ryaniscool

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by ryaniscool 9d ago
There needs to be a word for this type of interaction because it’s so common in software engineering: Q: I need help doing X A: if you’re doing X, you’re doing it wrong. I propose the word shamesplaining. What do you think? Not saying your
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by ryaniscool 11d ago
For 1, effectiveness still depends on the size and complexity of the codebase. From my experience, as complexity and size grow, each prompt takes longer, does less, and is prone to more mistakes and disruptions to other parts of the codebas
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by ryaniscool 28d ago
There are no "overall" outcomes listed in CONCORD-3 or any other paper. Everything is measured by cancer type. You're argument that uninsured are included is just as axiomatic. Zero evidence or sources. I guess we'll agr
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by ryaniscool 29d ago
I literally posted a link to the CONCORD-3 paper and made arguments using it and you rebutted it with "start with CONCORD-3". I'll restate my argument so it's clear: CONCORD-3 does not mention insurance status anywhere i
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by ryaniscool 29d ago
Again, you cite zero sources. Survival rates for lung cancer in the USA, the most common cancer in the world, are much lower than Japan and South Korea. South Korea is single payer and Japan has strict government regulation of healthcare co
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by ryaniscool 29d ago
I'm sure there are qualifiers and rationalizations when comparing cancer survival statistics as well. As someone already pointed out, uninsured Americans aren't necessarily included. They cited sources, you rebutted without source
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by ryaniscool 1mo ago
This is a cherry picked statistic. We still have lower life expectancy, high infant mortality rates, and one of the highest rate of preventable and treatable deaths among developed countries
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by ryaniscool 1mo ago
Looks cool. Price is pretty steep. Lucid chart is like $16/month.
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by ryaniscool 1mo ago
I understand you're trying to draw a parallel (no pun intended) between what you did with Rust and the work the author performs as a professional game developer who optimizes game code for a living (it says this in his bio). Since, I&#
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by ryaniscool 1mo ago
LLMs work perfectly fine for me but I’m building web app equivalents of binder keepers, like most people. Essentially store data, display data. The novelty is in what/how we’re displaying. LLMs are owning this market. Unless you yourse
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by ryaniscool 1mo ago
His experience is completely plausible. He’s in a niche that requires highly performant code and most complex, highly performant games do nit have source available for models to train on. It’s a very common observation that the farther you
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by ryaniscool 1mo ago
Luckily, accountability does exist in most professional settings so someone accepting moral responsibility is not required. It doesn't always land on the right person but it's usually a motivating factor for people to make an effo
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by ryaniscool 2mo ago
What I like is that this is a measurable productivity increase that can be directly linked to AI and they go over their methodology. AI-positive posts skew heavily anecdotal and hyperbolic.
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by ryaniscool 2mo ago
This is a company selling picks and shovels for the AI bubble. Of course they're going to drip feed "AI is so awesome guys!" stories on their blog. If you strip away the hyperbolic statement about compilers and the Empire Sta
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by ryaniscool 2mo ago
Don't agree with the hyperbole in the article but I think the broad strokes are there. I'm the same as you, AI has excelled at small tasks and daily chores. Like writing a complex query in seconds that used to take an hour to work
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by ryaniscool 2mo ago
The classic arc of internal tooling is generally: * Person gets angry/frustrated/passionate about some third party tool they could build themselves. * Person builds that tool. It's not perfect but does what company needs (for
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by ryaniscool 2mo ago
I think it could go either way because what I consider calcification of choices because of AI. We've all seen people outsourcing their thinking to AI. "Hey Claude, I need bug tracking which product should I use?" Claude then
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by ryaniscool 2mo ago
This isn't accurate since the main reason I'm using Claude Code instead of these other interesting sounding harnesses is the subscription service with highly discounted token usage. With OpenCode, you're paying the full price
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by ryaniscool 2mo ago
Counter-anecdote. Wife had a herniated disc. It took six months to get back surgery. This happened in America in 2022. She was in bed the entire time. It was literally months of going through various hoops to get approval from the insurance
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by ryaniscool 2mo ago
Yep. Costs for healthcare in other countries have a basis in reality. Here it’s about charging as much as they can get away with. No competition or transparency.
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by ryaniscool 2mo ago
Are you Canadian? I ask because I’ve never met someone from a Western country with free healthcare who wishes they had our healthcare system. I lived in Australia for five years and when I came home to the USA, I realized that most people h
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by ryaniscool 2mo ago
Preventing crime is good but there are tradeoffs that most people find unacceptable. We could track people’s movements without AI. We could implement curfews and have 24x7 police checkpoints. Would you consider it worth it if it reduced cri
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by ryaniscool 3mo ago
In your new sci fi economy, where technocrats have a closed economy that excludes everyone else, citizens united would be dead. You can’t prevent people and governments from trying to take everything you have by bribing them with AI algorit
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by ryaniscool 3mo ago
I was being sarcastic about business class and expensive handbags. You act like we all should be entitled to these completely unnecessary things. What you’re suggesting is a return to some kind of neo feudalism which means the elites would
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by ryaniscool 3mo ago
I think the relevant question isn’t what can be built but the amount of effort in comparison to doing this the old fashioned way. What do you think the productivity gain was from using an LLM? This question assumes you’re already an experie
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by ryaniscool 3mo ago
>I think this is an extremely critical misconception, and it's sending the world into an increasingly bad place. They really don't, and the assumptions that underpin this statement breaks down when the elite own all the critica
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by ryaniscool 3mo ago
You’re just hand waving. No actual facts in your argument. Sure, if you have a desktop with 175GB of unified memory, you can run deepseek 4 locally. Not completely out of reach but pretty close for almost everyone. There are smaller models
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by ryaniscool 3mo ago
The capital outlay is eye watering and it feels like an over extension. Neither of the two major pure AI providers are close to profitable (OpenAI, Anthropic) while having valuations close to a trillion dollars. Their ROI is paradoxical. If
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by ryaniscool 3mo ago
AI maximalism is making a lot of assumptions that I think are not a given * The curve of AI improvement will continue at the current pace * AI companies will have the capital continue to expand infrastructure * there will be some kind of fu
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by ryaniscool 4mo ago
This needs to be read after the article from Turso on how they're retiring their bug bounty program because of being inundated with useless AI slop reports. It's the top story on HN right now. https://turso.tech/bl

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