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llms are 100X for me, but only 10X goes into actual shipping code. the rest is all on doing the dev process the way it actually should be done: incremental POCs, refining specifica…

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I have used AI almost exclusively for a year, but I was programming by hand for almost 30 years before that. I don't think there is any difference between going from assembly -> C …

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The problem is that the cost curve for completeness/correctness goes asymptotic at 90-99% so the cost up building complete/correct software is never worth it from a revenue perspec…

In the early 90s I had an elementary teacher who was an amiga nerd and had a couple for us to play with. Best class ever.

The concepts of industrial reserve capacity and using dual-use consumer goods to subsidize military production capacity are well known and widely practiced historically in the US. …

Interesting. I am not familiar with model internals at this level because I have only been working at the application layer so far, but will definitely research this further. When …

This also comes with significant capability reduction. deepseek-v4-flash is very good in the [edit] This is my observation from using it without an specific context engineering to …

Deepseek is still charging cached input at 1/10th the price of any competitor. For an example of my real token usage for a day with DS: Input (Cache hit) 530,949,760, Input (Cache …

You really have to look at energy/capita and how much energy is embedded in exports. The gross numbers are misleading. The US wasn't building new electrical generation capacity bec…

I don't disagree but something less bad is better than something more bad if those are the only two options. I only said Duolingo was better than Youtube. Duolingo is nuts. I get m…

"broad anecdotal consensus" very scientific. i don't disagree, but is it better than youtube? tiktok? instagram? (cocaine? meth? fentanyl?)

Can you point to any serious studies that show the opposite? No. They don't exist. There cannot be any serious studies until there is a generational cohort that can be evaluated fo…

literacy causes profound brain structure changes and psychological effects, and mass literacy results in profound social transformation. which is why people have be trying to preve…

code review is a dead end. the only way building with AI makes sense is in secure systems that can run unaudited code. code review has always been a liability fig leaf. it is much …

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Moving module by module is definitely the safer way to do it, but at the module level you do the same thing. You have to have it feature exact so that you can replay test against t…

Rewriting while changing features is the worst idea ever, which almost always leads to failure, and is the reason why "don't do rewrites" is a widespread rule. Whether it is humans…

An LLM can do this easily if you have a good test harness

How would you know? Are you an expert in the language and culture that its texts were originally written in? Even an expert would qualify their interpretation by saying that it is …

Every single SaaS app will be completely rewritten in the next couple years. Fair warning. If you aren't on that train you won't have a job.

Exactly. AI opens up a massive development frontier of projects that were simply impossible before. It does differentiate though. In the old world most "software engineering" work …

this is a modernist misconception. ancient religions are philosophical frameworks and the texts are internally coherent arguments for those frameworks. They are just expressed in l…

priming obviously works. it is inherent in the physical structure of the brain. nerve endings from various all over the body terminate in different physical locations in the brain,…