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What works well and doesn't with AI coding agents in October 2025(mdelapenya.xyz)
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by sakoht 1y ago
People say “agents not RAG”, but one framing is that this describes RAG where the database is a file system and bash is the query language (with other cli tools installed it can use, including curl, jq, grep). With writing its own notes on
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by sakoht 1y ago
If you like Claude Code or Codex try Warp. It makes both look like a pale shadow of it. And way way cheaper monthly bill.
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by sakoht 1y ago
Remember that for the vent majority of human history, most people have not felt like they were truly in control of their lives. If it was not God, it was the king. Remember that nearly every animal except humans dies by being eaten. We a
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by sakoht 1y ago
The article suggests a possible model where the schizophrenia is an extreme linear progression. But the inability to find a culprit genes suggests something more complex. It is possible that there are is a group of genes that all have var
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by sakoht 1y ago
The odd thing is that among identical twins when one has it the other has it roughly 50% of the time. Which suggests that having the generic basis still requires something external, and it is common but not too common.
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by sakoht 1y ago
If Slack wants me to use their AI to mine my company’s conversations, they need to provide a higher quality product at a better price. Not forcibly take ownership of my conversations. I’ve loved Slack for a decade, but today I have to plan
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by sakoht 1y ago
Currently most websites have a snip of code that posts to Google when a visitor arrives. The cookie there is linked to an identity and later used to push ads, and metrics for the site user. It seems like this is the thing to make broadly
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by sakoht 2y ago
Reads like a Disney lens on nature. Whether or not wolves have a single alpha in a pack, nature is built around selfishness and violence with certainty, cooperation selectively. Animals watch each other suffer and die without a flinch all
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by sakoht 3y ago
Repeating a note by others, having advice on navigating a large transaction is comforting. Even though I ultimately found the house I bought myself the guidance of my buyer’s agent through the process was invaluable. No regrets on him mak
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by sakoht 4y ago
A similar topic explored in the 2009 small movie Moon w/ Sam Rockwell (and Kevin Spacey as the robot voice). The main character doing labor on the moon figures out he is one of dozens of clones, and the original guy living his happy l
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by sakoht 4y ago
Same
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by sakoht 4y ago
> Convincing mimicry is good enough. For what? I ask questions and get wrong but “convincing” answers …that is way worse than wrong answers that are obviously wrong. The functionality looks so smart because it skips reasoning and goes st
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by sakoht 4y ago
It makes $20M a year. That sounds like great code. I would: 1. Get it in source control without “fixing anything”. 2. Get a clone of the prod server up and running, vs a clown of the db. 3. Put in something to log all of the request/re
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by sakoht 4y ago
The gorgeous thing about these was that, the thing that sold a game was clever playability. Even the games that tried to create an immersive world had to span 4-6 floppy disks, and mostly had to lean on imagination, and your ability to see
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by sakoht 4y ago
There are a lot of projects that want to serve an under-served space, but lack a novel idea about how to do it. In many ways, even companies like Theranos fell into this trap. They knew it would be great to have the device they promised,
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by sakoht 5y ago
Very dad. Hope his family is as well as can be.
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by sakoht 5y ago
It's not impossible to say "Positions vary from $20k to $600k, DOE." for these cases, if you really are hiring your new CTO and also a janitor. The nice thing about having to put _some_ kind of range is that there is some th
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by sakoht 5y ago
Regarding interest rates, they are already up. I got a house 4 months ago at 2.85%, and now they are 4.2%. I can't speak to whether investment in tech will drop. Lately, there is so much spare money floating around investors can&#x2
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by sakoht 5y ago
Fred Brooks' classic "No Silver Bullet" outlines this fundamental principle of software engineering physics. Written in 1986, the paper has its own wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver
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by sakoht 5y ago
"Wouldn't it just be grand if we could write a spec for some piece of code, then let the machines do the rest?" This is quite possible, if you write the "spec" in a programming language: i.e. write a test case. The
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by sakoht 5y ago
It is sad that, given that the company likely doesn't have a case unless some explicit IP was violated, that threats of court allow money to decide the outcome. But more sad than that, to me, is that creative energy on both sides isn&#
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by sakoht 6y ago
There is a balancing factor. People tend to overestimate their skill and ability when risks are low, but underestimate them when they are high. An average person is pretty sure he/she can walk on a path that is 2' wide without e
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by sakoht 6y ago
Setting aside the evils of the DMCA itself: Seems clearly that if youtube authorizes downloads, then people shouldn't put things on youtube they don't want downloaded? The takedown notices should be going to youtube. But of cours
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by sakoht 6y ago
Presuming if you are 100% sure what "invalid" is: It is possible that being _unable_ to represent a logic error might mean that a logic error is represented as a "valid but incorrect" value, which is even more dangerous.
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by sakoht 6y ago
This is a good point. It seems we convict people for crimes they don't know they are committing, and also for thinking they are committing a crime when they aren't. It seems they should have just had the cops hide and wait until
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by sakoht 6y ago
It's a good question, though one could argue that, if you fail to hurt a person there is no "murder victim", but there is an "attempted murder victim". If you actually make the attempt. If you only "plan&quot
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by sakoht 6y ago
Sentences that are too short, or too long, are both a byproduct of a lack of latitude on the part of the judge to apply reason and common sense. Our system a judge's "bias", but then end we up with a bureaucracy instead of a
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by sakoht 6y ago
So true. Believing we will “finish” needing computer programmers because “the work is done” misses the basic physics that governs this process. And naively believing we are finally there is a regularly resurgent myth. We have been predict
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by sakoht 6y ago
Demand for the things we want _today_ will be met. But progress leads to new demands, and they are more complicated. Anthropologists estimate that the work week was at 20 hrs at the end of the Stone Age. We have been inventing new problem

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