aronowb14
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Comment · 1 month ago
I drew a woman from 500 BCE in the ganges... but lived to 75?
Comment · 2 months ago
Have you found an alternative to codex / Claude code? I’ve tried opencode but it’s been buggier / feels like an inferior product to both.
Comment · 4 months ago
I asked around my network recently - in the last month or two basically every large company has put in spending limits per engineer. Curious what their S1 will look like when they go public.
Comment · 4 months ago
why is it a great idea though? My question was basically what are the actual pros of doing it in space? I still haven't heard a good explanation.
Comment · 5 months ago
https://arena.ai/leaderboard - I’ve found this company is a pretty good ranker - not sure their exact methodology but during day to day programming with Claude / gpt models I’ve felt qualitatively what they report
Comment · 9 months ago
Yeah curious what would happen if they asked for an additional big feature on top of the original spec
Comment · 10 months ago
A bit ironic that the website complaining about UI has virtual snow on it making reading hard.
Comment · 1 year ago
Agreed. I think this Anthropic article is a realistic take on what’s possible (focus on prototyping)
https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/58284b19e702b49db9302d5b6f135a...
Comment · 2 years ago
When I first graduated I read a bunch of tech focused books: they’re all helpful but I think practice and learning from more senior engineers is the most effective road to mastery! You can probably get away with not reading any of these books if you have good coworkers :).
That being said, these have been my favorites:
- designing data intensive applications (a great way of understanding systems + the basics of SRE)
- the senior engineer (I love the prototyping process he lays out)
- the effective engineer (lots of good gems for approaching prioritization)
- debugging (by David agans)- a great resource for a formalized debugging process if you don’t have one
- on writing well (I’m halfway through this, but it has been indispensable for writing tickets + messages at work)
Comment · 3 years ago
I think these groups are out there, but unfortunately they are informal (not listed on the web or through a company), and also are not for a beginner level.
For me, I’ve been learning how to surf and cook. I found at an absolute beginner level no one really wants to go out surfing with you, or do dinner parties. I did find once I showed enough commitment, and reached a beginner-intermediate level, more people were willing to join me in learning, and form informal learning groups.
Comment · 4 years ago
Therapy worked wonders for me.
Therapists are trained to help and give you custom things to do based on what you need. I found one that gave me a lot of structured “assignments” and questions to ask myself and I’ve never felt better than I do now.
Comment · 4 years ago
It's funny how hyped up stable diffusion is on HN right now: reminds me of when style transfer first started making it's rounds in 2017. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13958366
I think as technologists we want to think that code can "solve" some of the problems in the art world... but I think we still have a really, really long way to go. I tried to get style transfer adopted at work (worked at a creative technology firm in NY) but frankly I think deep learning methods for art generation tend to be really unpredictable, which make them pretty hard to use for professional applications. Imagine deploying production code that only worked 85% of the time... would be a nightmare. I felt, and feel similarly about deep learning approaches to art. They're just so finnicky and unpredictable, for example, add a single extra pixel to that example in this article and the output would look completely different.
Either way, cynicism aside, stable diffusion is awesome :).