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Step debuggers don't "create Heisenbugs", you're just much more likely to notice race conditions while step debugging than print debugging. If anything, print debugging creates mor…

I would estimate print debugging is usually twice the work for 30% of the effectiveness of step debugging. It's the screwdriver to step debugging's drill. Fundamental and absolutel…

VS Code is not fit for professional software development. JetBrains products are far and away superior. Sublime Text is nice as a notepad, extended clipboard, and quick file editor…

> It is also, believe it or not, possible to own a moderately loud car (even with a modded exhaust) Not legally in many places. California limits exhaust levels to 95 dbA or less, …

Yes, that all tracks, and all of those skills are worth maintaining and improving. Great to tinker with LLMs locally hands-on to learn, and having a powerful enough machine to enab…

> Having a machine that can run some modest local LLMs, like the Gemma 4 12B, is really worth it. Agree having a powerful machine is really worth it in general for professionals, b…

> is it even possible to do read-write to a git repo over https instead of ssh? Yes; it's not only possible but very common: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/git-basics/about…

I had some local model FOMO, trialed for a few days, and tentatively arrived at the same conclusion. I can get a better ROI on the time I spent waiting and dealing with poor qualit…

main character syndrome

Saving this for the next time someone trots out the "All cloud providers are the same" line

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogenic_bolete_mushroom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilliputian_hallucination

And putting aside the definition of "earn", extreme wealth inequality is objectively bad for society regardless of how it arose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_economic_i…

Doing so would be an effective admission that LLM guardrails are inherently probabilistic, unpredictable, and insecure. Plus the only truly robust sandbox approach would be clunky …

> When I came back a few minutes later I saw my machine open a browser window in my regular Firefox and then navigate to the dialog in question. I had not told Claude Code to use a…

https://gizmodo.com/meta-settles-lawsuit-that-claimed-social... > Meta Settles Lawsuit That Claimed Social Media Addiction Screwed Up Schools > On Thursday, Meta settled a lawsuit …

Poor Marky Z. always getting a bad rap. Let s/he who hasn't made zillons getting billions of people hopelessly addicted to social media while facilitating a genocide or two and gen…

Correct, I was referring to being arrogantly blunt and insensitive, not short/efficient emails.

Yeah that attitude will not get you far in life unless you're Steve Jobs, and it'll sink your ship unless you're obnoxiously rich. And even if you're either/both of those things: A…

Haiku/Flash/small models are underpowered for literally anything where being non-false-positively correct on details matters at least like 25%. (That's not to say they are only cor…

Thank you for your topical pontification in response to my input.

Thank you for this addition to the conversation. Perhaps you wish to also contribute your own response to the question posed by GP.

My comment was in response to: > How much pontificating needs to be done before people acknowledge nobody has any idea what to do with AI on an individual level? I explained the id…

Servers and/or their supporting infrastructure break in a million annoying ways when you throw a bunch of traffic at them. The top 2 culprits I've seen over the years are memory le…

I write software that makes money and AI helps me write software that makes more money.

Call me old-fashioned and quaint, but I don't like to build software that doesn't work all the time if I can help it, whether it's for 10 users or 10 million.