mat_b

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by mat_b 9d ago
What does your prompting look like for step 3 - pressure test the plans?
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by mat_b 4mo ago
Except that it's not preventable. Technology is always an arms race. If you don't create it, someone else will, and then they'll have the advantage and subjugate you, so you might as well be the one to do it first. Whatever i
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by mat_b 5mo ago
> The agent ran this command: curl -X POST https://backboard.railway.app/ .... Why did you whitelist curl in cursor? Don't whitelist commands like "bash" or "curl" that can be used to execute arb
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by mat_b 5mo ago
It's not as simple as that. The supply is being kept low to enrich housing investors.
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by mat_b 6mo ago
Exactly how I feel. If I wanted this agent-centric view without being able to easily see the code I would be using Claude Code. I use Cursor because agents are not ready to be the ones driving. I need to drive. I still need to understand al
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by mat_b 6mo ago
I did some experimenting recently and I'm quite convinced that when I use Comcasts DNS they are selling it to advertisers. I've switched to 1.1.1.1 simply because it annoys me that Comcast is doing this.
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by mat_b 6mo ago
> So, try brainstorming the issue with Claude Code, talk it through so it's on the same page as you, ensure it's done research (web search, docs) to weigh the best solutions, and then enter plan mode so it generates a markdown
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by mat_b 7mo ago
> Killing is bad... killing because you don't like $group is double-bad. Speeding is bad, speeding without a seatbelt is double-bad. Why would either of those be double-bad? They're the same thing as the original. If you don&#x
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by mat_b 7mo ago
FYI horses are the product of domestication.
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by mat_b 8mo ago
> we discovered 100s of hallucinated citations missed by the 3+ reviewers who evaluated each paper. This says just as much about the humans involved.
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by mat_b 8mo ago
How is this a bad thing for them? Now they don't have to pay for clicks from people who aren't interested in their services. People who want to hire a lawyer will still click.
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by mat_b 8mo ago
I have been noticing this myself for the last couple of months. I cannot get the agent to stop masking failures (ex: swallowing exceptions) and to fail loudly. That said, the premise that AI-assisted coding got worse in 2025 feels off to me
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by mat_b 9mo ago
Haha. Been seeing this comment for at least 20 years now. Some things never change...
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by mat_b 9mo ago
Good news. Been using Cursor heavily for over a year now (on the Ultra plan currently). Hope we get access to this as part of our existing subscriptions.
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by mat_b 9mo ago
Me personally? I'm using Firefox with EFF privacy badger. No others.
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by mat_b 9mo ago
I get your point. I'm merely pointing out that some things, even though they aren't technically inevitable, are (in practice) essentially inevitable because larger forces are pushing things in that direction.
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by mat_b 9mo ago
We aren't the real levees though. The system we live in is. Yes, a few people will push back and try to change the momentum to a different direction but that's painful and we have enough going on each day that most people don&#x27
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by mat_b 9mo ago
Agree and disagree. It is also possible to take a step back and look at the very large picture and see that these things actually are somewhat inevitable. We do exist in a system where "if I don't do it first, someone else will, a
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by mat_b 9mo ago
I don't understand why so many people are using / trusting VPNs "Let us handle all your internet traffic.. you can trust us.. we're free!" No thank you.
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by mat_b 9mo ago
I have a 4 year old M1 macbook pro running macos 12. It runs as good as when it was new. So you honestly think that if I upgrade it to macos 26 it wont start lagging? I am extremely confident that it will. Even without changing the other so
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by mat_b 9mo ago
I downgraded an old Macbook last year to see if I could get it running fast again. I couldn't install all sorts of things. So many things that I gave up.
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by mat_b 9mo ago
You're right. This worked for me. I'm now offered 18.7.3 and wasn't before.
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by mat_b 9mo ago
I just enabled it. Thanks for the tip.
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by mat_b 9mo ago
I don't think so. There is always a cutoff for the last major version they recommend for any hardware. Why is the cutoff always after it lags the device severely and not -before- that happens?
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by mat_b 9mo ago
No mention of PBS Space Time? That show is high quality.
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by mat_b 9mo ago
It's unfortunate that Apple has taught me (and I assume others as well) over the last 15 years that the best practice is to never install a major OS update. It seems clear to me that they use OS updates as a way to eventually slow your
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by mat_b 9mo ago
I suspect that this is going to happen one way or another anyways. You already have to scan your face at the airport here.
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by mat_b 9mo ago
Search results are pretty much the same thing though. It's a ranked list of recommended videos. It's just based on your text instead of the video you're watching.
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by mat_b 10mo ago
Same here. This is the exact reason why I will use Waymo before Uber now. I wanted to support human drivers but they let me down too often. I pick robots now.
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by mat_b 10mo ago
Exactly. Break the problem down and interactively plan before generating code. I'm getting a lot more done than I could have without AI by using this approach with the agent.

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