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Fergusonb commented on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/JustExAWS

brushfoot · 2 days ago

I read AI coding negativity on Hacker News and Reddit with more and more astonishment every day. It's like we live in different worlds. I expect the breadth of tooling is partly responsible. What it means to you to "use the LLM code" could be very different from what it means to me. What LLM are we talking about? What context does it have? What IDE are you using?

Personally, I wrote 200K lines of my B2B SaaS before agentic coding came around. With Sonnet 4 in Agent mode, I'd say I now write maybe 20% of the ongoing code from day to day, perhaps less. Interactive Sonnet in VS Code and GitHub Copilot Agents (autonomous agents running on GitHub's servers) do the other 80%. The more I document in Markdown, the higher that percentage becomes. I then carefully review and test.

Fergusonb · a day ago

I agree, it's like they looked at GPT 3.5 one time and said "this isn't for me"

The big 3 - Opus 4.1 GPT5 High, Gemini 2.5 Pro

Are astonishing in their capabilities, it's just a matter of providing the right context and instructions.

Basically, "you're holding it wrong"

Fergusonb commented on Windows XP Professional win32.run/... · Posted by u/pentagrama

ianhawes · 16 days ago

No, it's just nostalgic.

Fergusonb · 16 days ago

I don't know, it's nice to have icons and buttons that actually look like what they're going to do instead of amorphous blobs.

Fergusonb commented on What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks? lumafield.com/article/wha... · Posted by u/walterbell

meemo · a month ago

Even though this is a recall, a bad thing, it actually makes me more likely to buy from Anker than a no-name brand on Amazon. Those no-name brands almost definitely have problems like this (or worse), but we rarely hear about them.

Fergusonb · a month ago

I read the article linked above with all of the testing they did to identify the cause, I'd definitely have no trouble buying from them in the future.

Reminiscent of the tylenol case study, handled a tough situation correctly and it's still on the shelf.

Fergusonb commented on Introducing Gemma 3n developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/bundie

turnsout · 2 months ago

This looks amazing given the parameter sizes and capabilities (audio, visual, text). I like the idea of keeping simple tasks local. I’ll be curious to see if this can be run on an M1 machine…

Fergusonb · 2 months ago

Sure it can, easiest way is to get ollama, then `ollama run gemma3n` You can pair it with tools like simonw's LLM to pipe stuff to it.

Fergusonb commented on Getting free internet on a cruise, saving $170 · Posted by u/_gtuv

gwbas1c · 2 months ago

Just need to point out: A cruise is a ^%$^#$ expensive vacation. For me, part of vacation is focusing on the moment, place, and people that I'm with. Cruises have plenty of entertainment onboard, so if you feel the need to do something like this to save a buck, maybe take a deep breath and try to take advantage of what's already there for your entertainment.

If I ever take advantage of this hack... It'll be to download an extra book or two to my Kindle. My wife and I took a honeymoon in a remote area and mostly used our devices to take pictures and read books while at a beach.

Fergusonb · 2 months ago

The author implies they're a highschool aged programmer. They're likely along for the ride with their parents and very online. I'd probably do the same thing at their age.

Fergusonb commented on Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05 deepmind.google/models/ge... · Posted by u/jcuenod

abraxas · 3 months ago

I found all the previous Gemini models somewhat inferior even compared to Claude 3.7 Sonnet (and much worse than 4) as my coding assistants. I'm keeping an open mind but also not rushing to try this one until some evaluations roll in. I'm actually baffled that the internet at large seems to be very pumped about Gemini but it's not reflective of my personal experience. Not to be that tinfoil hat guy but I smell at least a bit of astroturf activity around Gemini.

Fergusonb · 3 months ago

I think they are fairly interchangeable, In Roo Code, Claude uses the tools better, but I prefer gemini's coding style and brevity (except for comments, it loves to write comments) Sometimes I mix and match if one fails or pursues a path I don't like.

Fergusonb commented on Google AI Ultra blog.google/products/goog... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

Fergusonb · 3 months ago

That's a car payment...

Fergusonb commented on Svelte 5 is not JavaScript hodlbod.npub.pro/post/173... · Posted by u/jonstaab

Fergusonb · 6 months ago

I've been actively developing a commercially deployed SvelteKit application, and I'd like to share some thoughts on my experience.

What initially drew me to SvelteKit was its simplicity. After setting up the project, I could work on one HTML/JS/CSS file at a time, leveraging the benefits of a modern framework without the accompanying complexity. This approach reminded me of the early days of web development, where dropping HTML files into an Apache server was all it took to get things running.

However, it's disheartening to see Svelte shifting away from that straightforward paradigm. From the outset, Rich Harris positioned Svelte's ease of use and simplicity as its key selling points. The current version of SvelteKit isn't bad per se, but I found myself preferring the earlier iterations. Back then, I didn't have to deal with constructs like `+page` for routing. I could place Svelte files wherever I wanted, and they would render seamlessly, all while enjoying the advantages of a modern framework.

This change adds layers of complexity that weren't necessary before, potentially moving away from what made Svelte appealing in the first place. I picked it up because I already knew what I needed to know.

Fergusonb commented on Why DeepSeek had to be open source getlago.com/blog/deepseek... · Posted by u/AnhTho_FR

9cb14c1ec0 · 7 months ago

I am running Deepseek R1 on my AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U integrated GPU. While my experience will R1 doesn't make me think well of it, it is impressive how fast it is on such a weak graphics processor.

Fergusonb · 7 months ago

The default model on ollama is the 7b distillation.

Its ability to solve basic math problems with reasoning is pretty cool, but other models of that size (qwen 2.5, phi4) have been generally more useful to me.

These tiny models still strike me as toys, not a whole bunch of real-world utility.