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by socketcluster 4d ago
Yes very much the same situation in software development. The people who prided themselves on raw puzzle-solving ability got hit hard. Those who are idea-driven and architecture-oriented feel like they got handed a superpower. It's qui
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by socketcluster 4d ago
As a software engineer, 6 months ago. I was better than AI in essentially every way except raw typing speed. Now AI has surpassed me in fine-grained problem-solving ability. It can write more reliable code than I can, faster than I can, pro
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by socketcluster 5d ago
I'm an open source dev and I appreciate AI. I'm glad it exists and I have no problem with people being rewarded for their work on AI. That said, I also think everyone who contributed content online deserves to be rewarded for thei
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by socketcluster 6d ago
Though I'm not surprised by this offering, I feel like I need some time to absorb it. It feels like the stepping stone to the next big thing. It's going to destroy a lot of startups which were monetizing this exact idea. But clear
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by socketcluster 8d ago
>> I was banking on the opportunities it will create but nah Seems we're on the same wavelength because I had the exact same thought about this. But actually, I'm probably not so fussy. I wouldn't mind cleaning up the m
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by socketcluster 8d ago
This is literally the recipe for the coming software apocalypse. Just watch the software engineers who say "Let's be careful" lose their jobs and get replaced by non-technical vibe-coders churning out 10K lines of dirty insec
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by socketcluster 9d ago
I make skills to allow AI to integrate with my platform; it's documentation with cURL commands. It can interact with every aspect of my platform via HTTP and access its full capabilities. I can tweak its token permissions as I like and
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by socketcluster 23d ago
My experience is that AI has significantly boosted the value of a quality code-base. A good codebase essentially codes itself. There are project I've built from scratch that I would feel confident to hand off to a bunch of non-technica
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by socketcluster 28d ago
This article seems like a reaction to DuckDB's surge in popularity. Having multiple DB engines to choose from is good and it often doesn't matter which one you use. One could make the same argument about DuckDB. Many database engi
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by socketcluster 28d ago
Sandboxed execution is definitely one aspect... But IMO, this is still not secure enough for vibe coders. They will want to have data-driven apps to share among small groups of people, then the security of the sandbox doesn't matter if
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by socketcluster 28d ago
I enjoyed reading this. It has a "butterfly effect" kind of vibe how such a random trivial-sounding pursuit can lead to something consequential. It's also mind-opening to realize how many strange human activities are happenin
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by socketcluster 1mo ago
Reading this is especially interesting to me because it's what I've been working towards for the last 14 years or so. Though like this group, it also came together for me piece by piece. I got interested in this specific idea back
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by socketcluster 1mo ago
Yes. Vanilla JS is the best. You don't need TypeScript, Claude never makes type errors. TS just costs additional tokens and fills up the context window with useless type information; the wasted space could have been used to provide add
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by socketcluster 1mo ago
Plain JavaScript is the ideal language for AI coding. It's very good with complex architectures. I think partly it's because the training set contains a lot of JS, but also because complex software written in JavaScript must have
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by socketcluster 1mo ago
Many abstractions we encounter in software industry are poor abstractions which are counter-productive. I agree that we should drop those... But we can't drop all abstractions. It's not physically possible. The AI agent is going t
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by socketcluster 1mo ago
We need abstractions more than ever. The real point is we should retire unnecessary abstractions. A good abstraction is a single edged sword which simplifies the task. A mediocre abstraction is a double-edged sword. A bad abstraction is lik
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by socketcluster 1mo ago
I'm working on the backend your AI doesn't have to build https://saasufy.com/ For vibe coders. With a focus on: - Security - Analytics - Advanced data sharing scenarios - Realtime updates Claude can be given full
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by socketcluster 1mo ago
I lost faith in my career long before AI.
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by socketcluster 1mo ago
This article describes exactly the quantum-resistant stateful signature scheme I implemented (from scratch) for my blockchain project about 6 years ago; including the Merkle 1979 variant of Lamport OTS. I also constructed a Merkle Signature
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by socketcluster 1mo ago
I'm feeling quite confident that AI won't be able to produce quality code in the foreseeable future. Because the bottleneck is not technology, it's people and incentives. Firstly, people don't agree on what good code is
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by socketcluster 1mo ago
I used these words jokingly and also, I don't mean sycophant in a literal sense. I mean more in an AI context as a kind of config/slider you can dial up or down to make it more collaborative or combative. If I'm knowledgeable
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by socketcluster 1mo ago
In software development, good taste translates to readability, succinctness and maintainability of the code. It also translates to intuitiveness, reliability, security, performance, scalability and utility of the software. All this doesn&#x
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by socketcluster 1mo ago
In my case, I need my AI to be sycophantic because most of my contrarian ideas are correct. So it's a waste of my time and tokens when the AI keeps making weak arguments which I proceed to destroy one by one. Usually, what happens is i
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by socketcluster 1mo ago
I have 3 long term online friends which I've kept in touch with for over a decade but I never met them offline (only 2 I met over video chat).
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by socketcluster 1mo ago
Whilst the UI provides visibility and guardrails, it also reduces flexibility. But now with LLM coding agents, it often gets in the way. Working with text/code is easier.
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by socketcluster 1mo ago
When I use Claude to write code for my own projects, the code it generates is exactly the same code that I would have written had I done it by hand. If there is any deviation, I ask it to adjust but that is rare. At least 95% of the time, i
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by socketcluster 1mo ago
People who enjoyed riding horses in the past would not see the benefits of cars either. Multi-pass rendering with multi-pass template placeholder substitution is very useful because you can have an entire complex component hierarchy declare
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by socketcluster 2mo ago
Yes, it still does authentication. It's just about hosting the data, which might make sense for niche scenarios with well defined scope. Unfortunately, many data-driven systems need some kind of data sharing. Relying on data from multi
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by socketcluster 2mo ago
Web Components are great for doing multi-pass rendering with template placeholder substitution happening at multiple levels in the component hierarchy. The entire element HTML hierarchy can be declared in one place. It's extremely vers
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by socketcluster 2mo ago
You can substitute the word 'interactivity' with 'statefulness' and it makes the statement more intuitive IMO. Concurrency + statefulness means you can't have mutability because then you would run the risk of a conc

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