smugglerFlynn

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by smugglerFlynn 3d ago
Many large modern corporations are third-hand cars. The original owner had a purpose and an emotional investment in owning the car; for the second-hand owner, it became a practical thing; for the third-hand owner, it is often a liability. I
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by smugglerFlynn 3d ago
There was an emergent and surprising phenomena in collaboratively writing Linux kernel and low level backbone of modern operating systems, or developing mobile apps, or scaling Internet to broader population. What is different about LLMs? I
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Ask HN: Are we losing our engineering literacy?
22 points by smugglerFlynn 3d ago|20 comments
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by smugglerFlynn 3d ago
I find this a very engineering/technology focused point of view. Most business related functions run on this “human in the loop” with zero hints from industry this will change anytime soon - quite the opposite. Even if we take purely
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by smugglerFlynn 5d ago
How do you solve this problem right now?
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by smugglerFlynn 6d ago
This feature is well thought out in terms of battery use, because nobody is going to ever use their phone as a "bedtime clock" Work smarter, not harder
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by smugglerFlynn 7d ago
If Apple continues like that, in 10 years it won’t exist
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by smugglerFlynn 7d ago
> you must ask yourself a single tough question: > How much do you value technological wonder over everyday, solid, smart game design? This quote applies to so much more than just gaming
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by smugglerFlynn 7d ago
Modern LLM services are engineer's pipe dream that was heavily shaped by the shadiest product management dark patterns you can find: applying gambling-style engagement tactics, exploiting cognitive biases, exploiting users' lack o
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by smugglerFlynn 7d ago
You invite a friend over, but raccoon appears. Then pigeon appears. Then friend appears but at the last second suddenly becomes a banana. You remember you are out of bananas so you order more and also some cola zero cans on your local groce
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by smugglerFlynn 10d ago
If intern is making a breakfast, and boss is the one who suddenly runs to the grocery store because eggs are missing, is boss still the one in a driver’s seat? From the original goal point of view yes, as it was boss who has initiated whole
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by smugglerFlynn 10d ago
> Also.. uh.. isn't this.. good? It is weird if you think about it this way: it is AI that waits for you, its ‘eyes’, to provide a feedback so it can continue working. It literally uses you as its organ. <!!spoiler ahead
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by smugglerFlynn 11d ago
I see aviation sentiment raised from time to time. In aviation failure is catastrophic, and systems you operate do not change on the fly (pun intended). You can probably drill SREs that way but you are only teaching them how to _react_ effi
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by smugglerFlynn 11d ago
"Middle devs take care of incidents, senior devs lose touch with their systems"
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by smugglerFlynn 14d ago
Interestingly, I took a different route: the problem was not quality of my memory, but all the overblown expectations I've put towards myself remembering all that stuff. Turns out most people are not even trying to juggle all these fac
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by smugglerFlynn 15d ago
I am not the target audience for this product, but I can’t get over the irony of building a CRM specifically to track details about people you genuinely care about
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by smugglerFlynn 15d ago
Can't help but notice that this line is not true anymore in 2026: > It’s harder to read code than to write it.
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by smugglerFlynn 19d ago
"I have really enjoyed that hand-crafted email" is not something you hear from actual people in real life. I am saying this non-ironically as I understand what you are talking about, but very few people are geeky about how the doc
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by smugglerFlynn 1mo ago
Not the guy you are asking the queation, but: be honest to the extent we can. Market and “visionaries” will catch up on reality sooner or later.
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by smugglerFlynn 1mo ago
It’s just that the overlap between “people who find AI coding fascinating” and the guy you are replying to is zero. Not everyone finds this means to an end AI treadmill even remotely ‘fun’. Resent studies show that this not even a minor gro
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by smugglerFlynn 1mo ago
> It is my firm belief that any of the authors listed below (unless they’re dicks) would not want anyone to be prohibited from reading their work <links to book sharing websites follows> Hot take - any book authors who wa
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by smugglerFlynn 2mo ago
I propose this short ‘Google test’ when ranting about LLM advertising: replace ‘LLM’ with ‘Google’ and see what happens. ‘Will Google decide on which ads to place? Will it be part of search results or a summary’ - we all know the answers
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by smugglerFlynn 2mo ago
At this point why forcing people to use the service, if you can forcefully extract these eyeballs and then sell them directly to advertisers in large enough jars?
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by smugglerFlynn 2mo ago
Modern version needs to be community focused, not platform focused. This could look like "old instagram" or "old reddit": people sharing findings with friends / small groups of like minded people. We are seemingly
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by smugglerFlynn 2mo ago
Same thing happened with remote work. Things that were simple by-products of a face to face communication now need to be dissected and studied, and then carefully added back in, in order for remote environments not to suck. All the small ta
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by smugglerFlynn 2mo ago
> I make an effort to use Spotify to find and listen to albums, but it wasn’t built for this, and invariably find 90% of my listening happening on algo-generated playlists of songs that sound exactly like a song I like. I never lear
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by smugglerFlynn 2mo ago
> My goals for the end of 2027 are as follows: > Stop making stupid mistakes. I want to be able to finish a task fully without missing or skipping a step. One way to do this is to make a plan for everything you do, and only do
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by smugglerFlynn 3mo ago
Sadly it is not unique to VC. Many in-house products of large companies follow exact same story: sunk cost fallacy, investing in expectation management instead of the product itself, risky and expensive bets dressed as 'MVPs', rid
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by smugglerFlynn 3mo ago
The culture you are creating is actually the opposite: no ownership, and no autonomy You are delegating decisions that are in your responsibility to another person (=no ownership), and you are not able to progress unless someone else [even
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by smugglerFlynn 3mo ago
If only things in life worked as well as things on paper

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