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I have had to force quit Spotify a couple times recently because it was using many GB of memory to the point where it was unresponsive.

Agreed, considering "taste" to only mean UX or aesthetics is taking things too literally in my opinion.

It does make you wonder if the July shedding of jobs could be lowered even further to ~100k+ jobs lost (since they revise down very consistently).

You can be 10x more productive if you don’t verify anything the LLM generates and just YOLO it into your codebase. I wouldn’t recommend it.

Is this actually happening anywhere in a medium-large business with an established product and real customers?

You overestimate the average person

The interesting question is "Which problems are LLMs good at solving, and which problems are LLMs bad at solving?", which could also be restated as "Which problems are cheap for an…

If the prompt was crafted by an expert mathematician with pages of context and insights provided to the LLM to put it on the right path, that is a lot less impressive than a prompt…

This has been my nights/weekends project. It is an online platform to learn how to code with the Python programming language through guided projects and interactive lessons. There …

Hey, thanks for trying my thing! The first couple of steps in the project are sort of "welcome/intro" steps. Once you move a few steps forward then you will actually be in the spid…

This has been my nights/weekends project for the last 3 years and I've finally launched an initial version of the thing. Hope it can help some people learn the joy of Python!

This is very cool, I've never heard of Scastie, I'll need to take a closer look at that. I created a similar platform for Python (actually submitted to HN earlier today: https://ne…

The subtext of this whole post (or at least a subtext that some might read), is "we don't need mathematicians/programmers anymore" or "we will need much fewer mathematicians/progra…

I wonder about his marketing channels. If it was primarily SEO, that has taken a huge hit especially for programming related searches since AI answers showed up at the top of the S…

Really depends on the suburb. Where I live in NYS (a suburb of Buffalo) all of those things are within walking distance if you live within the village limits.

In some languages you can create a type that is equivalent to a string, but it’s own distinct type (sometimes called the New Type pattern). Which I guess is the same as a struct wi…

I had a repeatable process set up with o4-mini that gave very good results. It generated output in a structured format, and the results were fairly formulaic but good. I did a lot …

Yea, more likely for the majority of the code nobody reviewed it. It was over a million line diff.

Most people have no need for a SOTA model, and even a model from a year ago would be fine for their needs (a little bit of research, small bits of writing prose, etc).

It's true for computer science and any STEM discipline. Even if the PhD eventually does account for increased wages (it often doesn't), you usually have to work decades at that hig…

I think it just depends on the workflow. A lot of times (probably the majority of the time) a well crafted deterministic process is what people want. Sometimes you can have a multi…

The real best case scenario is using LLMs to help build deterministic systems. Instead of asking an LLM to do some task that you know will be repeated, instead ask the LLM to build…

Getting a PhD is almost never worth the foregone wages if your goal is to be in private industry. For sure, people should get one if they are interested in research, or specific jo…

I agree, it seems like the current most popular languages and frameworks will become ossified, because they have the highest amount of training data. It's hard to see a future wher…