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PestoDiRucola··on On AI writing
Maybe. On the other hand, maybe the reason models aren't good at writing yet is because the labs don't think it's useful or profitable (yet) to focus on training models for writing prose.
PestoDiRucola··on Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours
Holy mother of whataboutism.
PestoDiRucola··on Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours
> What is a Russian citizen supposed to do?

Who cares. Their government started this, and by all accounts most of their population supports, or is indifferent to it. They made their bed and they can now lie in it.

> So at the breaking point, will Russians storm the capital or storm Ukraine?

They've been storming Ukraine for the past 4 years now.

PestoDiRucola··on Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions – Resolved
Production has a critical error and we need to push a fix while our whole build pipeline runs on GH CI. Which is not working. Thank God their critical parts never break.
PestoDiRucola··on Ask HN: Do you keep Emacs installed out of nostalgia rather than usefulness?
Why would I use something inferior to emacs in the first place? :)
PestoDiRucola··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Not even for the average person. Luna is an amazing model for most coding tasks.
PestoDiRucola··on Dramatic insider warnings over AI fall flat with some in Silicon Valley
> will be inseparable from humanity and/or have the means to replicate

How will this happen if you need insane amounts of compute to run these models? Where will the models replicate themselves by taking up PBs of space without anyone noticing?

PestoDiRucola··on Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)
> You and the AI agree on an outline or other high level representation, then the LLM expands it into a document.

What a horrible, cold, inhumane world that would be.

PestoDiRucola··on AI has torched the market for junior programmers
What makes you think that models will improve with the same pace that they have been improving in the past few years?
PestoDiRucola··on Ask HN: How do you keep agent-written PRs reviewable?
1. Ruthlessly keep PRs small (use stacked PRs if needed)

2. Very strict CI (tests, linting, if you can afford it an agent to review the code)

3. Related to the first point, but simply refuse to review PRs over a certain number of lines of code (within reason, some PRs cannot be split into smaller ones)

PestoDiRucola··on Anthropic is conditioning our minds
I think you're giving the claude code team too much credit. I don't think that's a feature but something that probably got vibe slopped into the harness by claude
PestoDiRucola··on Ask HN: How much time do you spend reading books?
> because every other form of media is trash

Not trying to be controversial, but do you also think forums such as this one are trash?

PestoDiRucola··on Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2025)?
Unified LLM client written in the Gleam language: https://github.com/Endi1/llmgleam/
PestoDiRucola··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2025)?
Working on a JSON streaming parser -> https://pypi.org/project/jsonversation/
PestoDiRucola··on Ask HN: Thoughts on Curtis Yarvin?
There's nothing neoconservative about his ideology. He's some sort of monarchist paleoconservative.
PestoDiRucola··on An Introduction to Tribalism for the Modern World That Has Forgotten It
For a pretty good book on this topic and why western societies managed to break from tribalism I recommend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WEIRDest_People_in_the_Wor...
PestoDiRucola··on Ask HN: What are you actually using LLMs for in production?
Claude Sonnet 4 is pretty good for programming stuff, albeit pretty expensive. It's also good for other things as well. I like using it as a conversational partner when developing the systems architecture whenever I'm working on something new.

Gemini 2.5 is pretty cheap and has a huge context window, although not as good as Claude for programming. For that reason I would suggest to use is through the API if you're building a product that has an LLM step.

PestoDiRucola··on Ask HN: Could we possibly be the last generation of programmers?
Probably not.
PestoDiRucola··on Bunkers in Albania
And the guy that was forced to get inside the bunker was this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Moisiu
PestoDiRucola··on gptel: a simple LLM client for Emacs
May I ask why do you want to ditch emacs and in favor of what?
PestoDiRucola··on Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro
It's the same in modern Italian: dolce (sweet) and piccante (spicy/strong)
PestoDiRucola··on Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro
> Nor was there corn for polenta

Before corn, polenta was made with barley: https://historicalitaliancooking.home.blog/english/recipes/a...

PestoDiRucola··on OpenAI suspends ByteDance's account after it used GPT to train its own AI model
> Just look what happened to Federal President of Germany, Christian Wullf, when he declared that Islam is part of Germany.

What happened to him? By reading the Wikipedia article, he seems like a very corrupt individual in a position of power. I don't see how Bild was involved in that.

PestoDiRucola··on Elixir saves Pinterest $2M a year in server costs
I wonder if this will be another effect of higher-than-0 interest rates. With tech companies choosing to leave cloud service providers in order to reduce their costs.
PestoDiRucola··on Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands
You sell an art-piece you own to yourself (hidden under several layers of shell companies based in various island-nations) for 5 million.
PestoDiRucola··on China Has $3T of ‘Hidden’ Currency Reserves, Setser Says
Well they didn’t go to war with another country, but the great leap forward massacred millions of chinese citizens.
PestoDiRucola··on Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
What kind of argument is this. So engineers have to pick between working on a long weekend and not shipping any code without any option in-between?
PestoDiRucola··on Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo
On that note, does anyone know if there’s any decent lemmy mobile apps? I searched a bit but couldn’t find anything meaningful
PestoDiRucola··on Comparison of different Lemmy Instances
> or politics

As far as I've noticed those politics discussions boil down to different degrees of reverence for Deng Xiaoping, and if one is slightly to the right of Bernie Sanders you get banned.

PestoDiRucola··on Apollo will close down on June 30th
> It's a no-brainer decision to try to kill it if it's hindering your ability to make more money

The no-brainer decision would be to make your app a lot better than any third-party app instead of pulling the rug from under people whose work has made reddit better in the long-run.

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