[–] 9 points 1 month ago

I wouldn't. The likely outcome is that your email address is marked as spam.

Part of me thinks if someone couldn’t be bothered to make a single API call, no email is gonna change that. They probably just signed up while evaluating options and went with something else.

Yeah exactly this. Another possibility is that they are non-technical users who don't understand what your product is, and are actually looking for something else. I dunno what though or how you would find out. Do you see search queries that lead to your site?

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago

    AI definitely loves to over-engineer things but I've had lots of success with the latest models just telling them not to. Also I do simplification passes afterwards telling them to find anything that can be simplified or YAGNI.

    I guess the tend to over-engineer is probably because the benchmarks don't care about simplicity and maintainability? Who knows.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I watched a bit of it but it seems like just a random discussion of memory use intermixed with abstruse Haskell mentions.

    He doesn't even say what his thesis is at the start. What is this video trying to tell me?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    And yet, the latest generation of models is surprisingly underwhelming.

    Hard disagree. The latest generation (Astra 6/Opus 5.5) is the first one that doesn't produce slop IMO. They basically fixed Claudish, the code quality (at least in Rust) is close to what I would write most of the time, they don't spew a gazillion useless comments through the code, etc.

    I don't think you can talk about agentic coding without saying which models you're talking about - there's a huge difference between the latest frontier models and those from 6 months ago.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I don't think your Wayland comparison is great. There are already solutions to app isolation that make X a weak link, e.g. Android or Qubes. Whereas there's basically no future where SHA1 in Git is the weakest link.

    Also security was only one reason for Wayland.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    I totally agree. Whenever I've criticised Ruby, e.g. for it's insane level of hard to follow "magic", people just say "that's just Ruby on Rails... not all Ruby is like that". I have no idea why it's popular or why we should listen to anyone that thinks Ruby is amazing and Rust is terrible. It shows an astounding level of poor taste.

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