you call the person directing the chaos?
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by devin 1mo ago
It’s clear that they want this to be true so bad that they’re just not going to do it, and will spend a ton of money on quality gates and mitigation strategies instead of just reading some code.
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by devin 1mo ago
Missing a flashy nonsense ASCII art animation. Check out https://performative-ui.cncl.co/ if you need an easy one to add.
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by devin 1mo ago
Try to explain that part of an imagined "Agentic AI Everything" product being built would be cheaper and more efficient as a simple function call. Good luck!
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by devin 1mo ago
If the thing measuring whether there are CVEs is also the thing creating said CVEs, are we sure they are even CVEs? Deduped? Etc.
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by devin 1mo ago
To be fair, I don't see anywhere on this page where they try to suggest that this is competitive with a Bloomberg terminal.
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by devin 1mo ago
You don’t need to rigidly define scale to demonstrate at a common sense level that there is a major difference between a couple cops writing down your license plate and a nationwide network of them entering your plate into a searchable ledg

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