galoisscobi

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Comment · 10 days ago
Then we’ll find out about malware 24 - 48 hours later.
Comment · 2 months ago
If XCancel is gone then I'm cancelling X. I don't need to read what people have to say on that website.
Comment · 2 months ago
> Imagine a future where a handful of people can conduct scientific research and engineering tasks much more rapidly, and with higher quality, than massive teams of scientists and engineers do today.

Imagine a future where only the anointed few elite minds can participate in science and engineering. Btw we’re hiring.

Great message!

Comment · 3 months ago
I just deleted my aws account. I don't need these vibes in my life.
Comment · 3 months ago
I use jj vcs and now most of my time is spent reading the code, so I use diffview.nvim (https://github.com/sindrets/diffview.nvim) with some customizations for jj to read diffs. I also use the snacks picker/explorer to search for code.
Comment · 4 months ago
As much as I like Claude Code, Boris has done a lot of harm by encouraging software engineering practices that lead to slopware. We have two camps of people at work, the first camp are the agent goes brrr. They don't understand the code they write. They have loops running, agent orchestrators or agent hype du jour. The second camp is people who are inundated with PRs, are holding the line on quality, and just exhausted. We've also had some management pressures where they think people are wasting time looking at code. Perhaps because some podcast they might be listening to, somebody says coding is largely solved.

> I don’t prompt Claude anymore. I have loops running that prompt Claude and figuring out what to do. My job is to write loops.

This is going to be a net negative on software quality for people who take this up, in my opinion.

I call out Boris but I also don't think he's being malicious. He's at the center of an important technological revolution and it would be hard not to get excited. I just wished he advocated for a more balanced and a realistic perspective.

Comment · 4 months ago
You can test rigorously without token incinerators.
Comment · 4 months ago
Let's boil the ocean for a 2 line fix and call it frontier intelligence.
Comment · 6 months ago
This is so misguided, I don't even know where to begin. If you think that throwing more tokens at a problem with your agents cos-playing whatever fiction you cook up is the road to reliability, robustness and good design, you deserve all the misery that comes your way. If you want people to take this seriously, ground your ideas with rigorous data to prove that this works better than the state of the art. Until then, this is just irresponsible planet burning, token burning propaganda.
Comment · 6 months ago
But Boris declared coding is solved. How is this possible? Can’t they prompt Mythos to give them better uptime?
Comment · 7 months ago
> Most people either write too much or too little. Here’s what works.

> Two folders, not one

Why post AI slop here?

Comment · 8 months ago
I think this word salad doesn’t have enough buzzwords. Throw in a few more acronyms too.
Comment · 8 months ago
Stop giving your money at Meta, it’s a simple solution and an ethical one.
Comment · 8 months ago
What has strongdm actually built? Are their users finding value from their supposed productivity gains?

If their focus is to only show their productivity/ai system but not having built anything meaningful with it, it feels like one of those scammy life coaches/productivity gurus that talk about how they got rich by selling their courses.

Comment · 9 months ago
Ironic that a steak is one of the three things showing up on the landing page. Is that the beef lobby money coming in?

I enjoy an occasional steak but if the goal is to improve diet of masses, it’s not the food I’d put at the center.

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