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I’ve specifically used Opus to diagnose and fix performance bottlenecks in parallel Rust code on multiple occasions (e.g improving NPS for a chess engine) and it works well. I’ve d…

Have you actually tried performance optimisation using an agent? With any programming language/framework that has quality profiling tooling (which is a prerequisite for most projec…

At the risk of sharing an unpopular take, this reads a lot like someone who decided how they feel about LLM-driven engineering ~5 months ago and doesn’t seem to reflect the current…

My favourite interview question that I received was when I was asked to write code that would serialize/deserialize a binary tree and was told it was fine to use "any programming l…

Net worth or net income? Being 40yo with only 200k of worth between two when you’re halfway through your working life and have had 10y of appreciation of assets isn’t very much to …

Running with your ankle at an angle occasionally gives great strength/mobility benefits. You'd need to be putting out some serious racer pace for curb cuts to be impacting your exp…

Off topic (but helpfully hopeful to someone!): In the rare cases where I get motion sick I can usually "hack" my way out of it by closing my eyes and imagining myself skiing down a…

Not doubting this at all but could you (or someone else) break this down for the sake of my curiosity? I understand pension contributions, but what are the other "hidden" costs tha…

Except you can actually “scan” a digital photo with a Polaroid quite effectively and it will look pretty much identical to a real Polaroid, so even that is security theatre.

Nitpicking, but the worst case of spending $25k is unforeseen circumstances that write off the entire asset. I don’t think -$2000 is a conservative enough figure for standard depre…

I'm not sure you are arguing against the point that the above poster is making. They aren't saying "giving money to foreign companies is bad". It's "in order to have a healthy dome…

It’s still Orleans! https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/orleans/overview?pi...

With the exception of 3 (How to survive in the world of AI: use AI!), these have all been par for the course all along if you wish to succeed at senior+ level. With the current sur…

Unfounded speculation but it's curious that it's soon after enabling 1M context tokens on the default plan. I wonder if there are some long-tail load ramifications of this pricing …

You don't need to be rich to get a working visa (assuming you are a competent software engineer -- plenty of places in Europe will hire you, and there is a path to citizenship). Yo…

Serious (but not easy) answer: You can move to a different country that more aligns with your moral standings or interests. You're (presumably) a valuable asset that will provide a…

Look into git worktrees and thank me later!

Not trying to pick apart your point but I rotate a small set of staple clothes and they’re in fine condition after two years (haven’t had much time for clothes shopping since toddl…

This obviously depends on what you are trying to achieve but it’s worth mentioning that there are languages designed for formal proofs and static analysis against a spec, and I hav…

Depending on the application, I think “without preprocessing” is a huge assumption here. LLMs typically do a terrible job of weighting poor quality context vs high quality context …

As a Brit that relocated to Norway a decade ago, trust me when I say you cannot fathom the lack of organization around identity that the UK (somewhat intentionally) has. (It’s cons…

I think with the official deprecation of IE this is mostly a thing of the past since all major browsers are “evergreen” and support a pretty recent standard. This certainly was the…

> the execution of JS code it down to the browser rendering the page where it’s deployed. As such it’s practically impossible to get any code to run consistently Can you elaborate …

Kids these days don’t know how easy they have it with flexbox!

The day we have a “human free military” is the day that every human on earth wakes up to find they just got enlisted without notice. Game theory only works when you have skin in th…