dahr
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dahr
@rdhsemsad
a̶m̶a̶t̶e̶u̶r̶ ̶c̶o̶d̶e̶r̶ software engineer. poaster.
Katılım Aralık 2024
207 Takip Edilen35 Takipçiler
there's no way Americans don't do this. this is just a universal human experience
Juanjo Valiño@juanjovn
Peak europoor is having to dry our clothes like this in my living room
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This is by far the most beautiful example of how fast “light” is versus “sound” I’ve ever seen on the internet
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GStack is an open-source toolkit built by YC President & CEO @garrytan that turns Claude Code into an AI engineering team — with skills for office hours, design, code review, QA, and browser testing.
In this video, Garry walks through how GStack works, starting with Office Hours, a skill modeled after real YC partner sessions that pressure-tests your idea before you write a line of code. He demos it live, going from idea through adversarial review, design mockups, and automated QA in a single session.
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@dangtony98 @matsiiako two sets - one for dev and one for prod. claude never sees prod creds.
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I hate to break it to y’all but if Claude Code REALLY wanted to read your environment variables, it could just modify your application to print them out and read the logs.
You’re anyways better off without a .env anyways with:
infisical run — npm run dev
This way there won’t be any .env to scour in the first place.
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CyrilXBT@cyrilXBT
CLAUDE CODE CAN READ YOUR .ENV FILES BY DEFAULT. Your API keys. Your database passwords. Your secret tokens. All of it visible to the agent unless you tell it otherwise. One setting. Two minutes. Fixes it completely. Add this to your CLAUDE.md right now: Secure your stack before you ship it.
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@Chase1714898326 @Polymarket ya like why do I care who built it. I can see the source code.
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@Polymarket Professor Jiang is a genius at predicting wars, but he clearly doesn't understand nodes. Bitcoin is open-source if the CIA built it, they built a tool that is currently stripping away their own power to print money. That's a pretty bad 'operation' on their part
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JUST IN: Professor Jiang says Bitcoin is a "CIA operation"
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@WatcherGuru NSA could've created it. US government. created the Internet so it wouldn't surprise me if they did.
Regardless, Bitcoins source code is transparent, anyone can run their nodes and keep track of the ledger. China could spin as many nodes as they want and even fork it if they want
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JUST IN: 🇨🇳 Popular Chinese commentator 'Professor Jiang' claims Bitcoin is a "CIA operation."
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@yasser_elsaid_ as if just pursuing whatever you enjoy and relaxing regardless of outcome is not an option.
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Being the son or daughter of a famous billionaire sounds horrible.
You have to somehow find the will get out of bed and do something that gives you purpose when you already have everything.
Anything you achieve on your own merit will feel insignificant relative to what you already have.
People will always question whether you earned it and will always talk about your privilege.
And on top of all that, you deal with people like this everyday.
Raq@raqisright
When a billionaire’s daughter says you’re “out of budget” Girl, pls
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FYI. Every candidate- even the ones you knew in the first five minutes you weren’t going to hire, should be treated in a way that they leave the process wanting to still work for you.
Besides being a sign that you have done right by them, it’s a great word of mouth for the ones you do want to hire.
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@saranormous @karpathy @NoPriorsPod @karpathy knows a lot about ML but not enough about anything else so the best example he could come up with, to demonstrate the extraordinary abilities of AI, was home automation.
A lot of the public faces the same challenge. software+some other domain knowledge is the future.
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Caught up with @karpathy for a new @NoPriorsPod: on the phase shift in engineering, AI psychosis, claws, AutoResearch, the opportunity for a SETI-at-Home like movement in AI, the model landscape, and second order effects
02:55 - What Capability Limits Remain?
06:15 - What Mastery of Coding Agents Looks Like
11:16 - Second Order Effects of Coding Agents
15:51 - Why AutoResearch
22:45 - Relevant Skills in the AI Era
28:25 - Model Speciation
32:30 - Collaboration Surfaces for Humans and AI
37:28 - Analysis of Jobs Market Data
48:25 - Open vs. Closed Source Models
53:51 - Autonomous Robotics and Atoms
1:00:59 - MicroGPT and Agentic Education
1:05:40 - End Thoughts
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Him: My whole programming philosophy is 'move fast and break things.' Just push the code live, let the users find the bugs, and hotfix it in production. life's too short for unit testing.
long pause.....
Her: Cool.
Him: So, what kind of software do you write?
Her: Pacemaker firmware.
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@toddsaunders good solution for his use case.
but this problem really ought to be solved by publishing open source software where engineers create isometrics and the same software also having the capability for users to generate the information he is generating from .pdfs
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I know Silicon Valley startups don't want to hear this.....
But the combination of someone in the trades with deep domain expertise and Claude Code will run circles around your generic software.
I talked to Cory LaChance this morning, a mechanical engineer in industrial piping construction in Houston. He normally works with chemical plants and refineries, but now he also works with the terminal
He reached out in a DM a few days ago and I was so fired up by his story, I asked him if we could record the conversation and share it.
He built a full application that industrial contractors are using every day. It reads piping isometric drawings and automatically extracts every weld count, every material spec, every commodity code.
Work that took 10 minutes per drawing now takes 60 seconds. It can do 100 drawings in five minutes, saving days of time.
His co-workers are all mind blown, and when he talks to them, it's like they are speaking different languages.
His fabrication shop uses it daily, and he built the entire thing in 8 weeks. During those 8 weeks he also had to learn everything about Claude Code, the terminal, VS Code, everything.
My favorite quote from him was when he said, "I literally did this with zero outside help other than the AI. My favorite tools are screenshots, step by step instructions and asking Claude to explain things like I'm five."
Every trades worker with deep expertise and a willingness to sit down with Claude Code for a few weekends is now a potential software founder.
I can't wait to meet more people like Cory.
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@LindyTasteful I don't know if she meant to make it funny but I found the facial expressions a little funny - was this a skit?
and whatever she is typing, it's not more than two words at a time.
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@levelsio apps are necessary for repeatable flows. but if some flow is repeatable enough, plenty of resources get thrown at it commercially anyways to outcompete individuals.
where AI would truly help is "last mile fit". software providers allowing customization of their software using AI
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I think it'll be more like:
You chat to your LLM app and it'll just spin up an app with a UI if it feels the need
Like you want to book a holiday apartment, it spins up a fancy Airbnb-like interface and books it for you
You want to edit your photo, it spins up a simple but advanced easy-to-use photo editor
The idea is that interfaces and apps become ephemeral to help you achieve whatever you want in a moment
LaurieWired@lauriewired
oh come on. You think your grandma wants to make her own app? Much less maintain it. Everyone neglects the mental energy it takes to even *think* of what it is exactly you want. The entire principle of apps relies on some faith that designers; and the collective feedback of their users, can come up with a workflow or design paradigm that is *better* than what you; an individual could come up with. This is true for 99% of cases. I’d be floored if even 1% of global users want bespoke applications for uber-specific needs. Not saying it’s useless; but it’s so far away from what average users want.
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@ThePrimeagen if people really wanted to do custom everything, convention over configuration would not have been a thing in this industry.
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This is a very apt thing
I have noticed a certain malaise i am seeing. it honestly reminds me a lot of 2021 neovim config andies.
You can build anything, just some time and some prompts and you got your fully custom piece of tech for exactly what you want!!
but wait, here is another thing to optimize! wait... there is another thing..
oh no! your first thing doesn't quite do it the way you want it to, better fix that...
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pretty soon you are having 8 agents building all sorts of stuff and you consistently feel like you are going no where and you have nothing to show for it, yet your brain is moving at 100x the speed, your sleep is suffering, your attention with your kids and wife are dwindling... but bro, just one more prompt, just one more prompt and it will fix this issue, i swear
The burden of being able to build anything is the burden of having to maintain everything and in the day and age of vibing, contracts are even less held tight and change is even faster.
LaurieWired@lauriewired
oh come on. You think your grandma wants to make her own app? Much less maintain it. Everyone neglects the mental energy it takes to even *think* of what it is exactly you want. The entire principle of apps relies on some faith that designers; and the collective feedback of their users, can come up with a workflow or design paradigm that is *better* than what you; an individual could come up with. This is true for 99% of cases. I’d be floored if even 1% of global users want bespoke applications for uber-specific needs. Not saying it’s useless; but it’s so far away from what average users want.
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@mcuban with open source models getting better, the cost of tokens would effectively just be the cost of electricity, around ~0.5 kW every hour per person.
more expensive models would then be used with restraint, available to switch only when the problem truly requires deeper reasoning.
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This is the smartest counter I’ve seen to ai taking over jobs, in the short term.
Is the ((aggregate tokens cost to do what an employee does + plus fully encumbered developer and maintenance costs ) / (fully encumbered employee cost ) )<= productivity ?
If it takes 8 Claude agents, at $300 for tokens, per day, plus $200 per day in dev/maint , to do what an employee does per day, at a fully encumbered cost of $1200.
That’s 2600/1200. But then you need to factor in the productivity rate.
Is it more than 2.16 x productive ? Are there qualitative issues like morale, morality, whatever , that can’t be quantified, that need to go into the decision?
What is the going forward progression of burdened costs for the tokens ?
Curious what people think about this ?
The All-In Podcast@theallinpod
What Happens When AI Tokens Cost More Than Your Employees? @Jason: “We, with our agents, hit $300/day per agent using the Claude API, like instantly. And that was doing, maybe, 10 or 20%. That's $100k/year per agent.” @chamath: “We're getting to a place where we have to basically now say, ‘What is the token budget that we're willing to give our best devs?’” “And then if you aggregate it across all people, you can clearly see a trend where you're like, ‘Well, hold on a second, now they need to be at least 2x as productive as another employee.’” “That is actively happening inside my business, because otherwise I'll run out of money.” Jason: “Yeah. This is a very interesting trend that you're not going to hear anybody else talk about, but when do tokens outpace the salary of the employee?” “Because you're about to hit it. I'm about to hit it.”
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Hiring yourself out of a job is terrible advice.
You should be world-class at what you're doing. Which means there should be almost zero people better than you at that thing.
Aditya Agarwal@adityaag
As a founder, you can't beat the game. Because the game never really ends. You're always building the next thing. @waseem has started 3 companies, including $1B unicorn @PilotHQ. An OG @southpkcommons member, he has serious takes on startups. Full Minus One episode out now. (00:37) - Intro (02:57) - Why mission doesn't matter (12:36) - Waseem’s miserable time after Dropbox (16:10) - Testing vs sitting around brainstorming (31:38) - The case for micromanagement (34:05) - How LLMs are changing company creation and scaling (37:42) - The mindset shift that makes startups energizing
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Elon Musk predicts that AI will bypass coding entirely by the end of 2026 - just creates the binary directly
AI can create a much more efficient binary than can be done by any compiler
So just say, "Create optimized binary for this particular outcome," and you actually bypass even traditional coding
Current: Code → Compiler → Binary → Execute
Future: Prompt → AI-generated Binary → Execute
Grok Code is going to be state-of-the-art in 2–3 months
Software development is about to fundamentally change
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