khendron (u/khendron)

khendron commented on Why agents are bad pair programmers justin.searls.co/posts/wh... · Posted by u/sh_tomer

khendron · 3 months ago

When I first tried an LLM agent, I was hoping for an interactive, 2-way, pair collaboration. Instead, what I got was a pairing partner who wanted to do everything themselves. I couldn't even tweak the code they had written, because it would mess up their context.

I want a pairing partner where I can write a little, they write a little, I write a little, they write a little. You know, an actual collaboration.

khendron commented on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/bakugo

hubraumhugo · 6 months ago

You can get your HN profile analyzed by it and it's pretty funny :)

https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/

I'm using this to test the humor of new models.

khendron · 6 months ago

> You've spent so much time explaining why enterprise software is terrible, we're starting to think you might be the person who designed Salesforce.

That's a low blow.

khendron commented on The trap of "I am not an extrovert" orkohunter.net/blog/the-t... · Posted by u/orkohunter

markeroon · 8 months ago

> Extroverts don't understand this concept of limited capacity for socialization.

Othering >50% of your audience isn’t the best way to make a point, and plenty of extroverts understand this concept perfectly well (myself as an example).

khendron · 8 months ago

You are right, but it doesn't take many extroverts not understanding this concept to make it feel like it's everybody :)

My mother, for example, is a serious extrovert. When I explained to her that socializing seriously drains me and I need to, for example, spend time alone after attending a party, her response was to ask if I'd seen a therapist about it.

khendron commented on Humans are unreliable models of mouse disease cell.com/cell/abstract/S0... · Posted by u/XzetaU8

amelius · 9 months ago

Did you ever investigate the underlying cause?

khendron · 9 months ago

No, I just avoid it.

khendron commented on Humans are unreliable models of mouse disease cell.com/cell/abstract/S0... · Posted by u/XzetaU8

DebtDeflation · 9 months ago

At a high enough dose, sure. But study after study over the last decade has shown coffee to have a positive effect on everything from diabetes to Alzheimers.

khendron · 9 months ago

Not for me. Coffee, anything caffeinated actually, makes me sick like I have the flu. The older I get, the more sensitive I become. I can't even eat chocolate anymore because of the caffeine content.

khendron commented on This Message Does Not Exist kmjn.org/notes/message_ex... · Posted by u/sebtron

lisper · a year ago

Everyone is snickering at this and talking about philosophy, but there is actually a legitimate point being made here, albeit obliquely: how do you explain to a non-technical user that their data has been deleted on the server, but that their client still has a cached copy that they might want to try to salvage somehow? I submit that this is a nontrivial problem worthy of serious consideration.

khendron · a year ago

You don't. Explaining what happened is not going to help the user at all. You can only explain what options are available to the user. Something like the following

"Sorry, this message can no longer be saved. Copy this message before discarding it if you will need access to it later."

khendron commented on Google wants employees to move faster cnbc.com/2024/04/23/googl... · Posted by u/salil999

paxys · a year ago

Meaningless executive speak. How should employees move faster exactly? Unless you are sharing exact guidelines, cutting down pointless projects and reducing work load, removing red tape etc. how do you expect everyone to magically ship quicker?

If startups are beating you at your game with a tiny fraction of the employees, funding and resources, it should be obvious that the number of hours put into the job isn't the problem here. Yet no corporate executive is ever going to go up on stage and admit that their strategy and execution were the cause of the mess. It's always those lazy employees. "Just let me crack the whip a few times to light a fire under them. That'll fix the problem".

khendron · a year ago

This reminds me of the time at my work when the CTO gathered all the devs together, and told us "We have to innovate more". With no real further instructions. He even showed us a graph (without any numbers) that had Profit on the Y axis and Innovation on the X axis, with line line going up to the right.

When asked when we were supposed to work on this innovation, he told us it was important to still work on our current projects, but do it more innovatively. When pressed about what this actually meant, he just showed us the graph again.

I resigned shortly after.

khendron commented on Return-to-Office Mandates: How to Lose Your Best Performers sloanreview.mit.edu/artic... · Posted by u/geox

ethanbond · a year ago

Good point to identify collaboration as the more important variable, but of course plenty of orgs figure out how to collaborate effectively while remote. In fact, almost every org that achieves moderate scale will have to figure that out.

> From an IC’s perspective, I found working at a remote company to be…

What was your control group?

khendron · a year ago

> but of course plenty of orgs figure out how to collaborate effectively while remote.

Some do, but most don't. Too many companies seem to think becoming remote means just installing Zoom on everybody's computers and sending them home. In reality, there is a lot more to it than that.

No remote technology comes close to having collaborators together in a room with a whiteboard, with a well-defined agenda. But while remote collaboration is less efficient, it doesn't mean it can't work. You just have to recognize that things are going to move slower and consensus of opinion will take more time.

khendron commented on Stephen Fry Warns About the Dangers of Voice Clones jurgengravestein.substack... · Posted by u/j_gravestein

khendron · 2 years ago

Perhaps everybody in the world needs some sort of signing key, so they can officially "authorize" public media that contains their likeness.

khendron commented on Why is it so hard to pull off a lunar landing? nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/pseudolus

bitL · 2 years ago

Frankly, why is it so hard? The article doesn't really show anything outside dust playing role in the very final stage but most landings failed higher above ground. These days we even have lasers to instantly detect distance to the ground that could be incorporated real-time to thruster output. There is almost no atmosphere for friction so basic Newtonian mechanics should be able to make a decent landing. Orbital mechanics is also out of the question near the ground. Why is this still an unsolved problem?

khendron · 2 years ago

> There is almost no atmosphere for friction so basic Newtonian mechanics should be able to make a decent landing

Actually, I think that is the one of the biggest challenges. No atmosphere to slow you down means you have to rely entirely on rockets to slow down from orbital speeds to zero.