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lackoftactics

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About lackoftactics

GH: Lackoftactics Senior Ruby Dev & WIP master degree in data science/AI

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    Comment #49211012

    That could be true for novel problems from Deep Tech industries and not everybody can solve those. If you are doing another app, the product experience and marketing will probably …

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    Comment #49210927

    That’s interesting there was creativity experiment results proving that could be true. https://austinkleon.com/2020/12/10/quantity-leads-to-quality...

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    Comment #49210502

    I showed some old Olga Tokarczuk essays to my friends to pick what was ai slop and what was not as experiment, pre- 2020 ones from Czuły Narrator to be exact. Guess what, they pick…

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    Comment #49182076

    I guess it's dating app fatigue makes us promote old articles :) Fun fact, I learned yesterday that Bumble will delete swipes in their upcoming app reset and go ai assistant way. N…

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    Comment #49160236

    as much as I love analogy with humans using super-shoes, not everybody can be a world-class expert in their industry. There should be a place at the table for average people to tak…

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    Comment #49160158

    Yep, he is a PR stunt guy, and the number of videos that come up when you type Ed Zitron into YouTube should tell you how many people are eager to feed their cognitive biases.

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    Comment #49070044

    My thoughts too. The LLMs made me understand that the world had been working like that long before LLMs. Luck plays an enormous part in life. We gravitated toward a discipline that…

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    Comment #49036321

    rant first: oh, I recently heard about you from a friend working in a company after I mentioned that I also got into photography. Nice work on pixelpeeper.com to the article: Yeah,…

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    Comment #48921082

    Not only buggier, but less usable overall. We can not blame everything on AI. For example events discovery platforms and ticket platforms were way better decade ago, you could sear…

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    Comment #48820404

    also the conseqeunces of implementing it badly from scratch don't make sense if you can use battle-tested solution

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    Comment #48820381

    It's one of those things you shouldn't trust LLMs to such an extent; that part should be very solid because the consequences of bad practices are getting to front page of hacker ne…

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    Comment #48730306

    There was a recent interview with Dax Raad on the Pragmatic Programmer podcast, and they talked briefly about it. We would like a future where we do just a bit more work and are ha…

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    Comment #48730289

    other thing could be also true, if you are great developer who spent decade honing their craft (vim, working on hobby projects, grinding when your friends party) you would hold cog…

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    Comment #48676132

    definitely hard to beat Bun at the moment, the live reload is crazy good

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    Comment #48664756

    they introduced static typing (Sorbet) to avoid problems, it's completely different app and looks nowhere close to what you experience in standard Rails app

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    Comment #48664659

    Why do you think that follows? I was on team dynamic typing for about 12 years, and Ruby was a big part of that. I still think dynamic languages can be wonderful to read and write.…

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    Comment #48663642

    Even as rails dev, I am seeing that you might be right. It’s really hard to find specific pros nowadays that Ruby brings to the table. All that talk about conventions over configur…

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    Comment #48660281

    there are only limited number of patterns for ui,ux, CTA. It sucks to be stolen from, but we build on top of each other most of the time

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    Comment #48648224

    Two questions. How do you handle the competition like https://github.com/ENTERPILOT/GOModel and Bifrost? They already moved to more performant languages like Go. What is the moat o…

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    Comment #48593358

    And the effort to produce valid benchmarks is tremendous. You are probably right and that’s very annoying. We already had flame wars over frameworks and this is way worse, your vib…

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    Comment #48593330

    Thanks for the link! I thought I know every obscure law and I was so wrong.

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    Comment #48593314

    Looked at your repo, even starred. On the surface, I like your approach a bit better. It looks like your idea sits at the space between semantic search and compressing tokens. I wa…

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    Comment #48592980

    1. Are you sure no one is fooled? It’s the main thing managers are praising rtk for and using as an argument for it’s validity. If this is gamed, then it paints a very different pi…

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    Comment #48592753

    As an author of the text, I can say you are „absolutely” not correct. I might be already spending too much time with llms and they start to shape my texts, so I am not proud of tha…