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benstein

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About benstein

Oakland. Beagles. Basketball. Biking. http://benjaminste.in

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    I rebuilt isitchristmas.com using 484 subagents and 16 million tokens to learn how Claude's dynamic workflows work. Oh, and today is not Christmas.

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    Comment #45919446

    I really appreciate how much thought you gave this. Interesting to me that biggest tells came out of the attempts at humor and metaphor.

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    Comment #45919410

    The title was intentionally ironic :-)

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    Comment #44132643

    +1000. "Human coders are still better than LLMs" is a hot take. "Antirez is still better than LLMs" is axiomatic ;-)

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    Comment #40882984

    I made my own webmail client in 2001. The killer feature was a Heart button that one-click opened a new mail addressed to my then-girlfriend-now-wife. I've never seen that feature …

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    Comment #40164688

    "Special Olympics T-Ball Stand Pitches Perfect Game" is the greatest headline ever written

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    Comment #39302569

    The different prompting strategies needed to improve results for different models is fascinating. I usually tell ChatGPT the role it should play to get better results e.g. "You are…

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    Comment #38124564

    I wrote the article and I think it's funny

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    Comment #37896014

    Why hate on that game? It had both great puzzles (challenging yet approachable) AND was pushing the envelope of CD-ROM as a new technology, specifically the use of video + celebrit…

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    It's a good point, but the challenge is we sometimes just get street1 from a utility without city/state/postal. We tried USPS and geocoding libraries, but they fail because they of…

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    Comment #37407495

    Using an LLM to solve day-to-day programming problems, replacing more traditional algorithms, data structures, and heuristics

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    How much money has Google made from me?

    Excluding things I know I pay for, such as storage and hardware, how much has Google made from me in the past 10 years? Across search, ad networks, GMail, Chrome, Android, etc. Bon…

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    Comment #11738758

    Cliche, but I've found this to be an amazing interview question for nontechnical positions. You learn quickly how much someone can hand wave and bullshit. If they are too cocky and…

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    Comment #10693128

    TL;DR buy all your vanity domains early. Just a prank. Move along.

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