m_mueller
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Co-Founder & CEO of Octigen
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- m_muellerand if you're unlucky to live close to a datacenter, this could include energy and water? I sure hope regulators are waking up as free markets don't really seem equipped to deal with this kind of concentration of power.
- Maven Repository was down for me for a while, now it recovered.
- slowly?
- Fortran gives you that and more, it has first class multidimensional arrays, including matrix operations.
- I do get a lot of value out of a project wide system prompt that gets automatically addded (Cursor has that built in). For a while I kept refining it when I saw it making incorrect assumptions about the codebase. I try to keep it brief though, about 20 bullet points.
- Not the case with GPT-5 I’d say. Sonnet 4 feels a lot like this, but the coding and agency of it is still quite solid and overall IMO the best coder. Gemini2.5 to me is most helpful as a research assistant. It’s quite good together with google search based grounding.
- I never implied it's useless. I don't have scientific data to back this up either, this is just my personal "feeling" from a couple hundred hours I've spent working with these models this year: GPT-5 seems a bit better at top-down architectural work, while Sonnet is better at the detail coding level. In terms of usable context window, again from personal experience so far, to me GPT-5 has somewhat of an edge.
- GPT-5 is pretty decent nowadays, but Claude 4 Sonnet is superior in most cases. GPT beats it in cost and usable context window when something quite complex comes up to plan top-down.
- Why would it flow to Switzerland? I believe VW headquarters are still in Germany.
- Macs can run Windows just fine, through Parallels. It’s more efficient at doing so than most ARM based windows machines on sale still. And I found software compatibility with Windows 11 for ARM to be a non issue nowadays.
- The main problem in this environment is IMO: how does a junior become a senior, or even a bad junior become a good junior. People aren't learning fundamentals anymore beyond what's taught, and all the rest of 'trade knowledge' is now never experienced, people just trust that the LLM has absorbed it sufficiently. Engineering is all about trade-offs. Failing to understand why from 10 possible ways of achieving something, 4 are valid contenders and possible 1-2 are best in the current scenario, and even the questions to ask to get to that answer, is what makes a senior.
- Exactly the same has been said over and over again, ever since CUDA took off for scientific computing around 2010. I don’t really understand why 15 years later AMD still hasn’t been able to copy the recipy, and frankly it may be too late now with all that mindshare in NVIDIA’s software stack.
- Let me throw another one out there: how about TeamCity on premise? Still can be done for free and the last time I used it (years ago) it left a very complete, stable and easy to use impression on me. Jenkins by comparison seems heavy and complicated.
- I will say that the last few people’s votes on this didn’t go our way, e.g. “Vorratsdatenspeicherung”, storing telecommunications data for the case of an injunction. It’s always easy to use FUD to get people to give up some rights they think aren’t important.
- was there ever a post mortem on STEPS? I'd like to know what happened as the demoes and ideas they had looked awesome.
- I recently saw that Exascale, a Swiss provider, has something comparable, albeit afaik not autoscaling to the extent that Aurora is for example.
- are you a frontend engineer? cause I'd hope the time checking happens on the server ;-)
- absence of evidence != evidence of absence
- I don't agree with this assertion. Back in those days, most people in my friend group were using MSN Messenger. The steps to get onto that were probably easier than signing up for Facebook/Insta nowadays. The same was true for yahoo, AOL or a whole bunch of other messenger services. But these all had open protocols that clients could implement, and they did - Adium for Mac was a great example, and it worked brilliantly. The only thing missing there was an open protocol for group video calls, which is why Skype came along. If we had continued on that path of open protocols (not even standards) vs. proprietary & locked down services, we'd be in a much different place now.