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by coolKid721 | 2025-07-04 23:02:39+00:00
On my personal projects it's easily 10x faster if not more in some circumstances. At work where things are planned out months in advanced and I'm working with 5 different teams to figure out the right way to do things for requirements that change 8 times during development? Even just stuff with PR review and making sure other people understand it and can access it. idk sometimes it's probably break even or that 10-15%. It just doesn't work well in some environments and what really makes it flourish (having super high quality architectural planning/designs/standardized patterns etc.) is basically just not viable at anything but the smallest startups and solo projects.

Frankly even just getting engineers to agree upon those super specificized standardized patterns is asking a ton, especially since lots of the things that help AI out are not what they are used to. As soon as you have stuff that starts deviating it can confuse the AI and makes that 10x no longer accessible. Also no one would want to review the PRs I'd make for the changes I do on my "10x" local project... Especially maintaining those standards is already hard enough on my side projects AI will naturally deviate and create noise and the challenge is constructing systems to guide that to make sure nothing deviates (since noise would lead to more noise).

I think it's mostly a rebalancing thing, if you have 1 or a couple like minded engineers who intend to do it they can get that 10x. I do not see that EVER existing in any actual corporate environment or even once you get more then like 4 people tbh.

Ai for middle management and project planning on the other hand...
by cheerioty | 2025-07-04 23:03:04+00:00
Getting the chance to talk to Peri soon, but here's my take..

- Backwards compatible C64/Amiga (I'm aware they don't own the Amiga Trademark itself), not PC/Emulation based (FPGA, SOC, Classic/Original Chips) - New capabilities, e.g. faster clockrates, co-processors/accelerators, support for more colors - keep ~240p as internal resolution, with analog i/o outputs + 4k internal upscaler for hdmi output - Introduce new tile-based mode, but keep bitmap/fb based ones - EPROM based cartridges (e.g. no filesystem/sd-like media) but still upgradable using cartridge-bound signed/encrypted updates files (via USB or via system cartridge slot (like Mod Retro/Chromatic does) - Wifi (mostly for multiplayer, maybe a builtin marketplace, not browsing the web!) - Exclusive game titles + license best modern 2d games - Effectively built a 2D powerhouse (think Neo Geo 2.0), in favour over 3d (people can still do that in software if cpu/2d capabilities are strong enough (see PICO-8 examples that do vr racing, cad editor and what not)

To achieve this, prioritize hiring engineers that have the expertise to build this new world over hiring managers or pc-based/x68/modern computing engineers. I'd recommend getting a strong, full-time technical lead like Gideon Zweijtzer, Furrtek, or one of the capable FPGA core developers from Mist/Mister.

Basically don't become another toy/mini console rebirth, but rather becoming the new cool kid on the block.
by ThinkBeat | 2025-07-04 23:03:42+00:00
He decided he could monetize his recovery by selling the "the cure" on a newsletter basis and using organic growth to make more money.

As he does point out he is not a doctor and his solution is not backed by extensive medical studies.

He could just write a document laying it all out, and letting people download it, easier for everyone.

(and try to get some researchers do the chekcing).

This is damn close to snakeoil.
by timr | 2025-07-04 23:04:36+00:00
I consider the reasoning models to be primarily a development of efficiency/cost, and I thought the first one was about a year ago, but sure, ok. I don’t think it changes the argument I’m making. The LLM ourobouros / robot centipede has been done, and is not itself a path towards exponential improvement.

To be quite honest, I’ve found very little marginal value in using reasoning models for coding. Tool usage, sure, but I almost never use “reasoning” beyond that.

Also, LLMs still cannot do basic math. They can solve math exams, sure, but you can’t trust them to do a calculation in the middle of a task.
by Nextgrid | 2025-07-04 23:04:49+00:00
I wonder if the 12VHPWR connector is intentionally defective to prevent large-scale use of those consumer cards in server/datacenter contexts?

The failure rate is just barely acceptable in a consumer use-case with a single card, but with multiple cards the probability of failure (which takes down the whole machine, as there's no way to hot-swap the card) makes it unusable.

I can't otherwise see why they'd persevere on that stupid connector when better alternatives exist.
by monster_truck | 2025-07-04 23:06:07+00:00
Remember when nvidia got caught dropping 2 bits of color information to beat ati in benchmarks? I still can't believe anyone has trusted them since! That is an insane thing to do considering the purpose of the product.

For as long as they have competition, I will support those companies instead. If they all fail, I guess I will start one. My spite for them knows no limits
by ohdeargodno | 2025-07-04 23:06:16+00:00
Not quite $500, but at $650, the 9070 is an absolute monster that outperforms Nvidia's equivalent cards in everything but ray tracing (which you can only turn on with full DLSS framegen and get a blobby mess anyways)

AMD is truly making excellent cards, and with a bit of luck UDNA is even better. But they're in the same situation as Nvidia: they could sell 200 GPUs, ship drivers, maintain them, deal with returns and make $100k... Or just sell a single MI300X to a trusted partner that won't make any waves and still make $100k.

Wafer availability unfortunately rules all, and as it stands, we're lucky neither of them have abandoned their gaming segments for massively profitable AI things.
by leakycap | 2025-07-04 23:07:20+00:00
>I'm not bragging. I'm giving context.

I didn't think you were bragging, and I hope I didn't come across as trying to put you in your place.

I'm responding with market context. The market is upended right now with no end in sight. Also, most employers if not meaningfully all, will or are involving AI. Many, if not most, people applying for decent positions right now have 3x the experience and are very willing to do whatever.

Don't let your principles end you up sleeping in your car.

> LLM's are designed to make things that "look" like human output and thus are very good at hiding bugs.

This can be true, definitely was more often true in the past. But there is a time and a place for human expression, and probably isn't in code. Your human expression is likely helped by tools. I doubt you're writing in Notepad, but your IDE doesn't get thrown out the window because it can't fully replace you or write code for you.

IF you are being blindly told to copy/paste from an LLM, then use that as part of your ideation and work from there, using AI tools as much as you can in ways that work. Become a leader in this new frontier by delving in (just kidding, that's meta about another article trending on AI)

> They not only want us to copy-and-paste, they want us to delete otherwise functional code to make it easier to paste in AI generated stuff.

Your post needs more detail if you want people to reply to your exact situation, but I think you can make clear arguments against doing this, then do this for 3 weeks, followed by the obvious: backtracking.

Leaders are by nature often encouraged to try new things. Standing in their way won't help you, but you can warn them, do it, then help them get back on track. By being a team member in this way, you are not in charge, but you can build trust equity if these leaders stick around and have techy ideas in future. In my experience, I usually outlast bad leadership (and their associated ideas). You have to be correct and not act like you're the boss to survive it, though!
by dirkshirt1 | 2025-07-04 23:07:33+00:00
Installed on the RG34xxSP. My biggest issue was a common one. Correct bios, Correct bios placement and bad roms. Was able to run, Naomi, Atomiswave, CDI, PSP. Although not all Naomi games launched. Still can't get Daphne to work. I don't really need it but its always such a pain it becomes a point of pride. I also have the miyoo flip with Surwish. Daphane works but no CDI. Also the interface looks like l made it on a windows 98 using clip art. Otherwise it's the same. L prefer Rocknix. The other issue is easy to a access the retroarch files, etc. With rocknix you can't just plug the sd card into a windows device but with Surwish you can. I am guessing I'm not talking to noobies so you already know more then one way to access the files. If not ask here or Google. FYI. I don't know this dude or get paid but if you have the flip a guy named xs4all4me on Re dit came up with a fix for the stock os that runs ES and it's on Par with Surwish and with help could easily be the best. If l knew how ld help him.
by thion | 2025-07-04 23:07:45+00:00
Hi, anyone here from San Francisco? SF Ruby vibe coding hackathon at Sentry HQ is just 2 weeks away! The $3,000 prize is sponsored by Fly.io, Continue, Evil Martians.

Rails has long been known as the one-person framework, a powerful toolkit designed to give lone developers and small teams superpowers, compressing the time and knowledge needed to ship big features. Does AI take it to the next level?

Let's meet on July 19 :)
by Analemma_ | 2025-07-04 23:08:16+00:00
This position seems so incoherent. If it’s so experimental, why is it in the mainline kernel? And why are fixes so critical they can’t wait for a merge window? Who is using an “experimental” filesystem for mission-critical work that also has to be on untested bleeding-edge code?

Like the sibling commenter, I suspect the word “experimental” is being used here to try and evade the rules that, somehow, every other part of the kernel manages to do just fine with.
by kbolino | 2025-07-04 23:08:22+00:00
Every kind of TAA that I've seen creates artifacts around fast-moving objects. This may sound like a niche problem only found in fast-twitch games but it's cropped up in turn-based RPGs and factory/city builders. I personally turn it off as soon as I notice it. Unfortunately, some games have removed traditional MSAA as an option, and some are even making it difficult to turn off AA when TAA and FXAA are the only options (though you can usually override these restrictions with driver settings).
by sd8f9iu | 2025-07-04 23:09:02+00:00
I agree. I lived with chronic pain for over a decade due to a specific medical problem that, though I could never get a precise diagnosis, was not caused by stress or my mental state. It was incredibly frustrating to deal with family and others who had read articles like this one and insisted all chronic pain was psychological in origin and needed a mind-body approach. I am happy for the author and am sure this approach works for many, but I'm not sure why they think that all chronic pain is common in cause. There are a host of chronic pain conditions that are physiological in origin and not psychological.
by abletonlive | 2025-07-04 23:10:57+00:00
I’m a tech lead and I have maybe 5X output now compared to everybody else under me. Quantified by scoring tickets at a team level. I also have more responsibilities outside of IC work compared to the people under me. At this point I’m asking my manager to fire people that still think llms are just toys because I’m tired of working with people with this poor mindset. A pragmatic engineer continually reevaluates what they think they know. We are at a tipping point now. I’m done arguing with people that have a poor model of reality. The rest of us are trying to compete and get shit done. This isn’t an opinion or a game. It’s business with real life consequences if you fall behind. I’ve offered to share my workflows, prompts, setup. Guess how many of these engineers have taken me up on my offer. 1-2 and the juniors or ones that are very far behind have not.
by Derelicte | 2025-07-04 23:12:37+00:00
That might be "the problem" for you, but that's not the problem as far as stop killing games is concerned. This petition is asking for games to remain in a reasonable playable state after the servers shutdown. No if, ands, or buts. Adding a "playable through" disclaimer changes nothing as far as this movement is concerned.

I agree that clearer language about what you are actually "buying" would be good for consumers, but it's tangential to Stop Killing Games.
by tptacek | 2025-07-04 23:13:31+00:00
I was last-week weeks old when I learned the cool America's Test Kitchen trick for vinaigrettes, which is to make them with a combination of extra virgin and neutral oil so they don't set up (and thus break) in the the fridge. Also: a good reason to get a 3-pack of cheap Oxo squeeze bottles; shake to re-emulsify. Vinaigrette is one of the most useful condiments there is.
by coolKid721 | 2025-07-04 23:13:55+00:00
Terms have meaning, and words can refer to different terms. People quibbling about what's an engineer or not is about as helpful as the stupid hotdog sandwich thing, it's arbitrary an engineer is not a determinate thing.

AFAIK the reason why the word engineer has some specific clout people get touchy about is because in normal engineering fields becoming a licensed engineer is kind of a big deal for them so they get really particular about it. I only ever refer to myself as an engineer to bother people who get cunty about it. Get over yourself, why do you care if a designer calls themself an engineer? Are you worried it'll make it hard to find other true engineers so you will have a harder time finding civil engineers to talk about how calling apis is basically the same as building bridges?
by gpm | 2025-07-04 23:13:56+00:00
> "delete entire unit test file & have claude generate a new one" rather than manually address test failures.

First thought, "wat", what if the code is broken, not the tests...

Second thought, if the entire unit test file is getting generated by claude without significant oversight like this suggests... I suppose its probably the tests that are broken.

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As for your own situation. Looking for a new job because you aren't happy with the process at your current job is completely reasonable.

I'm not sure that you're right that this workflow will cause your technical growth to stall though - the freedom to experiment with strange new (probably ineffective) workflows on someone else's dime might well be beneficial in many ways. But if you're not happy doing this, and you have the skills and network to find a new job, why wouldn't you?
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-07-04 23:16:19+00:00
> 100%, medication plays a great role in providing comfort and support but it can be ineffective (and often harmful) if relied on solely for recovery from (neuroplastic) chronic pain.

Medication can help you get out of a local maxima, sometimes with pain the issue is that your nervous system is hyperactive and just constantly firing which feeds back into itself in a positive feedback loop. If you can take pain meds and/or nerve blockers it can help break that loop and let you do things like go out and walk, exercise, live a life where pain is not always on the forefront of your consciousness. That in turn can let you get into a better state and break the local maxima and then you can wean off the meds.

If however, you do not change your lifestyle/condition when on the meds things will not get better long term as your body will lose responsiveness to the meds.

I am not a doctor.
by ziml77 | 2025-07-04 23:16:22+00:00
The layoffs in the Xbox division were bad on their own but, after reading this completely out of touch take from someone who is still employed, I cancelled all my subscriptions with Microsoft.

Just... how does anyone think this is what they should be saying right now? Especially when a lot of the people who were let go despise AI because it was trained on their work without them seeing the profits, and the people who are seeing the money from the AI are using it to replace them.
by varispeed | 2025-07-04 23:18:39+00:00
Best bet probably Flashstor FS6812X https://www.asustor.com/en-gb/product?p_id=91

Not the "cube" sized, but surprisingly small still. I've got one under the desk, so I don't even register it is there. Stuffed it with 4x 4TB drives for now.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-07-04 23:19:09+00:00
Maybe it's due to a more R&D-ish nature of my current work, but for me, LLMs are delivering just as much gains in the "thinking" part as in "coding" part (I handle the "communicating" thing myself just fine for now). Using LLMs for "thinking" tasks feels similar to how mastering web search 2+ decades ago felt. Search engines enabled access to information provided you know what you're looking for; now LLMs boost that by helping you figure out what you're looking for in the first place (and then conveniently searching it for you, too). This makes trivial some tasks I previously classified as hard due to effort and uncertainty involved.

At this point I'd say about 1/3 of my web searches are done through ChatGPT o3, and I can't imagine giving it up now.

(There's also a whole psychological angle in how having LLM help sort and rubber-duck your half-baked thought makes many task seem much less daunting, and that alone makes a big difference.)
by majormajor | 2025-07-04 23:19:15+00:00
> just 12 months ago (before the current crop of base models and coding agents like Claude Code), even that 10X improvement of writing some-of-the-code wouldn't have been true.

You had to paste more into your prompts back then to make the output work with the rest of your codebase, because there weren't good IDEs/"agents" for it, but you've been able to get really really good code for 90% of "most" day to day SWE since at least OpenAI releasing the ChatGPT-4 API, which was a couple years ago.

Today it's a lot easier to demo low-effort "make a whole new feature or prototype" things than doing the work to make the right API calls back then, but most day to day work isn't "one shot a new prototype web app" and probably won't ever be.

I'm personally more productive than 1 or 2 years ago now because the time required to build the prompts was slower than my personal rate of writing code for a lot of things in my domain, but hardly 10x. It usually one-shots stuff wrong, and then there's a good chance that it'll take longer to chase down the errors than it would've to just write the thing - or only use it as "better autocomplete" - in the first place.
by abletonlive | 2025-07-04 23:19:20+00:00
im glad I don’t have to work with you too lol.

It’s not toxic for me to expect someone to get their work done in a reasonable amount of time with the tools available to them. If you’re an accountant and you take 5X the time to do something because you have beef with excel you’re the problem. It’s not toxicity to tell you that you are a bad accountant
by bad_boomerang | 2025-07-04 23:19:21+00:00
It's a small org, the use of the term "exec" is technically correct but chosen in order to add additional noise (I'm a throwaway, right?). They're doubling the size of the dev team and I'm the first hire with considerably more experience than any of their existing staff. I think there's a good chance they might listen to me, as long as I don't take my shot too soon, prove the value I can add to the business before I do it, pick my moment correctly and present the right information at the right time, couched in a way that isn't entirely in opposition.

C'mon, listen to what I'm asking for, I have a lot of ideas of how to do this but nobody has really given me anything yet to even put a dent in what I have thought of already. While your criticism might be appropriate you've basically taken time out of your day to tell someone else to give up. Is this who you thought you would be?
by LexiMax | 2025-07-04 23:19:38+00:00
I suspect you overestimate the amount of time or effort needed to write such an abstraction. Our base multiplayer abstraction is about 3k lines of C++, and once you have that in place there are a number of battle-tested low-level netcode libraries that can help implement the UDP subclass. Doing this also pays dividends during development, as it allows you to diagnose and fix issues with the application layer of your netcode far easier than having to navigate the authentication rigamarole of a middleware first.

Granted, I do realize that it is an additional lift. It helps that we reuse our engine between projects, and the games that we work on tend to be amenable to traditional client/server setups. We also don't support certain features over UDP, such as matchmaking or VoIP, and we also file the task of players actually finding and connecting to each other over UDP as "not our problem" unless they're on the same LAN segment. Our games also don't have in-game stores or microtransactions, so there's no digital goods to protect either.

However, in practice, the existence of the UDP layer was far and away the least difficult part of making a working multiplayer game. The most difficult parts are the same ones you run into on any normal multiplayer project - figuring out how to get the uber-flexible middleware you're using to play ball, solving the application layer bugs, and satisfying the certification whims of the platform owners.
by ramchip | 2025-07-04 23:20:23+00:00
You can prototype by hand too. Personally I find it might take me 10 min to try a change with an LLM that would have taken me 30 min to 1hr by hand. It's a very nice gain but given the other things to do that aren't sped up by LLM all that much (thinking about the options, communicating with the team), it's not _that_ crazy.
by porphyra | 2025-07-04 23:21:13+00:00
The article complains about issues with consumer GPUs but those are nowadays relegated to being merely a side hobby project of Nvidia, whose core business is enterprise AI chips. Anyway Nvidia still has no significant competition from AMD on either front so they are still getting away with this.

Deceptive marketing aside, it's true that it's sad that we can't get 4K 60 Hz with ray tracing with current hardware without some kind of AI denoising and upscaling, but ray tracing is really just _profoundly_ hard so I can't really blame anyone for not having figured out how to put it in a consumer pc yet. There's a reason why pixar movies need huge render farms that take lots of time per frame. We would probably sooner get gaussian splatting and real time diffusion models in games than nice full resolution ray tracing tbh.
by neuroelectron | 2025-07-04 23:21:21+00:00
Seems a bit calculated and agreed across the industry. What can really make sense of Microsoft's acquisitions and ruining of billion dollar IPs? It's a manufactured collapse of the gaming industry. They want to centralize control of the market and make it a service based (rent seeking) sector.

I'm not saying they all got together and decided this together but their wonks are probably all saying the same thing. The market is shrinking and whether it's by design or incompetence, this creates a new opportunity to acquire it wholesale for pennies on the dollar and build a wall around it and charge for entry. It's a natural result of games requiring NVidia developers for driver tuning, bitcoin/ai and buying out capacity to prevent competitors.

The wildcard I can't fit into this puzzle is Valve. They have a huge opportunity here but they also might be convinced that they have already saturated the market and will read the writing on the wall.
by anonnon | 2025-07-04 23:21:21+00:00
> NTFS does copy-on-write?

No, it doesn't. Maybe you're thinking of shadow volume copies or something else. CoW files systems never modify data or metadata blocks directly, only modifying copies, with the root of the updated block pointer graph only updated after all other changes have been synced. Read this: https://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/8.0/com.qnx.doc.neutrino...