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Exoristos··on Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article
I appreciate Claude's comments during implementation, but they won't do to commit, so I have it present them for editing or removal by me at the end of the loop. Depending, I then ask it to port some of them to a decisions document or similar. For user-facing microcopy, Claude is completely unsuitable in my opinion, and I write all these myself.
Exoristos··on Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo
Fiberglass can be made with all kinds if resins, including flexible ones.
Exoristos··on Omacom Foundation launches with $8M
It's Linux for very young men who don't use Linux.
Exoristos··on Manabu Kosaka's Handmade Paper Sculptures
As I started to browse the gallery, my thinking was that he uses some kind of paper compression technique. But, no, apparently everything is cut out and iteratively stacked and fused almost like 3D printing by hand. The results are something to marvel at.
Exoristos··on OpenRouter is joining Stripe
Routing seems to face a similar future as the ever-changing trends in controlling coding agents: you know, context engineering, loop engineering, etc. --Which is that OpenAI and Anthropic quickly seem to release a better way of doing it, in their own products' harnessing, and which third-party and personal solutions will only conflict with.
Exoristos··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
Boy do you underestimate everyday human abilities.
Exoristos··on Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas
I think GP's observing it fails to be effectively different.
Exoristos··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
Oh and the actual driving mechanism was vulture capitalist takeover.
Exoristos··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
Most of it actually took about five years, as the manufacturing side of it was outsourced to China and the computer side to India. I was there. Management told us it was "because of 9/11." R.R. Donnelley was one of the world's largest manufacturing companies, a Fortune 50 company -- became a penny stock in a decade or so.

The technologies GP mentions didn't end commercial print -- they were all heavily in use _by_ commercial print.

Exoristos··on Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI
Or SPS Commerce. Evidence is becoming unconvincing that they're even in business anymore.
Exoristos··on Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI
> demo's look more convincing/complete ...

In the case of an LLM generated demo, usually deceptively so.

> and give an impression that the design decision has been made.

In the case of a vibed design, this is the opposite of useful for the team.

Exoristos··on SwiftUI After 7 Years
It's a popular controversy here much the way React is a popular controversy here: people dabble in the new idiom but don't solidly master its basics; chaos ensues and consequently resentment.
Exoristos··on SwiftUI After 7 Years
Declarative–reactive. Like SwiftUI.
Exoristos··on The End of an Era
It's both; humans and human activity are immanently mutual; humans are for humans.
Exoristos··on Bryan Johnson: I've taken longevity too far
Tweet is: "been thinking things over and wonder if i’ve taken this whole longevity thing too far".
Exoristos··on Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude
I suspect that kind of prompt is vestigial of an early LLM marketing strategy. It wants to make the LLM seem like a trainable consciousness.
Exoristos··on Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude
Hypothesis: Good Jenga players will make good coding-assistant prompters.
Exoristos··on Canceling "Hey"
From the blog:

> They're still reeling from the Pakistani rape gangs that were left free to terrorize cities like Rotherham and Rochdale for years on end with horror-movie-like scenes of the most despicable, depraved abuse of British girls.

I can see if you feel this was fabricated by the author, you'd have the negative reaction you're having. But this is much-reported, much-discussed fact. Maybe HN needs to read news sources besides HN.

Exoristos··on Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)
Astro then.
Exoristos··on Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)
They don't have to be that way.
Exoristos··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
"Our leaders" also are sometimes persecuted for lying to a federal officer; the past few years there have been more than one high-profile case.
Exoristos··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
You're begging OP's question.
Exoristos··on How to write English prose (2023)
I'm surprised to note -- if the discussion here is any evidence, then anger and literacy are inversely correlated.
Exoristos··on Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS
SaaS seems to have largely replaced them. And, needless to say, now LLM.
Exoristos··on The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
The lengths some of y'all will go to to avoid using JetBrains products.
Exoristos··on Stolen Buttons
KDE 3.1 *chef's kiss*
Exoristos··on Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Know before you go. New feature added
What is the cultural context for this assertion?
Exoristos··on Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Know before you go. New feature added
What are the differences between a bribe and a tip, given X cultural milieu?
Exoristos··on The front end framework for correctness: built on Effect, architected like Elm
Given their heads, most clients / product owners drift toward not just major reactivity but real-time. A lot of us work for others, under barrages of feature requests, and Effect and other tools (which may seem like overkill) can reveal themselves as a very practical lifeline.
Exoristos··on AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
Older than any of those:

"Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother: interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of any thing that is lent upon interest" (Deut 23.20 JPS Tanakh).

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