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Comment · 10 months ago
Yes, after wandering through a few pages trying to find an example that actually did something, I gave up and moved on.
Comment · 10 months ago
Maybe a lot of the budget is already going to a second level of workers checking the redacting workers' work.
Comment · 10 months ago
TL,DR: A device that inputs waste heat to force pressure differences in hydrogen, outputting electricity.
Comment · 10 months ago
Don't only names, addresses, email addresses, account/phone numbers, and illustrations need to be redacted? Couldn't an LLM do at least most of that fast and cheap?
Comment · 10 months ago
Any time "secret" is in the title, it's not.
Comment · 10 months ago
Seems like you already received plenty of good advice. It's time for you to move on.
Comment · 10 months ago
I developed and shipped one product with monthly releases for decades and always simply bumped the version by one: 1, 2, 3..

Anything fancier doesn't really tell you exactly what features changed when, so a table in the documentation spelled that out for each version.

Comment · 10 months ago
The only assistant I want is one I can interact with solely by voice. In other words, a replacement for a human secretary.
Comment · 10 months ago
I have to believe that before starting implementation, they never put mockups in front of focus groups. Otherwise they would have immediately learned no one wanted it.
Comment · 10 months ago
Before you read this, read "The Elements of Programming Style" by Brian Kernighan and P. J. Plauger.
Comment · 10 months ago
Has private equity ever done anything good for anyone outside of the investors?
Comment · 10 months ago
> I was refreshing one of our services. Part of this process was to migrate codebase from Scala 2.13 to Scala 3.

My first question was: why?

Comment · 10 months ago
> The total payload is under 200KB.

Just out of curiosity, how big was what you considered Claude's best attempt to be?

Comment · 10 months ago
In the 70's a Brazilian programmer told me his method was to make his best guess how long something would take, double it, then promise that amount plus-or-minus 50%.

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