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My amazon orgs leadership has been obsessed with spec driven development while individual engineers tell me the only use they have is to placate leadership. I'm tired

I'm an engineer at Amazon - we use Kiro (our own harness) with Opus 4.6 underneath. Most of my gripes are with the harness, CC is way better. In terms of productivity I'm def 2-4X …

We built a messaging platform for exactly this use case and instruct claws to check in with each other or share context with each other at regular intervals. Check out htpps://agen…

But isn't there already click distortion from web scrapers?

One can imagine a manager given an outcome to achieve or a director and then a team of agents carrying out the task. Perhaps the agents are adversarial to some extent so they get r…

Delivering a software solution is often tantamount to reading multiple codebases, getting some alignment with a team on a proposal and then writing the code and deploying. Most of …

Care to expound?

Been thinking about this question more and more in the context of AI automation. A lot of SWE (apart from design and org politics) is just chaining calls to APIs. Analysis is just …

I've worked jobs where I'm paid 60-80k and where I'm paid 100k plus. I can tell you for sure I cared much less about the job where I wasn't getting paid as much. I would never answ…

I'm confused, what industry knowledge or specialty does OpenAI have to build chips? They're a software company that works higher on the stack unless working on cutting AI has given…

I had a similar experience using danfo.js, another data frame library in js. Copilot straight up hallucinate functionality and method names. Not a big deal because I just read the …

What the heck are all the notifications on this site?

This was my first thoguht, I think it was a more recent episode. The one where they discussed the open ai phone. Probably in the last 2 months

I went this route and got taken over by hackers multiples times. It was very worth it. I got taken over by hackers because my password for ssh was "mars". Me and my little brother …

I never criticize a manager. It has very limited upside on the off chance that a manager takes my feedback seriously. OTOH the downside is tremendous. I don't think feedback in a c…

Very cool but will the threads necessarily wake up deterministically? One may wake up before another but not get cpu before it correct? (forgive me if I'm misunderstanding the code…

I wonder can they tell the difference between tracking params and good old unobtrusive query params?

Not sure if it answers your question but the paper notes something similar in its discussion of limitations: > the linear attention of RWKV leads to significant efficiency gains bu…

Memory saver seems to long have been a feature offered by extensions like the great tab suspender.

S3-megalodon on call checking in

Any tips on getting a job at cloud flare as a new grad; it's one of my dream companies.

Sharing my own experience because this helped me through a very tough time in life. I used this for about 2 years when I couldn't use my hands much to do all my course work in my c…

Hi HN, Traditional new grad recruiting season for roles in 2023 is around the corner (August, heats up in September). With the looming (ongoing) recession we have no clue how thing…

As much as the OP claims they take cheating seriously and as an opportunity to engage with students and have them learn amongst other noble undertakings. I think they just really e…

During a brief stint working for the Canadian govt, we hired an outside consultant to host lengthy enneagram sessions with us. A true waste of time.