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TechDebtDevin

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TechDebtDevin··on 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program
Well this antecdote kind of gets in the way of the other antecdotes, that NASA is being privatized. Maybe this is just a way of forcing specialized labor into certain outfits (Space X, Costa Mesa, SF.. )
TechDebtDevin··on Dumb Pipe
Connecting phones on mobile/cignat with Tailscale is really one of the few software "Aha" moments I've had.
TechDebtDevin··on Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused
It cost <$200 to go pay cash and get a calcium score yourself. Its hard to talk a cardiologist into getting your insurance to pay for it if you're young. As a male who had a grandfather die in his 30's from heart disease it was even hard. If you're worried about this at all just pay for it yourself. I also reccomend getting Lp(a) testing (<$50) if this concerns you, DYOR, but it will give you a better grasp on how your body is handles bad cholesterol (everyone is different).
TechDebtDevin··on Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops
How long can work on one of these for?
TechDebtDevin··on Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops
You can however, put Ubunutu no problem on the Ryzen versions.

https://github.com/jrandiny/yoga-slim7-ubuntu

TechDebtDevin··on Bringing a decade old bicycle navigator back to life with open source software
Yes lmfao
TechDebtDevin··on Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan
Isnt there like millions of misconfigured firebase dbs in the wild with no auth, some including fortune 500 companies?

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/misconfigured...

TechDebtDevin··on Intel CEO Letter to Employees
Its happening, the CEO's are using ChatGPT to write the letters they use to lay off people with. What an awesome future!
TechDebtDevin··on Cerebras launches Qwen3-235B, achieving 1.5k tokens per second
Its not a new model, but rather their infrastructure and hardware they are showcasing.
TechDebtDevin··on Reverse proxy deep dive: Why HTTP parsing at the edge is harder than it looks
And my solution is primarily SOCKS5 reverse, on top of tailscale (moving away from ts, although no complaints) with lots of routing in the middle.
TechDebtDevin··on Reverse proxy deep dive: Why HTTP parsing at the edge is harder than it looks
Awesome, that sounds like it could be really useful.
TechDebtDevin··on Reverse proxy deep dive: Why HTTP parsing at the edge is harder than it looks
A sort of boutique mobile-first proxy, with emphasis on geography spread/accuracy. I've been running my own proxies for a long time via friends and families networks, but in those instances security/safety wasn't as big of a deal. Yourself?
TechDebtDevin··on Reverse Proxy Deep Dive: Why HTTP Parsing at the Edge Is Harder Than It Looks
I've been building out a very large network of reverse proxies the last year. Very fun, and your article is very relatable. Go has been my friend. Been spending the last couple months testing trying to figure out all the weird things that can happen and its quite a bit.
TechDebtDevin··on Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base
I fall back to people saying this are being dishonest, or not dealing with anything large.

There are some problems that you can't just "make smaller"

Secondly, I write VERY strongly typed code, commented && documented well. I build lots of "micro-pkgs" in larger monorepos. My functions are pretty modular, have tests and are <100-150 lines.

No matter how much I try all the techniques, and my baseline fits well into LLM workflows, it doesn't take away from the fact that It cannot one shot on anything over 1-2k lines of code. Sure, we can go back and forth with the linter until it pumps out something that will compile. This will take a while, in which I could have used something like auto-complete / co-pilot to just write the boilerplate, and fill it in myself in a shorter amount of time than it takes for the agent to reason about a large context.

Then if it does eventually get something "complex" to compile (after spending a ton of your credits/money) Often times, it will have taken a shortcut to do so and doesn't actually do what you wanted it to. Now I can refactor this into something usable and sometimes that is faster than doing it myself. But 8/10 times I waste 2 hours paying money for an LLM to gaslight me, throw out all the code and just write it myself in 1.5 hours.

I can break down a 1-2k line task into smaller prompts tasks too. but sorry I didn't learn to program to become a project manager for a "Artifically Intelligent" machine

TechDebtDevin··on Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base
This.

Everytime ive tried to do anything of any complexity these things blow up, and i spend almost as much time toying with the thing as it would have taken to read docs and implement from scratch.

TechDebtDevin··on How to Firefox
I'm curious what would make you even want to try with all the shenanigans Google has been up to. It seems obvious that its a bad idea.
TechDebtDevin··on Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling
Yeah but I believe the internet rescued a lot of people from that existence, but the people running the internet now are actively working against that.
TechDebtDevin··on Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling
I imagine theres going to be an entire new class of intelligent humans powered by LLMs that

learn this way, and they are going to be at such a disadvantage to the people that do it the old fashioned way and dont take shortcuts.

The vast majority of humans are going to offload all their critical think skills to LLMs. I dont want to be friends with those people.

I want to start a blog about these people called "Artifically Intelligent"

TechDebtDevin··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
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TechDebtDevin··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
I'm more so wondering what public data on these sites is really useful for finding/building deportation cases. It looks to me they are wrapping a bunch of scrapers into a product and selling it as "intelligence tools".
TechDebtDevin··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
You act as if the last 6 months are a continuation of the the last 9.5 years, and there is some status quo that hasn't changed. Maybe for an affluent SWE in his Tesla, but this isn't the case for many on their way to work in a construction work van.
TechDebtDevin··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Why are they monitoring Zillow...
TechDebtDevin··on Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?
<16-colors IBM z/OS host terminal

This hasn't been virtualized?

TechDebtDevin··on Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet
I dont remember the last time I saw a news page that was <50mb
TechDebtDevin··on Hand: open-source Robot Hand
Would you prefer necrobotics!?!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-use-dea...

How long until human hands are put on robotics??

TechDebtDevin··on Code highlighting extension for Cursor AI used for $500k theft
Its called a docker container ;)
TechDebtDevin··on Oakland cops gave ICE license plate data; SFPD also illegally shared with feds
Yeah, this is for kids who can't go to prison :P
TechDebtDevin··on LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date
What are the waves of gradient colors, gravity?
TechDebtDevin··on How I build software quickly
edit, my karma for this comment has been dealing with type assertion problems in my repo functions all day.
TechDebtDevin··on Oakland cops gave ICE license plate data; SFPD also illegally shared with feds
There are mobile survalience cameras systems at my very family friendly park. Everyone has asked the city to tow them away but they refuse. There was no vote on this.
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