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mrugge

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    Comment #48887610

    LLMs are non-deterministic and can benefit from guardrails which frameworks happily provide.

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    Comment #48711446

    Will, is that you?

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    Comment #47649118

    I have been able to produce 20x the amount of useful outputs both in my day job and in my free time using a popular coding agent in 2026. Part of me is uncomfortable at having from…

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    Comment #47514160

    1. Efficient recursive transform of kv embeddings into polar coordinates 2. Quantize resulting angles without the need for explicit normalization. This saves memory via key insight…

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    Comment #47487207

    Could add a scheduled GitHub action that compacts long history into a vector db and then have the agents also check that vector db in addition to md and git history.

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    Comment #47041556

    The world is full of Juliuses. And if one works with enough people one can suddenly realize that they too are a Julius relative to someone smarter and more introverted. Worth consi…

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    Comment #47015297

    Connoisseurs of calligraphy may disagree. My point was that humans are very connected to and identify deeply with their tools. Probabilistic autocomplete we are so excited about th…

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    Comment #46995658

    Exec A: Can Exec B meet me for lunch? AI: Exec B is too busy gorging their brain on the word salad I am feeding it through her new neural link. But I now have just upgraded my body…

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    Comment #46995425

    Where does the machine begin and end? Even a fountain pen is a highly advanced mechanism which we owe to countless generations of preceding, inventive toolmakers.

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    Comment #46995322

    I feel for the author. Until recently it used to be that writing was a way for humans to project their thought into time and space for anyone to witness, or even to have a conversa…

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    Comment #45858424

    I think this marathon attitude of not trying to win but to hit personal targets could be applied in other areas of life and in other sports even with clear "winners". None of this …

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    Comment #45768735

    I thought the Russian version was pretty funny. Thanks for calling it out.

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    Comment #45758935

    usually packages use packages in any worthwhile language with useful packages and desire for code reuse...

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    Comment #45578701

    Why do you think what you describe being excited about does not warrant the current level of AI hype? I agree with your assessment and sometimes I think there is too much cynicism …

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    Comment #45521262

    dad is busy vibe coding a scheduling app

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    Comment #45208165

    You're missing the empathetic way to comment on someone's obviously unpaid, labor-of-love work. Instead the conversation is about you: your years of seeing "projects like these", y…

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    Comment #45207788

    It can also serve an indicator of being in the know and with the times while also being performance-, close-to-the-metal oriented. "A dot file manager not written in Fortran, but o…

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    Comment #45196361

    More specifically I will stub out a simple unit test by hand to zoom in on where I think the issue is. It then turns into an exhilarating and wild ride from there.

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    Comment #45196335

    I use claude code all day long to debug gnarly legacy code. Sometimes in languages I barely know. It works great especially as a second opinion or to get unstuck. It is very fun bu…

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    Comment #45193756

    How did you feel when you read my response? That's how people who see through the BS will feel when they receive an AI generated note from your app.

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    Comment #45193738

    claude code cli

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