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trescenzi commented on Coding agents have replaced every framework I used   blog.alaindichiappari.dev... · Posted by u/alainrk
feastingonslop · 7 days ago
And there was a time when using libraries and frameworks was the right thing to do, for that very reason. But LLMs have the equivalent of way more experience than any single programmer, and can generate just the bit of code that you actually need, without having to include the whole framework.
trescenzi · 7 days ago
As someone who’s built a lot of frontend frameworks this isn’t what I’ve found. Instead I’ve found that you end up with the middle ground choice which while effective is no better than the externally maintained library of choice. The reason to build your own framework is so it’s tailor suited to your use cases. The architecting required to do that LLMs can help with but you have to guide them and to guide them you need expertise.
trescenzi commented on Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing   wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spendi... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
ksec · 7 days ago
One of the them is a one shot project and one of them is an infrastructure project being used by billions. It makes a nice headline but not a decent comparison.

On another note I wish there is some break down of where all the spendings goes to. GPU, CPU, RAM, Network, Switch, Cables, Power, Datacenter. The AI ecosystem and business is larger than Smartphone revolution kick started by Apple, but unlike Smartphone or consumer products these Hyperscaler and AI spending right now it is very opaque.

trescenzi · 7 days ago
The moon landing led to a huge amount of infrastructure and inventions which now power the modern world. The moon landing was the marketing moment. The buildout of space tech and creation of industry was the actual goal.
trescenzi commented on Stay Away from My Trash   tldraw.dev/blog/stay-away... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh
wiseowise · 8 days ago
> AI changed all of that. My low-effort issues were becoming low-effort pull requests, with AI doing both sides of the work. My poor Claude had produced a nonsense issue causing the contributor's poor Claude to produce a nonsense solution. The thing is, my shitty AI issue was providing value.

Seems like shitty AI issue did more harm than good?

trescenzi · 8 days ago
Yea I think the author is wrong as well. I have a similar skill but the key difference is the instructions are just to fix typos. Why would the author not just use Claude as the plumbing and retain his old nonsense issues is beyond me.
trescenzi commented on Claude Opus 4.6   anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/HellsMaddy
tgtweak · 9 days ago
plot twist, it's all claude code instances submitting bug reports on behalf of end users.
trescenzi · 9 days ago
I literally hit a claude code bug today, tried to use claude desktop to debug it which didn't help and it offered to open a bug report for me. So yes 100%. Some of the titles also make it pretty clear they are auto submitted. This is my favorite which was around the top when I was creating my bug report 3 hours ago and is now 3 pages back lol.

> Unable to process - no bug report provided. Please share the issue details you'd like me to convert into a GitHub issue title

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/23459

trescenzi commented on Lessons from 14 years at Google   addyosmani.com/blog/21-le... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
trescenzi · a month ago
> At scale, even your bugs have users.

First place I worked right out of college had a big training seminar for new hires. One day we were told the story of how they’d improved load times from around 5min to 30seconds, this improvement was in the mid 90s. The negative responses from clients were instant. The load time improvements had destroyed their company culture. Instead of everyone coming into the office, turning on their computers, and spending the next 10min chatting and drinking coffee the software was ready before they’d even stood up from their desk!

The moral of the story, and the quote, isn’t that you shouldn’t improve things. Instead it’s a reminder that the software you’re building doesn’t exist in a PRD or a test suite. It’s a system that people will interact with out there in the world. Habits with form, workarounds will be developed, bugs will be leaned for actual use cases.

This makes it critically important that you, the software engineer, understand the purpose and real world usage of your software. Your job isn’t to complete tickets that fulfill a list of asks from your product manager. Your job is to build software that solves users problems.

trescenzi commented on Why Does A.I. Write Like That?   nytimes.com/2025/12/03/ma... · Posted by u/cainxinth
trescenzi · 2 months ago
I wish they’d, dare I say, delved deeper into the bit about Nigerian English. My understanding is that’s where a lot of labeling happens. Now I wonder if that explains the idiosyncrasies not the size of the Nigerian English corpus online as the article suggests. If it was the latter I’d expect more “do the needful” and other Indian English idiosyncrasies.
trescenzi commented on Iran begins cloud seeding operations as drought bites   arabnews.com/node/2622812... · Posted by u/mhb
trescenzi · 3 months ago
I occasionally see headlines like this and imagine them as part of an opening montage in a movie setting the scene for why society is dystopian/collapsed. Not that I have anything against cloud seeding, more that individually "X climate mitigation effort begins" headlines seem small and isolated but when taken together they start to become foreboding. We're not there yet but that's the point. Only when looking back will it become clear that taken in their totality we'll have a little map that shows us how we ended up somewhere.
trescenzi commented on The internet is no longer a safe haven   brainbaking.com/post/2025... · Posted by u/akyuu
zdc1 · 3 months ago
I wonder if you can have a chain of "invisible" links on your site that a normal person wouldn't see or click. The links can go page A -> page B -> page C, where a request for C = instant IP ban.
trescenzi · 3 months ago
There was an article just yesterday which detailed doing this as not in order to ban but in order to waste time. You can also zip bomb people which is entertaining but probably not super effective.

https://herman.bearblog.dev/messing-with-bots/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935729

trescenzi commented on Framework Making Printers   twitter.com/frameworkpute... · Posted by u/ksec
vgr-land · 5 months ago
The comparing 2025 with the 2023 and 2024 versions of the article is also an interesting snapshot in the state of tech journalism.

(Also yes my Brother printer is just fine and turning 7 years old)

https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-...

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117976/best-printer-2024...

trescenzi · 5 months ago
These are really interesting to read in order. The LLM output at the end of each shows how they've gotten better and stayed the same. Output is all formulaic just following slightly different formulas. I shall excitedly wait another year to see what is possible in 2026 and if everyone is right by 2027 the LLM will be the author of the piece including human written content for padding at the end.

(Also yes my Brother printer has worked great over the past 10 years. I even had to buy new toner and have replaced it with a third party toner twice so far.)

trescenzi commented on A high schooler writes about AI tools in the classroom   theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/dougb5
trescenzi · 5 months ago
> We used to share memes about pounding away at the keyboard at 11:57, anxiously rushing to complete our work on time. These moments were not fun, exactly, but they did draw students together in a shared academic experience.

This reminds me of type 1 vs type 2 fun. Type 1 fun is fun in the moment; drinks with friends. Type 2 isn’t fun in the moment but is fun in retrospect. Generally people choose type 1 if given a choice but type 2 I find is the most rewarding. It’s what you’ll talk about with your friends at the bar. I know it’s very much old man, well I guess this high schooler is too, yelling at clouds but I do worry what the elimination of challenge does to our ability to learn and form relationships. I’d expect there to be a sweet spot. Obviously too much challenge and people shut down.

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