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by nerptastic 2mo ago
If you don't mind me asking, what are "good agentic engineering practices"? To my knowledge, we are still exploring many techniques of using agents within a codebase, and have not widely agreed on "best practice". D
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Ask HN: Is writing code by hand still a necessary skill for developers?
3 points by nerptastic 4mo ago|5 comments
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by nerptastic 5mo ago
Careful, you might just get turned into an H100 along with everything else in the observable universe
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by nerptastic 5mo ago
Well - I think the writing was on the wall when they announced they were going to be for-profit. Slippery slope and all that, but I’m sure some of this is because they’ve been giving out free tokens for years.
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by nerptastic 5mo ago
What are the first and fourth?
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by nerptastic 5mo ago
“The limits now are so bad that a business that relies on it would need bigger plans.” Isn’t this the goal to some extent? They’ll probably have the standard “light” usage plan for weekend warriors or normal folk looking to play around. Com
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by nerptastic 5mo ago
Is this not the case for OTC drugs? Specifically, the two mentioned in the article. I rarely take either of them, but if my doctor tells me to take 1 ibuprofen every 6 hours or so, if I halve that am I actually doing more damage?
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by nerptastic 5mo ago
I have a degree in design - it's one of those frustrating fields where laypeople really do believe they are experts. Mostly because... they can "see" it. It's easy to propose a change to a design. "Just move it to t
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by nerptastic 5mo ago
I agree — right now it's "all eyes on AI". They are moving fast, I don't think there's some evil plan behind the scenes. They're trying to build software super-weapons, and they're trying all sorts of diff
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by nerptastic 5mo ago
Question for you, did these tools replace software / design consulting as something you relied on in the past? This is a success story I've been hearing more recently. Restaurants, contractors, plumbing, 1 person startups... I&#x2
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by nerptastic 5mo ago
Back when I was a lowly web dev intern - I was able to finish most of my work rather quickly. Obviously, instead of going above and beyond - I found a way to browse Reddit in the terminal. My manager was non-technical, and so anytime he wal
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by nerptastic 5mo ago
I don’t know much at all about materials - but wouldn’t this be a little “fuzzy”? If they’re using heat to expand/contract whatever material, I imagine there’s a degree of variance with the starting state / ending state - dependin
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by nerptastic 5mo ago
This is what I’m noticing. At my workplace, we have 3 or 4 non-devs “writing” code. One was trying to integrate their application with the UPS API. They got the application right, and began stumbling with the integration - created a develop
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by nerptastic 5mo ago
Agreed. I honestly chose Jellyfin over plex because I preferred the branding, not sure what I’m missing. I really enjoy Jellyfin, and thy seemingly have support for most devices in some way. My GF has it set up on her iPad, phone, computer.
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by nerptastic 5mo ago
Anthropic today, who next week? If locally run models ever get to the point where they can reliably solve... 85% of what the frontier cloud models can do, I think many would be willing to accept slightly less problem solving ability and jus
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by nerptastic 5mo ago
I run Jellyfin on an UnRaid server, it was relatively simple with the containers just being “plug and play”. Think it took me about 2 hours. I did have some trouble when we moved into a new house, as I had to reconfigure all the local netwo
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by nerptastic 5mo ago
Man I really thought this was satire. It’s phenomenal that you can gain 10x benefits at all layers of the stack, you must have a very small development team or work alone. I just don’t see how I could export 10x the work and have it properl
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by nerptastic 6mo ago
I haven’t really been following this, but my understanding is that they’re cancelling this program - I haven’t dug into the “why” too much, seems like something about the Disney deal, “focusing on other initiatives”… My thought was that it’
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by nerptastic 6mo ago
I’ll bite - I’ve been a dev at a new company for about a year and a half. I had mostly done front end work before this, so my SQL knowledge was almost nonexistent. I’m now working in the backend, and SQL is a major requirement. Writing what
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by nerptastic 6mo ago
Maybe I’m missing the point but we have some of these implemented without the tool - the only one that needs an API key is the log scraping. It’s been surprisingly cheap and if we want to swap models we can.
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by nerptastic 6mo ago
Not arguing, but I just prompted Opus with a made up word and it responded with this: “There are 4 Rs in the word “burberrorrly.” Here they are highlighted: burberrorrly (positions 3, 6, 7, 9)” Obviously not a real word, but perhaps the fun
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by nerptastic 6mo ago
I suppose at that point I’m wondering if it would have just been faster for… you, (I’m assuming) the developer to make that change and deploy it? Is the AI really faster on small changes like that, if you understand the platform/code&#
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by nerptastic 6mo ago
Man. Runs like butter on an iPhone 15 (Non-Pro). Impressive!
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by nerptastic 6mo ago
How many pages of architecture / constraints did you write? I guess I’m curious what type of text input renders 200K lines of code output. It must be a similar level of tokens in just docs / prompting. Have you verified all of tha
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by nerptastic 6mo ago
Interesting read. Thought I’m not sure I loved the way the graphs were laid out. I didn’t do a deep dive on them but some felt like they were displaying the data in a way that wasn’t rooted in the facts. Either way. A whole lot of words and
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by nerptastic 6mo ago
I still see people refer to “FAANG” regularly. Though, there have been times I’ve read “MAANG”… doesn’t quite feel the same.
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by nerptastic 6mo ago
I’m a newer full stack engineer, previously did mostly web dev. It’s been useful in the areas that I’m not super interested in. We’re working on a 700KLOC legacy monolithic CRUD app with 0 documentation, it’s essentially the Wild West. We’v
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by nerptastic 6mo ago
You have a 200K LOC repository and you haven’t written 99.5% of it?
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by nerptastic 1y ago
Speculating here, but I don't believe that the government would have the time or organization to do this. Widespread political unrest caused by job losses would be the first step. Almost as soon as there is some type of AI that can rep
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by nerptastic 1y ago
I used to handle email development for an accounting firm. HTML in emails is truly dark magic. Working with marketers was soul-sucking, and even further - performing a duty that people actively distrust / hate was an eye-opening realiz

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