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by stantonius 4mo ago
> adding friction back into development I'm really trying to do this too. The problem is it's *so easy* to let your standards slip, even for just a moment, and that piece of code suddenly becomes foreign. I find more mental ene
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by stantonius 5mo ago
Yeah I can understand that, and sure this is part of it, just not all of it. There is also broader societal issues (ie. inequality), personal questions around meaning and purpose, and a sprinkling of existential (but not much). I suspect an
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by stantonius 5mo ago
I feel this way too. Wish I could fully understand the 'why'. I know all of the usual arguments, but nothing seems to fully capture it for me - maybe it' all of them, maybe it's simply the pace of change and having to ad
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by stantonius 5mo ago
You know, there aren’t many people whose communication style, approach, and contribution history earn my confidence so completely. I can probably count on two hands the people I hold in that regard in this industry. Mario and Armin are two
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by stantonius 8mo ago
Wrt simonw, I think that is unfair. I get the hype is frustrating, and this project made everything worse (I also feel it and it drives me nuts too), but Simon seemed to choose the words quite carefully. Over the weekend, his posts suggeste
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by stantonius 8mo ago
There's something eerily recursive about Opus 4.5’s sensible take calming the anxiety about Opus 4.5’s capabilities and impact. It's probably the right take, but I feel weird the most pragmatic response to this article is from sai
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by stantonius 9mo ago
This is so relatable it's painful: many many hours of work, overly ambitious project, now feeling discouraged (but hopefully not willing to give up). It's some small consolation to me to know others have found themselves in this b
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by stantonius 9mo ago
This happened to me too in an experimental project where I was testing how far the model could go on its own. Despite making progress, I can't bare to look at the thing now. I don't even know what questions to ask the AI to get ba
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by stantonius 11mo ago
> I've always conducted my thoughts in an "uncompressed format" and then eternally struggled to confine it all into words. Only then for people to misinterpret and question it. This resonates so much with me. To a point wh
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by stantonius 2y ago
I only read the headline and got enough from it. It was a good reminder that romanticising entrepreneurship is exciting and fun but the reality is much different, and to appreciate your current circumstance more (the grass is always greener
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by stantonius 2y ago
I have found working with DSPy to be a nice middle ground. The python script contains functions that call different DSPy optimizers (the optimized prompt packaged as a function; tested and iterated individually in a Jupyter notebook). Using