joshmoody24

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by joshmoody24 5d ago
You're responding to a comment about weather forecasts , not current weather. Pointing to the sun is not a forecast.
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by joshmoody24 26d ago
And clicking outside the modal
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by joshmoody24 1mo ago
My team uses a Claude Code hook that blocks any comment more than 2 lines long, and when tripped it encourages the agent to rewrite the comment more concisely and focus only on the "why" not the "what" of the code. I&#x2
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by joshmoody24 2mo ago
> Want it to go away, almost like magic? True, almost like magic and magic are not the same thing, but I'd hesitate to call this a strawman.
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Just Let Agents Write Code(redo.com)
3 points by joshmoody24 2mo ago|0 comments
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by joshmoody24 2mo ago
Would it be useful if the models were actually good at it?
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by joshmoody24 2mo ago
I second the Victorian Internet recommendation! The book makes a good argument that if you plucked someone from the late 1800s and brought them into the modern day, the internet might be the invention they are least impressed by, since th
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by joshmoody24 3mo ago
Obviously it's impossible to understand the whole stack. My rule of thumb is to understand at least two layers of abstraction above and below the thing I'm actively working on.
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by joshmoody24 3mo ago
The old parser has p95 of like 450ms, that seems weirdly slow to me even for a parser generator. Is my intuition wrong? Maybe it's parsing some truly enormous SQL queries?
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How to Passive-Aggressively Shame People Who Use LLMs Selfishly(joshmoody.org)
33 points by joshmoody24 3mo ago|20 comments
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by joshmoody24 3mo ago
I've been on a crusade against sloppy use of AI recently. A conversation between my brother and I spawned the idea of "emoji reaction dog whistles" and I couldn't stop thinking about the idea until I wrote it down. Not m
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by joshmoody24 3mo ago
I've seen the pendulum swing between duplication and abstraction a few times in my career, and I'm currently on team "it's usually not that hard to find a good abstraction up front." IMO it's easier to inline a
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by joshmoody24 3mo ago
As someone who has listened to this If Books Could Kill episode and read the actual book, I think the podcast is mostly looking for problems where there aren't any. Despite the book's sleazy title ("influence people") it
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by joshmoody24 3mo ago
So you don't care about things that indirectly affect your net worth? Credit score? Your overall health? How many friends you have?
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We Had to Ban 65 CTF Teams to Get a Top 10 Leaderboard(camel4.dev)
1 points by joshmoody24 3mo ago|1 comments
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How to Call an API from an Email(redo.com)
13 points by joshmoody24 4mo ago|0 comments
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by joshmoody24 4mo ago
In my experience, lack of style customizability is the biggest obstacle to using native HTML features
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by joshmoody24 5mo ago
We don't need to give up streetlights to make huge progress. 20 to 50 percent of outdoor lighting is wasted. Just shielding streetlights would go a long way. https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nightskies/sources.htm
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by joshmoody24 5mo ago
What do you mean by strictly more powerful?
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by joshmoody24 5mo ago
Antkeeping, rockhounding, and flint knapping are things I've gotten into recently. Antkeeping and rockhounding in particular have a ton of room for citizen science. Lots of undiscovered stuff out there.
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by joshmoody24 6mo ago
It's not like the Shopify CEO intentionally tried to make something low quality. Was he out of his depth? Sure, but I don't fault him for trying. I think the people hyping up this event have caused more harm than the event itself.
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by joshmoody24 6mo ago
Lambda calculus is a model of computation. A pretty lightweight model that can still do everything that other programming languages can. Combinators are an even simpler model of computation that is still equally powerful. That simplicity &#
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by joshmoody24 6mo ago
What do you mean by "too heavy"? File size?
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by joshmoody24 6mo ago
This is my experience as well. MJML is the older, more reliable, better documented technology. And when it comes to debugging email rendering, you really, REALLY want as much documentation as possible.
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by joshmoody24 6mo ago
I used to think this, but lately I'm getting a lot of plain text marketing emails that are clearly LLMs. Now I dislike plain text emails just as much as HTML ones.
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by joshmoody24 6mo ago
Writing HTML for emails is a lot harder than you're making it sound. But MJML does a good job of simplifying it for most use cases.
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by joshmoody24 6mo ago
This surprises me too. I've experimented with using LLMs to convert lambda calculus expressions into combinatory logic. There is a simple deterministic way to do this, and LLMs claim to know it, and then they confidently fail.
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by joshmoody24 6mo ago
I made a queuing theory calculator for this: https://joshmoody.org/blog/number-of-agents/#number-of-agent... Although you'll have to mentally replace the word "agent" with "PR" for it to m
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by joshmoody24 6mo ago
In my experience the places worth working for care about cornerstone principles far more than the hot buzzwords on a resume.
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by joshmoody24 6mo ago
Half the tests aren't passing and the code is a lot less readable, but the core idea is cool

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