paulhodge

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by paulhodge 7mo ago
AI enhances human ability. In this case, it enhanced someone’s ability to be an asshole.
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by paulhodge 9mo ago
No you’re just deflecting his points with an ad hominem argument. Stop pretending to assume what he ‘truly feels’.
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by paulhodge 11mo ago
AI is too useful to fail. Worst case with a bust is that startup investment dries up and we have a 'winter' of delayed improvement. But people aren't going to stop using the models we have today.
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by paulhodge 11mo ago
Agree that LLMs go too far on error catching.. BUT, to play devil's advocate a little: Most human coders should be writing a lot more try/catch blocks than they actually do. It's very common that you don't actually want
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by paulhodge 11mo ago
Neat investigation but I didn’t totally follow how the project would be useful for reverse engineering, it seems like a project that would mostly be useful for evading bot checks like web scraping or AI automation.
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by paulhodge 1y ago
I think this prediction of "vibe code cleanup" is massively overblown. It's amazing how much code quality doesn't actually matter to the business. Yes we recognize symptoms and downsides of bad code, and yes it matters
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by paulhodge 1y ago
it's kind of tongue-in-cheek but it would provide the maximum amount of isolation from any upstream package changes. Even if the package versions are removed from NPM (which happens in rare cases), you'd still have a copy.
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by paulhodge 1y ago
Pnpm 10.x also has a feature to disallow post-install scripts by default. When using Pnpm you have to specifically enable a dependency to let it run its post-install scripts. It's a great feature that should be the standard. Yes if som
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by paulhodge 1y ago
solution: add your entire 'node_modules' folder to source control.
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by paulhodge 1y ago
I think different things are happening... For experienced engineers, I'm seeing (internally in our company at least) a huge amount of caution and hesitancy to go all-in with AI. No one wants to end up maintaining huge codebases of slop
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by paulhodge 1y ago
Yeah Dario has said similar things in interviews. The way he explained it, if you look at each specific model (such as Sonnet 3.5) as its own separate company, then each one of them is profitable in the end. They all eventually recoup the e
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by paulhodge 1y ago
There’s a magic component to rule breaking that a lot of online advice doesn’t usually talk about: You have to actually be right. Your ideas have to be good. Companies don’t want everyone breaking the rules because a lot of devs don’t have
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by paulhodge 1y ago
I have to agree with the author about not adding "v1" since it's rarely useful. What actually happens as the API grows- First, the team extends the existing endpoints as much as possible, adding new fields/options withou
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by paulhodge 1y ago
Imagine a browser with no cross-origin security, lol.
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by paulhodge 1y ago
That’s bad because visiting an evil site can easily trick your browser into performing one of those requests using your own credentials. CORS doesn’t stop the backend state effect from happening.
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by paulhodge 1y ago
Fyi Kilocode has low credibility. They’ve been blasting AI subreddits with lots of clickbaity ads and posts, sometimes claiming things that are outright false. As far as spend per dev- I can’t even manage to use up the limits on my $100 Cla
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by paulhodge 1y ago
Lots of signs point to a conclusion that the Opus and Sonnet models are fundamentally better at coding, tool usage, and general problem solving across long contexts. There is some kind of secret sauce in the way they train the models. Dario
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by paulhodge 1y ago
No this app isn't launched yet. And yeah, customer data is definitely a very valid thing to be concerned about.
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by paulhodge 1y ago
Mainly working on a dev tool / SaaS app right now. The PII is user names & email. On the security layer, I wrote that code mostly by hand, with some 'pair programming' with Claude to get the Oauth handling working. When I
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by paulhodge 1y ago
I've had days where it really does feel like 5x or 10x... Here's what the 5x to 10x flow looks like: 1. Plan out the tasks (maybe with the help of AI) 2. Open a Git worktree, launch Claude Code in the worktree, give it the task, l
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by paulhodge 1y ago
Yeah the outrage is a little artificial and definitely premature. Some facts for sanity: 1- The poster of this blog article is Kilocode who makes a (worse) competitor to Claude Code. They are definitely capitalizing on this drama as much as
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by paulhodge 1y ago
There’s been a ton of ‘service overloaded’ errors this week so it makes sense that they had to adjust it. Personally I’ve never hit a usage limit on the $100 plan even when running several Claude tabs at once. I can’t imagine how people can
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by paulhodge 1y ago
Very fun and some of these ideas are.. actually not terrible.
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by paulhodge 1y ago
The AI definitely gets confused when there is a lot of stuff happening. It helps if you try to make the commands as easy as possible. Like, change 'make' so that '-j8' is default, or add scripts like make-check.sh that d
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by paulhodge 1y ago
I'm pretty sure that the $100 / $200 plans are a net profit for Anthropic. Most users (including myself) don't come close to the usage limit. I've been trying to max out the $100 plan and I have a problem where I run out
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by paulhodge 1y ago
That's limited to simple string matching with `*` so it can't handle anything complex.
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by paulhodge 2y ago
Agree with the headline but I think the takeaways are a little too cynical. You don't really have to take such a confrontational approach with future employers. IMO the biggest takeaway I had after a layoff: Always try to navigate your
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by paulhodge 2y ago
I'm not sure if the legend is true or not. But this argument doesn't really disprove it. The devices don't need to send full audio recordings. They are powerful enough these days that they can do a cheap on-device audio analy
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by paulhodge 2y ago
First cases of countries passing legislation specifically to protect human workers from being replaced by AI.
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by paulhodge 3y ago
this advice isn't all that useful. On that first one: "Every outperformer I knew had the style guide internalized" No thanks.. It's the year 2023, just install an autofixing linter which fixes the code for you, and then

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