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I had my "wow" moment recently and saw an AI agent do something do over a weekend something that I spent years developing a relatively niche skill might have needed a month to comp…

I bet a huge amount of that is on your head, or if it is factual, a function of a toxic work culture where people are primarily incentivized to "outperform one another" rather than…

It's a little different because cloud and blogs didn't actively get in the way of your home compute. To wit, the various cost spikes for hardware. People -- WANT -- this technology…

As a semi-savvy programmer, but with little experience in web-dev, I'm actually a bit ignorant of what a site can measure -- client side -- versus collect server side. Presumably i…

Presumably why the person you are responding to called it a modified ad hominem.

Is that the hang-up? Like are people so unimaginative to see that none of this was here five years ago and now this machine is -- if still only in part -- assembling itself? And th…

I think think this must be why so many advanced level texts are couches in "introduction to..." language. Maybe it's a concession to not being able to cover every topic! Because my…

Perk is... quite a thing. I think if you like programming because you like believing you have secret knowledge... go for it. Perk will scratch that itch. But I do not believe it be…

I have to agree -- I generally avoided Twitter/X over the past decade. I started poking around in there once in a while the last few months and everything time I'm left exasperated…

It's not a matter of a "deal" to be made or agreed to, it's a matter of paying a fair share of the cost to organize a society. When Capital gets to reap dual benefits of revenue fr…

I have been curious about this. Where can you find definitions for the basic operations to build up from? IEE754 does a good job explaining the representation, but it doesn't defin…

Well... is it really? Just because someone can pump out some kind of product that someone will buy doesn't mean it's actually worth any externalized cost whatsoever. It's one thing…

It would seem likely they were consumed by the proximate concerns of evading notice and making it to the plane and had no idea or thought about the dangers of being at such high al…

There are enormous pressures on a new parent -- stress about getting back to a normal work routine and lack of sleep compound into a unique kind of stress and things start to slip.…

Well, they just got like $170 Billion budget passed, so they've got plenty of money to stay busy for a while.

We were 38 with our first. I strongly agree that is too late to have them, especially given the likelihood of birth defects. Thankfully, we avoided issues there. A few years in and…

At face value, I think I agree -- especially the format of the website being in a sort of hand-designed style. "Assembly Theory" is a sort of applying (kolmogorov-esque) complexity…

I'm nearly certain it's the dopamine response of "solving problems" coupled with the fear of losing a paycheck. Morality isn't a consideration.

Sort of both. I believe there are massive polarized forces that invest heavily in understanding and gaming the system. Sort of like a big multi-player game of tug of war . The syst…

Were the database configurations "vibe coded"? My understanding is the notion is about getting an application to "work" without any underlying theory of operation or evaluation of …

Right. There are two problems with software generally like this: interface and culture. Becoming expert at a tool like git involves building familiarity with the concepts involved.…

The problem with this sort of analysis is that it's incremental and balanced across a large institution usually. I think the reality is less like a switch and more like there are j…

Ahh, sorry, yeah. This stuff is classic. "Old" even.

If you are interested in programming language theory (think language design) then, yes. In some sense, this kind of stuff is impossible to avoid. If you're an engineer focused on s…

I wish cache analysis was exposed more broadly everywhere . Everyone I deal with seems to understand and know how to think about it, but best practices seem to be wrapped up in a l…