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rco8786

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    Comment #49159593

    Do you think that cutting funding to a lab would improve or hinder its ability to react to an outbreak like this one?

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    Comment #49158713

    > it will sometimes spend hours to do few line fix and other times pushback on making big changes despite have over 3000 tests. you ever worked with human engineers before? :D

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    Comment #49155187

    I remember reading this line from his Gas Town article: > I predicted someone would lash the Claude Code camels together into chariots, and that is exactly what I’ve done with Gas …

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    Comment #49155147

    The reviews (both the contents and total count) are not exactly confidence inducing.

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    Comment #49154486

    The article talks very directly about abandoning human code reviews. Couple that with a layer of AI agents whose purpose is to produce work for other AI agents, and you've got your…

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    Comment #49154225

    > Measured, not vibes Sort of ironic considering that there are a LOT of vibe tells in the copy throughout this page. It's a neat looking project, it's a shame that every other sen…

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    Comment #49024641

    > Populist. If scalding hot water and the risk of a burn do not scare you, buy the Boiler. A kettle for real patriots. Not suitable for herbal teas and other woke beverages. Used b…

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    Comment #48504798

    > If you pay attention to what it's doing you can learn so much! I think your post is fair but it's worth pointing out that learning via watching is much less effective than learni…

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    Comment #48492783

    > We already collectively produce more software than anyone really wants You'll need to qualify that statement...

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    Comment #48347140

    It's a coordination problem. 70 amazingly responsible adults still need to coordinate amongst one another. Ad hoc coordination and communication always breaks down eventually.

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    Comment #48266082

    Well yes, ideally. But real world codebases aren't clean enough to be used as the example ideal. Styles change over time, there are always code migrations and refactors in flight, …

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    Comment #48261017

    > AI is only as good as the person using it Nailed it. That said, it couldn't have possibly been that bad if you got it to "acceptable" in 2 weeks.

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    Comment #48247635

    This is fine for one off tools and I do the same. But building long-lived "professional grade" production software this fails real quickly. My team is using AI for most of the code…

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    Comment #48246709

    Software engineers generate security bugs, Software engineers find them, then Software engineers generate fix, collect salary, profit?

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    Comment #48246690

    Yea. Modern Ruby is "fast enough", but it's very real that when Ruby was hitting its peak it was dog slow. It's hard to shake those sorts of reputations (similar to the "can't scal…

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    Comment #48136468

    Nothing to do with AI here, it's about immigration.

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    Comment #48128282

    I feel confident in saying that I am better at computers than 99.99% of the general population and I have no clue what “SS” or blue USB ports are supposed to indicate.

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    Comment #48066413

    In the US??

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    Comment #48034557

    > I am also not sure who Stripe Atlas for. This was such a weird mention to see in the article. Stripe Atlas is a service that helps new businesses incorporate and onboard onto Str…

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    Comment #47613091

    Ok? I'm just explaining what claude code is, not pontificating about the capabilities of AI.

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    Comment #47580216

    Claude Code is a tool that uses natural language ai systems. It itself is not a natural language ai system.

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    Comment #47556539

    If they’re reaching the same results across a variety of the most popular public models, it doesn’t seem like that big a deal to know if it was Opus 4 or Opus 4.5

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    Comment #47537402

    Yea this feels like saying “if you give them good enough specs they’ll produce the code you want” which reduces to…writing the code yourself. Just with more steps.

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    Comment #47511168

    GH is ripe for a disruptor right now.

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    Comment #47491592

    I think they're just saying that data extraction tasks are easy to evaluate because for a given input text/file you can specify the exact structured output you expect from it.