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I just assumed it came out of Indian English, and kept spreading as more and more people like to use the word “software” as a synonym for “app” or “program”.

In my house, software will always be an uncountable noun.

Well, I appreciate the advance warning, so I want to hear it.

Google Translate is actually good these days, and seems to mostly preserve the original tone without turning it into Claudeslop.

So if Meta stopped maintaining MyRocks, are they moving to a different solution?

I’m struggling with this as I have apps I would like to share but I literally don’t know how. I can’t post on Reddit. I can post a Show HN, but I’ll probably break some unwritten rule and get shadowbanned. I can share with my friends, but they’re not really the target audience.

The only option I can think of is to just pay influencers, and I’m guessing the cost of influencer marketing is going to be a multiple of what I spent actually developing the app. What am I missing?

I worked on benchmarking in the past, including TPC benchmarks.

When you see a blog post like this, never interpret it as “database A is X% faster than database B”, there are just too many factors.

It’s more like “we put focused work into performance improvements and we expect certain workloads to perform better than the previous release”.

This seems like a good project, and benchmarking is a good way for a development team to iterate on performance. Just want to get my take out there.

> That last detail was the tell: every crawl session was a fresh browser with no persisted thread id

Yep, ai;dr, closed tab

US politicians have been at war against teenage drinking since the 1980s when the minimum drinking age was raised. Gen Z social trends helped it along, but this is the desired outcome of bipartisan policy going back decades.

I’m a Brave user, but I really never really understood how do they make money? Does anyone actually use or care about BAT (the crypto token)?

I haven’t heard anyone mention it in years besides “the crypto thing in Brave that everyone turns off”

Even though I’m all in on using coding agents in my personal projects, I’m so glad I’m not working in a corporate job right now.

> I reached out for help. The standard response from everyone fell between ignoring me or telling me I need to "do it myself".

> You know who did help me? Random strangers on Stack Overflow. People who had nothing to gain from helping me other than just trying to help someone in need.

This part makes the entire post sound like a parody. Maybe Jeff Atwood has a wicked, self-deprecating sense of humor?

Yeah no, ask for help on Stack Overflow and you were were more likely to be met with castigation and snide remarks. It was such a breath of fresh air when ChatGPT let us not have to deal with that community anymore.

Yeah, as a user I came to the same conclusion as I naturally used plan mode less and less over time.

I still use plan mode in Astra to come up with a plan that I then feed into Fable. I feel like OpenAI models still do better big picture investigation and planning, while Claude is the better software engineer, if that makes any sense.

Of course this could well come down to my own biases and the specific things I’m working on.

I'm pretty sure the CEOs of Tesla/SpaceX, OpenAI, and any company depending on data center buildout are painfully aware of physical supply chains and manual labor scarcity right now.

Yeah, I strongly feel this kind of stuff will just fall away as models get smarter and have a longer and longer viable time horizon per task.

Prompt Engineering, OpenClaw, Ralphing (remember that?) have all fallen already.

In my experience you are quite right. Don’t let the shaming replies here get you down.

> Just don't read her stuff if you're not interested.

This retort is disingenuous when almost everyone is on algorithmic social media and trying to chase clout and drive revenue with engagement bait.

I would never read Aella's Substack in my free time, but I have a good idea who she is and what she posts just by virtue of having a feed that mostly gives me tech and politics stuff.

I just can’t get excited about any of these meta-frameworks.

Doesn’t everyone get by now that any advance just gets rolled in to Claude and Codex a few months later, then the downstream competitors a few months after that?

I completely agree, but I think it’s just a convenient narrative for Big AI to push for regulation and salt the earth against competitors.

“Local AI isn’t freedom, it’s an extinction event”

> Reading a stop sign and deciding whether to stop is a City-Streets function, and that’s FSD. Basic Autopilot is built as a highway lane-keeping system, and it does not respond to stop signs. So a driver-assist car verified engaged as it ran a stop sign was, most likely, running FSD.

This just isn't true, "Traffic Light and Stop Sign Control" is a feature of basic autopilot on Model 3s.

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/2017_2023_model3/en_eu/GU...

This has been my hunch for a while about all the discourse of "OpenAI/Anthropic subscription pricing is unsustainable!!"

We understand theoretically they're taking our data, but yeah, that data is vital to the entire business plan of all these companies and WAY more valuable than people are giving credit for.

I checked up on Mistral recently and saw their Claude-alike coding harness is using GLM now, whatever it takes to keep users on their platform and feeding them data.

> As you can see, on average, SLMs are as good if not better than LLMs in 81.2% of the cases, with the LLMs having a significant advantage only in areas like engineering, life sciences, transportation and computer sciences.

So what I’m reading here is “LLMs have a significant advantage” in the most critical areas that have practically infinite demand for more intelligence.

Games industry is a special case, more adjacent to the design industry.

I worked at a few Fortune 500 companies and interviewed a lot of candidates for both simple CRUD and harder systems programming work. Side projects, GitHub stuff, or even an independent bootstrapped business almost NEVER helped the candidate and more often seemed to hurt.

The only thing that would definitely help was getting your patches into major, major projects like the Linux kernel, PostgreSQL, OpenJDK, etc.

From many years of first hand experience:

- QA is always the first thing companies outsource, with predictable results

- Companies either go the route or “separate QA org with separate management chain” or “have QA engineers report to dev managers”. I’ve seen serious misaligned incentives and toxic outcomes with both

- Frequent Slack messages at 4:15 PM on Friday - “hey they just merged the PR, we really need it tested before Monday stand up”

- QA becomes a de facto dumping ground for glue work that other teams don’t want to do. Senior QA ends up morphing into a de facto “responsibility without authority” project manager role

- There is zero internet “community” around QA the way there is for developers or designers. There is no Slashdot or Hacker News for QA and there never will be. Just a bazaar of book authors and consultants promoting themselves on LinkedIn

IMO the only thing that makes sense anymore is having good SDETs embedded in engineering teams.

Destination Thailand Visa is comically easy to get if you have ~$20K in savings

Discord culture is the definition of riff raff

The thing is a healthy community, by definition, isn’t going to allow a struggling loner to join them

I used to feel that way but I’m completely over it, especially going through the experience of registering a few domains for side projects recently. There are just too many already squatted.

The only other market based solution I can think of is just charging like $10,000/yr minimum per domain name and forcing the plebs to use randomly generated strings like Tor onion sites

It makes complete sense and it would be for the best, therefore it will never happen

The participants in the train study were essentially given a "job" to talk to strangers, which completely changes the mental framing.

People generally try to follow through on a job they promised to do. They'll try to make the best of it so they feel like they made a good decision accepting the job.

If the conversations go badly, they can easily rationalize it away with "I didn't want to talk to them anyway, but I didn't have a choice".

Many shy and socially anxious people do basically fine in public-facing jobs because of this phenomenon.

Eh, I got my comp sci degree in the 2000s and for the most part we learned barely enough to pass the exams. Colleges weren't exactly churning out an army of disciplined professionals well versed in low level programming. Most of us ended up working on PHP or Rails or some Enterprise Java monstrosity.

Then came of the flood of Leetcode in the 2010s. If you memorized the top 100 interview puzzles, you would have had a good chance to get paid 5x more than a kernel or firmware engineer, and you could have ridden the stock market to generational wealth