sandrello

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by sandrello 3mo ago
This is a very fatalistic take. While I understand where it's coming from, I try not to share the same mindset: engineers getting increasingly distant from how things are getting built is not something that will "undoubtedly happe
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by sandrello 4mo ago
an EC2 instance gives exactly what you're told you'll be getting. You pay for a VM in some public cloud, you get it. It's not that Claude code isn't a finite product per-se, I certainly can find some value in it. What I&
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by sandrello 4mo ago
I absolutely understand the power user perspective. The point is not that, and maybe I wasn't clear enough in pointing it out. Here, something different is going on instead of the usual "base tool is ok for 90% of use cases, remai
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by sandrello 4mo ago
To me, this kind of talk exhibits the very cultish and con side of the whole genAI train. In a way, it does a poor job especially when the intent is positive about the technology, it sheds a bad look on it. Generally, and more so with paid
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by sandrello 5mo ago
I assume you're some sort of programmer and I genuinely wonder how in the world can someone in good faith downplay non-determinism and ambiguity when talking about a programming language. High-level languages can certainly yield ineffi
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by sandrello 5mo ago
> These models are alien intelligences that could occupy an unimaginably vast space of possibilities (there are trillions of weights inside them), but which have been RL-ed over and over until they more or less stay within familiar reaso
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by sandrello 6mo ago
I read the name and the first logical thought that came to mind was that of a platform to have AI agents iterating on rockets design. How doomed am I?
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by sandrello 7mo ago
Since I've never used them, how could API keys for Firebase or Maps be safe for embedding in client side code? I mean, I get that authentication to the service is performed via other means, but what's the use of the key then? I&#x
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by sandrello 7mo ago
Thank you for making me recover at least some level of sanity (or at least to feel like that).
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by sandrello 1y ago
I see testing as a better fit for general-purpose desktop setups, stable is a bit too conservative in that regard.
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by sandrello 1y ago
It's not only that they're stupid, it's the fact that maybe they don't really need it. Do they really need an iPhone? in a sense, yes, since the alternative still means spending a good amount of money and in no way they
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How to Read a Book a Week (2016)(hbr.org)
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