ljm

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by ljm 7d ago
If he's lost the confidence of the board and does that, how much is his company worth?
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by ljm 20d ago
Going cold turkey on Twitter (and Facebook and the like) was amazing, but the problem for a while was that you'd still end up browsing it by proxy because it would all get screenshotted for Reddit. It's been a long time since I&#x
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by ljm 20d ago
Is a client or investor going to have a conversation with an AI CEO and then negotiate funding? VC: "Hi, I'll offer you $3.75 for 95% equity and a load bearing position on the board" CEO Bot: "You're absolutely righ
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by ljm 22d ago
The irony is that S3 is a database, so the first assertion that there is no database is fundamentally incorrect.
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by ljm 23d ago
Because hiring managers and HR have different incentives and it's therefore in their interest to play the game. See: every manager and CEO that gets a bonus from cutting down head count or keeping the hiring budget as low as possible.
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by ljm 24d ago
If I had to pick, I'd try to make the ORM redundant by making 'lower level' SQL easier to deploy rather than depending on sending strings of SQL queries and mutations over the wire. I haven't worked in a single setup whe
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by ljm 24d ago
Naturally most of the 67/six seven ones are taken too, but are just being squatted on. I'm disappointed that sixseven.ai is not joining the Gen-Z brainrot revolution.
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by ljm 24d ago
I've been watching old TV shows lately, the original CSI, all those 24 episode a season procedurals and so on. Whatever we call 'AI coded' now has an awful lot in common with old TV screenplays where no word of dialogue was w
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by ljm 24d ago
I've been building a harness (on top of Pi for that matter) and have had similar experiences. Pi itself helps a lot with it being extensible by design but it's definitely been a challenge to make certain things work in an expected
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by ljm 24d ago
Any service offering MCP that doesn't already have OAuth set up is going to have to build out that support first, so instead they just go for a simple API token. I wouldn't call it trivial to drop in OAuth either because the authe
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by ljm 24d ago
Rawdogging SQL when you're not a seasoned DB administrator basically makes an arcane art look occult. Most people reach out towards an ORM or query building engine and otherwise don't really go far beyond the basic CRUD, joins, an
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by ljm 27d ago
The problem is that Musk acquired Cursor and therefore Cursor has zero credibility. I don't care about what they say because of who they sold out to
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by ljm 1mo ago
Except that YAML in almost every devops or CI workflow is YAML plus obscure bash oneliners. Or it's an obscure bash oneliner hidden in another repository as a package that you can depend on, which is either wrapped by another YAML co
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by ljm 1mo ago
This describes a product with no vision or purpose. People have to take 'no' for an answer sometimes, even if they don't accept it. You can't really 'gatekeep' your own product.
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by ljm 1mo ago
I'm quite partial to SourceHut as well but tbh I don't care about contributors and I like it because it is deliberately low-tech. Maybe the CI could be a bit better (secrets management will sting you if you don't read the doc
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by ljm 1mo ago
And they can keep training their own models off of the code, and on private repos too. AI makes investors/shareholders go brrr.
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by ljm 1mo ago
Github has had a pretty spotty track record for uptime for a very, very long time. It didn't get any better when MS bought it out. It has really just coasted on GH's network effect because everybody uses GH for git by default. It
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by ljm 1mo ago
There aren't that many good ways to mentor or share experience in a team without pairing though. Sometimes it's just better to sit down with someone and directly collab, and let the person with less experience do the driving so th
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by ljm 1mo ago
Because, like it or not, it does Write Once, Use Anywhere better than Java ever did. It is pretty much the lowest common denominator for code.
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by ljm 1mo ago
You're calling it ass covering but I kinda see it as buck-passing too. Seems like D'addario didn't want to hold the buck so they kept passing it down until it made its way back to the worker who did it. Seems to me like that
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by ljm 1mo ago
So they're not human then. The quote holds up.
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by ljm 1mo ago
It won't be made of people for long given how many Ellison is culling to prop up his gamble on AI data centres.
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by ljm 1mo ago
It amuses me that you have consistently refused to draw the connection to this 'ocean' of asphalt and the purpose of the building it was designed for and are basically being obtuse. But you know what is a better neighbour than a d
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by ljm 1mo ago
I'm failing to understand what is so impressive. The credits at the start are off centre, biased to the right hand side. The prose that follows is fully centred, so it hangs to the left of the actor names, and it has a little bit of ri
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by ljm 1mo ago
Nothing ever improves in the tech scene... it just decays until someone challenges it. Funnily enough CF has redesigned its navigation several times in the past year, just like GitLab used to do. Shuffling the UI like a deck of cards is pre
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by ljm 1mo ago
The announcement reads like it's generated by AI. I opened it looking for a punch list of selling points but there was nothing. I figured it was just Cloudflare trying to do Cowork. The readme I generated for an agent I put on top of p
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by ljm 1mo ago
Bring back FastCGI, enable the setting in Apache to list a directory, and point the agent to your cgi-bin directory full of all your tools. Calling the bin without any input provides the help text or the interface to the tool. You can proba
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by ljm 1mo ago
It's still too early stage for me. Anthropic needs to mature for a little longer before they're enlightened enough to understand my kafka-based event sourcing model for cross-agent orchestration. Kafka, protobuf, functional domain
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by ljm 2mo ago
Probably see it as the easy way out because actually bringing about change in a culture that is already entrenched is hard work and they don't have the mettle for it. Or don't trust the org to be on board with it. Easier to just d
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by ljm 2mo ago
At risk of sounding like a grump, once I started at a company where almost everyone is partnered up and has kids, and almost everyone basically has nothing to talk about except their partners and kids, I had the perfect incentive to stay aw

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