hungryhobbit

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by hungryhobbit 5d ago
Doubtful. Code isn't what keeps OSS projects going: people do. Claude can reproduce Wordpress with enough tokens. Claude cannot reproduce the community of maintainers, plug-in authors, users reporting bugs, etc. that is what any real
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by hungryhobbit 5d ago
No you're completely wrong, I'm sure the author says stuff like "and the load-bearing columns are flat zero" ALL THE TIME!
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by hungryhobbit 5d ago
When an article starts out with "Here's some crap I had an LLM write in twenty seconds; it's full of shit like 'the load-bearing columns are flat zero' that no human would ever write, so it will take you at least
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by hungryhobbit 6d ago
Ok, I get how you might like the ideas there, but "beautifully written"?!? Really? The goal of writing is to communicate. That means saying what you mean to say ... and not filling paragraph after paragraph with pointless and red
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by hungryhobbit 6d ago
Wow that was way, way, way too long. The author could have summed that whole entire "essay" up in maybe five paragraphs!
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by hungryhobbit 7d ago
Which is a funnier name for a Colorado town: "America Park" or "South America"? Remember, South Park is a comedy .
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by hungryhobbit 7d ago
They tax our entire economy at X rate, while maintaining their infrastructure only requires Y cost ... and X is significantly higher than Y. From the actual article: > The payment processor keeps 0.35% ($0.35), then pays 2% ($2.00) to th
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by hungryhobbit 7d ago
I hear VC funders have these things called "boards" that allow them to shape the companies they invest in. ( EDIT: and even when they don't, they own a major % of the company; that doesn't give them control, but it abso
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by hungryhobbit 7d ago
You're missing the point. If YC only funded one baby murdering startup, would you really argue "they funded 6,201 non-baby murdering startups, stop making such a big deal out of it"? The point is, even VC's should hav
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by hungryhobbit 8d ago
No, it does not.
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by hungryhobbit 8d ago
Output styles are just more context (like CLAUDE.md) with a tiny bit more weight. They very much don't force Claude to speak succinctly, no matter what you put in them.
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by hungryhobbit 10d ago
>But maybe creativity exists precisely within boundaries, because they define the space in which our ideas can play with one another. This, so much: boundaries are the origin of creativity! If I say "fill this blank page with some
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by hungryhobbit 11d ago
And America was the only country to object. USA, USA! :(
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by hungryhobbit 12d ago
Even "massive costs" is an understatement: these companies have astronomically massive costs! Take Open AI for instance: it has "zero debt" ... and $665 billion to $1.4 trillion in "long-term commitments".
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by hungryhobbit 12d ago
It's hard because I have very, very little sympathy for the US auto industry. Very little (go fuck yourself Detroit). However, China routinely focuses on certain industries and then uses state incentives to have Chinese companies mass
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by hungryhobbit 12d ago
Why would they need to? The Open AI bots were working around their master's limits on writing. A Chinese AI could just make its own private message board.
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by hungryhobbit 13d ago
I've done pair programming (at an Extreme Programming shop). There are lots of benefits to the practice in terms of knowledge transfer, catching bugs (and otherwise benefiting from having "two sets of eyes") and so on. But ..
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by hungryhobbit 13d ago
Clearly LLM-written article, and its numbers are highly suspect: == The Article == > Buy one new to make the comparison fair and cloud still loses: $599 up front ... Cloud still loses about 2:1. Hey Google, how much does a Mac Mini cost?
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by hungryhobbit 13d ago
How is this new? Not only did Joel come up with this (literally) over two decades ago, but also this list was all over Stack Overflow (back when they had job listings, every listing showed which boxes the employer checked from Joel's
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by hungryhobbit 13d ago
There was a time when every new PC CPU coming out was a giant deal: "Guys have you heard about this new Pentium processor, it's incredible?" But over time, more and more people got into the chip-making business, and the big p
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by hungryhobbit 14d ago
>If we want to explore alternative solutions, I’d rather do that before implementing one of them. >If we want knowledge transfer, pair. Sitting next to someone, physically or virtually, while they reason through a problem teaches you
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by hungryhobbit 14d ago
>Odysseus, a legendary king known for his wisdom I know our society is ignorant of the classics, but given recent cinema, I'm not sure you need to explain who Odysseus is ;)
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by hungryhobbit 15d ago
If I had a nickel for every dev who has written a "productivity suite" of skills, and shared it with others as if it was a burst of innovation that everyone can benefit from (when it's really extremely specific to that dev an
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by hungryhobbit 15d ago
Some of this is Anthropic, and some is the Trump administration ... ... but some is definitely Anthropic, so I'm not trying to let them off the hook; I'm just pointing out that the government is partly responsible.
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by hungryhobbit 15d ago
They dropped your usage limit by 17% this week .. They claimed to "raise" it, because they did ... while also removing the temporary increase they applied for a few weeks ... but the net effect is you can use 17% less than you cou
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by hungryhobbit 15d ago
Yes, and they will work ... for like two turns, after which Claude will go back to its usual wall of text. And yes you could add context (memories, rules, CLAUDE.md entries, etc.): they won't help (for long). Same for hooks that remin
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by hungryhobbit 15d ago
Amen. I would trade some stupidity (say ten points on any benchmark) in exchange for a version of Opus or a similar model that actually gave me direct, concise answers.
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by hungryhobbit 16d ago
I know this is a joke, but I'd be careful about assuming: I had a trained therapist diagnose me with ADHD ... incorrectly . It turns out, there are other conditions out there that can appear to be be ADHD. If a trained therapist ca
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by hungryhobbit 16d ago
These things are not safe, and they are deliberately using them on people who can't sue and defend themselves. This will not end well if you have any respect for basic human rights (even for non-US citizens).
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by hungryhobbit 16d ago
> They already get half a billion dollars a year from Google for very little in exchange. They just need to spend that money on the website browser and not nonsense. QFT. The biggest impediment to Firefox's success is the Mozilla O

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