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by thisissomething 9mo ago
It really depends on how you use it. I really like using AI for prototyping new ideas (it can run on the background while I work on the main project) and for getting the boring grunt work (such as creating CRUD endpoints on a RESTful API) o
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by thisissomething 9mo ago
> how can I utilize AI without degenerating my own abilities? Couldn't the same statement, to some extent, be applied to using a sorting lib instead of writing your own sorting algorithm? Or how about using a language like python in
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by thisissomething 9mo ago
AI is a tool. As every other tool under the sun, it has strengths and weaknesses, it's our job, as software engineers to try it out and understand when/how to use it on our workflows, or if if fits our use cases at all. If you dis
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by thisissomething 1y ago
> This must be the case for so many discarded appliances these days, especially underengineered ones with common issues. While it's true that lots of those old appliances are easily fixable, depending on how old they are it's b
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by thisissomething 1y ago
Yeah, but how fast can you write compared to how fast you think? How many times have you read a story card and by the time you finished reading it you thought "It's an easy task, should take me 1 hour of work to write the code and
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by thisissomething 1y ago
Completely agree with you. I was working on the front-end of an application and I prompted Claude the following: "The endpoint /foo/bar is returning the json below ##json goes here##, show this as cards inside the component F
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by thisissomething 1y ago
With everything that Pix offers but WhatsApp Pay doesn't, I don't think WhatsApp Pay would hold a candle even if it were launched before.
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by thisissomething 1y ago
> there's no FLOSS app (AFAIK) to use it. Does this mean that you also don't use your bank Android/iPhone APP? So your entire financial life is handled via a browser?
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by thisissomething 1y ago
What changed my point of view regarding LLMs was when I realized how crucial context is in increasing output quality. Treat the AI as a freelancer working on your project. How would you ask a freelancer to create a Kanban system for you? By
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by thisissomething 1y ago
"How to ask for it" is the most important part. As soon as you realize that you have to provide the AI with CONTEXT and clear instructions (you know, like a top-notch story card on a scrum board), the quality and assertiveness of
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by thisissomething 1y ago
It really depends on what you're trying to achieve. I was trying to prototype a system and created a one-pager describing the main features, objectives, and restrictions. This took me about 45 minutes. Then I feed it into Claude and as
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by thisissomething 2y ago
This is definitely what happened in Brazil. When Whatsapp launched, SMS still wasn't free, the exception being some carriers that offered "free" SMS to numbers of the same carrier if the sender was on a premium coverage plan.
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by thisissomething 2y ago
I believe he meant that you (personal account) can use this feature to protect yourself from scam companies using Whatsapp Business to "cold call" you
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by thisissomething 2y ago
ahahahahh, good catch. small oopsie from a non-native speaker.
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by thisissomething 2y ago
> This is often not obvious, because the muscle you need to reinforce / train are often not actually the one hurting. As someone who has done physical therapy for different issues, this is spot on. Lower back issues were actually d