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How well agents can do this is mostly proportional to how well they can understand and navigate your codebase broadly. There are various contributing factors to this, but they incl…

This is a great technique! In this case, I had made an overlarge squashed merge that included both the Intercom integration (a suspiciously likely cause of slowness) and the feedba…

Not off topic at all! While in this case we’d included the emoji font for displaying user content in another part of the app, the hazard of letting a “simple” approach expand and g…

The FDA (or equivalent in the relevant country) regulates whether an approved drug requires a prescription based on the safety profile. To be approved for OTC, there is a much high…

My experience raising in Vancouver is that there are two angel communities. There is an easier to find Vancouver-centric investor group that behaves as a you describe. Many of thes…

Thanks Grey – other than the presenting-at-an-event flow I do really did like the Figma Slides experience, so this is great to hear. The world is better off with a strong Figma.

This is interesting, but the values could use some refinement: gpt-4o: speed 3/5 gpt-4.5-preview: speed 3/5 gpt-3.5-turbo: speed 2/5 In practice 3.5 turbo is, what, 5-10x faster th…

I mentioned Ruby and Python in this vein, but PHP with Laravel would count in my book too. That said, PHP may be nearing the stage Java has gotten to, where it’s well-understood bu…

While this can be done in principle (it's not a foolproof enough method to, for example, ensure an LLM doesn't leak secrets) it is much harder to fool the supervisor than the gener…

Yeah this is an interesting point. Other threads make the point about the "bitter lesson", and how expert-trained ML has historically not scaled, and human-generated LLM training d…

I think this is a valid criticism. I weighed a few different titles that would fit in my (arbitrary) title length limit, but on reflection the one I chose was too glib. My core poi…

> Also "generate some better examples" sounds like fudging data to fit the expected outcome. LLMs are tools. As a tool author, you have certain desired outcomes for certain use cas…

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Yes, good point – I should have written towns, rather than cities. I just pushed a fix, thanks.

> be sure to do it strongly in one direction or the other, so that you set the direction of exploration, too. This reminds me of a game design technique Blizzard learned to use bac…

https://allenpike.com/ I’ve been writing monthly for 10 years, and otherwise for 20. Topics have ranged from product development to leadership to breakfast cereal selection techniq…

I too find this frustrating, but I’m curious about the claim that Chrome is the most common browser on Mac. I sometimes see this claim, but I struggle to find any data to back it u…

I’m susceptible to this too, but I believe the two reasons VR motion sickness is much less discussed nowadays are: 1. Often it’s triggered by frame rate hitches, which seems solvab…