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yulaow

2,877 karma · joined June 2, 2013

Fullstack dev, currently building mainly microservices in typescript and elixir.
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yulaow··on Is it just me, or has Claude Opus gotten worse recently?
oh yes, exactly the same things are happening to me
yulaow··on Whose interview process has caught up to the new way of working?
I am curious about how the companies that claim their devs never wrote or reviewed a line of code in the last 6+ months react to this... they basically would have to just judge how the candidate writes a prompt or gathers the information to write it
yulaow··on Is it just me, or has Claude Opus gotten worse recently?
I noticed a few weeks ago it started being very bad at explaining things (even things itself was doing) and started committing absurd errors (like reading a test of 5 lines and not noticing there was an explicit mock created in one of those, then saying that the test was failing while it was not)

I fear this is just the classic "nerf the model just before we release a new version of it"

yulaow··on The console wars have been lost
The thing I like about console compared to pc (which I use the most for gaming) is the total absence of cheaters except maybe a super minority.

To make an example try to play a multiplayer famous fps (like battlefield6 or cod) on console and then on pc, it's not even the same experience. On pc it is basically full of aimbotters, wallhackers, nodamagers, etc every single damn game, on console you get the actual safe experience. Sadly this is one of the reasons why I play mostly only pve games on pc

yulaow··on Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions
These things are done not to block pr done with the help of ai, but to block the ai slops pr, aka those never reviewed, fully vibecoded, and with the submitter that didn't understand anything about the problem or the code, just trusted claude.

The rule is general on purpose to allow the maintainer to freely remove whatever is very evident is just ai slop

yulaow··on Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions
exactly, I for example don't care usually about false positives, in the very uncommon case it happens the pr creator can discuss and prove he actually understood the problem, the codebase, the project policy and how to explain his solution actually could work.
yulaow··on Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions
How they enforce it in every other project with the same policy, if the reviewer/maintainer suspects the pr is ai slope he closes it. That's it, it works fantastically well, I do the same even in my job
yulaow··on Ask HN: What will happen as AI costs increase?
opus 4.6 -> 4.7 did not respect this assumption
yulaow··on Ask HN: Is it still worth it to try to get a job in IT
It is just in USA and some other few nations. In most of the rest of the world a sw dev is paid just a bit more than a standard office job
yulaow··on Ask HN: Why Isn't PHP Dead Yet?
easy to deploy, latest versions of the language are ok, has some of the best web frameworks to work with, absurd amount of experienced programmers can be found on the market
yulaow··on Is the world becoming uninsurable?
I never understood this. We build in Europe, over earthquake-risk zones, with bricks and steel and we follow rules to make them earthquake resistant. It is not a problem anymore since like the 1980. We now have also methods to make old and very old brick buildings earthquake resistant without demolishing them
yulaow··on Rust's Ugly Syntax (2023)
throw in some async too and I really lose myself most of the times
yulaow··on Ask HN: Why Is Stack Overflow Fading Away?
The main problem is they tried to be a middle way between a forum and a wiki with only correct answer (even if as some other have said, they never wanted to acknowledge that especially in programming the answer is correct or good or valid only for a certain amount of time most often than not)

What we actually need:

- the owner of the question must be the only one capable to say if an answer is good or not for his question

- no other user must be able to modify the question of the owner even if they think it is badly explained. They can always suggest modifies but the owner can decide if to accept them or not

- the moderators can try to suggest "hey we think this is a duplicate of that" but the owner must be the one to accept or reject it. Even if he says "I just want a more current answer, the one you linked is 4 yo" the moderators must accept his decision and keep the question open

- moderators must act aggressively against people (and other moderators) saying things like "this sound like some homework" or "you better use technology y instead of x" or similar

- answers older than a few years should have a visible flag on them signaling that probably that answer is not anymore the best possible one and to be careful using it and, if it doesn't work anymore, to open a new question tagging the old one

yulaow··on Ask HN: Changing my mind about JavaScript
agree with this, at this point all my toy projects, even those of a few lines, are in typescript (with bun.js so I don't have the overhead of configuring node for ts)
yulaow··on How I Learned to Concentrate
This is just a promotional post for a book, there is no actual content in this link
yulaow··on Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?
yes, in Italy for example you pay 0.2% annually on whatever you hold (stock, bonds, cryptos, etc) even if you sell nothing or they depreciate compared to the year before
yulaow··on Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
you can deactivate them. In my installation on linux they were disabled by default and it asked me if I wanted to activate them (just one time) to support the browser
yulaow··on Ask HN: If you were to learn to code again...
Yes and I would join a company/startup/whatever far earlier instead of passing so much time in university (not that I think the degree was not worth it, I would just start working asap and taking the courses as part-time student).
yulaow··on Tesla to build 25,000-euro car at German plant
The same car model just 10 years ago went for half the price. Same for the fiat Panda (my parents bought it in 2008 for 8k, now the most base model I can find is 19k). In the meantime salaries have not double at all (in some nations they even fell)
yulaow··on Tesla to build 25,000-euro car at German plant
25k is quite a lot for many average salaried people in Europe, indeed the step bump of price (almost 2x in 10 years) of non-electric cars already put the eu market in a dire position where most people are not able to replace their car anymore and keep using very old cars with very high pollution outputs
yulaow··on German court prohibits LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals
They would not, they just serve contextual ads related to the things you are looking at the moment (which often are far better than the tracking ones)
yulaow··on GDPR has ruined the web experience
The sites ruined the web experience because they could not stop collecting personal data for non-essential usage
yulaow··on Ask HN: Does anybody not use an adblocker?
I agree with you, that's why I support any website that uses contextual ads and not profiling/tracking ads deactivating my adblocker for them.

I have zero sympathy for sites that try to profile me, I consider personal data protection an inviolable right and act in that sense

yulaow··on About GitHub’s use of your data
We really need to have an open source sw license that specifically forbid any use of the code by AIs
yulaow··on Why are there no antitrust claims vs. GitHub Copilot, when there is a precedent?
I mean, we discovered that the whole car industry was lying flagrantly on their emission tests which had the potential of destroying the whole business and there were A LOT of people who knew about it and could talk anytime

Why wouldn't sw companies do the same?

yulaow··on Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come back to the office
I personally only consider full remote position because even policies like "one day in the office every two weeks" would force me to live quite close to the city in which the office is and I absolutely want to avoid that if I can (and the market says I can)

To be on the safer side, I try to consider only offers from company that have no physical office at all, so it's quite impossible that in the medium term they call a "return to office" policy... I mean, they could always decide to buy office space out of the blue, but usually in those companies all the upper management is there exactly because they want to WFH for life

yulaow··on Italy's ChatGPT ban attracts EU privacy regulators
I don't understand this thinking. The gdpr is law since years, this is SIMPLY a case of a company not respecting it and paying the price, there is literally nothing else going on
yulaow··on Early Remote Work Impacts on Family Formation
This sounds more like a problem of your country culture of not encouraging to take sick days. I would have been on sick leave for all the time needed to not have sleeping problems anymore
yulaow··on I tried an alternative way to date – and it worked
Looking at aggregated stats like those on tinderinsight this is not an alternative way to date but exactly what most women do on dating apps and it's also an obvious strategy as soon as you realize that, as a woman, you have far more men competing for you (in my nation 91% of tinder users are men [0]) and most of them get quite desperate quite fast

If the situation was reversed we men would behave the same most probably

[0] https://www.netimperative.com/2019/04/05/online-dating-trend...

yulaow··on Ask HN: How to keep an online community from downgrading to Reddit like quality
The first thing for me is: moderators must not be chosen by the community but by the "admins", as it was in the old forums

Moderators chosen by the community contribute to the echo chamber of the community itself and bend the rule in that direction, making the whole subsection more and more polarized in that sense.

Moderators chosen by the admins should me more impartial, potentially taken from outside the community itself, paid for their jobs so they adhere to the general rulebook, and keep all the sections as neutral as possible, encouraging exchange of conflicting opinions without flame.

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