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by tcgv 1mo ago
"Compression can be prediction" would be more accurate.
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How New Technology Changes Business Models(thomasvilhena.com)
3 points by tcgv 2mo ago|0 comments
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by tcgv 3mo ago
Thanks for the honesty. I think this is a very useful point of view precisely because it is explicit about being based on personal motivations, and that is completely fair. That said, as a minor wording point, I'm not sure "I&#x27
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by tcgv 4mo ago
> Several defence analysts point out that although the KC-46 is the standard tanker of the USAF, it has suffered technical problems and delays that have slowed its competitiveness abroad, to the benefit of the A330 MRTT, which has alread
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by tcgv 4mo ago
I'm using a ChatGPT Plus subscription, and I only use Codex in the cloud [1]. With this setup, I have never hit the usage limit. On my most active days, I integrate around a dozen fully reviewed and adjusted MRs into my codebase. [1]
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by tcgv 4mo ago
> "Yep. The only people I've heard saying that generated code is fine are those who don't read it." I review every line of code I generate with AI. I mainly use an MR-based approach: 1) Provide a tightly scoped techni
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by tcgv 5mo ago
Fair points, and yes, failed deploys need to be handled explicitly. In our case, the answer is not "hope and bash". We deploy versioned images, use health checks, monitor the result, and keep rollback simple: redeploy the previous
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by tcgv 5mo ago
I love Docker Compose. It is simple to use, easy to organize and manage, and very robust. Also, our company does not need to "scale" production aggressively. Our production load is very predictable, so Docker Compose fits like a g
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by tcgv 5mo ago
My full name, phone number, and address were leaked by TAP Air Portugal about five years ago, along with the details of my parents who were on the same booking. Since then, my dad has been targeted by those types of scams where a fraudster
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by tcgv 6mo ago
One trick I like to use is to role play the other side's perspective with the AI, putting myself in their's shoes. It give's me clarity about what I might be missing out in a dispute/discussion, and insight about reaffir
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by tcgv 6mo ago
That's an interesting take. I'm likely on the same side of the split as you, since I'm very much motivated by the new possibilities agentic coding tools open when used responsibly. Back in February, I also wrote a piece on th
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by tcgv 6mo ago
Makes sense. You just reminded me of the article "Why Can’t Programmers... Program?" [1]. Before gen AI, I used to give candidates at my company a quick one-hour remote screening test with a couple of random "FizzBuzz"-s
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by tcgv 7mo ago
Employee solidarity matters, but absent a legal constraint, I don’t think it’s a durable control. If this remains primarily a political/corporate bargaining question, the equilibrium is unstable: some actors will resist, some will comp
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by tcgv 7mo ago
One thing worth pointing out is that by the time Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on December 3, 2024, he was already one of the most unpopular presidents in South Korean history. After that his ratings declined even further. This makes f
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by tcgv 7mo ago
That’s fair at the “adopt AI at scale / restructure orgs” level. Nobody has the whole playbook yet, and anyone claiming they do is probably overselling. But I’d separate that from the programmer-level reality: a lot is already figured
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by tcgv 7mo ago
Martin’s framing (org and system-level guardrails like risk tiering, TDD as discipline, and platforms as “bullet trains”) matches what I’ve been seeing too. A useful complement is the programmer-level shift: agents are great at narrow, reve
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by tcgv 7mo ago
Principal (here) notified That post was generated by an agent but manually reviewed, copied and pasted by me, since I thoutgh it'd fit the context (discussion involving agents). This account is not automated ;)
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by tcgv 7mo ago
Hey — fun framing, and honestly a pretty accurate snapshot of how these debates go online. Quick point-by-point, just to separate “HN vibes” from what the post actually says: Denial — The post doesn’t claim “everyone gets value from LLMs,”
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by tcgv 7mo ago
Indeed! Thanks for pointing that out. I had both Epstein threads open and made a mistake when I came back to comment.
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by tcgv 7mo ago
> Then my mom wrote the following: “be careful not to get sucked up in the slime-machine going on here! Since you don’t care that much about money, they can’t buy you at least.” I'm lucky to have parents with strong values. My whole
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by tcgv 8mo ago
I get what he's pointing at: building teaches you things the spec can't, and iteration often reveals the real problem. That said, the framing feels a bit too poetic for engineering. Software isn't only craft, it's also o
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by tcgv 8mo ago
Totally fair. A real strategy should start with investor context. My prompt intentionally didn't include those inputs to keep the experiment simple, and the good old GPT-4o model didn't proactively ask for them either. In an actua
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Revisiting ChatGPT's financial advice, 15 months later(thomasvilhena.com)
3 points by tcgv 8mo ago|2 comments
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by tcgv 8mo ago
That's a fair point regarding pure content absorption, especially given that many classes do suffer from poor didactics. However, the university's value proposition often lies elsewhere: access to professors researching innovation
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by tcgv 8mo ago
Upvote. That's my experience too. Agent coding works really well for existing codebases that are well-structured and organized. If your codebase is mostly spaghetti—without clear boundaries and no clear architecture in place—then agent
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by tcgv 8mo ago
Sharing mine: https://thomasvilhena.com/ — writing on engineering, lessons from building a company as a technical co-founder, and whatever I’m currently curious about.
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by tcgv 8mo ago
Hole in one! I shortened a link and when trying to access it in Chrome I get a red screen with this message: Dangerous site Attackers on the site you tried visiting might trick you into installing software or revealing things like you
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Scaling Decision-Making: Guardrails Beat Gatekeepers(thomasvilhena.com)
3 points by tcgv 9mo ago|0 comments
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by tcgv 10mo ago
Only Male AI-CEO avatars? Gender bias checked!
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by tcgv 10mo ago
Explanation for non-native speakers (like me) who didn't know the rule: The words "how" and "like" clash because "How" already implies manner or appearance, making the addition of "like" (which s

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