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This is a very fatalistic take. While I understand where it's coming from, I try not to share the same mindset: engineers getting increasingly distant from how things are getting b…

an EC2 instance gives exactly what you're told you'll be getting. You pay for a VM in some public cloud, you get it. It's not that Claude code isn't a finite product per-se, I cert…

I absolutely understand the power user perspective. The point is not that, and maybe I wasn't clear enough in pointing it out. Here, something different is going on instead of the …

To me, this kind of talk exhibits the very cultish and con side of the whole genAI train. In a way, it does a poor job especially when the intent is positive about the technology, …

I assume you're some sort of programmer and I genuinely wonder how in the world can someone in good faith downplay non-determinism and ambiguity when talking about a programming la…

> These models are alien intelligences that could occupy an unimaginably vast space of possibilities (there are trillions of weights inside them), but which have been RL-ed over an…

I read the name and the first logical thought that came to mind was that of a platform to have AI agents iterating on rockets design. How doomed am I?

Since I've never used them, how could API keys for Firebase or Maps be safe for embedding in client side code? I mean, I get that authentication to the service is performed via oth…

Thank you for making me recover at least some level of sanity (or at least to feel like that).

I see testing as a better fit for general-purpose desktop setups, stable is a bit too conservative in that regard.

It's not only that they're stupid, it's the fact that maybe they don't really need it. Do they really need an iPhone? in a sense, yes, since the alternative still means spending a …