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josephwegner

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About josephwegner

Former engineer, current Engineering Manager. At the time I last updated this (2022), I worked at Heroku. Serial giver-upper on startup ideas, and ashamed steward of many half-finished GitHub repos.

Somewhat obsessed with new tech and startups.

http://joewegner.com hn@joewegner.com

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    Along with the hordes of other options people are responding with, I'm a big fan of Perplexity's voice chat. It does back-and-forth well in a way that I missed whenever I tried any…

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    This assumes there is no added benefit to being able to reach your kids/be reached by your kids easier than it was historically. While I agree it's probably not as critical as many…

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    Give it time. Networks are a garden that grow over time, and moreso if you cater to them. Some of those starving grad students will be VPs in 10 years.

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    I will say, there is a Wendy’s near me that is piloting an AI drive-thru experience, and I prefer it 10-to-1 to the human version. It had a clear voice, it didn’t disappear randoml…

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    Pretty sure they lost to rsync ;)

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    Same, actually. I’m feeling much more pro-ollama suddenly!

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    https://archive.ph/FwBr5

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    > coding isn’t about the finished product. its a lot like writing This doesn't seem applicable in most contexts. Yes, when I'm coding for fun or purely for learning the finished pr…

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    I become more and more convinced with each of these tweets/blogs/threads that using LLMs well is a skill set akin to using Search well. It’s been a common mantra - at least in my b…

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    Thank you. It's too late to edit, but goodness am I embarrassed now. Very sorry, Kasey!

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    But I am actually interested in the economics! The author mentions sending her designs out to a factory - I would expect this is astonishingly expensive for a single prototype! Wou…

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    https://archive.ph/vVbiR