mattmanser

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by mattmanser 13d ago
It's a joke, Steve Yegge was also the creator of GasTown. He's now (famously) said that the only thing he ever actually used GasTown for was to code on GasTown.
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by mattmanser 22d ago
When I hit a problem like that, I do most myself and just get the AI to do the bits where I'd normally get stuck because of boredom. Bits that I can't be bothered to write as they're easy but laborious. And then get it to rev
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by mattmanser 24d ago
Are you genuinely asking? As 80% of enterprise software is CRUD with a bit of sprinkling of user authorization and tenant customisation. But subtly different for every business domain. It's mainly what properties the models and validat
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by mattmanser 26d ago
I played the remake, which was pretty good, though now 20 years old itself. tbh if you want to scratch the pirate-y itch, Assassin's Creed Black Flag is excellent, if just for the sea shanties. Which has itself just had a remake releas
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by mattmanser 1mo ago
This seems delusional to me, being older and more experienced with how long IKEA stuff actually lasts. 8 years is long for IKEA furniture, usually something has irreplaceablely broken by then. IKEA also refuse to sell you spare parts. Give
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by mattmanser 1mo ago
There's a post training.step where they get humans to interact with it. As I understand it, there is (or was) a step where they ask people what's the 'better' response. These linguistic forms sound good the first time yo
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by mattmanser 1mo ago
But we caused that. If you look at the 90s + 00s, everything was moving towards unified systems, things like small talk, winforms, spring, asp.net, etc. were moving everything into the IDE, you used one language, one framework, one build sy
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by mattmanser 1mo ago
50-60 lines? You must have tiny text size, on mine, with VS Code, I can see 40 lines. As you get past 30 and your eyesight starts changing, you need to up it. By 45 you need it quite a bit bigger than you used to have it. In the mid-2000s t
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by mattmanser 1mo ago
Things like this change fast, it has a skill it can use now to find out. I'm not sure when they added it, I only noticed it last week.
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by mattmanser 2mo ago
Humans are drawing pelicans riding bicycles now. Just google it and you will find 5 or 10 of them in the first few results. Including a t-shirt design. So it's a pretty much pointless test now.
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by mattmanser 2mo ago
I have often done huge refactors over the last 20 years on systems where there are none. It's very satisfying turning a 1,000 line class file into 100 lines. But all my refactors have been in statically typed languages. To speculate on
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by mattmanser 2mo ago
You might be looking for this article: https://claude.com/blog/the-new-rules-of-context-engineering... Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051361
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by mattmanser 2mo ago
Or shared across colleagues. It's an insane way of managing what is essentially configuration in this day and age, literally throwing away all our hard-earned lessons of the last 3 decades. Worse still, it'll just use it randomly,
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by mattmanser 2mo ago
There's a ton more you missed. Like "It's not x, it's y". It actually has 4 or 5 of those counter-factual, linguistic pause, factual patterns it uses. "The [goal/ambition/etc.] is larger: statement&qu
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by mattmanser 2mo ago
Open-weight plans are near the bottom (Launch section): - Video and audio generation and editing through APIs and private weight access. (“FLUX 3 Video”) - Action prediction through selected research and commercial partners, begin
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by mattmanser 2mo ago
It's not my thoughts, it's simple facts. All the studies show it's not an over-reaction, you're 400% more likely to have an accident. It is extremely dangerous and it's not an over-reaction, the more people do this,
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by mattmanser 2mo ago
Comments like this boggle my mind. The model which everyone else raves about and is wildly successful with legions of programmers virtually demanding access while abandoning ChatGPT and Copilot in droves, is rather dumb? Have you considered
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by mattmanser 2mo ago
This is extremely dangerous and you should stop doing it. https://etsc.eu/tiny-proportion-of-drivers-understand-danger...
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by mattmanser 2mo ago
The models were already much better before Claude Code came out, let's not rewrite history here.
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by mattmanser 2mo ago
I think you're pretty wrong here, but I'm no expert so anyone who wants to correct me please do so. As I understand it, there's post-training step that does exactly that, they get real developers to select good and bad code a
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by mattmanser 2mo ago
Is that gen z humour? As it reads more to me like it's Douglas Adams humour, i.e. 1980s humour. British, post-Python absurdist humour or whatever you'd call it.
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by mattmanser 2mo ago
Last time I used Codex it would make loads of assumptions, often quite big ones, without asking. Did they fix that, as that for me was what actually made codex worse.
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by mattmanser 2mo ago
No thanks. DTOs are one of the big code smells of a code base that does little but will be full of boilerplate. As soon as you see an automapper or a folder of DTOs you know you're in for some serious pain. On the plus side you also kn
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by mattmanser 2mo ago
Maybe for the other stuff, but not Redis.
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by mattmanser 2mo ago
It's not that your domain is different, it sounds more like you don't know how to use ORMs. ORMs don't have to manage migrations, they don't have to even write into the database. When dealing with a bad database design,
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by mattmanser 3mo ago
And I saw a "senior" engineer make a database table without foreign keys just 3 years ago. Some people are just bad. Doesn't change my point that the debate is long settled, SRP is incredibly well known and the de-facto way o
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by mattmanser 3mo ago
The trouble with SOLID is that it's mainly an artifact of old languages and paradigms. 3 of the letters are almost irrelevant in modern code, or barely worth thinking about most of the time. So what's the value here? Single respon
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by mattmanser 3mo ago
Speaking from a UK perspective global warming is now noticeable, hot days are hotter and there's more likely to be a heat wave, and that's changed in the last decade. I assume Germany is the same, many years ago really is differen
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by mattmanser 3mo ago
Bad architects favour microservices over monoliths. YAGNI almost always applies to microservices, and the coordination overhead and boilerplate they add introduces immense costs, especially for smaller companies. This homogenisation of arch
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by mattmanser 3mo ago
It's robots all the way down.

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