ludicity

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by ludicity 4mo ago
Thank you for the kind words! I did end up taking that five month break in my writing to try and develop a different voice, but it's a struggle. Because our company runs pretty smoothly, the original source of stuff I was angry about h
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by ludicity 4mo ago
For the sake of honesty, I should say that these aren't wild amounts of money, it's just a high effective hourly rate. If we achieved 100% utilisation, it would be, but really we're just making enough to get close to our corp
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by ludicity 4mo ago
I've managed to recruit in Perth, which is probably as cursed as it gets. The two things are: 1. I don't bother recruiting on the public market. They're genuinely too incompetent, and you'd have the issue you raised over
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by ludicity 5mo ago
My history is all pretty public on the blog, but tl;dr write every day, don't be a coward re: topic, and work hard at writing well. It's easier than ever to meet cool people in tech through writing since almost everyone is spammi
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by ludicity 5mo ago
It's bedtime in Melbourne, but I write what would be fair to call a well-known tech blog, and very publicly started a consultancy about 1.5 years ago. Pretty much in the same niche you're in. We made enough money to pay two people
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by ludicity 7mo ago
This was funny enough that I checked out your blog and it absolutely rules.
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by ludicity 7mo ago
Experimental History makes me look at my own writing and go "This is all so mid".
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by ludicity 7mo ago
I'm firing you for being unable to adequately commune with the machine spirit. (But for real, a good test suite seems like a great place to start before letting an LLM run wild... or alternatively just do what you're doing. We def
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by ludicity 8mo ago
I thought it was harmless(ish) fun, but David Gerard put out a post stating that Yegge used Gas Town to push out a crypto project that rug pulled his supporters, while he personally walked away with something between $50K to $100K from memo
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by ludicity 8mo ago
He was the keynote at YOW! so I can't capture all the nuance and hope I'm not doing him a disservice with my interpretation, but the tl;dr is he: "LLMs drastically decrease the cost of experimenting during the very earliest p
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by ludicity 8mo ago
At my first job, all the applications the data people developed were compulsorily evaluated through Fortify (I assume this is HP Fortify) and to this day I have no idea what the security team was actually doing with the product, or what the
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by ludicity 8mo ago
Beck was in Melbourne a few weeks ago, and his take on LLM usage was so far divorced from what Yegge is doing that their views on what LLMs are capable of in early 2026 are irreconcilable.
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Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast(brendonakay.github.io)
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by ludicity 9mo ago
That's fair. I overstated my point a bit -- if a project was on schedule and it could be delayed by one day to improve something nebulous, many would agree. It's just that the tradeoffs are never that small, so you never actually
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by ludicity 9mo ago
It's important to note that many of those people aren't winning. What you're witnessing is the marketing equivalent of what random government software engineers produce. A good number of the people on HN would be trivially ou
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by ludicity 9mo ago
Oh, I glossed over that in my response. I've had people at the C-level admit that they don't care about ethics to me, and I especially see startup CEOs lie a lot, or otherwise be so self-deluded to make sales easier that it's
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by ludicity 9mo ago
Just wanted to pop in and say that I think Sean is absolutely right here. I've tried the ultra-cynical view at workplaces, and would have had better results with some "idealism", which he rightly notes in his form is just a m
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by ludicity 9mo ago
My blog is pretty well-known and linking feels a bit self-promote-y, so I tend to avoid it. But since it might help, here you go! https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/on-burnout-mental-health-and...
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by ludicity 9mo ago
I've written about getting out of some giga-depression a few years ago, but having a good therapist was massive. Working out kept me busy and mitigated symptoms, but I don't think I would have improved without a strong psychologis
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by ludicity 9mo ago
I'm a huge fan of https://eblog.fly.dev/index.html . The author, Efron, very graciously advises me on a lot of little things around my engineering practice, and I've learned a huge amount about weird holes in my pr
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by ludicity 9mo ago
Yeah, I run into this a lot too, hah. It's depressing but also pretty funny when you've got enough distance from it. My favorite was an ex-girlfriend working in HR interviewed a candidate with 15 years of experience, and was told
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by ludicity 9mo ago
I bought two copies of Computer Engineering For Babies for some close friends! They were absolutely delightful.
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by ludicity 10mo ago
This is so fucking insane that I don't even know where to start. I'm hoping that even this is a joke.
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by ludicity 10mo ago
Wow, I didn't buy this because it seemed a bit grim for my tastes, but it looked very impressive when I came across it a few months ago. Wild that it's one person's passion project.
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by ludicity 11mo ago
Someone told me to read Meadows over a year ago, and I can no longer remember who, and to make it worse it slipped off my radar. I'm filled with regret now because they appear to be a concise and insightful thinker, or at least an effe
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by ludicity 11mo ago
This is a good take. In the consulting context, I've quickly realized that most problems at a business can be broken down into "this will destroy the project on its own" and "this is an annoyance to a good engineer"
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by ludicity 11mo ago
To clarify, I'm saying adding 10% to a reasonably useless job is still 0%. And secondly, maybe not an important point, but the paid version of O365 is something even my team has been forced to buy. The free versions paywall very import
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by ludicity 11mo ago
I still use them all the time, and if someone objects to my writing over them then I've successfully avoided having to engage with a dweeb. (But in practice, I don't think I've had a single person suggest that my writing is L
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by ludicity 11mo ago
I'm much more skeptical about this for two major reasons. Firstly, a huge amount of labour that can be accelerated by LLMs fall into the "bullshit jobs" category, where you can make someone faster at writing emails but the em
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by ludicity 11mo ago
Not the person you're responding to, but I also quit my job and started a company that uses Elixir for internal stuff. It's overkill for some of our problems but it's working fine! We make mistakes, but they're mistakes

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