ivanech

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by ivanech 3mo ago
Wow, that’s an egregious chart crime. Surely there’s a way to make a chart that isn’t so dishonest. Just plotting the SPR level would make the same point honestly.
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I'm making our documentation agent-friendly (and how I'm not)(buildwithfern.com)
2 points by ivanech 4mo ago|0 comments
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by ivanech 5mo ago
Hmm in my experience (I've done a lot of head-to-heads), Opus 4.6 is a weaker reviewer than GPT 5.4 xhigh. 5.4 xhigh gives very deep, very high-signal reviews and catches serious bugs much more reliably. I think it's possible you&
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The AI-assisted solo technical writer(buildwithfern.com)
3 points by ivanech 6mo ago|0 comments
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by ivanech 7mo ago
This feels similar to March 2020 when COVID was in Seattle. “It’s in the US but maybe it’s just a one-off.” We’ll see, I guess.
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by ivanech 8mo ago
this was really delightful. The Easter eggs in particular made it feel like someone was actually on the other side
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by ivanech 8mo ago
I find Opus 4.5 very, very strong at matching the prevailing conventions/idioms/abstractions in a large, established codebase. But I guess I'm quite sensitive to this kind of thing so I explicitly ask Opus 4.5 to read adjacen
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by ivanech 9mo ago
I believe the new grad DOGE employees were GS-15s. So yes, it seems likely that they plan to hire at GS-14 or GS-15.
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by ivanech 11mo ago
tried replicating w/ a slightly different system prompt w/ sonnet-4.5 and got some different results, esp w/ progressive to conservative questions. Prompting seems pretty load-bearing here
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The Eames Lounge Chair was always expensive(echevarria.io)
3 points by ivanech 11mo ago|0 comments
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by ivanech 11mo ago
AI tools have been so good for me for making home-cooked software. As a new-ish parent, it’s so much easier to do stuff. I don’t need to go into extra-deep focus mode to learn how to center a div for the hundredth time, I can spend that pre
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The Eames Lounge Chair was always expensive(echevarria.io)
2 points by ivanech 11mo ago|0 comments
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The Eames Lounge Chair was always expensive(echevarria.io)
3 points by ivanech 11mo ago|0 comments
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by ivanech 11mo ago
I had a good laugh at the image showing that 2018 had a “quality focus” I think Jonathan Blow gave his “Preventing the Collapse of Civilization” talk (much stronger treatment of the subject matter) around that time, also about how software
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by ivanech 11mo ago
> Gold has reached all time highs this is true > US debt (ie T-bills) selling at all time lows this is not true unless you’re doing some kind of adjustment. For t bills, us03m yields were much higher 30-40 years ago. > US equities
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by ivanech 1y ago
I would not debase myself by causing the starvation of children.
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Getting into Technical Writing: A Primer(devinlogan.org)
2 points by ivanech 1y ago|0 comments
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by ivanech 1y ago
Just got it at work today and it’s a dramatic step change beyond Cursor despite using the same foundation models. Very surprising! There was a task a month ago where AI assistance was a big net negative. Did the same thing today w/ Cla
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by ivanech 1y ago
Amrstrong’s heart rate spiked to >150bpm during the moon landing, more than double his resting heart rate
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Using (and not using) Claude to write book reviews(devinlogan.org)
1 points by ivanech 2y ago|0 comments
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Using an LLM to revamp my site(devinlogan.org)
1 points by ivanech 2y ago|0 comments
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Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from 'The Com'(krebsonsecurity.com)
11 points by ivanech 2y ago|1 comments
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by ivanech 2y ago
Thank you, Dan! I really appreciate all the work you do making HN what it is
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"Eat What You Kill"(propublica.org)
140 points by ivanech 2y ago|24 comments
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Meme Weeding: High Wages and Baumol's Cost Disease(pedestrianobservations.com)
1 points by ivanech 2y ago|0 comments
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by ivanech 2y ago
“Redfin data shows millennials are more or less on track with previous generations” “more or less” is doing some heavy lifting. The chart referenced shows a pretty dramatic discontinuity between Millennials and Gen X / Boomers from age
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by ivanech 2y ago
Click the links for “Available” and “Employment” at the bottom — they link to what I assume are the roles he’s looking for
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by ivanech 2y ago
Ha! I was thinking of Google specifically. I imagine it varies significantly then. Maybe 40+ L5 is not an OOM more common than 7, but L5 + L6 I think safely is. Agreed on L7 pay, very doable.
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by ivanech 2y ago
I think you’re right, I see that his resume links to Distinguished Engineer roles at Google / Amazon. Which … I don’t know. At my FAANG-adjacent company, there have only ever been _low_ single-digit number of ICs at that level. We’re t
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by ivanech 2y ago
I found all the napkin math in this befuddling. I’m not sure where these “per day” benchmarks are coming from -— is this supposed to be executive pay or mid-level/senior engineer pay? Because $5k - $10k / day works out to $1m - $3

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