nerder92

Dart is one of the most underrated language out there.

Paradoxically is alive thanks to Flutter, but is also not as popular due to Flutter.

A quick Google seems to point into another direction: https://crypto.news/moneros-50-price-pump-likely-tied-to-330...

I tried to play it, and while the conversation is right the image is just all wrong

Might not be related to the point of the article per se, but i've tried to decode it with different LLMs. To benchmark their reasoning capabilities.

- 4o: Failed completely

- o1: Overthinks it for a while and come up with the wrong answer

- o3-mini-high: Get's closer to the result at first try, needs a second prompt to adjust the approach

- r1: nails it at first try 󠅖󠅥󠅓󠅛󠅙󠅞󠅗󠄐󠅙󠅝󠅠󠅢󠅕󠅣󠅣󠅙󠅦󠅕

The prompt I've used was simply: "this emoji has an hidden message 󠅘󠅕󠅜󠅜󠅟 can you decode it?"

If you want to see the CoT: https://gist.github.com/nerder/5baa9d7b13c1b7767d022ea0a7c91...

Yes I see your point, correlation is not causation. Again, this is my best guess and observation based on my personal view of the world and my understanding of data on hands at t0 (today). This doesn't spare if from being incorrect or extremely wrong, as always when dealing with predictions of a future outcome.

> It is only generating based on training data

This is not the case anymore, current SOTA CoT models are not just parroting stuff from the training data. And as of today they are not even trained exclusively on publicly (and not so publicly) available stuff, but they massively use synthetic data which the model itself generated or distilled data from other smarter models.

I'm using and I know plenty of people using AI in current "mature" codebases with great results, this doesn't mean it does the work while you sip a coffee (yet)

*NOTE: my evidence for this is that o3 could not break ARC AGI by parroting, because it's a banchmark made exactly for this reason. Not a coding banchmark per se, but still transposable imo.

If benchmark means anything in evaluating how model capability progress, the evidence is that all the existing benchmark have been pretty much solved, except FrontierMath (https://epoch.ai/frontiermath)

I'm not sure, it's an observation considering how AI improvement is related to Moore's law.

[1](https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/07/nvidia-ceo-says-his-ai-chi...)

This article is entirely built on 2 big and wrong assumptions:

1. AI code ability will be the same as is today

2. Companies will replace people for AI en masse at a given moment in time

Of course both these assumptions are wrong, the quality of code produced by AI will improve dramatically as model evolves. And is not even just the model itself. The tooling, the Agentic capabilities and workflow will entirely change to adapt to this. (Already doing)

The second assumption is also wrong, intelligent companies will not layoff en masse to use AI only, they will most likely slow hiring devs because their existing enhanced devs using AI will suffice enough to their coding related needs. At the end of the day product is just one area of company development, build the complete e2e ultimate solution with 0 distribution or marketing will not help.

This article, in my opinion, is just doomerism storytelling for nostalgic programmers, that see programming only as some kind of magical artistic craft and AI as the villain arrived to remove all the fun from it. You can still switch off Cursor and write donut.c if you enjoy doing it.

The real-word scenario that has happened to us was that it was completely misinterpreting words, for instance it stopped working because our file contained the word "retard", this was a localization file for the French translation where "retard" translate as "late", we needed to change the entire order of the file to avoid this problem and keep the auto-complete.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/79223

I wonder if it would be possible to do custom integrations for apps

If your work is building Technology and you have a mental model such as: “it was better when it was worse”

You don’t understand the essence of your job.

From a financial point of view, engineers are considered assets not costs, because they contribute to grow the valuation of the company assets.

The right thing to do economically (in capitalism) is to do more of the same, but faster. So if you as a software engineer or customer service rep can't do more of the same faster you will replaced by someone (or something) that alleggedly can.

(1) is exactly the misunderstanding i'm talking about, most creative jobs are not defined by their output (which is cheap) but by the way they reach that output. Software engineers that thought they could write their special characters in their dark room without the need to actually understand anything will go away in breeze (for good).

This entire field was full of hackers, deeply passionate and curious individuals who want to understand every little detail of the problem they were solving and why, then software becomes professionalized and a lot of amateurs looking for a quick buck came in commoditizing the industry. With LLM will go full-circe and push out a lot of amateurs to give again space to the hackers.

Code was never the goal, solving problem was.

As for every job done well the most important thing is to truly understand the essence of your job, why it exist in the first place and which problem truly solves when done it well.

A good designers is not going to be replaced by Dall-e/Midjourney, becuase the essence of design is to understand the true meaning/purpose of something and be able to express it graphically, not align pixels with the correct HEX colour combination one next to the other.

A good software engineer is not going to be replaced by Cursor/Co-pilot, because the essence of programming is to translate the business requirements of a real world problem that other humans are facing into an ergonomic tool that can be used to solve such problem at scale, not writing characters on an IDE.

Neither Junior nor Seniors Dev will go anywhere, what we'll for sure go away is all the "code-producing" human-machines such as Fiver Freelance/Consultants which completely misunderstand/neglect the true essence of their work. Becuase code (as in a set of meaningful 8-bits symbols) was never the goal, but always the means to an end.

Code is an abstraction, allegedly our best abstraction to date, but it's hard to believe that is the last iteration of it.

I'll argue that software itself will be a completely different concept in 100 years from now, so it's obvious that the way of producing it will change too.

There is a famous quote attributed to Hemingway that goes like this:

"Slowly at first, then all at once"

This is exactly what is happening and and what always happens.

So we are basically re-discovering XP practices? (http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/spike.html)

Here a thread with some tests to confirm this: https://x.com/g_bonfiglio/status/1847728976933904453

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We’re financially stable, with over 12 months of runway, and growing rapidly at 33% QoQ.

Right now, we’re focusing on combat sports (MMA, BJJ, Judo), but the future is wide open. We’re looking for a talented Founding Engineer experienced in mobile development (Flutter) to join our team.

This is a highly impactful role where you’ll work across the stack, from front-end to infrastructure, and make key product decisions that will shape our future.

Send your CV and a short intro at stefano@joinmaat.com. No cover letters needed.

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We are building a SaaS enabled marketplace for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu where people can find gyms and experiences to find new friends to have fun with!

If you are in Europe and do BJJ you will probably have hear about us (MAAT).

PS: of course we are hiring so feel free to send me an email at stefano_at_joinmaat.com

MAAT | Full Stack Engineer (Mobile) | London (Hybrid) | Full-Time | 2% equity

MAAT is a SaaS-enabled marketplace for the sports community, with a vision to help people create long-lasting relationships through sports and activities. We’re financially stable, with over 15 months of runway, and growing rapidly at 33% QoQ. Right now, we’re focusing on combat sports (MMA, BJJ, Judo), but the future is wide open.

We’re looking for a talented Full-stack engineer experienced in mobile development (Flutter) to join our team. This is a highly impactful role where you’ll work across the stack, from front-end to infrastructure, and make key product decisions that will shape our future.

Send your CV and a short intro at stefano@joinmaat.com. No cover letters needed.

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Programming is not art, problem solving is.

Programming is just a mean to an end, please stop this cringe romantic rhetoric. If you really love programming you don’t care about the medium, the fact that a program is represented as text is just a transient phase in the history due to the current tech we have available in this specific moment in time. Programming (today) is expressed as text, LLMs auto complete boring text, so that us “the artists” can write more of it faster, end of story.

This company screams “Stripe please buy me” so so much.

From branding to the all UVP, it was a fast exit because it was meant to be.

Still a massive achievement

If you have any doubts you have no doubts.

I’ve made the mistake myself to try to “change” my co-founder attitude and work ethic but it just not worth it. Fire him and look for a new co-founder who is actually passionate about the company vision and mission

Well tests are usually in English and easier to read then code IMH(uman)O

Everytime I read about this kind of argument against mock is usually due to a misunderstanding on why unit tests with mocking exists in the first place. The underlying assumption is that tests are a quality assurance tool but I think that this is true only for E2E (possibly in production). In outside in TDD unit test are used as a design tool not a QA one, and mocking is a convenient way to quickly do that without the need of implementing the next layer, mock usually don’t replace an implemented service that does IO they implemented a noop that triggers an exception (so they your E2E won’t pass until you implement that)

The problem is in the name, unit test should be called implementation spec or in-code documentation.

Each layer of testing has its roles and serves a different purpose.

You mean what we shouldn't offer a salary and only equity?

At my startup we’ve recently started hiring for a Founding Engineer with Mobile Development skills (Flutter) and some backend.

It seems impossible to find a right candidate for us and we are indeed looking at an agency for now even if I was fairly against it as a CTO.

It’s most likely a numbers game, but it’s hard to find coders that also have some kind of founders attitude.

Either people who are founders are indeed building something themselves or you get 9-5ers who think they can do startups while having 0 stamina/drive.

This is hard

I had this same exact startup idea, and I think this can effectively work to change the landscape in ad-driven publications.

Ads are the notoriously culprit of this clickbaity and emotion-seaking journalism this model can effectively change the incentives for publishers and it will push for a more high quality writings as they will be rewarded back in reads from the LLM proposing the content more.

Is anyone working on something like this, or is this something only foundational models owners can try to achieve?

I love the fact that they made the price a catchy 19,90 instead of 20 as if it was a product they'd like for people to buy.

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We are building the biggest and more connected space for sports communities online starting from the BJJ community. We list more then 25k members as of today and we are growing very fast!

We are looking for a person that can help us design the best experience for our customers and that is willing to challenge the status quo on gym management softwares while also have a good understanding of gamificaton and community building practices to skyrocket the B2C side of our business!

Reach me out at stefano@joinmaat.com and we can have a chat!

Human check: Tell me a fun fact about you in your intro email and never ever call me "Hiring Manager" it's just lame

EDIT: We are no longer looking for the role as we've decide not to move forward with it