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This is an interesting perspective I haven't heard before. Do you have links to anyone who has articulated this further?

Think about what the implication here is for people who answered no to that question. If I were to go up to my boss and say "I'm not interested using AI because I think it's bad fo…

I would be inclined to agree with this except that my "most common needs" keeps expanding and increasing in difficulty each year. In 2023 and 2024, most of my needs were asking mod…

I just refactored a bunch of our microservices into a monolith. Fortunately the business justification was pretty straightforward because it was clear to all of us that the service…

>Since the database is used by everyone, it becomes cared for by no one. Startups don’t have the luxury of a DBA, and everything owned by no one is owned by infrastructure eventual…

My company has the github page for it blocked. They block lots of AI-related things but that's the only one I've seen where they straight up blocked viewing the source code for it …

Hey pretty cool! I recently added a similar feature to my neovim setup. I can press a keymap and cycle through all of the unstaged git hunks with each shown in a preview window. I …

People like to make fun of these models for sounding like a broken record, being over complementary, etc, but I'm actually starting to think that models having a very recognizable …

What are folks doing who were just using it for CI/test/dev environments? Just build the image yourself? Use Garage as some have suggested? I'm curious what people see as the pros …

This is pretty neat. Similarly, I feel like we are really close to smartwatches being able to replace smartphones for all essential tasks. I try to rely on my apple watch with cell…

Funny to see this today. I'm a rank and file dev at a non-big tech company and I got a call from a Windsurf sales rep this week who I had connected with on LinkedIn the day before …

As it pertains to Python in particular I think OOP is great for libraries but of limited usefulness at the application layer. Things like pytorch's nn.module IMO is a great abstrac…

Do we work at the same company? You put it much better than I could have. Do you know if polars at all solves the problem of having opaque, mutable objects everywhere? I feel like …

I recently watched a talk by the author of uv that was surprisingly fascinating [1]. He goes into a few of the more notable hacks that they had to come up with to make it as fast a…

Unrelated but does anyone have any recommendations for good resources on learning how to write tests/testable software?

Does anyone have a good heuristic for when a dataframe library is a good tool choice? I work on a team that has a lot of data scientists and a few engineers (including myself) and …

Related: I found out about a vim/neovim plugin called Molten[1] that tries to be a replacement for Jupyter Notebooks in the terminal. It was a little rough around the edges ~5 mont…

Is there a lot of innovation happening in this space for military applications? I ask this as someone totally unfamiliar with the technology in general. It seems like it could grea…

I'm curious in what sense you find Python difficult to deploy? My company has tons of Python APIs internally and we never have much trouble with them. They are all pretty lightly u…

You might find it interesting to know that for track cycling the penalty due to lower oxygen uptake is less than the advantage due to less air resistance. In other words track cycl…

Uber has a phone number that you can call to hail a ride. https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/17/you-can-now-hail-an-uber-b...

I use an app called Jomo to block YouTube, as well as about 10 other distracting applications. It runs on every device I have and makes it very challenging to use the app when I fe…

There needs to be an updated CLIP-like model in the open-source community. The model is almost three years old now and is still the backbone of a lot of multimodal models. It's not…

Been following Jon Barron et al’s work for a little while now. The speed of improvement given the complexity of these types of systems is mind-boggling. I wonder how long it takes …

From the interviews with him that I have seen, Sutskever thinks that language model is a sufficient pretraining task because there is a great deal of reasoning involved in next tok…