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Maxion commented on OpenClaw is changing my life   reorx.com/blog/openclaw-i... · Posted by u/novoreorx
gyomu · 2 days ago
> it completely transformed my workflow, whether it’s personal or commercial projects

> This has truly freed up my productivity, letting me pursue so many ideas I couldn’t move forward on before

If you're writing in a blog post that AI has changed your life and let you build so many amazing projects, you should link to the projects. Somehow 90% of these posts don't actually link to the amazing projects that their author is supposedly building with AI.

Maxion · 2 days ago
A lot of more senior coders when they actively try vibe coding a greenfield project find that it does actually work. But only for the first ~10kloc. After that the AI, no matter how well you try to prompt it, will start to destroy existing features accidentally, will add unnecessary convoluted logic to the code, will leave benhind dead code, add random traces "for backwards compatibility", will avoid doing the correct thing as "it is too big of a refactor", doesn't understand that the dev database is not the prod database and avoids migrations. And so forth.

I've got 10+ years of coding experience, I am an AI advocate, but not vibe coding. AI is a great tool to help with the boring bits, using it to initialize files, help figure out various approaches, as a first pass code reviewer, helping with configuring, those things all work well.

But full-on replacing coders? It's not there yet. Will require an order of magnitude more improvement.

Maxion commented on Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product   simonberens.com/p/lessons... · Posted by u/sberens
myst · 6 days ago
Googled that ‘yes’ thing. Not different from my experience in other parts of the world. ‘Yes’ means ‘yes, sir’ only in the army. What is your environment?
Maxion · 6 days ago
As someone living in the Nordics my experience already with central Europeans and especially so Americans is that these cultures are already much more high context than the Nordics. I guess up here we're all borderline autistic?
Maxion commented on The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button   paulmakeswebsites.com/wri... · Posted by u/dbushell
Kinrany · 21 days ago
Displaying the same thing on every monitor to the degree that monitor allows is well-defined. The browser may not be able to show some colors and the browser may decide to display things differently on purpose, but it's perfectly reasonable to want to unambiguously express what you _want_ the browser to display.
Maxion · 21 days ago
> Displaying the same thing on every monitor to the degree that monitor allows is well-defined.

In this case the website will not appear the same on every browser. Most browsers have a zoom function that the user controls which is an accessability feature. This changes how the website renders on the page.

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Maxion commented on Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)   ucsf.edu/news/2016/09/404... · Posted by u/aldarion
StopDisinfo910 · a month ago
A casual look at where people live the oldest, what they eat, and what's recommended tell you all you need to know about food recommendations then and now.

It's a field where actual long term controlled experiments are impossible, confounding variables are everywhere, and multiple lobbies have vested interests in the outcomes.

I take everything with a grain of salt apart from studies of harm when sources are credible and numerous and even then, I'm not fully confident.

The only current advice I follow is avoiding industrially processed food. That sounds like a sound one as this kind of food is basically terra incognita. It's just applying the precaution principle.

Maxion · a month ago
> The only current advice I follow is avoiding industrially processed food.

It is also surprisingly hard in practice. There are so many foods that on the label are supposed to be whole foods or low processed but then when you read the ingredients do you realize you've been bamboozeld.

Maxion commented on The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup   twitter.com/bcherny/statu... · Posted by u/KothuRoti
baalimago · a month ago
I'm a bit jealous. I would like to experiment with having a similar setup, but 10x Opus 4.5 running practically non stop must amount to a very high inference bill. Is it really worth the output?

From experimentation, I need to coach the models quite closely in order to get enough value. Letting it loose only works when I've given very specific instructions. But I'm using Codex and Clai, perhaps Claude code is better.

Maxion · a month ago
I've tried running a number of claude's in paralell on a CRUD full stack JS app. Yes, it got features made faster, yes it definitely did not leave me enough time to acutally look at what they did, yes it definitely produced sub-par code.

At the moment with one claude + manually fixing crap it produces I am faster at solving "easier" features (Think add API endpoint, re-build API client, implement frontend logic for API endpoint + UI) faster than if I write it myself.

Things that are more logic dense, it tends to produce so many errors that it's faster to solve myself.

Maxion commented on I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)   idiallo.com/blog/18000-do... · Posted by u/caminanteblanco
bzmrgonz · a month ago
That's got to be some kind of guines record. I'd like to see that theme.
Maxion · a month ago
Not even close, let me tell you...
Maxion commented on I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)   idiallo.com/blog/18000-do... · Posted by u/caminanteblanco
tonyedgecombe · a month ago
I've had one job like this where they were desperate for a solution and after months of searching couldn't find anybody to do the work. I just happened to have the intersection of several skills they needed and be available. It also helped that they were losing a lot of money every day they didn't have a solution.

On the other hand I've grown to be wary of customers who push for a fixed price. They are usually doing that because they know something that you don't.

Maxion · a month ago
I've found that it's generally SMEs that tend to be stingy when they ask for a fixed price. Large corps ask for a fixed price just so that they can internally talk about money and budget the thing once and be done.

SMEs in my experience generally are able to handle change in scope and billing easier than larger ones.

Maxion commented on It's hard to justify Tahoe icons   tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icon... · Posted by u/lylejantzi3rd
tempodox · a month ago
Came here to say the same. Not only is it redundant and distracting, destroying the reading experience, it even makes the fucking fan turn on and make noise because apparently it’s a lot of work for the video card. A presentation of valid arguments destroyed by something completely superfluous and ironically the same kind of stupidity that’s the target of the criticism made.
Maxion · a month ago
It felt quite ironic reading a complaint about icons and UI consistency through a hail of snowflakes that made it hard to even see the icons.
Maxion commented on It's hard to justify Tahoe icons   tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icon... · Posted by u/lylejantzi3rd
teddy-smith · a month ago
It's just enshittification.

Going to continue to get worse as time goes on.

Even the hardware will go at some point I'm betting.

Maxion · a month ago
It's just entropy. It takes a special kind of person to be able to fight it in a big org. Jobs, Musk et. al. are assholes but they do manage to push their vision through. Probably because they are assholes.

u/Maxion

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