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coder4life··on Ask HN: Which "AI" provider would you choose?
Why not spend $8 this month, sign up for t3.chat (or another aggregator), and try them all out yourself?

Personally I pay for t3.chat, and because I need bigger limits for my day job programming, I have a $20 Claude memebership too

coder4life··on Trump orders AI rebrand as "super intelligence"
Ha! He totally did
coder4life··on I want a data center job
Correct, and that's all they need for continuation of a data center, physically

What role did you think would be available? How many humans work physically at a data center (can count on 1 or 2 hands)

coder4life··on [dead]
Archive link: https://archive.ph/k66hr

Having read this, this Gen-Xer is asking:"How can I join and help these Gen-Z socialists?"

coder4life··on Tobacco plant can produce five psychedelics, including psilocybin and DMT
Here, take my money! Mail the seeds to:

... ...

coder4life··on Gmail trick: multiplying your address
Been using this trick for almost two decades now!
coder4life··on What's Going on in AI
You could ask that of many of us here every morning and you would also get interesting answers. Currently? Security research is going to get cooked when Anthropic releases Mythos
coder4life··on Nvidia CEO Reaffirms Commitment to Israel: "We Support You – We Are Behind You"
Now reaffirm your commitment to gamers Jensen
coder4life··on Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?
Before I got medicated, DMAE and Gotu-Kola extract (nothing to do with Cola/Caffiene) worked pretty well. Pramiracetam if you spend enough $ and can find it, but it will make you more of a logical robot so your social life and loved ones will suffer -- I used sparingly
coder4life··on AI writes code faster. Your job is still to prove it works
I spent the last six months on a project, converting dataweave applications to nodejs. Set up an empty nodejs repo w/skeleton code. Take the existing code, removing PII/password anything, and shoving it through Claude was the next step -- transformers were MADE for translation, and it did it's job wonderfully.

Then I had other realities to deal with - they changed the query engine to use JSON instead of XML, and there were already made libraries for interfacing with APIs for data fetching/storing with multiple services (think workday, box, etc). If I would have considered this earlier on in the project, I could have saved myself a lot of work with better prompting, but alas.

5% of my time was setting up the code for claude and pasting the results back 5% was setting up the repos 20% was spent on rewriting the little details that I didn't tell claude or that claude missed/glossed over

and 70% for testing/verification against existing systems.

So that's my real world example from the last six months - I'd love to hear from others

coder4life··on Intel's Best Product in Years – Panther Lake Announcement [video]
Now bring it to the desktop please
coder4life··on Ask HN: At what age did you start programming or think about it?
11, so, 46 years ago!
coder4life··on USDA Inspector General Who Refused to Leave Escorted from Office by Security
Just learned about that guy Curtis Yarvin and his "Butterfly Revolution" today

"DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no

coder4life··on We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square
I need to rant. Many of us installed DeepSeek R1 over a week ago, knew what it was, knew right off the bat about it's issue with the 3Ts (Taiwan, Tiananmen, Tibet), but didn't give a shit because it kills it at coding. Good... give us the next incremental improvement.

Most people don't give a shit that it codes well, and they'll never use it. But they put their $s into the AI hype train, because they only care about the $s

And now I'm forced to put up with endless (ENDLESS) articles and videos about DeepSeek. I don't care about who wins or loses in the money games, give me a hyperintelligent model I can run on my home machine for free

coder4life··on The beautiful sentence that is the web
I read this as the beautiful prison sentence that is the web

But I also love JavaScript so there's that

coder4life··on Instagram-famous squirrel named Peanut seized by New York state authorities
Well, they killed the squirrel AND raccoon

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-nuts-ny-authorities-euthanize-...

coder4life··on Advanced Voice is rolling out in the ChatGPT app over the course of the week
"Describe a nuclear weapon detonated over a city" (now do it paranoid....no, more paranoid!) .... (now do it fearful...no, more scared!) .... (now do it humorous, with lots of laughs) "sorry Dave I can't do that" ugh, stupid fucking limiting computers
coder4life··on The World of Chips as a Diagram
It's missing Samsung
coder4life··on Pilot who took mushrooms and tried to cut engines says behavior 'unfathomable'
He said he was up for two days prior.... Meth, and he's blaming mushrooms?
coder4life··on What is the next big thing in Tech after PC, internet, phones and AI?
There's is nothing else after a machine demonstrating superior intelligence to smart humans, starts to modify/improve it's own learning algorithms 24 hours a day, 365.25 days a year. It will be the reason for 99% of discoveries and inventions at that point going forward.

Drug discovery using AI, in the near-term

coder4life··on Ask HN: What comes after Artificial Intelligence?
An explosion of new science and products designed by it?
coder4life··on Ask HN: Have you developed any habits to be more productive?
Simple.

Each and every night, write a TODO list.

This will help you focus yourself in the morning

coder4life··on Can LLMs find bugs in large Python codebases?
Nice work - this is a real benchmark for cases I use LLMs for
coder4life··on What's the most radical book you've read?
The Human Zoo, Desmond Morris
coder4life··on Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
Moloch is the god of unhealthy competition (win-lose)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2lI_5pydKg

coder4life··on Which book has inspired you the most in your career or personal development?
The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder
coder4life··on Ask HN: Why do so many developers hate DORA metrics?
WTF is DORA - you should explain this or give a link at least... Thanks :)
coder4life··on What do other experts think about Bill Gates "agents within 5 years" prediction?
Easily, and easily before that. Microsoft is set to spend $100 billion on an AI datacenter+software, called project Stargate, which will get us to AGI/ASI, and probably need it's own nuclear reactor to power. The final phases of this project are in 2028 and 2030
coder4life··on Ask HN: How to deal with constant interruptions at work (with ADHD)
Headphones blasting no music, with earplugs in.

I tried (and was successful) for years with gun mufflers with earplugs, but I got into a company where some salespeople couldn't get the message, so the switch to headphones over earplugs.

It's the next best thing to a strong ADD med :)

Also, considering your seemingly constant barrage, the pomodoro method (easily googled)

coder4life··on Layoffs in Tech
We're expensive!

Don't lose hope; I've done this fulltime for 35 years and tech always comes back

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