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https://sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction probably describes what happens with sufficient nuance

sometimes you forsee the code developing vastly differently between the two copies so you don't want the refactor. it really all comes down to lack of online learning and contextua…

Use composer 2.5 fast in cursor (or cursor cli). YMMW but I find it fast enough to maintain focus on one task (if that's what you're going for given a particular problem

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Why aren't we using HATEOAS as a way to expose data and actions to agents?

cold take speculation: the architecture astronautics of the Java era probably destroyed a lot of the desire for better abstractions and thinking over copy-pasting, minimalism and o…

Has anyone measured whether doing things with AI leads to any learning? One way to do this is to measure whether subsequent related tasks have improvements in time-to-functional-re…

Great article. Really advances the thinking on error handling. Rust already has a head start compared to most other languages with Result, expect and anyhow (well, color_eyre and t…

IMO you need both things: culture to make it happen, and technology to make it easy and reasonable looking. Rust lacks the former to some degree; Go lacks the later to some degree …

I don't think there is anything in Go (the language) that helps achieve this - its mostly cultural. (Go creators and community being very outspoken about handling errors). In fact,…

I wonder if it would've felt more natural if the "part 2s" of the puzzles became separate days instead. (Still 12 days worth of puzzles, but spread out across 24 days, with maybe o…

pnpm just added minimum age for dependencies https://pnpm.io/blog/releases/10.16#new-setting-for-delayed-...

I don't think thats contrary to the article's claim: the current tools are so bad and tedious to use for repetitive work that AI is helpful with a huge amount of it.

Its not settled whether AI training is fair use.

No, it still doesn't work. But the only way to realise it is to actually really try using it.

Try actually doing it, realise how very far the outcome is from what the blog posts describe the vast majority of the time, and get dread from the state of (social) media instead.

I think agents have a curve where they're kinda bad at bootstrapping a project, very good if used in a small-to-medium-sized existing project and then it goes downhill from there a…

There are a few languages where this is not too tedious (although other things tend to be a bit more tedious than needed in those) The main problem with these is how do you actuall…

The OP is the author of grugbrain.dev

Indeed. Which is why I think the only way to really evaluate the progress of LLMs is to curate your own personal set of example failures that you don't share with anyone else and o…

What you think is an absurd question may not be as absurd as it seems, given the trillions of tokens of data on the internet, including its darkest corners. In my experience, its b…

Its hard to say. Historically new discoveries in AI often generated great excitement and high expectations, followed by some progress, then stalling, disillusionment and AI winter.…

Vibe-wise, it seems like progress is slowing down and recent models aren't substantially better than their predecessors. But it would be interesting to take a well-trusted benchmar…