pmelendez

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Generalist software developer

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Comment · 4 months ago
Sure, ensuring maintainability is one of the benefits of code reviews, but I think it is a bold claim to say that's the solo purpose. For example, code reviews is also a tool that allows teams to get inform of the changes in the code and share responsibility of the whole code base.
Comment · 8 months ago
>I just don't see a world where every corporation is building their own accounts, crm, hr software.

I do see a world where every corporation would use agents-friendly platform to create their own accounts, crm, hr software. The insurance will come from the platforms vendor support.

Comment · 1 year ago
AI? This article is about memory allocation strategies... Did I miss something?
Comment · 1 year ago
I have had so much fun lately just with vanilla VS Code and Claude Code. Aider is a close second.
Comment · 1 year ago
Not really. This is an example of something that Claude Code handles very easily and for Github Copilot, is not even an starter (because can't read SQLite files)

>Read the Sqlite file in this directory and create an UX that would visualize and manage the data. The application should be responsive (so it can be use on mobiles) and should have some graphs when appropiate.

Comment · 2 years ago
Quoting OP's:

|> it inspired me to create this small game.

It was inspiration, not a simulation nor it claimed to be realistic. This is the type of artistic license that game designers have always had at their disposal.

Comment · 2 years ago
> Again, I still feel like code is the ideal solution to "ad-hoc reproducible calculations"

I am a developer and I do my personal budgeting on a spreadsheet. It was easier to setup and maintain, and follows my process better than the personal finance software I have used before. Could I have made a little program for this? Sure, but it would be time consuming and I have better projects to spend my time on.

Comment · 2 years ago
>The argument that this is 90% of what matters in ML seems a bit bold. AFAICT it is completely missing reinforcement learning,

Wouldn't that account for the other 10%? To me it sounds like the quote is not too far off when you consider that he said "of what matters today". There are many other things missing from that list that might become more relevant tomorrow.

Comment · 2 years ago
> Ignore the critics. Watch the demos. Play with it

With so many smoke and mirrors demos out there, I am not super excited at those videos. I would play with it, but it seems like it is not available in a free tier (I stopped paying OpenAI a while ago after realizing that open models are more than enough for me)

Comment · 2 years ago
I think the context of iOS is safely implied here. To say you have the option of going Android is as relevant as giving the option of doing a mobile app; Sure it is an option but out of the context of the discussion.
Comment · 2 years ago
>do something serious

I guess it depends on what you mean by serious. Pre-training a competitive LLM with current methods and consumer hardware is prohibitive for sure. Solving a classification problem could be totally doable depending on the domain.

Comment · 2 years ago
Fair, I think what makes this case interesting is that he wasn't an athletic outlier for most of his life, so the question on how many dormant athletes are out there remains. Maybe the distribution is not as skew as one might initially think
Comment · 2 years ago
>Why can't you click & drag the words to reorder them? That level of difficulty is part of the game. There is a shuffle button to ease the ideas generation but most likely is was done like that by design.
Comment · 2 years ago
I am definitely not the target audience for this. I am that person that keeps typing while people send voice notes, and now the only way to interact with this device is via voice? :(
Comment · 2 years ago

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