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Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:03PM (#49804508)
My workplace doesn't even offer Fable. And on the sub, I've had a hard time understanding Opus 5, but Fable can deal with it with subagents.

If 5.5 is any better, I might try to do agentic-assisted development instead of just telling fable to delegate

Re:Kimi K3 is now live on Thursday July 16, 2026 @07:01PM (#48941406)
You've been to too many meetings with PMs and directors saying "An agent could very easily do this"
Re:Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @04:45PM (#48752871)
Bold of you to think individuals are a big part of their marketshare and explosive growth. My company introduced enterprise last month and the bill was US$110k for a few dozen folks using it Claude Code and Design.

Do the Pro and Max plans help with word of mouth and whatnot? Sure, but the individual with a Max plan (or 4...) are all subsidized by the big spenders

Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @03:20PM (#48212687)
Not defending them. but wouldn't it be a legal nightmare if they did?
Re:Vercel April 2026 security incident on Sunday April 19, 2026 @11:59AM (#47825255)
it did add an entry - windows 11, chrome
How big of a client is Fiverr? Surely Cloudinary would have alerts for an enterprise client leaking stuff?

Just insane

Re:Don't become an engineering manager on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @03:05PM (#47238136)
> You are the sole responsible for what tools use.

Sure, but now competitors are shipping like crazy (at their EM's sanity expense?). What to do?

> AI is voluntary

Until the company mandate. And also there 10 other EMs that I am competing with on my org tree alone, and their teams are all AI-heavy. Is that really a matter of choice?

Not sure either since M5 base has been available for months now
"Work for you"? They ain't hiring my friend, they are spamming their product to your inbox, not sending a career opportunity
You can set it up with docker compose and put the container on the same network of your dev env, and you are good to go.

What I'd really like is an image that mirrors extensions available on AWS Aurora. Supabase's is the only that has some parity as far as I know

Re:Television is 100 years old today on Monday January 26, 2026 @08:12PM (#46774173)
Not through your TV, but they see you driving to the last Blockbuster tho
Re:2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web on Sunday December 14, 2025 @07:23PM (#46268758)
There was. Oink spawned both wcd and waffles. wcd spawned a few including RED.

Next thursday, RED will have been around longer than WCD...

Re:Linux Kernel Explorer on Thursday November 27, 2025 @09:10AM (#46069421)
> Will drop a message to ask if it'd be possible to have a similar tool for Python.

Why not create your own? This is as wild as open-source expectations of a speedy implementation, addressing issues quickly, etc. Folks always want more and more.

Damn, those are some 10k loc sql files, 3k+ pull requests. Talk about battle-tested.

Hopefully this grows to be postgres equivalent

Re:You misunderstand what it means to be poor on Friday November 14, 2025 @01:32PM (#45930117)
I worked at a media company that used to track time the users spent watching TV, so they could charge advertisers accordingly. "Hundred million watched the Super Bowl", things like that.

The way they measured that was by having devices installed on peoples homes, that tracked TV usage, and all of it was planned around demographics as well. People would get a few bucks for having the device installed. But hey, if you wanted to measure the top 1% of income, what would you do? A few bucks meanth nothing, so it was always in terms of 'favors' and 'gifts'. A nice champagne here and there.

What about the bottom 5, 10%? Well, you can't give them any money, because that could effectively move them from one social class to another (not the US, but locally this would be moving them from Class E to Class D). So you took them to lunch.

I thought it was wild once I learned that.

Re:Affinity Studio Now Free on Thursday October 30, 2025 @02:47PM (#45763730)
Re:Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake on Monday October 20, 2025 @10:20AM (#45644201)
It’s not so straightforward, though. In the U.S., wages are usually discussed in terms of hourly pay or annual salary, whereas in Brazil, they’re typically expressed as monthly earnings.
Re:Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:00AM (#45606235)
Is FastAPI still (micro)managed by one person?
Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Monday September 29, 2025 @04:19PM (#45418259)
His "pelican riding a bicycle" tests are now a classic and AI shops are benchmaxxing for it
Re:Dev Culture Is Dying the Curious Developer Is Gone on Friday September 19, 2025 @02:38PM (#45304941)
Exactly. It's a 1000+ people consulting firm, with a few dozens allocated with us
Re:Dev Culture Is Dying the Curious Developer Is Gone on Friday September 19, 2025 @02:32PM (#45304877)
Just recently we got an e-mail from a consulting company we work with, their devs are 100% allocated to the client. The letter was something along the lines: "We hear you guys are using Github Copilot, and we would appreciate if from now on you could provide the number of lines from each developer that was created with AI, that was helped by AI (they are distinct metrics), and how many the developer created on their own. Per month". We, the paying client, that work with several consulting companies, got that e-mail.

I understand the author, and if these days the developers are on it for the money and deliver, but don't bring up stupid shit like this, I don't care much. Not everybody is on it for any kind of creativity relief. Spending hours on their Lottie animations or shaving off miliseconds out of request is not really for everybody either. We are lucky to cross paths with people that care.

Re:Configuration files are user interfaces on Thursday September 18, 2025 @03:10PM (#45293712)
Your existing JSON < 5 will work with json5, not the other way around
Re:Self Propagating NPM Malware Compromises over 40 Packages on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @06:00PM (#45268743)
People living on the latest packages with their dependabots never made any sense to me, ADR. They trusted their system too much
Re:ReMarkable Paper Pro Move on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @08:07PM (#45121839)
Move like mobile phones

Now the "Pro"...

Re:Qwen-Image: Crafting with Native Text Rendering on Monday August 04, 2025 @06:04PM (#44791860)
Not sure what you mean or new to llms, but two RTX 3090 will work for this, and even lower-end cards will (RTX3060) once it's GGUF'd
Re:Attention is your scarcest resource on Thursday July 31, 2025 @08:06AM (#44744786)
The age of reading about something you love, and not effectively doing it.
Re:Study mode on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @03:02PM (#44727077)
"Toby is today's designated signer for Eletromagnetics 302."
Re:Checklists are hard (but still a good thing) on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @02:48PM (#44662624)
Which is why programming, reality, and even recipes are so hard.

Ever go try to cook something new and you read "Pre-heat the pan on low-medium...", and your programmer brain just can't take it? What kind of pan, what's low-medium on this burner, how much pre-heating are you talking about? These can't be all the instructions.

And perhaps like programming, it takes a few recipes and a few burnt steaks for you "not to worry" about that, you know what's good enough eventually. These lists (and algorithms) are never completely thorough.

I'd go even a step further: For the big corp, having a point of failure that lives outside its structure can be a feature, and not a bug.

"Oh there goes Super Entrepise DB Partner again" turns into a product next fiscal year, that shutdowns the following year because the scope was too big, but at least they tried to make things better.

Re:Chatterbox TTS on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @09:14PM (#44253479)
An AI-powered browser extension that shows on hover the most likely acronym meaning, based on context you say?

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