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democracy··on GPT-6 Astra
As always with AI - somehow it's your fault - you didn't help it enough - your prompts were inaccurate, your context was too large, the thinking effort was too low, the model was too old, etc. Basically you failed to use your human intelligence to make every effort to enable the AI to do its job better than you ))) It's like pushing a dirtbike up the hill so you can demonstrate how well it climbs.
democracy··on Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak
Cooking a steak is easy - undercook it's "rare", burn it - it's "Well done". You cant go wrong really.
democracy··on Discovery Loop
dillusional millionaires
democracy··on Couple Stalked by eBay Settle for $56M
just wow
democracy··on A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands
Given enough motivation (cash) and temporary tools (WD-40 and tape) there is nothing stopping bigtech from doing just that to kill local trade and then 10x prices
democracy··on Americans hate AI so much that politicians are losing their jobs over it
Touche, a more or less decent pool robot cleaner is around 3k and doesn't last more than a few years without changing every part but the case itself. Ok I take it - it operates in somewhat "hostile" environment but the point still stands
democracy··on What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
Very new, beta stuff - AI can be helpful but too creative sometimes
democracy··on What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
I am happy they are dead. Humanity gets +1 for this one.
democracy··on What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
They chose being controlled and not being Reddit - I can imagine lots of ways to do both - still they chose the toxic way and now they are dead, goal achieved.
democracy··on Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it
Did you try to negatively impact their profit? And you expected them to act on it? Are you crazy? /s
democracy··on The Return of Aspect Oriented Programming
One of the cowboys' techniques, only good for the writer, never for the reader
democracy··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
yc pitch?
democracy··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
thats brilliant - "we gonna take your job away from you, please start using our tools", "we stole the content to sell you, and now we are getting robbed, please feel sorry for us", what's next?
democracy··on Elastic lays off 7% of employees
It does actually. I am pro-OSS as sharing knowledge and innovation, I am not sure at this stage I am happy sharing my work with people using LLMs for anything... OSS gonna change for sure.
democracy··on Finding the Best Dog Treat with Statistics
nothing beats diy dehydrated turkey mince stripes... but pita to make them )))
democracy··on I was wrong about the Midjourney ultra-sound scanner
Midjourney seems useless these days, not even sure why would anyone use.
democracy··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
Touche )))
democracy··on A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
I reported a fake costco website ad (cc harvester) to Google, their response was something along "we cannot verify the ad", go figure
democracy··on Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years
The power of SQL is not because it is "based on mathematics" - it's because anyone (really, anyone, even with the most basic English skills) could understand it quickly enough to start using it productively with not much technical knowledge. Business analytics, managers of all sorts, manual QA people could grasp the basics in a minute and more complex queries within a few hours. It is very user-friendly and such tools win over anything else. Each time I see an overengineerd/overcomplicated solution that is hard to read/understand - I know it's only "good luck" to the creators.
democracy··on SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)
Genius!
democracy··on Using AI to write better code more slowly
Not many industries can afford refactoring of the code is not supposed to be changed - additional (unexpected) regression testing costs, risk of downtime, etc. You learn that if it works and is in production - don't touch it.
democracy··on Using AI to write better code more slowly
so how did this go?
democracy··on Using AI to write better code more slowly
one man's boilerplate is another man's concise business logic )))
democracy··on Hacker News front page as a site
This is great )) maybe do random templates similar to newspapers (like photo on the left, photo on the right, one block full width, then 3 columns, etc).
democracy··on Using AI to write better code more slowly
You can be right but quite often it helps keeping focus on the forrest rather then getting lost in the trees - at least for me. Boilerplate steals a lot of attention, focus and can just be mentally exhausting.
democracy··on Using AI to write better code more slowly
Similar approach, but I also go a step further with some basic manual architecture/high level contract/stubs setups, just to keep it consistent with other systems (and easier reading as well).
democracy··on Running local LLMs offline on a ten-hour flight
You just learn how to type with your toes. It is an easy skill to master and then comes handy when you drive, or sit at important meetings (you can just keep coding away) and noone's the wiser.
democracy··on Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?
I think they will try to get into the enterprise as soon as possible - looking out for big purchases - figma, atlassian, asana, monday, etc...
democracy··on Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?
Yeah, at 100$ or 200$ a month my expectations would raise (and tolerance to errors go to zero) as we are going into enterprise level pricing.
democracy··on Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
Because it shows you are hip and trendy and MAYBE you deserve a job in the AI era
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