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Reminds me of "Appeal to Aithority" > The LLMs says this, so it must be right. https://blog.ploeh.dk/2025/03/10/appeal-to-aithority/

I am also worried about "cognitive debt". I hardly remember what I had Claude do, even hours later. Back in May, I advised of a similar mitigation, citing the "generation effect" a…

Thanks for catching that. Updated my post

It's been on HN for 45 minutes. It's before 9am on the west coast

the punchline: "Refactoring reduces token consumption" I appreciate the effort to quantify the benefit rather than pontificate. It's worth mentioning Martin Fowler wrote a whole bo…

that's the real tragedy here

can we go after the real perp now?

Fair that motivated reasoning could be at play. Rob's audience is SaaS founders, but whether his listeners remain engaged and his sales funnel full does not influence how genai aff…

Three days ago, Rob Walling (SaaS investor) refuted pretty convincingly the claim that genai kills SaaS. His life mission and wealth are bound up in SaaS. If he's not scared, nobod…

Since 2002 Richard Stallman has spoken again using term "content" this way. > using the word as a noun to describe works and communications through which people have expressed them…

This is the right thing to do

That's an interesting argument. In construction, the larger a project, the more justifiable it is to invest in quality. Is it different than software? I think a better argument aga…

I'm glad you mentioned downward market pressure on quality. I agree that is an issue. That's why I advocate for licensure of software engineering professionals, which exerts a coun…

It's kind of like the saying "the right note played at the wrong time is wrong." An implementation that works today but could break in the future is wrong. I'm not willing to treat…

from the post: > It was reasonable to be skeptical the first time It's still reasonable to be skeptical. A few weeks ago a post was discussed here on HN [1] that asked: > What woul…

"when you're looking for things, you find them" - my physician explaining excessive reliance on diagnostic imaging

The job when picking up a codebase made by human or machine always involves reverse-engineering the design intent from code. That's especially hard for LLM-generated code because t…

Sorry about the infelicitious timbre. Nope, I'm just a happy customer.

I'm Doug, quoted above. I took Jimmy's excellent course, and when I learned about Command Center, I subbed immediately. I wasn't disappointed. It's a bit like turning your LLM into…

every time I use Gleam I feel happy

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> The tanker deal is not just a competition won; it is a decision that shifts the balanc I didn't just stop reading at this line, I slammed the back button like releasing an emerge…