jwblackwell

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by jwblackwell 3mo ago
It's starting to feel like we'll soon be able to run open source models on our own hardware and use them for serious coding projects. Even if some tasks still need to be handed off to larger closed source models, that's a hug
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by jwblackwell 7mo ago
Nice! works well - I couldn't get huggingface to work either
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by jwblackwell 8mo ago
Yea as somebody who played extensively with Lego as a kid, almost exclusively just the "base components", I never really got the appeal of those set with all sorts of custom, single-use items
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by jwblackwell 8mo ago
I absolutely love the idea of Replit and I think it's an awesome platform and idea. I do wonder how sustainable it is as a business though. I expect Replit is sending the majority of that money to the big AI labs through API costs As s
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by jwblackwell 8mo ago
With all due respect somebody could launch a version of Discord that's 10x faster tomorrow and nobody would know about it It's very difficult to unseat those incumbents, especially those with strong network effects. Plus the peopl
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by jwblackwell 10mo ago
A lot of people in the UK seem to think the trains in Europe are so much better, but that's not the case, at least in my experience. We took an interrail trip a couple of years ago and spent half the time sat on the floor and waiting f
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by jwblackwell 1y ago
It works much better with AI though, which is really all that matters at this point
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by jwblackwell 1y ago
Yeah I am currently enjoying giving the LLM relatively small chunks of code to write and then asking it to write accompanying tests. While I focus on testing the product myself. I then don't even bother to read the code it's writt
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by jwblackwell 1y ago
Yeah I do feel the pressure to run multiple instances of Claude Code now. Haven't really managed to find a good workflow, I find I just get too distracted swapping between tasks and then probably end up working slower than if I had jus
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by jwblackwell 1y ago
This is just crying out for AI to help you get started.
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by jwblackwell 1y ago
One slightly unexpected side effect of using AI to do most of my coding now is that I find myself a lot less tired and can focus for longer periods. It's enabled me to get work done while faced with other distractions. Essentially, off
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by jwblackwell 1y ago
> the current PHP+MySQL combo was not fit for purpose anymore He lost me here. Sounds like he tried to change from a boring stack he understood, to Go and Clickhouse because it's cooler. You're asking for trouble. LLMs are grea
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by jwblackwell 1y ago
Your site would look way better with mx-auto max-w-7xl :) The content is far too wide on big screens
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by jwblackwell 1y ago
Initially, I just posted my latest product, Quizgecko on HN and then manually DMd a few hundred people on Linkedin etc. That was enough for 100+ users. I think if you have a relatively novel idea, that is quick to try out, then people will
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by jwblackwell 1y ago
“ In some countries, more than 90% of the population lives on less than $5 per day. If agentic AI code generation becomes the most effective way to write high-quality code, this will create a massive barrier to entry”
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by jwblackwell 1y ago
The author is essentially arguing that fewer people will be able to build software in the future. That's the opposite of what's happened over the past year or two. Now many more non-technical people can (and are) building software
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by jwblackwell 1y ago
Yeah this is one fundamental reason I don't see MCP taking off. The only real use cases there are will just be built in natively to the tools.
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by jwblackwell 1y ago
The Guardian used to be considered a serious paper, then a few years ago the quality declined dramatically. Now it's not much better than most tabloids.
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by jwblackwell 2y ago
The cost of robotics is coming down, check out Unitree. A couple of robot arms would cost about the same as a minimum wageworker for 1 year right now. But of course they can go virtually 24/7 so likely 1/3rd the cost
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by jwblackwell 2y ago
The upshot of this is that anyone will be able to order a couple of robot arms from China and then set them up in a garage, programming them with just text, like we do with LLMs now. Time to think bigger.
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by jwblackwell 2y ago
Larger context windows are helping solve this, though. I use ALpineJS which is not as well known as React etc, but I just added a bunch of examples and instructions to the new cursor project rules, and it's now close to perfect. Gemini
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by jwblackwell 2y ago
Above & Beyond's label has a huge following. I have been to many events around the world. They do a big gathering each year e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEqySVgNkIA
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by jwblackwell 2y ago
It feels like AI has made this redundant. I honestly cannot imagine hand typing out some JSON now, or most code for that matter. I just write in natural language what I want and the AI will perfectly output valid JSON.
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by jwblackwell 2y ago
I am using Laravel Blade components which are effectively just fully server rendered templates in component style, so you get the benefit of that mental model. Then you can just add Alpine as necessary.
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by jwblackwell 2y ago
Totally agree. React and Vue are overkill and bloated, and actually lead to a worse experience a lot of the time e.g. users starting at spinning loaders with broken browser functionality (like back buton) A hybrid approach of server-side vi
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by jwblackwell 2y ago
Does anyone else struggle to wrap their head around a lot of this new cloud stuff? I have 15+ years experience of building for the web, using Laravel / Postgres / Redis stack and I read posts like this and just think, "not fo
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by jwblackwell 2y ago
This is a sham study funded by UpWork whose business is likely being hit by AI, since many low-skilled office tasks can now be automated.
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by jwblackwell 2y ago
The speed things are moving, it feels like we'll get a GPT-4 level "small" model really soon.
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by jwblackwell 3y ago
A 2% conversion rate is actually quite high. The mistake here is that they assume the reason people don't subscribe is because of the cost.
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by jwblackwell 3y ago
basically no open source fine tunes are censored, you can get an idea of popular models people are using here: https://openrouter.ai/models?o=top-weekly teknium/openhermes-2.5-mistral-7b is a good one You don't ne

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