kfarr

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https://github.com/kfarr/

Maintainer of 3dstreet.com

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Comment · 15 days ago
QA / code review is like 80% of my time now! Like coding now is QA. That's it.
Comment · 16 days ago
The ambiguity is the stories!
Comment · 18 days ago
I was going to say the same thing -- we already solve all these use cases in our household now with an old iPad and there is nothing wrong with it.
Comment · 21 days ago
The ability for a constituent to talk to their elected official about an issue important to them is lobbying. It is the foundation of democracy. It is not corruption.
Comment · 1 month ago
Yes I like to think of humans with built-in accelerators for certain tasks -- our visual and spatial reasoning is off the charts presumably because it's a life or death skill!
Comment · 1 month ago
Oh man I'm introducing bit rot on a meme about bit rot!
Comment · 1 month ago
We're sailors on the moon, we carry a harpoon!
Comment · 1 month ago
Totally helpful and I believe accurate. I find the times where I’m actually most productive with coding agents are not super fun, instead it’s iterative manual qa and code review hell. But while that actually results in good, usable code it’s not addictive, quite the opposite it feels like work. Whereas starting from scratch vibe coding a whatever-ma-jigger sure feels like a blast until I actually start pushing at edge cases.
Comment · 1 month ago
Admittedly these are out of order, but these are both sentences in this blog post:

> The thing we considered the most troubling was whether AIs could autonomously acquire resources by running businesses.

> Today Andon is releasing Pion, an agent designed to run any company fully autonomously.

I’m starting to understand the torment nexus mentions…

Comment · 1 month ago
True WebXR for the Apple ecosystem will never come. At least that’s what I’m assuming given their behavior so far
Comment · 1 month ago
I've also found the OpenAI image models to lose fine detail on image edits compared to Nano Banana or Flux models which faithfully retain input source image geometry and details. I was hoping this might be different but it sounds similar to previous OpenAI image models where something is lost in translation during image editing.
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Comment · 1 month ago
And don’t forget prop 13, there’s negative incentive for property to change hands and develop.
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm sure tons of companies have retainer spends with IBM for software, hardware, consulting, etc., and this is another way for their corporate clients to spend down / increase their retainers faster

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