xendo

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@lazilyevaluated https://xendo.bearblog.dev/blog/
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Comment · 2 days ago
This applies to code btw, it's so much nicer to read a human made pull requests. It's also much faster as people tend to be lazy and produce denser code.
Comment · 13 days ago
One of my page was 2nd on the main page trending towards 1st, a single flagging pushed it to the middle of the second page.
Comment · 14 days ago
It's clearly heavily down voted, just look at when it was added, how many points it has and its relative position.
Comment · 16 days ago
Every ducking time I hear Anthropic or OpenAI did some great engineering it either turns out to be shit (c compiler) or stolen (this). Bravo! LLMs are such a marvelous technology, but being developed by such dushbags that I suddenly root for Meta. Disgusting.
Comment · 19 days ago
My expectation is that those AI primary forks will degenerate quickly. Maintaining OS requires a lot of judgement, direction, agents tend to turn softeare into big pile of disconnected features.
Comment · 26 days ago
This one is quite difficult, it sacrifices some readability for cleverness and conciseness. I find Algorithmic Thinking by Zingaro much more approachable but almost as dense.
Comment · 1 month ago
There are certain parts of my job that can be mediocre and I'm happy to offload them to models. Those are, however, not the parts that count.
Comment · 1 month ago
I will take my chances. Software is part of my identity and I won't abandon it that quickly.
Comment · 1 month ago
I don't agree. I'm recently a huge believer in Programming as Theory Building. The software creation itself is the part that makes you understand what you are building. It's impossible to understand things before you start building them, initial prompt can help you explore, but the idea that after that you can lean back is ridiculous. Most or maybe even all successful software projects are still heavily relying on the best software engineers. That's why anthropic and others are still hiring SDEs.
Comment · 1 month ago
Both her as well as huggingface this should be investigated by law enforcement and people responsible should be punished.

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