edfletcher_t137

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by edfletcher_t137 3mo ago
> 7. How does gitdot make money? > We don't. This cannot last forever. What's the plan when it runs out?
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by edfletcher_t137 3mo ago
Agentic development. From "chat bot" to bonafide, capable developer. "Oh, shit!"
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by edfletcher_t137 4mo ago
yep, this has been obvious to a lot of people for awhile. especially after Cherny posted about exactly this in a massively-popular thread... four months ago: https://x.com/bcherny/status/2007179861115511237
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by edfletcher_t137 4mo ago
Not just the domain: it's an agentic stack! In other words, I could use their product to create the exact type of PRs they're lamenting here.
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by edfletcher_t137 5mo ago
This is their referenced 2013 paper on the subject: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258423577_Data_Stor... Clearly they have been working on this for over a decade.
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by edfletcher_t137 6mo ago
> Of all the ways I used AI, research had by far the highest ratio of value delivered to time spent. Seconded!
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by edfletcher_t137 8mo ago
Came here to comment on this line: it completely changes the tone of the article. It's fairly reasonable and neutral until we get here, upon which the antagonism is jarringly clear. In fact I would posit this is the central crux of t
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by edfletcher_t137 8mo ago
> But for now, I want to emphasize a broader point: I’m hoping 2026 will be the year we stop caring about what people believe AI might do, and instead start reacting to its real, present capabilities. > So, this is how I’m thinking ab
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Tall Poppy Syndrome(humancode.us)
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by edfletcher_t137 9mo ago
Working with Andrew Lee on vp.net, who maliciously imploded Freenode some years ago. Birds of a feather...
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by edfletcher_t137 10mo ago
> YouTube I believe has more viewing hours than Netflix. Yep by a significant margin in fact https://www.nielsen.com/news-center/2025/streaming-reaches-h...
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by edfletcher_t137 10mo ago
> Does HBO+Netflix have a 25% share of the streaming market? I've no idea, but possibly. No, not even close. According to Nielsen from this year, Netflix has only 7.5% of total TV hours and "Warner Bros + Discovery" clocks
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by edfletcher_t137 10mo ago
Those folks who are trying these tools are going to make it through this period. If you're not yet, you won't. Period, end of story. Those hackers you're so lamenting are gonna make it, but you aren't.
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by edfletcher_t137 10mo ago
Lack of Claude is a glaring oversight given how popular it is as an agentic coding model...
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by edfletcher_t137 10mo ago
> If there is AI slop in your codebase it is only because you put it there. Nailed it, came here to say this. If anything, this entire post should just be titled "AI PEBKAC". Don't blame the tool because you're using
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by edfletcher_t137 1y ago
What The Actual Fuck
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by edfletcher_t137 1y ago
"Amusement Park" has to be one of the worst headline choices here. So these people are amused by building killing machines? They are amused that their work is directly related to death & destruction? They are monsters if
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by edfletcher_t137 1y ago
The first two points directly contradict each other, too. Learning a tool should have the outcome that one is productive with it. If getting to "productive" is non-trivial, then learning the tool is non-trivial.
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by edfletcher_t137 1y ago
OP's YT is full-on "old man yelling at clouds" https://www.youtube.com/c/lukesmithxyz
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by edfletcher_t137 1y ago
> The perception of privacy is just as important as the technical details that make something actually private. I try very seldom to call for anyone to be fired, but I think whoever authorized this movie ad through Wallet push notificati
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by edfletcher_t137 1y ago
> The black hole universe also offers a new perspective on our place in the cosmos. In this framework, our entire observable universe lies inside the interior of a black hole formed in some larger “parent” universe. Does it also follow t
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by edfletcher_t137 1y ago
> So I’ll keep being skeptical, until it’s over. I feel you've misunderstood the moment. There is no "over". This is it.
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by edfletcher_t137 1y ago
> One such example would be to do a live code review. This could be done asynchronously or synchronously. It could allow actually talking through topics and issues that relate to the challenges in a real software project. This would all
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by edfletcher_t137 1y ago
> A little intuition and empathy can tell you that they probably are not going to spend many hours reviewing a complex submission, so the project should optimize for demonstrability of code quality, not completeness. > "I would l
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by edfletcher_t137 1y ago
OP didn't take into account the (great) asymmetry between themselves and the hiring manager, then built an entire lament on that. Dealing with this job req is likely just one of many day-to-day responsibilities the HM has and frankly I
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by edfletcher_t137 1y ago
Not what was expected of them. I included "minimum-viable" in my original reply for a specific reason: to counter OP's lament that they lost out to a simpler solution. If you are asked to implement X and instead you take ext
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by edfletcher_t137 1y ago
Building a concrete, working, minimum-viable solution from ambiguous requirements: that's the point of the exercise. That's what hiring managers want in candidates because those candidates end up being good at building a concret
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by edfletcher_t137 2y ago
> Also, I might as well come out and say this: one reason I don’t want to use Github is because it’s the most popular place to host your code. It's the goth subculture of software development! Because it's popular, it must be e
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by edfletcher_t137 2y ago
Adults of all stripes - and of all socioeconomic backgrounds - manage to pull themselves out of funks all the time without needing to write woe-is-me blog posts about it. That our wealth-worship culture has gone so far and gotten so bad tha
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by edfletcher_t137 2y ago
Thank you so much OP for writing this, and I hope it resonates not just with maintainers (or potential maintainers) but to users of FOSS too. You needed to write this - specifically, the "Baseline" section, which I agree with vi

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