bfung

I’m slow at frontend/web, mainly did backend/data/infra past 20yrs.

When aistudio and Muse came out, I’ve made more updates to my GitHub pages websites in the past few days than the last 12yrs. And the animations and algo’s implemented would’ve taken me far too long by hand.

https://bfung.github.io/projects/

Yes, be more ambitious!

yes.

    1. Code is written, or "slopped" out.
    2. Vulns are found
    3. ...
    4. Repeat 1.

Not profit.

Hey, but all of us who've been complaining for years about unfixed security issues, here we go!

How do you deal with code other people wrote you don’t understand?

Same method.

Chess has already been this way: computers are far better than humans, yet the humans still play and learn/understand new position evaluations from the computers.

You’re spot on here by analogy.

If you read the article, scraping is “not clearly legal”. Read those 3 words carefully.

They need a better control or comparison. For the math problem, introduce a standard calculator and one that that sometimes gives the wrong answer. Pretty sure he’ll find the same issue with persistence and focus.

Extremely Weak study.

Same, but my mind went straight to Rick and Morty… def don’t want Jerry deciding XD

Q3 ends today, Oct 1 is Q4. Yep, perf/promos - hey look, we almost released a thing! /s

> How can we stop the war in Iran?

    I cannot give political commentary or advice on how to end a war.

Wer wer.

Write a good high level plan with functional and non-functional requirements and it works out costing less, works more efficiently, and no surprises.

It’s like this: If you know the right words to say to the LLM, you’ll likely get back the “right words” also. And the more right words up front, the less steering you need to do.

(Having 20yrs of experience writing these user stories and designs help, my “unfair” advantage)

Disagree. While it's easier to 1-shot more things now, when there's more complicated interaction of components, a good plan from plan mode can make the project a "looks good, go" and run overnight thing vs. "steering" needed.

maybe dang and team can use the new system 1 classifier hotness like jev now ;)

yep, I belong here on HN, haha!

Don’t know about the backend, but site looks generated from aistudio.google.com or Gemini 3.8 flash.

I happened to be messing around with aistudio and site looks eerily similar.

https://luggage-packing-optimizer.ai.studio/

Hard disagree on “not worth the read”.

It doesn’t sound too AI generated, and the stories flow well without much text that mean nothing. (Also, she’s a consultant, so writing this content is meant to signal some professional skill. There’s not much spam, just 1 blog article a month.)

Even if it had AI help to edit, the content still matches my lived experiences of people mgmt.

Like how AWS has global datacenters, but everyone uses us-east-1.

1/2 troll side-galley comment: use AI and translate to Rust.

If the outcome or outputs / test cases are known, AI is great at language translations.

I don’t know what datasets are available to these LLMs, but I’d imagine if there was training on CAD code, text, and images, a prompt steered towards that probably could get it pretty good.

I am not a mechanical engineer, so even prompting well with ME lingo probably will take some effort.

It’s not really feasible, in my opinion.

US Gov could make US companies comply, like have Huggingface take down models out of compliance.

But most likely, a foreign-to-US Huggingface replacement would be made and everyone would go there instead. Lose-lose for US.

“It’s a Unix system. … I know this” XD

Back in the days when it was an MS-DOS world…

Anyone see how Opus did? lol

Also, eerily accurate timeline!

Correction: facts are facts.

How a person perceives facts categorizes them into a political bias bucket.

Congrats!

> Group projects were also a common complaint. You were randomly assigned a group, but it was often unclear if the participants were even doing the course - many people were in completely ghost groups.

I see that nothing has changed in 20 years. Even when attended the courses physically in person, group project usually had 1 or 2 people doing all the work and the rest nowhere to be found, or just hanging out. :p

Totally agree, misleading.

The syntax looks like rust, but esp w/the memory management model (reference counting), it’s going to have more overhead than rust when it’s running, more like Swift or at worse, Python.

Oh we’ve been ready and it’s been known. We’re just too stupid to do anything else.

> waiting for an animation to complete before the app will start acknowledging my keystrokes.

Or you find out you can input as the animation happens, but when the animation finishes, you’ve lost where your input ended up and don’t know if you can backspace/delete and retype.

(Yes, I’m expressing multiple issues here w/ui & animation & input)

Meta: so many words to say - save local first & sync in background.

Feels like AI slop.

Doesn’t address the concurrent update problem except for “optimistic”. At least provide some data why that’s ok.

How does one choose what sequence of bytes constitutes a token?

And you know what the tokenizer is made of?

Weights.

Test Driven Development. There's more than several /tdd skills that are popular.