Saxxie.dev

@saxxie.dev

Software person; mathematician wannabe

"make no mistakes" negative, unrealistic, anxiety inducing, process focused "do a breakthrough" positive, incredible, aspirational, goal oriented

I think all coding agents should store session logs in an actual database and not as 9999999 jsonl files I want to be able to ask "how often have you used this skill/tool and for what" without it needing to rederive the session path, the log format, loop over all 9999999 files, etc.

the main argument against sharing ideas is that it gives you the dopamine hit of social recognition without any of the execution work

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A developer used AI to translate her code. The master asked, "Does it compile?" "It compiles." "Do the tests pass?" "All of them." "Then what troubles you?" The developer said, "I no longer know which parts I understand." The master replied, "Did you understand them before?" ...

it’s true literally right now: i would flatly not hire anyone who categorically refused to engage with these tools. that doesn’t mean you need to be a tokenmaxxing psycho, but sneering talk about “sparkling autocomplete” means you stopped paying attention

Marcel Weiß@marcelweiss.bsky.social · 4w ago

At the rate it's going right now I'd guess it'll be more like 2-3 years. I already see the first loud anti-AI programmers talking about finding it hard to get a new job. (Which might or might not be related, who knows.)

so what makes polytoken different from anything else? everyone's hyping it up but it just looks like a normal claude clode clone?

Software folks find this attitude abhorrent because the culture in software for decades has been about freely sharing information, which is why it has been one of the more reliable venues of class mobility in the US. It sure as shit was for me.

Xanthe van Otterburn 🦦️🍇️@satyrs.eu · last mo.

The fun part about this is that people online deny that the primary concern is lowering the barrier to entry and worrying about competition, but a lot of the time people actually *in* the industry will just come out and say it lol

I had strong priors against LLMs for medicine. There are a lot of doctors in my family and I grew up viewing doctors as careful, skilled professionals. I had plenty of bad medical experiences, but I thought it would be hard to do better. Then an LLM found a cure for my 2 decade chronic condition...