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Comment · 2 months ago
Can we donate a portion of our Claude subscription to open source yet?

Just fork it and have the agents maintain security patches moving forward.

Comment · 2 months ago
The fact Anthropic, OpenAI and Google think they can fingerprint model output with no fidelity loss tells me otherwise.

As does caveman.

Comment · 2 months ago
Same way you do with humans.

Set acceptable review standards, outline appropriate frameworking, document approaches, test standards, documentation standards and overall just set good examples in both context and the codebase.

If your codebase is slop it's because you approved it.

Comment · 2 months ago
I think the problem is that software engineering isn't computer science.

Other than practicing some leet code in between jobs, it's extremely rare any of that stuff comes up.

The hard parts in my job isn't and hasn't been the computer science parts in a long time, or at least when it does come up it's not something I really think about much. The trade offs are almost always domain, business or product based. The technical solutions are just down stream of those constraints.

Comment · 2 months ago
Or maybe UML, separation of concerns, DRY and other clean code euphemisms just aren't all they're cracked up to be.

The problem is a lot of the science might be correct but that doesn't make it pragmatic and more often than not, it's just counter productive.

Comment · 2 months ago
The older I get the more I realize the stuff I learned in university was just plain wrong.

It's incredibly difficult now dealing with zoomers in the workplace that think I'm some old boomer that never learned "proper computer science".

No, sorry Timmy, it's not because I don't understand microservices, it's because I actually do.

Comment · 2 months ago
HN failing to understand embrace extend extinguish yet again I see.
Comment · 2 months ago
Can you share more about the single tenant vm setup?

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