brokegrammer

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I'm a senior full-stack developer who specializes in taking complex business logic, often stuck in manual processes, and building robust, production-ready applications. I handle the entire lifecycle, from a Python backend on AWS to a modern React front-end, so your core team can stay focused on their own roadmap.

Visit my website for contact details: https://joshkaramuth.com

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Comment · 1 month ago

I love Mistral and I use it whenever I don't care about quality. For example, it's my go to model for generating git commit messages by leveraging their free codestral model.

I wouldn't pay for it though.

Comment · 1 month ago

I don't use skills unless I have something specific to tell the agent. For example, if I want the agent to use Tailwind V3 instead of V4, I'll have a skill for that. Or, if I want the agent to always use the repository pattern for database access, I'll create a skill for that.

I don't need to manage skills files because I have so few of them and they're only a couple lines long.

Comment · 1 month ago

All Systems Red - Martha Wells

Old Man's War - John Scalzi

Comment · 1 month ago

I get a lot of traffic to my blog but mostly from bots.

Comment · 2 months ago

Attack anything you can't compete against

Comment · 3 months ago

AI is creating Art, Code, and Music, but only boring stuff that nobody cares about anyway.

Sure, AI can generate your logo, or mix some music that you can play at a party, but at some point, people will call you out for feeding them garbage.

That's when you'll have to hire an experienced graphic designer to design a proper logo, and an experience DJ to create a proper mix based on your audience's mood.

To me AI is just like an IDE. It does stuff that I don't want to do so that I get to work on the fun stuff. Huge win.

Comment · 3 months ago

I installed it and I use Calibre to send books over wifi. Simple and sweet setup.

Comment · 3 months ago

Managers are pushing non-trivial code that experienced engineers shouldn't be writing anyway.

If you're worried about not being able to write git commit messages anymore, then you might have been in the wrong career in the first place.

The whole point of AI is to reproduce things that used to be mass produced. AI isn't generating high quality compilers or OS kernels, for example, because we haven't found a way to mass produce those yet.

I suggest you stop listening to clowns like Elon Musk and Super Mario.

Comment · 3 months ago

At least 4

Comment · 3 months ago

It's not true at all. I recently vibe coded a REST API in Golang even though I never wrote any production Go code. However, I had to make copious use of my previous experience as an engineer to achieve quality.

You can see this in the real world. The people who are getting the most out of AI are the ones who already have experience coding without AI.

CEOs don't want to admit it but AI can't code anything non-trivial on its own.

Comment · 3 months ago

By the time we spend all the earths resources to train AI models so that cancer is cured, we could have spent those same resources training real humans. The literacy rate of undeveloped countries is still abysmal. We could train more people and fund more research.

And humans can keep growing while AI can only grow if it has access to high quality training data. Who provides the data? Humans.

Comment · 3 months ago

AI is cheap right now thanks to governments or VCs agreeing to lose money. I can use DeepSeek to code all day thanks to the CCP.

Nuclear power benefits everyone. Who does AI benefit apart from a few vibe coders and a small amount of knowledge workers?

Comment · 3 months ago

Unlike western powers, The Ottoman empire didn't use slavery and colonialism to create capital. Instead, it wanted slaves so that it could grow its military.

The west also made its goal to create a new world order while the Ottoman empire's goal was mostly revenue extraction. The British systematically deindustrialized India’s textile sector to turn it from a competitor into an exporter of raw cotton and an importer of Lancashire cloth. The Ottoman would opt for taxation instead of usurpation of an entire industry.

Scientific revolutions was already happening during the bronze age. The west simply leveraged existing systems while making use of violence and exploitation to rise to the top.

Comment · 3 months ago

Exactly. I'm a nerd too and we nerds can real hypocrites because we spend too much time alone. I will happily turn a blind eye to world suffering if it means I get to work less but get paid the same.

AI CEOs aren't different. At some point we'll have to admit that we're sacrificing others for our own benefit.

Comment · 3 months ago

It's certainly a great thing that AI is improving (I use AI to write code daily myself), but I wouldn't be calling it impressive because it's essentially all about money and government backing.

At some point, the chickens are gonna come out.