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- Oh I should add that team adoption is mixed. A lot of folks don’t seem to see the value, or they don’t lean in very hard, or take the time to study the tools capabilities.
We also have now to deal with the issue of really well-written PR messages and clean code that doesn’t do the right thing. It used to be that those things were proxies for quality. Better this way anyhow: code review focuses on if it’s really doing what we need. (Often engineers miss the detail and go down rabbit holes that I call “co-hallucination” as it is not really an AI error, but rather an emergent property.)
- Heavy but manual Claude Code usage, always with —dangerously-skip-permissions which makes it an entirety different experience.
I learned a lot from IndyDevDan’s videos on YT. Despite his sensationalism, he does quick reviews of new CC features that you just have to see to understand.
Claude Code has replaced my IDE, though I do a little vim here and there.
My favorite is Claude’s ability to do code archeology: finding exactly when & where who changed what and why.
You do need to be careful of high-level co-hallucination though.
- Embedded systems / IoT / Smart Home. Lots of C. There’s still backend and mobile but there’s a LOT of C and firmware at the core.
- Thanks. I was thinking subsequence ~ substring but that’s a false analogy apparently!
- What system do you use to get that level of visibility?
- > given a sequence of {k^2+1} distinct real numbers, one can find a subsequence of length {k+1} which is either increasing or decreasing
{-2, 1, -1, 1/2, -1/2, 1/3, -1/3, 1/4, … -1/(k/2)} is a sequence of {k^2+1} distinct real numbers, but the longest increasing or decreasing subsequences are of length 2, not k+1.
What am I missing?
- Thank you for writing this. I too was a heavy user of the em-dash until ChatGPT came along. Though my solution has been to eschew the em-dash or at least replace with triple hyphens.
- Great post. Love the writing style that is at once both casual and erudite.
I must take issue with the central point however: the machines of LLMs are very different than the machines of CPUs. While it is true that Claude writes fewer memory errors than even expert C programmers (I’ve had to fully accept this only this week), the LLM is still subject to mistakes that the compiler will catch. And I dare say the category of error coding agents commit are eerily similar to those of human developers.
- The tearing was unexpectedly disturbing!
Suggestion: use an accelerometer data on mobile and use that to directly replace gravity. I expect to be able to tip the phone to drape the cloth, and shake the phone to get waves of motion.
- Rust version?
- Awesome blog! Looking at the code I feel like there’s a kindred soul behind that keyboard, but there’s no About page afaict. Who beeth this mysterious writer?
- Ofc a savings account has risk in real terms. But I assume GP was referring to risk in terms of losing principle in dollars.
There’s still some risk short of a global financial collapse where the FDIC rules are weakened, perhaps by making the $250k limit per individual for example, and then there being some bank failures. Or changing to only covering a certain % of deposits etc.
- When I walked across the crater as a kid, I remember there was an inner crater that I was told had filled up with lava back in the 80s and then drained down leaving a deep well. Does someone have a map of the historical eruption locations within the main summit crater?
- Huge thanks to the mods and YC for creating this space. HN is legendary in its own time. Hoping @prodigycorp and the result of us can enjoy another 15 years of thoughtful hackish conversation and news.
- Do you plan to operate in USA (SEC rules)?
The investment structures could use description in English.
Does investing in these instruments make the investor a co-owner of the business? (Like a member of an LLC)? Or is it a revenue sharing contract of some kind?
SMB investing often takes the form of debt. Do you support cash flow loans?
What’s the enforcement mechanism if the SMB raises funds and then doesn’t pay out? I know a guy who does cash flow loans for small businesses and being a real tough mofo (and having even rougher characters on staff) is part of the job.
Also I think people expect there to be an exchange for shares. I know these assets will be highly illiquid, but still you could permit buy/sell orders to be placed on the books to facilitate exiting.
- Does anyone have a benchmark that clearly distinguishes the larger models? I would think that the high parameter count models would have capabilities distinct from the smaller ones, that would easily be read out. For example, Opus 4 has apparently memorized many books. If you ask it just right (to get around the infuriating copyright controls), it will complete a paragraph from The Wealth of Nations or Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics in Ancient Greek. That cannot be possible on a smaller model that needs to compress more.
- What do you mean, they typically get half the assets and a sizable chunk of the other partner’s salary in alimony that they don’t need to give up if they do become employed, and then if childcare is needed typically this would be an extra child support expense that both parties pay for even if the erstwhile stay-at-home parent has full custody.
How would the stay-at-home parent get a bad deal here?
- Same issue here for me. Downdetector [1] agrees, and github status page was just updated now.
- The folks who run the public NTP pool really ought not to make it easier to pay them money to use it commercially.
I submitted a request for commercial use via their online form but never received a response.
Once you get up to embedded Linux basically any language can be used.
I have a really smart colleague who is interested in Zig but I’m hesitant to make such an investment without (1) the stronger guarantees of Rust and (2) the larger embedded dev community around Rust.
At the end of the day we don’t usually write our own peripheral drivers anymore, so it’s important to have good BSP support for your language. So whatever you use, you usually have to wrap the C. This is even true of using C! The vendors libs are usually pretty bad and need wrapping with safety checks, or to be made so you can run more than one instance, etc.