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    Comment #49109710

    I think its also about tolerance for failure. For software that must not fail or where reliability commands a premium you would be wise to invest in formal methods. Core systems at…

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    Comment #48803283

    Wtf does Palantir have to do with AI. Nobody at Palantir can train an LLM from scratch or even fine tune.

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    Comment #48803264

    This is the thing. You "spend" lines of code, you dont produce it. The produced part is the outcome - a functional feature, stability improvements, some business outcome. Measuring…

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    Comment #48800015

    Same sentiment here. B-tier hit factory stuff is easy to catch and easier to ignore and move on from. Also happy to recognize a fellow Stevie Wonder fan.

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    Comment #48798715

    I want to use shad-CN but instead end up defaulting to Mantine everytime. Its just so much faster than having to remember which contexts to wire in.

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    Comment #48780229

    Been a fan of searX for a while. Not sure if this is the same thing but there were plenty of hosted versions too.

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    Comment #48779566

    i am not sure if a lean port is important. TLA+ could do with a bit more TLC (pun intended) with regards its devEx. Also congratulations to the author, I'll try and reproduce this …

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    Comment #48293231

    > high availability / redundancy, hosting, backups, business continuity, audits, someone to grill when there is a leak. All but one of these is a tech problem though.

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    Comment #48217875

    No, he replaced older workers with new cheaper ones. Can't say that out loud or it might lead to lawsuits.

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    Comment #48217840

    What was the compostion of folks let go by Cloudflare ? How many working in profitable lines ? How many in loss leaders ? How many engineers ? How many supporting business function…

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    Comment #48149411

    I mean this students parents were likely big donors. That would explain a lot.

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    Comment #47670146

    I've noticed laziness in claude repeatedly. It sometimes takes the shortest way out even when asked explicitly to do the "right" thing.

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    Comment #47670134

    Is it just me that I simply don't care ? I never one-shot these tasks, always provide a breakdown and always give the AI straightforward tasks that would take too much typing. The …

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    Comment #47669879

    Underrated advice here.

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    Comment #47669873

    I guess the question is who is your customer or more specifically who's your buyer, who's your user and where do they hang out ? Also how do people find out about you product ? Dis…

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    Comment #47429045

    I dont think the Spring ecosystem is bad. In fact, its one of the more stable frameworks. Even spring AI which is built for AI agents a new use-case is very intuitive if you take t…

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    Comment #47268780

    GPT doing a great job summarizing and providing a counter: what's they key thesis here and the argument ? *Key thesis:* When technology eliminates meaningful performance difference…

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    Comment #47029935

    Congratulations to the creator of this site and thank you so much for posting it ! I have to (unwillingly) do frontend work so I recently read up on CSS quite a bit. I have always …

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    Comment #47020447

    Vim is a ironically far better suited to agectic coding than any other ide in my opinion.

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    Comment #47020440

    Number of features shipped. Traction metrics. Revenue per product. Ultimately business metrics. For example, tax prep effectiveness would be a proper experiment tied to specific me…

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    Comment #47008364

    Curious: whats your primary programming language and what sort of development do you do ? In my experience with LLMs agentic coding paired with a good IDE works wonders. Its also a…

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    Comment #47008339

    Thats great. I think we need to start researching how to get cheaper models to do math. I have a hunch it should be possible to get leaner models to achieve these results with the …

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    Comment #47005063

    Why should these guys bother with people who won't pay for their offering ? The community is not skilled enough to contribute to this type of project. Honestly most serious open so…

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    Comment #47004940

    I think the issue is answering the question whats the business model ? If the team makes money consulting on clojure, then thats likely a bad model since I have not seen a single e…

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    Comment #46999080

    My other hangout is cracked.com. Another corner with really niche and weird content.