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This analogy is one of the best I've seen. It's going to live in my head a long time, I think.

Just want to "me too" this. I have two weeks a year where I unplug completely from my daily work and it often results in a new project or skill that I wouldn't have thought of othe…

Glad I could help. I've been trying to use coding agents more than makes sense this year to get a feel for the tech. There's no good set of guidelines yet and everything feels like…

But... it shouldn't. People are arguing that a bad abstraction is better than none at all. Badly-implemented abstraction is the same. If you hit code that is duplicated organically…

The gold standard is code samples. I've got 1000-line convention documents with very simple rules like "Early returns on a single line". Llms sometimes ignore these or misinterpret…

Having worked with LLMs, you absolutely can golf most (>50%) lines of code out of existence. I regularly do, because it picks the wrong abstractions and sticks with them.

I think that AGI will make heavy use of LLMs. It's not a straight path, but a component. To compare with the human brain, have you ever been so drunk you don't remember the night, …

What a weird thing to say.

I mean, it's not actually autocomplete. But it serves the same role. I know approximately what I want to type, maybe some of the details like argument-order are a bit foggy. When I…

Hah. I don't work with (coding) people, so thankfully I don't have that problem

I've been through a few cycles of using LLMs and my current usage does scratch the itch. It doesn't feel like I've lost anything. The trick is I'm still programming. I name classes…

I've found small features helps. If I ask the ai "do this", I wait 10 minutes for it to be finished, then another 30 understanding what was written Instead, I start out broad. "I'm…

I'm in the JS ecosystem pretty regularly and "restrictive with no benefit" is the right description. I use JSON5 now when I have to, which greatly reduces the restrictions. I alrea…

I do a lot of local dev using docker. I've taken to adding an image just for agents and using that to make modifications. Agents can install or run anything they need without touch…

I think the point though is it's not a "story". It's a fundamental shift. The shift is subtle and doesn't lend itself to sensationalism. Entire countries have built their clout on …

I was with you up to "I do not give a shit" What font has been more tested for quick pass-through of data than the default system fonts? To me, this simply screams "This is the mai…

That looks really promising. It checks a lot of the boxes I already had in mind for such a system, like being able to continue a thread without exposing the whole thing to untruste…

I think we're still missing an "open social" closed social network. Something like old-Facebook where you can post to an intimate audience of friends and family, and your feed isn'…

Same here. I was surprised at everyone here who prefers the more-complicated-but-arguably-more-intuitive lexical sort. Naive alphabetical sorts break some expectations, but don't p…

This is about input, not visual frame rate. 20 ui ticks per second? For anything but gaming I'm probably good.

That is a great insight. Often the thought that breaks through developer block for me is " fine , I guess I can't do it that way"

It depends. I had an LLM whip up a JavaScript function "theThursdayAfterNextSunday" JavaScript isn't my primary language and date functions are always a pain. But I know enough to …

The thing about being left handed is your hand will naturally drag across the fresh ink of a fountain pen.

I bought mine from therealreal.com. I got a lot more ring than I'd normally be able to afford, and it's an elegant design you don't see everywhere. Check with the recipient beforeh…

I think there's a bit of an "everybody knows that" [1] phenomenon when it comes to knowledge like this. Devs come from different backgrounds and work on different types of projects…