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drpotato··on Show HN: Port Zero – how I learned to stop worrying and love PORT=0
Well, there's your problem! You're not getting the efficiency gains of multi-agent slop slinging loops working like that…
drpotato··on The Doorman's Fallacy in action
> Is digital nomad

> Lives in Dubai

> Complains about businesses increasing profits

Ok, anyway…

drpotato··on I design with Claude more than Figma now
Have a single thought, please.
drpotato··on I design with Claude more than Figma now
I am in a similar boat. Design and product use Claude to vibe design/code a feature/experience and rapidly prototype it, getting it in front of customers to get feedback with minimal engineering time. Amazing! However, you might be surprised to find out it hasn’t really helped us ship stuff faster overall.

The reason, I believe, is we’ve lost something along the way. Thinking. A non-trivial amount of which is now outsourced to a language model. It paints over the cracks in the prompt, hallucinates how things should work when unspecified, what would normally make someone stop and say “this isn’t quite working”, “how should I communicate this idea” or “what happens when…” has gone. Now, these details are left for after it’s been built proper.

Sure, we can improve the process and reflect more on how to utilise this new technique … but is it better than how things used to be? Yeah nah

drpotato··on GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
> moving to technology X will solve problem Y

First time?

drpotato··on Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs
Just wanted to say thanks! This is a great write up and resonates with issues I encountered when trying to productionise a yjs backed feature.
drpotato··on Show HN: I made a web-based, free alternative to Screen Studio
Doesn't appear to work on Firefox or Safari — dialog closes immediately after opening.
drpotato··on New Tesla Model Y
Giving major Cylon vibes at the back there.
drpotato··on Migrating Uber's ledger data from DynamoDB to LedgerStore
The original[1][2] articles are a better read IMO. The link is just a summary of the two with added spelling and grammatical errors that materially impact the meaning.

1. https://www.uber.com/blog/how-ledgerstore-supports-trillions...

2. https://www.uber.com/blog/migrating-from-dynamodb-to-ledgers...

drpotato··on Wegovy could be covered for at least 3.6M people under new Medicare rules
Do you have a source on that claim?
drpotato··on Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?
Get another job or use the money for counselling / therapy, your mental health is more important than the job.

Hell, maybe try work two jobs if you can!

drpotato··on Kysely: TypeScript SQL Query Builder
Can weigh in here, we use pgtyped heavily at work and it’s really good. There are some constraints with the type inference on complex queries, but it’s a decent trade off IMO.
drpotato··on Things to know about databases
Have you looked at PostGraphile? It’s doesn’t have n + 1 or over-fetching issues.
drpotato··on Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
Mate, if you haven’t already, go talk with a therapist. I’ve struggled with avoidance my entire adult life – avoiding awkwardness, pain, risk, “bad”emotions, difficult conversations, conflict – and talking with a professional has really helped me.
drpotato··on PRQL – A proposal for a better SQL
Yes, quite a lot I would imagine. I use it extensively at work and similarly sql heavy software companies in the past. That being said, I’ve also worked at places where they’ve avoided it like the plague – largely because few people were competent at it – and were moving away from relational DBs due to scale.
drpotato··on Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains
> modern React, which clearly has no long-term future

Curious, why do you think that?

drpotato··on 'Cottagecore' and the rise of the modern rural fantasy
Strange… I found the cave full of monsters in Stardew Valley makes it seem way too hard to cut your way through slimes, skeletons and beings of darkness.