stevex

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by stevex 3mo ago
You can almost tell the "era" that a solution was built in these days since things are changing so fast. Mid-2026, we have very large context windows, and much smarter models than we did in 2024 when this was built. If I were to t
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by stevex 4mo ago
I don't think that's the direction this is going to take. Replacing a mature app with an incredibly wide audience and a million use cases may or may not be possible, but what's actually happening is that people are making an
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by stevex 5mo ago
It's not true that there was no improvement in the rate at which models produced quality code. Jan 2025 was Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Gemini 1.5 Pro and OpenAI had GPT-4o. As someone who used all those models, as well as today's frontier
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by stevex 5mo ago
Doesn't it run over a USB-C shaped wire? If you're trying to understand things that plug into USB-shaped ports it seems at least worth mentioning.
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by stevex 9mo ago
Where does that UBI money come from if there are 50% fewer people paying taxes? That's the problem.
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by stevex 10mo ago
One thing Django has going for it is that the "batteries included" nature of it is perfect for AI code generation. You can get a working site with the usual featuers (admin panel, logins, forgot reset/password flow, etc) with
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by stevex 10mo ago
Django + AlpineJS + HTMX is pretty nice.
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by stevex 1y ago
"that obviously made no sense" is bizarre. Waymo's driving people around with an injuries-per-mile rate that's lower than having humans do it. I don't see how that reconciles with "obviously made no sense"
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by stevex 1y ago
I feel the same way. After 30+ years coding, I know what I want to build, but finding the time to work on it and the focus is harder than it used to be.
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by stevex 1y ago
I had an Amiga disk image (*.adf) that I wanted to extract the files from. There are probably tools to do this but I was just starting with Claude Code, so I asked it to write a tool to extract the files by implementing the filesystem. It t
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by stevex 13y ago
I have an app in the store that's been doing reasonably well. Another developer released an app with the exact same name. (I'm not sure how, as the App Store normally prevents that). I filed a complaint with Apple, and they ren