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Some thoughts: - just because it doesn’t help 99.9% of the companies today it doesn’t mean it won’t help them tomorrow - 0.01% of the companies employ a much bigger percentage of p…

> we’re approaching $800k in money spent on this rewrite. That’s peanuts, if not the shells of the peanuts, for a project and company of this magnitude

> I guess I am one of those "architects" that imagines they need an actual date/time storage class instead of some stringly-typed text column that I hope will contain a parsable IS…

I’ve literally calluses on my wrists from those edges.

So sad. Jurassic Park had a tremendous impact on me as a dino obsessed teenager ( was 13 when it came out). RIP.

A butterfly flaps its wings in Tokyo and we lose a leap second.

A few years back I got a couple of Adidas running shorts. Instead of the typical drawstring they had some continuous string. To this day I've no idea how it was supposed to be used…

The current government has little chance to get re-elected, and the next one will revert most of these decisions.

To me the build step is a good thing. It's a simple script in npm, and it means I only keep what I need (the JSON Schema, which I don't need at dev time) in runtime and whatever pa…

Obviously it's not ideal, but IMO it's the better option. Much better than `z.number().integer().min(0)` or whatever zod equivalent there is and then have to deal with the inferred…

I don't like zod. I want to define my types, not write schemas. And I don't like that then I have to use the types derived from those schemas rather than types I've defined myself …

Another strong possibility is that you might be working on something that’s not very prevanlent in the training set. Even the choice of programming language matters, e.g. Java or J…

Indeed. Most people have more arms than average, which must be 1.9 something.

It does.

> Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something. From Crichton's…

Even if agents failed at that I'd wager that's a very small percentage of software projects anyway.

Yeah, just read the first couple of paragraphs and then stopped because that’s not my experience at all with Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7. If you ask it with a prompt that leaves room f…

Pelican in a white Testarossa.

If it’s a retry of the same request it should have the same key. If it’s not a retry, a different one. I don’t see the issue. If the client sends the same key but a different paylo…

Has SQL somehow become less relevant?

Receiving one of those sounds really scary.

Couple of people in my company have vibe coded some chat interface and they’re passing skills and MCPs that give the model access to all our internal data (multiple databases) and …

Grok.

I use both and don't feel they're mutually exclusive. E.g. if I have some ElasticSearch cluster, I use a skill to describe the data, and if I ask the LLM to write code that queries…

Scott Alexander are his first and middle names, and Siskind his last name, or that's what I've understood.