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by redhale 12d ago
This is the most IBM thing IBM ever IBM'd.
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by redhale 27d ago
Not quite, or at least not in my experience. The difference with AI is that the agent becomes the first level of triage. It (many times) asks the easy initial questions (did you turn it off and on again?) so I don't have to. Doesn&#x27
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by redhale 1mo ago
You answered your own question.
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by redhale 1mo ago
This is a dumb/pointless headline + article imo. Its actually probably a GOOD thing that candy bars are smaller by default, for health reasons. What matters, and what the article fails to even mention, is the inflation-adjusted cost pe
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by redhale 1mo ago
> its reliability, safety, efficiency problems. these problems exist at any scale Respectfully, I disagree. When you have 5 users using an app sandboxed within the corporate firewall that just does some CRUD and basic workflows, these pr
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by redhale 1mo ago
I largely agree, but when this point is brought up I always feel the need to go one step further: For the vast majority of software out there, this quality gap simply doesn't matter. Not everything is big tech, needing internet scale.
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by redhale 1mo ago
His game has only a handful (like literally 5-8) players [0], at least on Steam. [0] https://steamdb.info/app/1541710/charts/#1m
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by redhale 1mo ago
We already have these, and have for a while. Replit and Bolt exist for exactly this case. Not sure why GP didn't direct their friend to these tools (or if these tools are somehow the ones that failed in this example). In my experience,
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by redhale 2mo ago
This sucks and it makes me sad. The end of an era. I really hope Anthropic doesn't follow, but I assume they will eventually because why wouldn't they? Google and Meta obviously will, with great enthusiasm. Open models are the onl
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by redhale 2mo ago
Come on now, arguing it's a good feature is different than arguing that it should be turned on by default for everyone with no documented option to turn it off. I like this feature as an OPTION that is DOCUMENTED. But that's not h
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by redhale 2mo ago
Sadly, it seems the pelican benchmark is now saturated. Time for Pelicanbench Pro!
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by redhale 3mo ago
I will never stop being fascinated with takes like this. Maybe you're right. But people said very similar things over the last few years and many of those statements look unbelievably naive in retrospect. Sure, AI can auto-complete the
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by redhale 4mo ago
I more meant feature-level differences. For instance, Claude Code has agent teams, and Codex CLI does not. Or for a while, Codex had "/goal" and Claude Code did not (though now Claude Code has it too). To your point, it is us
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by redhale 4mo ago
This is "Feature Factory" thinking, and it is usually not ideal. Feature count is a poor metric to optimize against. Instead, ROI and delivered customer value should be the focus of product development investments.
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by redhale 4mo ago
I think this is clearly be design. They don't want to provide support, they want you to give up and let your issue go.
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by redhale 4mo ago
I understand and sympathize with this point of view. I would just say this: there is a difference between advice for using a product, and for _optimizing_ your use of a product. Between a user and a power user. I think devs probably disprop
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by redhale 4mo ago
Just use a fallback, like Codex CLI. Takes a little effort upfront to ensure your configuration is wired correctly for both harnesses, but it is pretty easy to get them 90% identical (there will almost always be some experimental / edg
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by redhale 4mo ago
Came here to say this -- humans are not always rational actors. I get asked questions all the time, which I have no special knowledge of, and which the asker could have easily Googled or ChatGPTed. And yet...
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by redhale 4mo ago
Nice, thanks for the detailed answer!
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by redhale 4mo ago
I feel like caching should be mentioned in tradeoffs, right? If you change the tool list frequently, that's a cache bust. In long sessions that seems like it could significantly affect costs.
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by redhale 4mo ago
I came to the comments to say basically this. I have read and heard takes similar to OP's probably 50+ times from different people in the last few months (and years, now), and I agree mostly. But I can't get over the myopic nature
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by redhale 4mo ago
This (from the September 2025 post) now evokes the Curb theme: > Like you, we have seen numerous reports that more and more firms are capping their total headcount in favor of leaning on more AI tools, leading to downsizing their intern
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by redhale 4mo ago
I want to agree, I do. But this point is plainly wrong in my observations: > The enterprise version of that is I don’t want a CRM unless at least two other giant enterprises have successfully used that CRM for six months. [...] You want
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by redhale 5mo ago
But it is working primarily because of the Max subscription model. If I could use my Max subscription to get $5000 worth of tokens for only $200 via OpenCode or Pi, I would drop Claude Code today. I think a lot of people (and enterprises) a
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by redhale 6mo ago
I think the argument here ignores a critical fact: a huge factor in Claude Code's popularity is the Claude Max plans. These plans give you potentially thousands of dollars of tokens for a capped $200. Speaking for myself, I long for th
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by redhale 6mo ago
I agree with your take. I don't really see why evals are assumed to be exclusively in the domain of data scientists. In my experience SWEs-turned-AI Engineers are much better suited to building agents. Some struggle more than others, b
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by redhale 6mo ago
"Eat your own farts." Solved it.
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by redhale 6mo ago
As someone who works with real licensed engineers (electrical, civil), I wish we would use the term "agentic software engineering" to describe this. Omitting "software" here betrays a very SWE-centric mindset. Agents are
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by redhale 6mo ago
It is for this reason that I usually keep an "adr" folder in my repo to capture Architecture Decision Record documents in markdown. These allow the agent to get the "why" when it needs to. Useful for humans too. The chal
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by redhale 6mo ago
I don't doubt your sincerity. But this represents an absolutely bonkers disparity compared to the reality I'm experiencing. I'm not sure what to say. It's like someone claiming that automobiles don't improve persona

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