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AI enhances human ability. In this case, it enhanced someone’s ability to be an asshole.

No you’re just deflecting his points with an ad hominem argument. Stop pretending to assume what he ‘truly feels’.

AI is too useful to fail. Worst case with a bust is that startup investment dries up and we have a 'winter' of delayed improvement. But people aren't going to stop using the models…

Agree that LLMs go too far on error catching.. BUT, to play devil's advocate a little: Most human coders should be writing a lot more try/catch blocks than they actually do. It's v…

Neat investigation but I didn’t totally follow how the project would be useful for reverse engineering, it seems like a project that would mostly be useful for evading bot checks l…

I think this prediction of "vibe code cleanup" is massively overblown. It's amazing how much code quality doesn't actually matter to the business. Yes we recognize symptoms and dow…

it's kind of tongue-in-cheek but it would provide the maximum amount of isolation from any upstream package changes. Even if the package versions are removed from NPM (which happen…

Pnpm 10.x also has a feature to disallow post-install scripts by default. When using Pnpm you have to specifically enable a dependency to let it run its post-install scripts. It's …

solution: add your entire 'node_modules' folder to source control.

I think different things are happening... For experienced engineers, I'm seeing (internally in our company at least) a huge amount of caution and hesitancy to go all-in with AI. No…

Yeah Dario has said similar things in interviews. The way he explained it, if you look at each specific model (such as Sonnet 3.5) as its own separate company, then each one of the…

There’s a magic component to rule breaking that a lot of online advice doesn’t usually talk about: You have to actually be right. Your ideas have to be good. Companies don’t want e…

I have to agree with the author about not adding "v1" since it's rarely useful. What actually happens as the API grows- First, the team extends the existing endpoints as much as po…

Imagine a browser with no cross-origin security, lol.

That’s bad because visiting an evil site can easily trick your browser into performing one of those requests using your own credentials. CORS doesn’t stop the backend state effect …

Fyi Kilocode has low credibility. They’ve been blasting AI subreddits with lots of clickbaity ads and posts, sometimes claiming things that are outright false. As far as spend per …

Lots of signs point to a conclusion that the Opus and Sonnet models are fundamentally better at coding, tool usage, and general problem solving across long contexts. There is some …

No this app isn't launched yet. And yeah, customer data is definitely a very valid thing to be concerned about.

Mainly working on a dev tool / SaaS app right now. The PII is user names & email. On the security layer, I wrote that code mostly by hand, with some 'pair programming' with Claude …

I've had days where it really does feel like 5x or 10x... Here's what the 5x to 10x flow looks like: 1. Plan out the tasks (maybe with the help of AI) 2. Open a Git worktree, launc…

Yeah the outrage is a little artificial and definitely premature. Some facts for sanity: 1- The poster of this blog article is Kilocode who makes a (worse) competitor to Claude Cod…

There’s been a ton of ‘service overloaded’ errors this week so it makes sense that they had to adjust it. Personally I’ve never hit a usage limit on the $100 plan even when running…

Very fun and some of these ideas are.. actually not terrible.

The AI definitely gets confused when there is a lot of stuff happening. It helps if you try to make the commands as easy as possible. Like, change 'make' so that '-j8' is default, …