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Comment #48987486
you don't have to compare whether stochastic fuzzing or agentic testing is the best. You can just do both of them. They both have enough ROI to be worth the trouble. That's why I s…
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Comment #48987464
It reminds me of how AI will estimate that a coding project will take "4 weeks" and then proceed to finish the task itself in 15 minutes. AI models are changing the world much fast…
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Comment #48871761
It’s 2026, so another basic technique that every team should add to their testing strategy (in addition to proven techniques like fuzzing) is agentic user simulation. Set up an AI …
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Comment #48754965
Yeah I think this is a good approach. I’m pretty AI-optimistic when it comes to making code changes. But reading AI generated descriptions (including pull requests) is absolutely t…
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Comment #48348883
Slowing down development is the wrong goal. I see a desire for slowness come up a lot with developers. If you pursue that goal all the way to its logical conclusion then eventually…
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Comment #48346547
old and inaccurate knowledge.. - Skills do take up space in the context. The name and description of every skill goes into the system prompt. You can't add unlimited skills without…
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Comment #48170583
Good question but people are doing it anyway. It's a fact that right now tons of people are buying Mac Minis specifically for this use case, to treat them as their personal data ce…
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Comment #48170432
That's a lot of assumptions. I think there are also people buying new hardware specifically for this purpose, and their motivation to do it is thinking it will be cheaper in the lo…
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Comment #48156613
The time difference does matter though. There were some recent worm attacks in NPM that spread very quickly because they used post-install. I don’t remember how long it took NPM to…
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Comment #47980577
There’s a difference between: 1) the minimum number of employees it takes to maintain the core product Vs 2) All the employees that it makes sense to hire for revenue and market ex…
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Comment #47884698
Offshoring has been a common practice for decades, it works great for some functions and not great for others. Why would it suddenly have a massive uptick in 2027?
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Comment #47509867
If you look at IOS app store submissions then there is a pretty obvious increase that lines up with recent AI tooling (especially the release of Claude Code): https://www.reddit.co…
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Comment #47432817
In a world of AI coding I think rule 5 is still as important than ever. I don’t validate everything Claude does but I do put attention on data structure design since it’s so import…
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Comment #47431511
Hiring a human is gambling too.
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Comment #46736579
Lol anyway, the point is that even in a scenario where all the major models disappeared tomorrow (including OpenAI, Anthropic, etc), we would still keep using the existing open sou…
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Comment #46736187
> it's the running costs of these major AI services that are also astronomical There's wildly different reports about whether the cost of just inference (not the training) is expen…
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Comment #46642542
Great analogy. I've never worked at a company as large as Google but in my experience things can be a little more optimistic than the post. When earn enough trust with your leaders…
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Comment #46317209
It was just a few months ago that the MCP spec added a concept called "prompts" which are really similar to skills. And of course Claude Code has custom slash commands which are al…
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Comment #46089990
to some degree this is a "market correction" on the inherent value of these papers. There's way too many low-value papers that are being published purely for career advancement and…
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Comment #45601585
> AI as a product isn’t viable Yeah I don't know about that, the model providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, etc, literally sell intelligence as a product. And their business model is …
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Comment #45582666
Simplest version of Kubernetes is zero Kubernetes. You can instead run your service using a process manager like PM2 or similar. I think even using Docker is overkill for a lot of …
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Comment #45568733
That's a good concept but I don't think Markdown is expressive enough for all the layouts & formatting that people typically want in PDFs. More likely that the source format would …
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Comment #45564827
Working on dev tools for MCP servers. As a building block I recently published a library to help write tests for MCPs - https://facetlayer.github.io/expect-mcp/