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by wellpast 15d ago
Two months ago I had a water pipe burst in my house. Now I am in the claims process with the large insurance co., using Claude to basically run my side of the claim — reading the policy, organizing and filing the ALE receipt scans, reading
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by wellpast 3mo ago
Definitely the hallmark of junior. Obsession with code deduplication as the highest pri when it’s quite low among others.
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by wellpast 3mo ago
> that can't hold invariants in their head across thousands or millions of lines of code and possibly an exponential number of interactions. There’s your problem. And static typing won’t save you either. The skill is not that, it’s
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by wellpast 3mo ago
“Until you get better” at pedaling, training wheels can help. It’s not an arrogant take; it’s arrogant to think you know static typing is a requirement for developing software well.
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by wellpast 3mo ago
Simply put, even solipsism is unfalsifiable.
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by wellpast 4mo ago
Not even to optimize for, but to write correct programs you really need to understand the runtime which is usually broader than the syntax. All Clojure (lisps) do is remove the stupidity of syntax. Even if syntax is the minor thing, why wea
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by wellpast 4mo ago
Clojure was explicitly designed to be dynamic. It’s a feature, not a bug. https://clojure.org/about/dynamic Until you get better at not making mistakes that the training wheels of a static type system “protect” you fro
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by wellpast 4mo ago
I’m willing to be wrong but this industry-wide emphasis on AI creative/coding workflows seems way over-engineered. Ime successful creative execution looks like micro-iterations where each output informs the next creative move. I can bu
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by wellpast 4mo ago
> When I think about a programming problem, I think in terms of the sequence of instructions I need the computer to do, and the memory locations that can hold the information the computer needs to track. You’re almost there. Just stop th
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by wellpast 4mo ago
In Austin we have most notably Terra Toys and Toy Joy. Terra Toys is 50 years old, its space shows it. Hand-written recommendations and prices. The employees demonstrate and play with the toys, welcome you genuinely as you enter. The toys s
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by wellpast 4mo ago
> HTML is marking up the meaning of the document. Is this true at all anymore, except for SEO optimized sites/content? For apps, it’s all layout, isn’t it — and HTML, JS, CSS have all evolved heavily to support UI-first, haven’t the
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by wellpast 6mo ago
One way to potentially discourage or curb AI-edited/written is integrate AI into HN so that your submissions get recommendations based on HN post guidelines such as “consider tone”, “substance” etc. Then less motivation to jump out t
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by wellpast 7mo ago
Being able to solve problems with true simplicity is a master’s skill. The skill to recognize simplicity and its value is a skill as well. You can try to explain this OP’s concept to a stakeholder in a 1000 different sensible ways and you’l
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by wellpast 7mo ago
$100 says AI got at least some notes effecting the copy of this post
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by wellpast 7mo ago
This seems very much a stunt. OpenClaw marketing and PR behind it?
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by wellpast 8mo ago
I coded up a crossword puzzle game using agentic dev this weekend. Claude and Codex/GPT. Had to seriously babysit and rewrite much of it, though, sure, I found it “cool” what it could do. Writing code in many cases is faster to me th
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Intra: Design notes on an LLM-driven text adventure(ianbicking.org)
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by wellpast 8mo ago
Had the same thought but feels too overly optimistic. I don’t think people “internet” for trust, but for dopamine.
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by wellpast 8mo ago
> but the truth is that behind the volatility and public speculation, there has been a smooth, unyielding increase in AI’s cognitive capabilities. > We are now at the point where AI models are … good enough at coding that some of the
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by wellpast 8mo ago
This is one of those discourses that disappoints me about our industry. Estimation can be done. It's a skillset issue. Yet the broad consensus seems to be that it can't be done, that it's somehow inherently impossible. Here a
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by wellpast 8mo ago
Someone might run: curl -s https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/resources/bad-words.txt | tr -d '\r' | while read -r w; do curl -s -X POST https://subth.ink/api/thoughts -H 'Content-
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by wellpast 8mo ago
95 other users*
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by wellpast 9mo ago
Love this. Is there a scrape-able list of these?
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by wellpast 9mo ago
Just d/l’d. Thx. Exploring… Looks interesting!
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by wellpast 9mo ago
https://xelly.games/ Vine but for user-submitted microgames Docs: https://xelly-games.github.io/docs/intro
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by wellpast 10mo ago
Docs for game developers: https://xelly-games.github.io/docs/intro
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by wellpast 10mo ago
https://xelly.games/ Users post small games to social feeds. Scroll like a social network, jump into and play any game by tapping on it. Games are served into fully locked-down, sandboxed iframes for security.
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by wellpast 11mo ago
https://xelly.games/ Twitter but for games instead of tweets.
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by wellpast 1y ago
https://xelly.games/ Social media network where users post microgames!
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by wellpast 1y ago
It’s a least-common denominator effect. I.e., most people don’t care. Local-first is optimal for creative and productivity apps. (Conversely, non-local-first are terrible for these.) But most people are neither creative nor optimally produc

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