goostavos

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by goostavos 1mo ago
In contrast, here's how I under engineered my book lol: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336392 If our two styles found a middle ground we'd be unstoppable!
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How I Under-Engineered my Book(chriskiehl.com)
67 points by goostavos 1mo ago|22 comments
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by goostavos 2mo ago
...I use email notifications. I follow very few people (fewer than 10), so I'm always happy when an email pops up letting me know they've written something. I don't pay attention to my RSS reader, and barely use social media.
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The Strange Locomotion of Spirocuta(chriskiehl.com)
13 points by goostavos 2mo ago|0 comments
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by goostavos 3mo ago
>session transcripts were the new oil Something about this idea really resonates with certain personality types. I equate it to the Zettelkasten hype phase from several years ago. People (...like me..) got really wrapped up in the beli
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Evolving Thoughts on AI in 2026(chriskiehl.com)
2 points by goostavos 3mo ago|1 comments
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by goostavos 3mo ago
If you offload breaking up long sentences to the LLM how will you get better at not writing long sentences? (as an aside, I also struggle with super long sentences and found a pretty good trick for curing it: rewrite by hand with pen and pa
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by goostavos 3mo ago
>no hope for writers like me continuing. If it's any consolation, I'm releasing a technical book on Java this year. In 2026. When AI exists and, at according to the front page most days, programming is "solved." All o
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by goostavos 4mo ago
Same for domestic partners. They push you into their desktop version for some reason, but the desktop version is a buggy pile of trash. I wasn't able to use it at all even on a windows machine. To their credit, they did refund the soft
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by goostavos 4mo ago
Agreed. To quote Leslie Lamport, "the hardest part of TLA+ is learning to think abstractly." There's always a moment, usually annoyingly late in the process, where I realize I've been massively overthinking everything or
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by goostavos 4mo ago
DDB has two use cases: 1. You need an "infinitely scalable" key/value store and have deep pockets[0] 2. you work at AWS and your deployment pipeline has so many stages and regions and fabrics that you can no longer even conce
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by goostavos 5mo ago
>so distant from daily routine that it seems completely pointless imo, this is a problem with how it's taught! Order theory is super useful in programming. The main challenge, beyond breaking past that barrier of perceived "poi
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by goostavos 6mo ago
Agree. AI is (currently) fantastic at "de-bullshitifying" the internet. "Give me a table that compares Products A & B by z, y, and z." Companies have gone out of their way to make comparison shopping near impossible.
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by goostavos 6mo ago
You do all of that when leaving a comment on HN? Why...? I'm confused by this need(?) desire(?) to polish things that are irrelevant.
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by goostavos 7mo ago
No amount of FBI stats about how often "assault" rifles are used will change people's minds. They don't like them and so want to take them away. I don't know how to square the same people saying we're living un
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by goostavos 7mo ago
Sigh.. same. The real AI fatigue is the constant background irritation I have when interacting with LLMs. "You're not imagining it" "You're not crazy" "You're absolutely right!" "Your right
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by goostavos 7mo ago
>software engineers today are 100x more productive Somebody needs to explain to my lying eyes where these 100xers are hiding. They seem to live in comments on the internet, but I'm not seeing the teams around me increase their outpu
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by goostavos 8mo ago
A lot of pride is wrapped up in the craft of writing software. If that goes away (I don't think it will) it would leave a lot of people wondering how they spent all their time. (or something like that. Obviously I'm too well adjus
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by goostavos 8mo ago
I had my first interview last week where I finally saw this in the wild. It was a student applying for an internship. It was the strangest interview. They had excellent textbook knowledge. They could tell you the space and time complexitie
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by goostavos 8mo ago
I found the first season OK enough, but the second season to be unwatchable.
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by goostavos 8mo ago
https://chriskiehl.com
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by goostavos 9mo ago
If the only reason you write is as a means to and end, sure. Inevitable. If you pursue it as a craft then the struggle and imperfections are part of the process. LLM usage would sand away those wonderful flaws.
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by goostavos 9mo ago
Oh, hey -- you're that guy. I learned a lot of what I know about TLA from your writings ^_^ Consider my behavior changed. I thought the "high school math" was an encouraging way to sell it (i.e. "if you can get past the
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by goostavos 9mo ago
I find the same. Even those who are interested in it in theory hit a pretty unforgiving wall when they try to put it in practice. Learning TLA+ is way harder than leaning another programming language. I failed repeatedly while trying to &
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by goostavos 9mo ago
Fictional, but it captures something about work and life in that unique way that art is supposed to. One of my favorite scenes: Peggy: "You never say thank you!" Don: "That's what the money is for!" It captures a l
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by goostavos 10mo ago
FWIW, even with the "simple explanation," I'll echo OP's statement that the README doesn't really explain what it is or what it's solving. "Generates new versions of the structures" might mean somethi
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by goostavos 10mo ago
The new 10x engineering is writing "please don't write bugs" in a markdown file.
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Just Send the Prompt(justsendtheprompt.com)
5 points by goostavos 10mo ago|0 comments
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by goostavos 11mo ago
It destroys the value of code review and wastes the reviewers time. Code review is one of the places where experience is transferred. It is disheartening to leave thoughtful comments and have them met with "I duno. I just had [AI] do i
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by goostavos 1y ago
One of the surprising things about working inside of $MegaCorp is that if you knock on enough doors, you'll eventually find that each org has, like, one dude* with a spread sheet that powers everything else. Teams will get spun up to

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