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fritzo commented on AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents   agents.md/... · Posted by u/ghuntley
joegibbs · 5 days ago
I think they'll always need special guidance for things like business logic. They'll never know exactly what it is that you're building and why, what the end goal of the project is without you telling them. Architectural stuff is also a matter of human preference: if you have it mapped out in your head where things should go and how they should be done, it will be better for you when reading the changes, which will be the real bottleneck.
fritzo · 4 days ago
Indeed I have observed that my coworkers "never know exactly what it is that [we]'re building and why, what the end goal of the project is without [me] telling them"
fritzo commented on Mindless Machines, Mindless Myths   lareviewofbooks.org/artic... · Posted by u/lermontov
akomtu · 6 days ago
"If technology can be perfected to manage medicine, navigation, education, and even design, what then becomes of work? The specter is not merely unemployment—it’s meaninglessness. Once freed from the burdens of labor, what do we do?"
fritzo · 5 days ago
I'll keep my laundry machine and dishwasher, and deal with the resulting meaninglessness.
fritzo commented on Who Invented Backpropagation?   people.idsia.ch/~juergen/... · Posted by u/nothrowaways
fritzo · 6 days ago
TIL that the same Shun'ichi Amari who founded information geometry also made early advances to gradient descent.
fritzo commented on Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people   apnorc.org/projects/food-... · Posted by u/speckx
bravetraveler · 17 days ago
Despite early success I'm truly no closer to stability [in terms of housing]. With the wrong landlords, I'm practically living with Mom/Dad while nearing my 40s. Fiefdom-building isn't helping at all.

I can deal with the responsibility of a leaky roof. I can't deal with another year of No Dogs Allowed.

fritzo · 16 days ago
I'm curious, where do folks place dogs/pets on the necessity-to-luxury spectrum, or in the hierarchy of needs?
fritzo commented on Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity   metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-... · Posted by u/dheerajvs
aerhardt · a month ago
But what about producing actual code?
fritzo · a month ago
Producing code is overrated. There's lots of old code whose lifetime we can extend.
fritzo commented on Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity   metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-... · Posted by u/dheerajvs
fritzo · a month ago
As an open source maintainer on the brink of tech debt bankruptcy, I feel like AI is a savior, helping me keep up with rapid changes to dependencies, build systems, release methodology, and idioms.
fritzo commented on US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/gausswho
bpodgursky · 2 months ago
From a different article [1]:

> But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit said the FTC erred in its rulemaking process by failing to produce a preliminary regulatory analysis, a statutory requirement for rules whose annual effect on the national economy would exceed $100 million.

> The FTC had argued that it was not required to prepare the preliminary analysis because its initial estimate of the rule’s impact on the national economy was under the $100 million threshold — even though ultimately the presiding officer determined the impact exceeded the threshold.

This is a case where congress really did pass a concrete law, and the court is requiring the FTC to follow it. Sucks that a reasonable rule is getting voided for the sloppiness but I really don't think the courts are indefensibly out of line.

[1] https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5390731-appeals-court-...

fritzo · 2 months ago
The U.S. Court of Appeals has therefore quantified the severity of this issue.
fritzo commented on Writing toy software is a joy   blog.jsbarretto.com/post/... · Posted by u/bundie
foretop_yardarm · 2 months ago
A lot of people say if you don’t use LLMs then you will fall behind. I’m starting to think that not using them will be a significant advantage in the long run.
fritzo · 2 months ago
Using LLMs is like moving to management: you lose your edge on detailed execution, but you improve on accountability and long-term impact.
fritzo commented on Claude Code for VSCode   marketplace.visualstudio.... · Posted by u/tosh
fritzo · 2 months ago
One thing I prefer about Cursor is that it stores and manages the long prompts I enter. I abandoned Claude Code after I typed in a long paragraph of prompt then accidentally hit an arrow key and lost all my prompt-writing work. Prompts are valuable, and Cursor treats them as valuable, whereas Claude Code seems to expect throw-away one-liners.

Has this been fixed? Does the vscode Claude Code plugin retain prompts more reliably?

fritzo commented on Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=LCEmi... · Posted by u/sandslash
blobbers · 2 months ago
Software 3.0 is the code generated by the machine, not the prompts that generated it. The prompts don't even yield the same output; there is randomness.

The new software world is the massive amount of code that will be burped out by these agents, and it should quickly dwarf the human output.

fritzo · 2 months ago
Code is read much more often than it is written. Code generated by the machine today will be prompt read by the machine going forward. It's a closed loop.

Software is a world in motion. Software 1.0 was animated by developers pushing it around. Software 3.0 is additionally animated by AI agents.

u/fritzo

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