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by gary17the 7mo ago
The Microslop Manifesto hitting the front page of Hacker News and Anthropic Claude servers showing "Partial Outage" at exactly the same time - a coincidence? "I think not."
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by gary17the 7mo ago
> Read deeply, write a plan, annotate the plan until it’s right, then let Claude execute the whole thing without stopping, checking types along the way. As others have already noted, this workflow is exactly what the Google Antigravity a
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by gary17the 7mo ago
> [Claude Code] "A spiral that generates itself — starting from a tight mathematical center (my computational substrate) and branching outward into increasingly organic, tree-like forms (the meaning that emerges). Structure becoming
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by gary17the 7mo ago
Good to hear that some people out there still have some old-school -style sense of humor.
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by gary17the 7mo ago
I have no clue whatsoever as to why any human should pay any attention at all to what a canner has to say in a public forum. Even assuming that the whole ruckus is not just skilled trolling by a (weird) human, it's like wasting your pr
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by gary17the 8mo ago
If you want more convenience from Rust and do not want to mess with Rust borrow checker, you do not really have to switch to Swift: you can rely on Rust reference counting. Use 1.) Rust reference-counted smart pointers[1] for shareable immu
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by gary17the 8mo ago
> In retrospect, it made sense. Agents write units of changes that look good in isolation. They are consistent with themselves and your prompt. But respect for the whole, there is not. Respect for structural integrity there is not. Respe
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by gary17the 9mo ago
Sh*t, still no word about "Rocky XXXVIII".[1] [1] "Airplane!" (1980)
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by gary17the 1y ago
In the mobile app market, a financially-viable or organic (non-paid) long-term marketing plan is the hardest. First testers can be hired. First users can be paid for with Google Ads/Apple Search Ads, etc. Depending on the competition,
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by gary17the 1y ago
If you have an iPad, perhaps have a look at modern general-purpose database apps[1], for example the object-oriented easyAsPieDB[2]. Object-orientation allows an end-user to define relationships among the relevant pieces of data in a concep
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by gary17the 1y ago
I think the only reason vibe coding/prompt engineering seems to be taking over programmers' jobs is the fact that it currently enjoys the status of the latest investment craze/fashion such as blockchain did a few years ago an
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by gary17the 1y ago
Vibe coding/prompt engineering automatically accumulate "technical debt" of spaghetti code and thus with time cause every larger project to fail. Sooner or later you will be asked to fix all that AI mess in your company codeb
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by gary17the 1y ago
The Backblaze cloud and restic.
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by gary17the 1y ago
How does all that space out there make you feel about the 30 years of paying off your mortgage for all that 0.25 acres of land you own? ;) J/K
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by gary17the 1y ago
I don't get all this prevalent "AI will replace everyone!!" hysteria. AI might be indeed pretty good at writing small, self-contained pieces of code such as a simple app or an API usage sample (in reality, not creating, but r
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by gary17the 1y ago
No. Quite the opposite. AI-generated code is quite often literally a laughingstock to someone with a couple of decades of coding experience and an active interest in architectural software patterns, e.g., code reliability and elegance.
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by gary17the 1y ago
From my experience, the "common assumption" that your brain works best only when you are in your 20s or 30s is a complete and utter nonsense. You might get a bit more burned out with time or simply become less passionate about tec
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by gary17the 1y ago
I imagine it is hard to keep feeling inspired when you keep programming sample code "bundles" that are purely "theoretical", i.e., carry no complexity or LOC-size required for the commercial or open-source product direct
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by gary17the 1y ago
IMHO: Estimate demand (e.g., through search engine keyword volume), estimate monetization (e.g., by working out how much you can charge in your niche) and then decide whether it is sane for more than one provider to exist in that specific n
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by gary17the 1y ago
> I haven’t interviewed in years and get extremely anxious in interviews. If you are a programmer, the hiring process these days is an unbelievable screw-up with no shred of professionalism whatsoever in many, if not most, cases. Either
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by gary17the 1y ago
IMHO, you should definitely reflect on why you feel that "leaving is not an option". Is it because of the money? Pay off your loans, downgrade the location/size of your apartment/house and suddenly making only half the m
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by gary17the 1y ago
phpList[1] is open-source and can be self-hosted (PHP/mySQL/MariaDB). It does include/require small "powered by phpList" watermarks below user-side subscribe forms. [1] https://www.phplist.org
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by gary17the 1y ago
Vibe coding isn't over-hyped, it is a myth. :)
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by gary17the 1y ago
Try Hugo[1]. In depends on a template[2] you choose whether Hugo will generate a landing page, a website, a blog, etc. [1] https://gohugo.io [2] https://themes.gohugo.io
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by gary17the 1y ago
Anytime. Best of luck to you.
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by gary17the 1y ago
> I’m using AI to assist me and I’m building an app Vibe coding is a myth, it will take you only so far and will require manual fixes and refactoring before MVP. Learn the basics of and keep learning, say, Swift. https://devel
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by gary17the 1y ago
> I wonder at the sheer lunacy of dumping thousands of random sentences into your lap and translating it from one language to another. I don't get it why everyone seems to think that translation exercises in a foreign language learn
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by gary17the 1y ago
> Duolingo is obsolete. I have to defend Duolingo a bit here. After only 60 days of short, daily 15-minute lessons, I was able to start forming valid (albeit simple) sentences such as "where is the bathroom in this building?" t
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by gary17the 1y ago
A very interesting point, I stand corrected. When I think about it, my brain usually does strongly prefer to consciously create a set of "rules" about a knowledge base rather than unconsciously memorize a set of ready-made samples
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by gary17the 1y ago
> This is a false dichotomy. Focusing on grammar is not the opposite. I don't follow you. I did not claim that focusing on grammar was a literal opposite of anything. I claimed that in my case "repetitive learning by example&

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