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OccamsMirror commented on Ask HN: Does Microsoft gain anything from the constant annoying rebranding?    · Posted by u/lr0
OccamsMirror · 7 days ago
The most insane rebranding they’ve done was rename Microsoft Remote Desktop to “Windows App”.

I can’t even begin to fathom the organizational environment that must exist to get even brainstorm this rebrand let alone go through with it.

OccamsMirror commented on Stanford to continue legacy admissions and withdraw from Cal Grants   forbes.com/sites/michaelt... · Posted by u/hhs
ljsprague · 15 days ago
>it's giving an advantage to the luckiest (the ones who happened to be born into it).

Are people born smart not also "lucky"?

OccamsMirror commented on Pentagon Pizza Index   pizzint.watch/... · Posted by u/exiguus
energy123 · 25 days ago
Since Hegseth's tenure started, a different consumable might have more predictive utility.
OccamsMirror · 25 days ago
My favorite nickname for him is what people in the military apparently call him: Kegsbreath.
OccamsMirror commented on Ask HN: Has your opinion on AI changed over the past year?    · Posted by u/atleastoptimal
OccamsMirror · a month ago
I really love it for tasks that I wouldn't have bothered doing myself in the past. Janky automation scripts. Porting a protocol to another language. Mindless work like that.

I find myself regretting its use when I apply it too aggressively with my products.

OccamsMirror commented on Ask HN: Having terrible time with paid versions of ChatGPT and Claude    · Posted by u/gist
Sevii · a month ago
I'm getting claude code to one shot deployment scripts. It's pretty great.
OccamsMirror · a month ago
I use Claude Code for all of my interactions with Claude now. It's a way better experience.
OccamsMirror commented on LLM Inevitabilism   tomrenner.com/posts/llm-i... · Posted by u/SwoopsFromAbove
XenophileJKO · a month ago
:| I'm an engineer of 30+ years. I think I know good and bad quality. You can't "vibe code" good quality, you have to review the code. However it is like having a team of 20 Junior Engineers working. If you know how to steer a group of engineers, then you can create high quality code by reviewing the code. But sure, bury your head in the sand and don't learn how to use this incredibly powerful tool. I don't care. I just find it surprising that some people have such a myopic perspective.

It is really the same kind of thing.. but the model is "smarter" then a junior engineer usually. You can say something like "hmm.. I think an event bus makes sense here" Then the LLM will do it in 5 seconds. The problem is that there are certain behavioral biases that require active reminding (though I think some MCP integration work might resolve most of them, but this is just based on the current Claude Code and Opus/Sonnet 4 models)

OccamsMirror · a month ago
It's definitely made me more productive for admin tasks and things that I wouldn't bother scripting if I had to write it myself. Having an LLM pump out busy work like that is definitely a game changer.

When I point it at my projects though, the outcomes are much less reliable and often quite frustrating.

OccamsMirror commented on Context Rot: How increasing input tokens impacts LLM performance   research.trychroma.com/co... · Posted by u/kellyhongsn
bayesianbot · a month ago
I feel like the optimal coding agent would do this automatically - collect and (sometimes) summarize the required parts of code, MCP responses, repo maps etc., then combine the results into a new message in a new 'chat' that would contain all the required parts and nothing else. It's basically what I already do with aider, and I feel the performance (in situations with a lot of context) is way better than any agentic / more automated workflow I've tried so far, but it is a lot of work.
OccamsMirror · a month ago
Claude Code tries, and it seems to be OK at it. It's hard to tell though and it definitely feels like sometimes you absolutely have to quit out and start again.

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