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trueflow - a code review TUI that semantically chunks code changes into reviewable “blocks”, and assembles them into a Merkle tree, so you can have an overlay of reviews of differe…

I guess to follow up slightly more: - I think the "if you use another model" rebuttal is becoming like the No True Scotsman of the LLM world. We can get concrete and discuss a spec…

As usual with Oxide's RFDs, I found myself vigorously head-nodding while reading. Somewhat rarely, I found a part that I found myself disagreeing with: > Unlike prose, however (whi…

The jankiness of the original had a lot of charm, almost selling the dystopian absurdity of trying to deploy a service via the janky voice and slightly desync'd audio and animation…

Presumably cargo clippy --fix was the intention. Not all things are fixable, though, which is where LLMs are reasonable for -- the squishy hard-to-autofix things.

If you want to do great work, that usually happens in environments with minimized politics. It's probably bad career advice to completely avoid politics (most places aren't doing g…

One of my favorite LLM uses is to feed it this essay, then ask it to assume the persona of the grug-brained developer and comment on $ISSUE_IM_CURRENTLY_DEALING_WITH. Good stress r…

I haven't read all the comments and I'm sure someone else made a similar point, but my first thought was the flip the direction of the statement: "Waymo rides cost more than Uber o…

Usually if you’re using it, it’s because you’re forced to. In my experience, the best strategy is to minimize your use of it — call out to binaries or shell scripts and minimize yo…

This is a silly extreme case, but it's kind of an absurd example of what happens when you live a life devoid of the principle of charity[1]. I think tons of interpersonal engineeri…

Yeah, I more or less agree about the closed loop part and the overall broader point the article was making in this context — that it may be a useful use case. I think it’s likely t…

> But I just checked and, unsurprisingly, 4o seems to do reasonably well at generating Semgrep rules? Like: I have no idea if this rule is actually any good. But it looks like a Se…

It’s just not that big of a mystery. It’s not an excuse; it’s just true. Also, they’re not especially selling reliability as much as they’re selling small geo-distributed deploymen…

Reliability is hard when your volume is (presumably) scaling geometrically.

Based on the ole' joke about outfitting custom planes, "If you want to do anything to a plane... /anything/..., it's 250. New coffee machine? 250k. Rotate the sofa? 250k." -- $149,…

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The topic came up again and maybe this has been changing lately. I downgrade my above comment. I still think that it got popular in the U.S. first and then propagated back to Japan…

Most Japanese people do not use this term, and I'm fairly certain most Japanese people don't even really know the word. This is one of those "Big in Japan" things, except, uh, "Big…

I think it's a mix of: 1. Queues are actually used a lot, esp. at high scale, and you just don't hear about it. 2. Hardware/compute advances are outpacing user growth (e.g. 1 billi…

s3 is not optimized to directly serve websites, but to durably store and retrieve ~unlimited data.

I prefer AuthN and AuthZ. I don't think sharing a prefix/root implies that they're the same thing. Also, I don't think the suggested "permissions" and "login" terminology would wor…

Yeah, you can avoid holding the xact with the means that you mentioned, e.g. SKIP LOCKED and set some value to PROCESSING, then do your processing, then update to DONE at the end. …

I personally think polling the queue/table via queries is a very sensible pattern and not something I have a desire to remove. In theory, you could go at it via a push approach by …