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montfort
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About montfort
Previously: built the first mobile app to relay Mexico City's earthquake early warning, with its push infrastructure (2012).
Blog: https://montfort.dev
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Comment #48736339
What I've noticed for the past couple of days is a spike in resource consumption for trivial tasks like examining a commit or listing a directory; it goes around in circles with ab…
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Comment #48682039
I have a similar impression. I think it's because the workflow isn't fully refined, and the IDE interfaces don't match that undefined flow. These are strange times; for a moment, I…
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Comment #48681973
Exactly, that's precisely the point. They're different experiences. What I achieve now with three weeks of theoretical work, other teams achieve incrementally over several months i…
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Comment #48679206
I suppose our opinions stem from different experiences. I don't expect AI to do all the work with just a paragraph of instructions. Some people do, and they get very poor results. …
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Comment #48669992
I understand your point, but what you're describing is exactly the kind of mistake even the best human programmer could make in a poorly managed environment. I'm concerned that sin…
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Comment #48669075
Under very specific instructions to obtain only logs and not make any changes to files, Gemini Pro 3.1 applied remediation measures by altering configuration on two occasions. It o…
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Comment #48669009
The profession has already changed. For the past eight months, AI has been competent enough to code like the best human programmer, but strangely, the software isn't any better yet…
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Comment #48664364
TUI applications are necessary when most of your workflow takes place in the terminal, and their functions are embedded almost like a pipe into that flow. Unlike graphical desktop …
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Comment #48662961
I do see the point if you focus on embedded systems that struggle running a monolithic kernel like Linux, implementing a microkernel architecture and an efficient, open user space …
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Comment #48662653
Take a look at the AMD Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform with a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor. These systems, with 128GB of unified memory and their specialized processors, deliver gr…
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Comment #48662499
I use my own tool (released as open source "StrangeDaysTech/straymark"), which takes blocks of related implementation tasks, builds a comprehensive prompt with auditing instruction…
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Comment #48662080
This is a common experience for everyone. A combination of small models with overly abbreviated prompts will produce poor and faulty output. This is where what's called "prompt eng…