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andoando··on Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work
Id highly disagree with that. Were all living in the same shared universe, and underlying every intelligence must be precisely an understanding of events happening in this space-time.
andoando··on Show HN: I built a DNS resolver from scratch in Rust – no DNS libraries
I dont get this criticism at all, would you prefer someone write a shittier UI? And since when were people writing amazing bug free software before hand where not being vibe coded meant you could trust its good software?

I guess to be fair, beforehand no body would be attempting this kind of thing and releasing it unless they knew what they were doing

andoando··on EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
I think I agree. Fast iteration in many cases > long thought out ideas going the wrong direction. The issue is purely a mentality one where AI makes it really easy to push features fast without spending as much time thinking through them.

That said, iteration is much more difficult on established codebases, especially with production workflows where you need to be more than extra careful your migration is backwards compatible, doesn't mess up feature x,y,z,d across 5 different projects relying on some field or logical property.

andoando··on EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
I mean to be fair, if you are using agents more than likely you are not thinking about aspects of the code as deeply as you would have before. If you write things yourself you spend far more time thinking about every little decision that you're making.

Even for tests, I always thought the real valuable part of it was that it forced you to think about all the different cases, and that just having bunch of green checkboxes if anything was luring developers into a false sense of security

andoando··on EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Agent coded != vibe coded.

I don't write code manually anymore, but Im still getting the exact code output that I want.

andoando··on Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide
Is there any nice themes for pi?
andoando··on Chess in SQL
Technically you can model anything in SQL including execution of any Turing complete language
andoando··on The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
I guess Im sometimes dishonest when it suits me
andoando··on The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
I think the motivation is to let developers use it for work without making it obvious theyre using AI
andoando··on The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
Ive seen it say coauthored by claude code on my prs...and I agree I dont want it to do that
andoando··on Coding agents could make free software matter again
What bandwith limits? Im assuming the forward and backward passes have to be done sequentially?
andoando··on Coding agents could make free software matter again
Why isnt LLM training itself open sourced? With all the compute in the world, something like Folding@home here would be killer
andoando··on If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
Thats still pretty bad. Its no longer private if all your code goes through LLM training set and is resurfable to everyone publicly.

Why would I ever use copilot on any code Id want to be kept private? Labling it a private repo and having a tiny clause in the TOS saying we can take your code and show it to everybody is just an upright lie

andoando··on $500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks
I dunno how you guys even go throuh the $200 subscription. I use it every day for work and side projects doing tasks in parallel and Im no where newr the limit on $100.
andoando··on Goodbye to Sora
To try and get continued usage. They no doubt A/B tested the shit out of this and saw it gets higher responses
andoando··on Flash-MoE: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Laptop
There's definitely use cases for this for long running tasks, like doing research, but for typical use cases they require way too much constant supervision and interaction
andoando··on Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD
Pretty sure a gram of pure meth or even adderall would kill you
andoando··on Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD
extended release are just two doses of the drug where half the beads are delayed by ~4 hours. How is that different from taking two edibles a day and claiming full day efficacy?
andoando··on Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD
No not just like it, because the only difference with methampathemines is that the added meth group makes it able to cross the blood barrier much quicker, hence why I said its equivalent to a lose dose of meth. The chemical/biological response on the body and brain are very similar, the difference is in potency
andoando··on Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD
I dont have a problem with the study or its conclusions, just the parent post I was replying to.

>Recreational drugs make you feel good temporarily. That's literally why people do them.

The point Im making is this is true for a ton of psychiatric or even non psychatric treatments. And to be perfectly clear Im not saying you should be treating your anxiety with weed, even if it does help you

andoando··on Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD
Im prescribed adderall for ADHD. It is a high. You feel more positive, more productive, more forward looking for a few hours and its back to baseline or worse when you crash.

As for impairment, it really depends. If weed removes your anxiety and lets you relax, its benefit could be greater for what youre doing than the impairment it causes. And adderall, SSRIs can cause impairment of sorts too.

andoando··on Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD
But a lot of psychatric treatments are just that. Treatment for ADHD for example is giving ampethamines (which btw are chemically no different than a low dose of meth), which have a duration of 3-6 hours and its back to worse than baseline after the effect has worn off.
andoando··on Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD
How do amphetamines treat the source of ADHD?

Psychiatry as its practiced has no idea as to what depression even is under the hood. The entire science is based on the patients self reported feelings or the psychatrists feeling of how someone else is feeling.

What you're saying is something else, that drugs can produce long term harm despite short term improvements

andoando··on Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD
This point of view makes no sense to me.

If you take it and you feel your anxiety is lessened, that's the greatest proof you can ask for. All the psychiatric studies are already based on self assessment.

Second, a lot of psychatric treatments are temporary, ending whenever the medication is stopped or wears off so I dont see how this would be any different

andoando··on Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)
As someone currently writing 16-18 tables all with common definition, and crud, Id like some abstraction
andoando··on Wired headphone sales are exploding
Same. Either the jack fails or the one of the buds stops working or the cable on one side of the buds gets cut somehow.
andoando··on Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?
Im curious though, what do you consider slightly out of the ordinary that it fails to do?
andoando··on Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?
There is absolutely no way. Those tasks take 5 mins to do. Itd be done by the time you read the documentation for elvenlabs
andoando··on Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?
For any non professional work its there for me.

Wire up authentication system with sso. done Setup websockets, stream audio from mic, transcribe with elvenlabs. done.

Shit that would take me hours takes literally 5 mins.

andoando··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
I haven't read wikipedia in a long time so I can't answer your question, I am just pointing out that just saying "the facts are correct" is not enough to say there is no bias on wikipedia
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