dudewhocodes

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by dudewhocodes 8d ago
Welcome back and godspeed.
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by dudewhocodes 3mo ago
We're being sold our own skill set back to us in a gated service that was created only because we allowed them to steal our intellectual property. Paying for an IDE, course or fancy tools was paying for complementary additions instead
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by dudewhocodes 6mo ago
App Store releases are increasing due to a new gold rush on subscription apps. Review times have gotten longer as the review team at Apple is being spammed. Most of these apps are rudimentary habit trackers, time management apps etc. so not
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by dudewhocodes 6mo ago
The referenced post has a very high change of being planted. The upvote count is an anomaly for a brand new account, few sentences, no link, Tell HN post. I upvoted it by mistake, it looked genuine at first. However the comments contain a l
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Tell HN: npm download stats are broken
4 points by dudewhocodes 7mo ago|0 comments
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by dudewhocodes 7mo ago
There's a lot of tech banter on Twitter and LinkedIn, much of which is noise you can filter out. SaaS is not dead. People and businesses benefit from having relatively cheap access to maintained standardized software. The "SaaS is
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by dudewhocodes 7mo ago
Have people naturally started sounding like an LLM when they write and talk? To me this article reads not fully human.
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by dudewhocodes 7mo ago
I'm expecting a similar situation to the Video game crash of 1983 which happened due to total market saturation with low quality products. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983 Everyone is talking
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by dudewhocodes 7mo ago
The agents are good enough to get results when an experienced person is properly guiding these tools. However, during the holidays there was a big marketing campaign, mainly on Twitter. Everyone started posting the same talking points repea
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by dudewhocodes 7mo ago
I see it the same way. Why would we rebuild a custom solution when $10 per user has it all? SaaS was always about the service part and works better when other companies use the same tool. Unique software specific to business needs will get
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by dudewhocodes 7mo ago
"Building X is easy now"... it was never hard if you had the patience to read docs. We should be saying "Building X is faster now" instead. But I guess that doesn't induce god complex that effectively.
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by dudewhocodes 7mo ago
I've noticed a change in technical blog articles in the past 2 years. Why do most contain phrases like "everything changes", "not behind (yet)" etc.? If you have a valid point to make, you don't need to force F
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by dudewhocodes 7mo ago
There are websites with the spells listed... which makes this a search problem. Why is an LLM used here?
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by dudewhocodes 7mo ago
Refreshing to read a balanced opinion, from a person who has significant experience and grounding in the real world.
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by dudewhocodes 8mo ago
How can you be so sure to think you're not replaceable? Because when you use the tools, you're giving data to companies to eventually get even you.
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by dudewhocodes 8mo ago
Apple somewhat lifted the emulator restrictions on the App Store which means you can install UTM from here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/utm-se-retro-pc-emulator/id156...
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by dudewhocodes 8mo ago
Accepts the word "human" as well. update: Start with "human" or "homo sapiens" and the website keeps changing as you add new words.
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by dudewhocodes 8mo ago
So many em dashes... and on the default vibe gradient too.
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by dudewhocodes 8mo ago
> I am at the tail end of AI adoption, so I don’t expect to say anything particularly useful or novel. Are they really late? Has everyone started using agents and paying $200 subscriptions? Am I the one wrong here or these expressions of
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by dudewhocodes 8mo ago
Serious prompt engineering right here
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Ask HN: Can I still code by hand?
5 points by dudewhocodes 8mo ago|3 comments
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ProofMode – Video Authenticity Standard(divine.video)
3 points by dudewhocodes 10mo ago|1 comments
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by dudewhocodes 10mo ago
Tech spec: https://divine.video/proofmode-spec
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by dudewhocodes 11mo ago
Everyone in the field seems to be in deep FOMO driven by the other guys also being in a state of FOMO. This creates chaos, delusion and a stressful environment where things are irrational. I understand your thoughts, we have to keep pushing
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by dudewhocodes 11mo ago
Very nice! I've found that the default iOS screen time feature is easily skippable. Barcode scanning is an interesting real-world "lock".
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Ask HN: Why do we need generative AI?
9 points by dudewhocodes 3y ago|7 comments
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Lungy - Apple Vision Pro calming spaces(lungy.app)
3 points by dudewhocodes 3y ago|1 comments
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by dudewhocodes 3y ago
Just a cool app I found :)
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AI can now master your music(arstechnica.com)
48 points by dudewhocodes 3y ago|50 comments
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Adding Bezier Animations to RealityKit(deurell.github.io)
1 points by dudewhocodes 3y ago|0 comments

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