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xendo

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    Comment #49246916

    For anyone that does LLM supported work it's crystal clear that skill decline is real. Surprisingly, the leadership at my work doesn't give rats ass about it. They published AI eng…

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    Comment #49236423

    @antirez is a very prominent open source contributor that gets lot of shit done with LLMs. Mitchel Hashimoto is also open about using LLMs to speed up his work. There are some cave…

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    Comment #49113840

    Does that also increase the token count in their subscription like ChatGPT GO?

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    Comment #48650283

    Around that time I built a CLI to access and manage monitoring cameras that my company is selling. After giving a demo to my leadership I strongly adviced against releasing it to p…

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    Comment #48513962

    I appreciate how they waited till SpaceX IPO.

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    Comment #48509277

    Exactly, for long running vibe coded stuff that I don't care about quality getting big and smart model is the only option. But for high quality changes where I need to have control…

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    Comment #48347182

    Even with examples it's still not convincing. I'm working on real products so I don't have time to waste comparing models that won't be relevant next month.

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    Comment #48347124

    Maybe it depends on the task, but the biggest productivity gains are from boiler plate generation, and there it's as easy as "generate me the boiler plate". Even if you can learn s…

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    Comment #48346565

    I work with AI everyday, despite what many people suggest there is so little to learn. After a couple of hours you are good to go. You don't even need gstack.

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    Comment #48346374

    Sure, but for many folks the distraction is irresistible. It was difficult already to put care and craft into a product, having a slot machine for your attention makes it damn impo…

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    Comment #48346341

    In the old days, producing all those things would be tremendous learning opportunity. Today it's a pure waste, not producing income is not a problem, not producing anything is.

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    Comment #48346319

    AI make easy work even easier, at the same time it shortens the attention span making it more difficult to do any difficult work. That's why there is so little real progress despit…

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    Comment #47788855

    Any idea what makes for such a diff between your and theirs numbers? Batching? Or could they do a crazy prefix caching across all nodes to reduce the actual processing.

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    Comment #47602700

    You can argue that any UI is like a game engine in that sense. Some make sensible choices and don't need to pretend they have to render at 60fps.

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    Comment #47544856

    Highly recommend gron. https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

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    Comment #47389625

    I thought you needed 100k lines of code for a C compiler. https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler

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    Ask HN: AI WTF

    I need someone to explain me how is this supposed to work. I recently watched Sam Altman saying that model inference will get 10x cheaper in a year. I listened to Dario today and h…

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    Comment #46504755

    Highly recommend 'Proving Ground' book, it's fiction but talks exactly about this.

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    Comment #46498243

    Seems they have already removed > RustFS is written in Rust, a memory-safe language, so it is 100% secure From their docs. https://github.com/rustfs/docs.rustfs.com/commit/cd1ece3c…

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