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Re: Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak

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Post by fsckboy »

MostlyStable wrote: post #30

I take the point, but I think the author picked a poor analogy. Cooking even an excellent steak is actually not that hard. In fact, I'd argue that it's among the easiest things to master/make at a top level quality at home. Does it require some modicum of attention and understanding? Sure. But starting with a high quality cut, owning a meat-thermometer, and knowing about reverse searing is about all it takes to relia…

>I take the point

interesting, because if you want a steak medium rare in France you order it "au point", "at the point"

>Cooking even an excellent steak is actually not that hard. In fact, I'd argue that it's among the easiest things to master... and knowing about reverse searing is about all it takes

but discovery (or rediscovery?) of reverse searing was just a few short years ago.

"not spreading infection between patients is easy, just wash your hands" was a huge discovery, not an "oh, everybody knows that"

Re: Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak

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Post by DonHopkins »

igiveup wrote: post #271
el1s7 wrote: post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're also a rando, but the difference is that the rando who wrote article made it into the front page of HN

And I consider that a great achievement, not being on the HN front page when I have nothing to say.

If you really have nothing to say, you shouldn't post when it doesn't contribute to the discussion and is just whining.

Re: Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak

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Post by QuercusMax »

tstrimple wrote: post #392
QuercusMax wrote: post #181

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"bacteria can travel to the surface of the muscles during the butchering process" This way undersells what's actually happening: fecal matter from the intestines gets onto your meat. This shouldn't happen with proper practices.

Somewhere between the stomach and the anus fecal matter is created. E. Coli lives along the entire tract. You're not wrong, but it's not just fecal matter which contains E. Coli. Basically the entire process involves it. Stating that shit on your meat is the source of E. Coli is understating the issue but it also triggers a more visceral reaction.

The stuff which causes you to have diarrhea that gets on the news is caused by the contents of the digestive tract being spread over your meat. Whether it's technically fecal matter or not doesn't really matter if it's stuff that will cause YOU to lose control of our bowels.

Proper butchering SHOULDN'T spread the contents of the digestive tract on the large muscles.

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Post by antonvs »

BenjiWiebe wrote: post #313
_carbyau_ wrote: post #311

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> hit it with that A1 This is likely some food thing I don't know about rather than a quite large piece of paper yeah? But when I google "A1 food": - AI summary: "A1 is a famous Malaysian food brand known for herbal soups and instant noodles" - top link is "A1 Nutrition Lean Protein Blend Dry Dog Food 15kg" At this point, I don't know what is going on.

A1 steak sauce. Been around for 195 years, hence the GP didn't feel the need to expand.

It’s pretty much limited to the US now though. Most people elsewhere are unlikely to have heard of it.

Re: Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak

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Post by lmm »

brianmcc wrote: post #418
lmm wrote: post #355

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Talking about the "royal we" is a correct, established (if somewhat sarcastic) way to complain about this kind of usage. It highlights the presumptiveness of the author in their use of "we".

No it doesn't. It comes from the Queen saying "We are not amused" to mean "I specifically am not amused".

It has other uses. But the point is that saying "we" when one is not, in fact, a sovereign, is extremely pretentious.

Re: Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak

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Post by wildzzz »

crazygringo wrote: post #333
wildzzz wrote: post #217

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I used to sous vide steak in college with just some hot water and my roommate's six-pack cooler. Water should be no more than 5F warmer than the cook temp. For a medium rare steak, cook temp is 129F so get close that. Salt the steak no more than an hour before you start. Steak goes into a Ziploc bag, submerge it up to the zipper to let water pressure force out the air and then seal it shut. Close the lid and come bac…

The sous vide is not the hard part here. It's the deep frying for the sear. Not many people are willing to deep fry in their kitchens. It's messy, potentially dangerous, and not only stinks up the entire house for days but leaves a layer of oil over everything in the home that builds up and you can never really fully remove. There's a reason restaurants have massive powerful vents above the deep fryer, and that peopl…

Simple answer, don't deep fry a fucking steak. I have never seen anyone do that and I can't imagine why you would need to do it. Just put it on a hot cast iron pan (you can buy one cheap at good will).

- Meat thermometer (you should own one anyway, keeps you from under/over cooking chicken) - Sixpack cooler (again, very common to own one, very cheap to buy 2nd hand) - gallon sized freezer bag (probably costs about $0.05-0.10 depending on how big of a box you buy) - Cast iron pan (can probably get one for $5 2nd hand or just use a normal stainless steel)

No oven needed which means you can make this with a single electric hotplate.

Re: Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak

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Post by gyanchawdhary »

skullone wrote: post #429
gyanchawdhary wrote: post #77

The author has clearly not traveled much .. across much of asia, ME, and generally anywhere near or south of the equator, a steak cooked well done is considered the finest way to eat beef … the same also applies to AI generated code .. it may not satisfy a craftsmans idea of perfection, but it accomplishes what most people actually expect from it .. to take it further .. a film makers fav film is usually unwatchable…

Are you just ai? You make the least intelligible points ever

says the username whose last comment was "Yawn. Databricks and their half baked overly expensive platform." lol

Re: Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak

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Post by aqme28 »

muzani wrote: post #320
aqme28 wrote: post #178

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If you cook enough you can tell by feel

The resistance of the steak is going to depend on what cut of meat you are poking (sirloin is stiffer than filet), the grade of meat (prime is more tender than select), how thick it is (thick cuts will yield more than thin), the age of the steer (young is more tender), the breed of steer (cooked Wagyu is more tender than Holstein), the age of the meat (wet aged is more tender than fresh killed), and what the steer wa…

Yes, I meant given a similar cut ofc
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