tkiolp4

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by tkiolp4 4mo ago
I think the whole post is AI generated. The author could have given a draft as input and perhaps edited the output in a few places. Take this paragraph as example: > Go got generics in 1.18, and they’re useful, but the implementation has
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by tkiolp4 4mo ago
Don’t be naive. Anthropics (et al) mission is to make us unemployable. They need to sell their tools to companies so that they can finally discard 90% of their workforce. It’s a win win for companies and for anthropic (et al). Obviously we
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by tkiolp4 4mo ago
You won’t be able to enjoy your free time playing with computers if anthropic et al make you jobless. The “you” doesn’t necessarily refer to you. Im addressing 90% of the developers out there. We love playing around technology… but I doubt
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by tkiolp4 4mo ago
Are you sure you will be able to spend time playing around that kind of stuff when anthropic/openai/google/etc make you jobless? (well, perhaps not YOU precisely, but 90% of devs, so there’s a high chance). We always think it
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by tkiolp4 4mo ago
It’s pure marketing. Don’t be naive
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by tkiolp4 4mo ago
He is a puppet. Anthropic is making him a billionaire. No surprise no one here can notice the difference
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by tkiolp4 4mo ago
How can you be so blind? This is all a marketing campaign by anthropic. No more no less. The developers doing the rewrite have no voice at all in this game.
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by tkiolp4 5mo ago
The problem with security through obscurity (even if it’s just an “addon”) is that it pollutes your code base, system. It’s just not worth it. Like moving ssh to a different port. If you are the only one working on it, sure fine, as long as
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by tkiolp4 5mo ago
Agree to some extent. At some point though we jump the thin line between creative expression and… magic? Like if at some point I can just say “Generate a song similar to Smooth Criminal, different enough to not trigger copyright claims” and
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by tkiolp4 5mo ago
Metrics: I increased retention 2x; I reduced latency from X ms to Y ms; increased slo to 99.999… those are all meaningless. It was in fashion to put such numbers in cvs maybe 5-10 years ago. Not anymore
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by tkiolp4 5mo ago
Just cancel your subscription.
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by tkiolp4 5mo ago
I think this is pretty obvious for many of us in the industry. Unfortunately, there is so much money on the table that the big players will shove whatever they want down our throats
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by tkiolp4 5mo ago
That has never been true.
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by tkiolp4 5mo ago
When I was younger I was sold in the idea of data driven decisions. Everything needs to be measured, otherwise you are just biased, and bias is bad. Nowadays I do still rely on data and measurements but I also have experience and taste to j
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by tkiolp4 5mo ago
> I can't be the only one to think it is silly to interact with tools in this way. Honestly, I see skills, "hooks", and other monkey-patch efforts as things that will be short-lived investments, weird kludges from an era w
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by tkiolp4 6mo ago
Just stick. Get the paycheck, do the minimum. Learn to not give a fuck about companies. Im in the same position Im in EU. For me there’s no fucking way I can get 100K/year in any other work except software engineering. So I wanna buy a
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by tkiolp4 6mo ago
Just use (the good parts of) Ansible
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by tkiolp4 6mo ago
SAP, Salesforce, Booking.com… all awful products. We use them because monopolies.
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by tkiolp4 6mo ago
Please don’t.
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by tkiolp4 6mo ago
That sounds awful. I got a promotion once for deleting 250K lines of code in less than a month. Now that sounds better
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by tkiolp4 6mo ago
The whole gsd/agents folder is hilarious. Like a bunch of MD that never breaks. How do you is it minimally correct? Subjective prose. Sad to see this on the frontpage
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by tkiolp4 6mo ago
> It's just a new kind of tool for you to pick up, if you have the courage and heart to do so. Soon it will be the only kind of tool your boss is going to pay for (if you still have a boss). And it is a tool owned by stakeholders. T
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by tkiolp4 6mo ago
I want to move on to the next phase of AI programming. All these SKILLS, agentic programming and what not reminds me of the time of servlets, rmi, flash… all of that is obsolete, we have better tools now. Hope we can soon reach the “json ov
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by tkiolp4 6mo ago
That’s not true. Even if we assume LLMs can generate the code needed to support the next Facebook, one still has to: buy/rent tons of hardware (virtual or baremetal), put tons of money in marketing, break the network effect, pay for 3r
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by tkiolp4 7mo ago
Not entirely true. For instance if I use LLMs to build an ios app I still need to pay apple $100 to use my own app for an undetermined amount of time. If I build a web app i still need to pay for a domain, for a server for egress. We are ju
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by tkiolp4 7mo ago
Agree in general. I don’t see how making an agent create software is more wasteful than making dozens of engineers create the same thing. The latter seems more wasteful. We have compilers creating binaries every single day. We don’t say tha
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by tkiolp4 7mo ago
Yeah, that can also work. But I don’t see the future of software is to keep building multimillion line of code systems in a semi manual way (with or without llms). I think we will reach a phase in which we’ll have to treat code as disposabl
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by tkiolp4 7mo ago
> Huh? The user experience is basically ALL of the core product of a company. Thats the case now, but I think it’s because there’s no other way around it nowadays. But if agents in the future provide a better or more natural ui/ux f
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by tkiolp4 7mo ago
My point is: such apps wouldn’t need to exist if agents can provide in the future the same functionality for a fraction of the cost. Sure if ticketmaster is here to stay forever and keep their app up to date, we can keep using it. But what
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by tkiolp4 7mo ago
I use agents at work and yeah they read api keys and the like. If my employer doesn’t care, I care even less. At home I don’t use agents yet, but if I have to use them I’ll probably do what I do to run untrusted code at home: use a VM

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