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broast

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About broast

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    Comment #49238622

    I prefer to have the LLM ask me the questions

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    Comment #49049722

    many of us work with swarms of cheap off-shore contractors and have to rewrite or finish their code already as it is. The llm is much lower friction

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    Comment #47106563

    Don't they eventually become managers and tech leads anyway and outsource to their staff?

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    Comment #46768249

    On the discussion of the right or wrong tool, I find it possible that the ability to reason towards a goal is more valuable in the long run than an intrinsic ability to achieve the…

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    Comment #46679707

    It's essentially the same as an engineering lead writing a good jira ticket

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    Comment #46433470

    Prompt engineering is just good transfer notes and ticket writing, which is something a majority of the devs I've worked with don't enjoy or excel at

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    Comment #46278007

    But what about their two year head start? If everyone is executing at the speed of light, there will still be winners and losers

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    Comment #45954562

    So cool, I think all kids would love this

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    Comment #45926454

    Hey! Cool! I've been making this too: https://github.com/broast/aipageeditor Looking forward to trying it and see how far it takes the vision. Tweaks looks capable of very cool and…

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    Comment #45783967

    Good work. I've been thinking about this for awhile and also experimenting with letting the LLM do all the work, backend logic plus generating the front-end and handle all front-en…

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    Comment #45746673

    I think every single Windows release has necessitated some registry hacks to bring back useful features from the previous version

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    Comment #45210352

    I've had a flip 3 and flip 5 which both had screen and hinge problems within a year. I love the form factor but just don't take it to the beach. My flip 5 inner screen is currently…

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    Comment #45161884

    It's the cover screen of my zflip 5 with the inner screen being broken. It's surprisingly usable and I find myself wishing more phones were purposefully built at this size and shap…

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    Comment #45157705

    My mobile device is a square aspect ratio and thus there is no portrait mode to check this out :(

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    Comment #45063948

    So basically what an engineering manager or product manager enjoys doing

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    Comment #45013129

    > it will be harder to find someone to talk to understand what they were trying to do at the time. These are my favorite types of code bases to work on. The source of truth is the …

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    Comment #44980838

    Uploaded my own sci-fi art and was amazed by the result

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    Comment #44972856

    I definitely have

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    Comment #44912962

    I'm a bot

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    Comment #44868002

    The only feature I need that would accelerate my workflow that text file editors don't currently have is a column with the last modified timestamp of that particular line, and mayb…

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    Comment #44786225

    Reading code is just as fun as writing it, to be honest

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    Comment #44564716

    It's taken Cisco 25 years to recover

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    Comment #44553594

    This tool just made me realize I've been vibe coding at years for work as a manager. Great job, this is a game changer so far for me!

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    Comment #44473784

    I wonder how effective it would be to finetune a model to remove jailbreaks from prompts, and then use that as part of the pipeline into whatever agent

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    Comment #44347280

    If they waited to know the outcome then it wouldn't be a probability