mattgreenrocks

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by mattgreenrocks 4d ago
Despair is a choice some people have made, and they want to drag others into it to justify their inaction. Take your best shot. Maybe it takes off, maybe it doesn't. Either way, it's a hell of a lot better than being a replyguy.
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by mattgreenrocks 5d ago
He's not. That's how things will be from now on. Because there's plenty of hacks who think prompting will make them millions if they could just find that one idea, yet aren't willing to do the work to find, vet, build, a
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by mattgreenrocks 7d ago
The irony of a highly talented band that have been actually doing the work for over twenty years being pushed aside to make room for Meta's model that promises you won't have to actually do the work.
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by mattgreenrocks 7d ago
Muse puts on a killer live show. Don't miss them if they come to town.
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by mattgreenrocks 7d ago
Glad they found a home, but the press release doesn’t make it sound like a victory (or I’m pessimistic!). Sad to see ui.sh go away, however. Is there something else like it out there? Especially the brand kit skill.
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by mattgreenrocks 1mo ago
The industry has always found it strangely taboo to actually talk about the wide variance in developer skill.
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by mattgreenrocks 2mo ago
I am super curious how you went about the port using LLMs. At $WORK we are looking to port code, preferably with LLMs, and it seems daunting, even with a test suite. Do you have an approach that works well for you?
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by mattgreenrocks 2mo ago
The question I'm left with: in the past, the uproar over these types of changes seemed to make companies change their mind when considering very anti-consumer decisions. Now, they just go ahead anyway. What's different? How do we
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by mattgreenrocks 2mo ago
I'd argue all of those are often issues of how we perceive circumstances vs what actually is going on. There are real situations that crowd out this sort of thing, but they don't apply to everyone (having people that need care com
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by mattgreenrocks 3mo ago
Took the compilers class in 2012 and it was amazing. Loved the immersive format and the fact all the students wanted to be there. Hope he finds something fulfilling in the days ahead.
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by mattgreenrocks 3mo ago
You're not. This site was also bullish on using LLMs as therapists, which defeats the very point of them, and reflects a lack of knowledge on what exactly therapists do for people. More on topic: if the article's author arrived at
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by mattgreenrocks 3mo ago
Thanks for writing this up. How did you figure out it was toxic white mold, or rather, what tests helped you get there?
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by mattgreenrocks 3mo ago
They're also gaming the heuristic that if an OSS repo hasn't had any pushes in ~6mos many users consider it defunct.
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by mattgreenrocks 3mo ago
Yep. There's also been a relentless push for the past two decades or so to standardize many aspects of software development: * programming languages (JS) * frameworks (React) * open source libraries * platforms (Web, mostly) * design s
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by mattgreenrocks 3mo ago
I read this paper as trying to be as serious as l the folk wisdom around the anthropomorphization of LLMs. Which is to say: not at all. :)
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by mattgreenrocks 4mo ago
Just a small reminder that we aren't wanted ;)
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by mattgreenrocks 4mo ago
Makes it much easier to use the Internet less. They're poisoning the ground water of the well, effectively.
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by mattgreenrocks 4mo ago
I love how passive aggressive the page becomes: "You turned off recommendations...we won't show you anything else on here either!"
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by mattgreenrocks 4mo ago
How I feel about programming is often a reflection of how I feel about my own internal world because it continues to be a part of my identity. Once I found a job that valued my desire to actually build things, things started to sort themsel
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by mattgreenrocks 4mo ago
The only way many people learn that the stove is hot is by burning their hands on it. Let them.
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by mattgreenrocks 4mo ago
I am so over the presumptive blog post tone personally.
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by mattgreenrocks 4mo ago
That clarifies it...thanks!
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by mattgreenrocks 4mo ago
Maybe we can just not give it access to production databases ever? Not picking on you, but AI maximalism has infected tech to the point where we talk about how to stop AI from deleting prod instead of seeing that giving AI access to prod is
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by mattgreenrocks 4mo ago
The most exasperating thing about the incident is how much of the media either tried to pin it on AI and/or Railway. The whole thing only took place because the guy FAFO’d by having AI work with prod directly. Yet the narrative was mos
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by mattgreenrocks 5mo ago
The takeaway here is to make this sort of scenario impossible in the future. It’s not hard to make that happen, but it might mean you need to manually interact with prod. Anything else is just gambling.
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by mattgreenrocks 5mo ago
Funny thing about internal work is that it cannot happen via changing one’s external circumstances. And it’s super tempting to numb it out with status symbols. The evidence for this is rather plain to see at this point in history. ;)
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by mattgreenrocks 5mo ago
It’s not surprising to me that the same crowd that cheers for the demise of software engineering skills invented its own notion of AI prompting skills. Too bad they can veer sharply into cringe territory pretty fast: “as an accomplished Sen
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by mattgreenrocks 5mo ago
Odd, everyone was insisting this would "democratize" programming though. Guess it democratizes it if you have money, huh?
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by mattgreenrocks 5mo ago
These people have always existed. Hell, they are here, too. Now they have a new thing to delegate responsibility to. And no, I don't understand them at all. Taking responsibility for something, improving it, and stewarding it into prod
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by mattgreenrocks 5mo ago
I’m convinced the comment section hates multi-paradigm languages because you can misuse them. And it has features that may not be needed, which triggers this weird purist mentality of, “gee, it would be so much better if it didn’t have feat

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