etamponi

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by etamponi 9d ago
Come on. We're talking about a salary that is ONE THIRD of what you'd get at AI labs in US (plus the stock and the bonus). And significantly less taxes. Are you sure that 5 weeks of vacation, what you call "comprehensive&quot
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by etamponi 23d ago
A couple of days ago I received a strange letter from the France tax agency. For context: I received it in my home in Italy, and it was addressed to someone else (perhaps a previous tenant of the house?). It seemed legit but completely misd
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by etamponi 1mo ago
Isn't this a show of security negligence rather than of exceptional agent capabilities? Don't get me wrong, I am pretty impressed that an agent was able to use these vulnerabilities. But I am way more impressed by the vulnerabilit
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by etamponi 3mo ago
I see! Thanks!
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by etamponi 3mo ago
Very interesting! One thing I don't understand is: doesn't this assume that they could do the calculations to get the coefficients... Using decimal notation? How could they for example know that 18/20 = 9/10? This is str
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It's Like Minesweeper(etamponi.github.io)
2 points by etamponi 3mo ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Is Claude Code web down?
1 points by etamponi 4mo ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Are agents _still_ writing most of your code?
6 points by etamponi 6mo ago|4 comments
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by etamponi 6mo ago
It's the classical trolley problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
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by etamponi 7mo ago
Good point. To clarify my stance: what I meant is that the narrative of the article is the following: AI made us change the playbook and so now , because of AI , the playbook is this one. Which is like saying that Sun Tzu wrote the cited
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by etamponi 7mo ago
It blows my mind how these posts seem like everyone is victim of a collective amnesia. Literally every single point in the article was good engineering practice way before AI. So it's either amnesia or simple ignorance. In particular,
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by etamponi 7mo ago
The unfortunate reality is that (1) and (2) is what many, many engineers would like to do, but management is going EXACTLY in the opposite direction: go faster! Go faster! Why are you spending time on these things
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by etamponi 7mo ago
> So as a senior, you could abstain. But then your junior colleagues will eventually code circles around you, because they’re wearing bazooka-powered jetpacks and you’re still riding around on a fixie bike. Eventually your boss will star
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Alphabet Q4 2025 Earnings release [pdf](s206.q4cdn.com)
24 points by etamponi 7mo ago|3 comments
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by etamponi 8mo ago
The point of the article is that the jump start that AI gives you is not the same as the one that well thought frameworks give you. What AI writes falls apart and leaves you with the ruins.
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by etamponi 8mo ago
It that's the essence, then of course 9/10 is accident. I think that's not software engineering though. The essence: I need to make this software meet all the current requirements while making it easy to modify in the fu
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by etamponi 8mo ago
This. Thanks. It's a relief to see I am not the only one completely disappointed. I still believe that these posts are just an ad stunt to publicize their soon-to-be released AI tool. If they really believe what they're writing, i
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by etamponi 8mo ago
I think this post unveils a great truth that I never grasped: estimates are a political tool to decide what gets done and what doesn't get done. Thanks for putting it so nicely! One thing that I'd like to understand then is _why_.
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by etamponi 8mo ago
> But plenty can be estimated more accurately. As a person that has never encountered a complex software project that can be accurately estimated, I am being a bit skeptical. The author did make examples of when estimation is possible: e
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by etamponi 8mo ago
I hope the budget has been written by AI, so that we can take a shortcut and immediately answer the question "Can AI grow corn?" with a "No". I am extremely worried by the amount of hype I see around. I hope I am being i
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by etamponi 8mo ago
> Hours instead of weeks. And then goes on describing two things for which I bet almost anyone with enough knowledge of C and Redis could implement a POC in... Guess what? Hours. At this point I am literally speechless, if even Antirez f
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by etamponi 9mo ago
> The engineer who truly understands the problem often finds that the elegant solution is simpler than anyone expected. > The engineer who starts with a solution tends to build complexity in search of a justification. I do agree this
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by etamponi 9mo ago
> Would you still defend your position if the “grumpy” guy answered in Linus’ style? If they answered correctly, yes. My point is that providing _actual knowledge_ is by itself so much more valuable compared to _simulated knowledge_, in
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by etamponi 9mo ago
I spent the last 14 days chasing an issue with a Spark transform. Gemini and Claude were exceptionally good at giving me answers that looked perfectly reasonable: none of them worked, they were almost always completely off-road. Eventually
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by etamponi 9mo ago
> Logs were designed for a different era. An era of monoliths, single servers, and problems you could reproduce locally. Today, a single user request might touch 15 services, 3 databases, 2 caches, and a message queue. Your logs are stil
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by etamponi 9mo ago
Am I the only one that is surprised that the app still works?!
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by etamponi 9mo ago
Aren't we just reinventing programming languages from the ground up? This is the loop (and honestly, I predicted it way before it started): 1) LLMs can generate code from "natural language" prompts! 2) Oh wait, I actually nee
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by etamponi 10mo ago
Technical problems are generated by lack of knowledge. One type of lack of knowledge is interaction with people. You'll never know everything that another person wants to communicate to you because of several reasons. But even in the c
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by etamponi 10mo ago
I don't disagree with the sentiment. But let's also be honest. There is a lot of improvement to be made in security software, in terms of ease of use and overcomplicating things. I worked at Google and then at Meta. Man, the amo
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Olares: An Open-Source Personal Cloud to Reclaim Your Data(github.com)
3 points by etamponi 10mo ago|0 comments

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