kgilpin

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by kgilpin 5mo ago
One of the biggest gifts in life is to find a true passion. And for every passion there are two sides to the coin - the joy and the suffering. The agony and the ecstasy. It’s a gift to care so much; and it inspires.
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by kgilpin 1y ago
Yes. For someone who’s already financially comfortable, it’s nice to be able to stay in the game, keep working with great people, and make some money without having to deal with burnout. Lots of people in tech like their jobs; they just lik
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by kgilpin 1y ago
Claude code does utilize both the full Sonnet model and the lighter Haiku model in an automatic way. When you exit a Claude code session, it gives you the stats (tokens, cost, etc). I expect there’s a way to get this in-session as well.
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by kgilpin 1y ago
I will miss being able to see people’s eyes.
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by kgilpin 1y ago
Interestingly (to me) the SwiftUI Text element supports Markdown natively via AttributedString.
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by kgilpin 1y ago
Is it enough to play Human Resource Machine!? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Resource_Machine Assembly as a game, I loved playing it.
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by kgilpin 1y ago
In the US, “Junior” pilots typically work as flight instructors until they have built up enough time to no longer be junior. 1500 flight hours is the essential requirement to be an airline pilot, and every hour spent giving instruction coun
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by kgilpin 1y ago
I feel the same way about code generation vs code review. Everyone knows there are deep problems with LLM generated code (primarily, lack of repo understanding, and proper use of library functions). Deep, accurate, real-time code review cou
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by kgilpin 1y ago
In my experience working on JB extensions, Rider is the most different of the IDEs. Most people think of just IntelliJ and that’s the same code base as eg PyCharm. But Rider seems substantially different.
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Show HN: OpenTips – Realtime OSS Code Review for Copilot and VSCode(marketplace.visualstudio.com)
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by kgilpin 2y ago
Today, hacker news solves air traffic control with either: a) More money b) Video game technology To truly get this problem, you really need to be in it. Either as a pilot or as a controller. Watching threads like this reminds me that I hav
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by kgilpin 2y ago
I’m curious if the OpenRewrite project has any value to you in keeping your Java stuff up to date? (I’m not affiliated with it; just curious about strategies for upgrading and maintaining apps that use big frameworks.)
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by kgilpin 2y ago
This is what’s needed to get the most out of these tools. You understand deeply how the tool works and so you’re able to optimize its inputs in order to get good results. This puts you in the top echelon of developers using AI assisted codi
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by kgilpin 2y ago
I just want to note that Copilot is multi model now and can also run Sonnet.
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by kgilpin 2y ago
I wrote a SWE bench solver. The SWE bench issues are on mature projects like Django. The objective of my solver was to get good solutions using only RAG (no embeddings) and with minimal cost (low token count). Three techniques, combined, yi
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by kgilpin 2y ago
Sports is entertainment. It inspires people and brings joy. It brings people together. It sets positive examples of the rewards that can come from consistent effort and teamwork. Athletes are people making the most of the gifts they’ve been
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by kgilpin 2y ago
In my kids’ generation (college aged) they all use Facebook Marketplace.
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by kgilpin 2y ago
FYI supermaven has joined Cursor https://www.cursor.com/blog/supermaven
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by kgilpin 2y ago
People are saying it’s apples and oranges, but with Computer Use taken into account, this seems like a fair question. https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/compute...
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by kgilpin 2y ago
I like how you put the context and prompts into the foreground. In so many tools, it’s invisible. We all know that context and prompts are there - the operation of LLMs is well known. Yet tools try and hide this and pretend that they are ma
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by kgilpin 2y ago
It’s strategically important to have essential industries at home.
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by kgilpin 2y ago
I think people / the market have gotten a little too excited about something AI is actually pretty bad at - making changes to existing code (which is, after all, most of the code). AI software devs don’t understand requirements well, a
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by kgilpin 2y ago
The idea of a hybrid light truck (Tacoma) interested me. When I looked into it, the hybrid mileage was only 23mpg, compared to 20 for the regular model. What’s the point of that?
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by kgilpin 2y ago
Is there a text format for this? I’d be interested in seeing if we can generate these from trace data the way that we do for sequence diagrams and flow charts. https://appmap.io/docs/reference/navie.html#diagram
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by kgilpin 2y ago
I have already been using iPhone Passwords for all my passwords. Anyone else doing this? It autofills passwords on the phone and I can copy a password from the phone Passwords and paste it on my MacBook. Whenever I do a password change, I h
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by kgilpin 2y ago
When AI is used properly, it’s doing one of two things: 1) Making non-controversial fixes that save time and take cognitive load off the developer. The best example is when code completion is working well. 2) It’s making you smarter and mor
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by kgilpin 3y ago
A study on Copilot shows 55% faster completion of a programming task [1]. Now we as developers know that coding, and in particular, coding of a de novo feature, is only a fraction of our job. Actual typing in of code is estimated to be betw
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by kgilpin 3y ago
Right. This is so risky. Having to use your personal resources to defend yourself against a lawsuit brought by a large corporation - really sucks.
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by kgilpin 3y ago
Make your own! https://store.flitetest.com/ft-simple-cub-mkr2/ This one’s technically foam, but it’s a very cardboardy foam. With a little bit of carbon fiber reinforcement (provided) it’s surprisingly durable and MUCH
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by kgilpin 3y ago
Are there any tools that will go from a whiteboard sketch to a format like Mermaid, PlantUML or even SVG (as boxes, lines and text)? I assumed that with the AI revolution /s there would be such a thing but I haven’t found it…

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