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by sltr 1mo ago
Experienced distance runner here. This is not new or mysterious. > Overtraining Syndrome is where a lack of recovery from training stress results in underperformance, often combined with Mood Disturbances such as reduced Motivation, depr
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by sltr 1mo ago
Reminds me of "Appeal to Aithority" > The LLMs says this, so it must be right. https://blog.ploeh.dk/2025/03/10/appeal-to-aithority/
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by sltr 2mo ago
I am also worried about "cognitive debt". I hardly remember what I had Claude do, even hours later. Back in May, I advised of a similar mitigation, citing the "generation effect" as the reason typing the code would make
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by sltr 2mo ago
Thanks for catching that. Updated my post
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by sltr 2mo ago
It's been on HN for 45 minutes. It's before 9am on the west coast
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by sltr 2mo ago
the punchline: "Refactoring reduces token consumption" I appreciate the effort to quantify the benefit rather than pontificate. It's worth mentioning Martin Fowler wrote a whole book on refactoring [1], in which he states, &q
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by sltr 2mo ago
that's the real tragedy here
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by sltr 2mo ago
can we go after the real perp now?
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by sltr 2mo ago
Fair that motivated reasoning could be at play. Rob's audience is SaaS founders, but whether his listeners remain engaged and his sales funnel full does not influence how genai affects their businesses, and being duplicitous doesn&#x27
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by sltr 2mo ago
Three days ago, Rob Walling (SaaS investor) refuted pretty convincingly the claim that genai kills SaaS. His life mission and wealth are bound up in SaaS. If he's not scared, nobody should be. https://www.startupsfortheresto
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by sltr 2mo ago
Since 2002 Richard Stallman has spoken again using term "content" this way. > using the word as a noun to describe works and communications through which people have expressed themselves adopts an attitude you might rather avoi
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Who You Gonna Call(slater.dev)
2 points by sltr 2mo ago|0 comments
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by sltr 2mo ago
This is the right thing to do
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Another reason to get attached to Surebeans(surebeans.net)
3 points by sltr 3mo ago|0 comments
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by sltr 3mo ago
That's an interesting argument. In construction, the larger a project, the more justifiable it is to invest in quality. Is it different than software? I think a better argument against licensure is that it makes small projects too expe
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by sltr 3mo ago
I'm glad you mentioned downward market pressure on quality. I agree that is an issue. That's why I advocate for licensure of software engineering professionals, which exerts a counteracting force back up. https://www.sl
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The Optimal Amount of Slop Is Non-Zero(slater.dev)
15 points by sltr 3mo ago|4 comments
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by sltr 3mo ago
It's kind of like the saying "the right note played at the wrong time is wrong." An implementation that works today but could break in the future is wrong. I'm not willing to treat an LLM as an oracle that knows the diff
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by sltr 3mo ago
from the post: > It was reasonable to be skeptical the first time It's still reasonable to be skeptical. A few weeks ago a post was discussed here on HN [1] that asked: > What would have to be true for us to ‘check English into t
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by sltr 3mo ago
"when you're looking for things, you find them" - my physician explaining excessive reliance on diagnostic imaging
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by sltr 3mo ago
The job when picking up a codebase made by human or machine always involves reverse-engineering the design intent from code. That's especially hard for LLM-generated code because the path to runtime was so rushed. > It's more e
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by sltr 3mo ago
Sorry about the infelicitious timbre. Nope, I'm just a happy customer.
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by sltr 3mo ago
I'm Doug, quoted above. I took Jimmy's excellent course, and when I learned about Command Center, I subbed immediately. I wasn't disappointed. It's a bit like turning your LLM into a graduate of that course.
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by sltr 4mo ago
every time I use Gleam I feel happy
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by sltr 4mo ago
> The tanker deal is not just a competition won; it is a decision that shifts the balanc I didn't just stop reading at this line, I slammed the back button like releasing an emergency exit door.
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by sltr 4mo ago
If the question is not worth asking, why did Thoughtworks ask it?
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by sltr 4mo ago
Thanks for reading. The question the article addresses is, "What would have to be true to check in English to the repo' and the answer is grounded in how business works: it seeks to minimize costs. Maintenance of code rather than
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Why English will never be a programming language(slater.dev)
3 points by sltr 4mo ago|4 comments
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by sltr 4mo ago
Contrarian view: Why English will never be a programming language. https://www.slater.dev/2026/05/why-english-will-never-be-a-p...
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by sltr 4mo ago
For a deep dive on UB with printf, see https://srs.fyi/see-conversions/ > When programming in C, to avoid unexpected pitfalls, one must be acutely aware of a whole slew of implicit behaviors (some of which are imple

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