It feels circular. How is learning different from understanding? How is understanding different from knowledge? I’m supposed to understand before I learn. How do I understand if not through learning? I’m supposed to understand to gain knowledge. Isn’t knowledge understanding?
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greymalik commented on Do the simplest thing that could possibly work seangoedecke.com/the-simp... · Posted by u/dondraper36
I think this works in simple domains. After working in big tech for a while, I am still shocked by the required complexity. Even the simplest business problem may take a year to solve, and constantly break due to the astounding number of edge cases and scale.
Anyone proclaiming simplicity just hasnt worked at scale. Even rewrites that have a decade old code base to be inspired from, often fail due to the sheer amount of things to consider.
A classic, Chesterton's Fence:
"There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”"
> Anyone proclaiming simplicity just hasnt worked at scale.
The author of the article is a staff engineer at GitHub.
greymalik commented on Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI zed.dev/blog/bring-your-o... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Honest question - why use Zed, other than it is fast and “not VS Code”?
greymalik commented on Building AI products in the probabilistic era giansegato.com/essays/pro... · Posted by u/sdan
This seems like an expression of The Bitter Lesson:
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~eunsol/courses/data/bitter_lesson...
How so?
Nothing against emacs, but check out NeoVIM. If you like Emacs, you might like NeoVIM and its powerful extensibility features.
What makes NeoVIM emacs-like?
greymalik commented on Why LLMs can't really build software zed.dev/blog/why-llms-can... · Posted by u/srid
it's very well documented behavior that models try to pass failed test with hacks and tricks (hard coding solutions and so on)
It is also true that you can instruct them not to do that, with success.
Between Opus aand GPT-5, it's not clear there's a substantial difference in software development expertise. The metric that I can't seem to get past in my attempts to use the systems is context awareness over long-running tasks. Producing a very complex, context-exceeding objective is a daily (maybe hourly) ocurrence for me. All I care about is how these systems manage context and stay on track over extended periods of time.
What eval is tracking that? It seems like it's potentially the most imporatnt metric for real-world software engineering and not one-shot vibe prayers.
> it's not clear there's a substantial difference in software development expertise
But GPT-5 is substantially cheaper[0].
[0] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/7/gpt-5/#pricing-is-aggre...
greymalik commented on Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs github.com/manzaltu/claud... · Posted by u/kgwgk
Anyone have good results with something similar for Neovim?