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foolserrandboy

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    Comment #48858086

    I think remember you said in one episode you didn't want to run ads in the podcast so you could talk about anything you want, but most of the episodes are about one of historical e…

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    Comment #48651299

    It rejected Asians more because of their higher SAT scores? If it’s not directly based on applicants disclosing their ethnicity then probably something more obvious like names.

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    Comment #48646259

    Inertia is on our side

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    Comment #48495464

    4 day work week could help with this like weekends help sell more automobiles.

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    Comment #48491627

    I think LLMs will make vertical slice architecture more common using less abstraction. If juniors are mostly relying on LLMs then they will accept the long files it generates and n…

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    Comment #48467226

    This is just marketing that Anthropic is building the singularity.

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    Comment #48392827

    What happens if you just keep vibe coding is? Does it whack-a-mole fix one area and break another?

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    Comment #48378529

    He would tell you NFTs were AGIs if it might get you to buy them.

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    Comment #48246344

    2 months ago: no limits. 1 month ago we had a leaderboard for whoever had the highest token spend not taking into account what was actually produced. This week: “everyone is using …

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    Comment #48052899

    yup, the standard way of thinking about agents seems backwards and probably costly. Use LLMs to write scripts, then stick all your scripts in your own looping harness and call out …

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    Comment #48000029

    Can you describe how you work in this higher level? Sounds like scratches a similar itch that traditional programming offers.

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    Comment #47801322

    See payolla for the radio era equivalent.

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    Comment #47801318

    When reading this I immediately thought of them. Anyone I know who plays an instrument said their socials are flooded with them.

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    Comment #47683844

    Are they admitting they may be enslaving conscious beings?

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    Comment #47599289

    Yup, strange to see people still don’t understand LLMs massively speed up coding greenfield pet projects. Anytime you see a bee web app it’s better to assume AI use rather than not…

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    Comment #47542174

    It actually gives you warning in an overlay first that the favicon would change if you open a new tab. I did and I got "zuckerberg nudes"

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    Comment #47455182

    The executives are, not the devs.

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    Comment #47395091

    Yup, and we arr wasting our weekends worried about keeping pace in an imagined red queen's race. Another similar post today. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388646

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    Comment #47392372

    they fantasize about unpaid interns writing specs and nobody ever needed to look at the code in a few years

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    Comment #47266921

    https://www.econtalk.org/seiko-swatch-and-the-swiss-watch-in...

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    Comment #47245968

    Isn’t this the type of work interns used to do? Prototype hackathon type things?

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    Comment #47218126

    Are ethnic Chinese from Taiwan still allowed? If so it's probably just about the US' geopolitical rivals not being allowed perceived competitive advantages.

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    Comment #47209863

    Probably many SICP or "Write Yourself A Scheme" readers have pushed basic scheme compilers to GH.

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    Comment #47035317

    We know because we're not shooting rockets at them.