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by devmor 6mo ago
You can get better at something without understanding why, but you should be able to think about it and determine why fairly easily. This is something everyone who cares about improving in a skill does regularly - examine their improvement,
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by devmor 6mo ago
There’s also just the negative association factor. I use LLMs in my every day work. I’m also a strong critic of LLMs and absolutely loathe the hype cycle around them. I have done some really cool things with copilot and Claude and I keep sh
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by devmor 6mo ago
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by devmor 6mo ago
The highlighting isn't what matters, its the pretext. E.g. An LLM seeing "```python" before a code block is going to better recall python codeblocks by people that prefixed them that way.
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by devmor 6mo ago
This is just persistent memory RAG. I have had a setup like this since about a day after I started using copilot, except it's an MCP server that uses sqlite-vec and has recall endpoints to contextually load the proper data instead of a
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by devmor 6mo ago
Why would this be surprising? That’s exactly how much of the code they were trained on is presented in PRs, Forums, etc.
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by devmor 6mo ago
Which is very recent. Discord only added full markdown support a couple years ago.
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by devmor 6mo ago
Then there's no verification step, preventing the entire mechanism of you not getting spammed.
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by devmor 6mo ago
Do you have any reading on this? I find it hard to believe something announced a week ago has been “thoroughly tested”.
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by devmor 6mo ago
You want a spiritual successor? We have Ghost. You want anything beyond ghost? Find a way to port the vast market of 100,000+ cheap and free themes and components that are available to enable tech-illiterate, low-budget users to basically b
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by devmor 6mo ago
I am sure a lot of people and orgs are - but realistically the majority of users need to understand and prepare not for local-first, but for the fact that they will never have that option for the models they know are the most useful to them
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by devmor 6mo ago
Local models just don't seem that useful for me for these particular tasks yet - the most recent versions of Codex and Claude Opus are the first time I've found them to be particularly useful in a "real engineering" cont
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by devmor 6mo ago
This is really cool to see! I've been using BM25+sqlite-vec for contextual search projects for a little while, it's a great performance addition.
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by devmor 6mo ago
This is a real danger that I think a lot of people will run into as prices go up more and more in the future. Completely outside of the productivity debate, offloading cognitive tasks to LLMs leaves you less practiced in them and less ready
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by devmor 6mo ago
That does not work between monitors.
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by devmor 6mo ago
I have a lot of complaints but I would say my three big gripes are: - Window navigation within (rather than between) open programs. Mainly if one is on an external monitor, this is just a nightmare and I end up using expose and clicking the
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by devmor 6mo ago
I do adore the macOS trackpads, they blow anything else I’ve used out of the water. The keyboard (physically) is also just very pleasant to type on.
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by devmor 6mo ago
“Flawless” is absolutely the opposite of how I’d describe the third class keyboard navigation in MacOS. It’s actually more intuitive to use a magic keyboard on the iPad than on the desktop OS.
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by devmor 6mo ago
I still don’t think the model is quite great until the bandwidth problem is solved in a way that doesn’t make it prohibitively expensive for alternative appview hosting. It’s the one part of the whole system I think needs a lot of work.
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by devmor 6mo ago
If you are looking at it from a business perspective, there is little value to fixing a bug that is not impacting your revenue. Of course, the developers should be determining if the bug may have a greater impact that will or does cause a p
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by devmor 6mo ago
My experience with AI-driven and AI-assisted development so far is that it has actually enhanced my workflow despite how much I dislike it. With a caveat. If you were to compare my workflow to a decade ago, you wouldn’t see much difference
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by devmor 6mo ago
I don’t think it’s any more bad faith than the author’s title.
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by devmor 6mo ago
You could do the same by wearing wool socks and shuffling around for a minute before touching the coin slot!
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by devmor 6mo ago
Which is mostly insane amounts of debt leveraged entirely on the moonshot that they will find a way to turn a profit on it within the next couple years. Apple’s bet is intelligent, the “presumed winners” are hedging our economic stability o
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by devmor 6mo ago
Reading through this reminds me of how bot farms will regularly consist of stripped down phones that are essentially just the mainboard hooked up to a controller that simulates the externals. When struggling with failing to reverse engineer
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by devmor 6mo ago
Sure, but it’s a great example of the reason RSS readers are so great. No matter how much you enjoy the work of particular authors - their editorial oversight might make it too miserable to enjoy.
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by devmor 6mo ago
> I asked a machine to make it up for me. I don't come here to argue with an LLM. Use your brain and ability to research if you want to argue with me.
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by devmor 6mo ago
I did not say "people have been murdered", I was very clear and concise in my wording. If you are going to ask a question to argue it, do not strawman people who reply to you.
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by devmor 6mo ago
I've been thinking this, but never really put it into words. Every time I see one of these I think "You are just describing an API".
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by devmor 6mo ago
Wow. I really did forget it existed. I was still thinking of the Wii.

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