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Posts by Reed Barnes

my Anth number is definitely higher, probably 2T
OpenAI, 1T is right about where I would wait and see

2 months ago 1 0 0 0

praying for you that this doesn’t break following-feed containment

1 year ago 3 0 1 0

jerry wtf I thought you were just a shitposter; now you’re introducing me to new browser database libraries? you really can do it all

1 year ago 2 0 1 0

But you mentioned writing 1000s of lines of codes to get to your final 100 — do you find AI helps you in that stage at all?

The value I’ve gotten from tools like Cursor so far is that I can write more exploratory code than ever before, because the barrier to sketching up a new idea is so, so low.

1 year ago 2 0 1 0

which sucks because I think it's a meaningful question that specifically every SWE should start composing an answer for

personally, I think I sign up for community college woodworking or welding classes and start looking for a place where I can practice

1 year ago 1 0 0 0
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"How China Works" by Xiaohuan Lan is pretty great. Speaks a lot to where the CCP accepts (and doesn't accept) capitalism/free-market ideology, which is pretty interesting

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1 year ago 2 0 0 0

he’s a bad guy, but there are gonna be more bad guys on this site, and this is a piss-poor way to deal with them

1 year ago 2 0 0 0
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any game soundtrack lacking kazoo is flirting with failure, honestly

1 year ago 0 0 0 0

yeah, totally agree that just drawing it out over and over is just playing into the hands of bad actors

1 year ago 2 0 1 0

Like, okay, comparisons to SA are great and all, but Bluesky is already easily seeing 100x, probably 1000x more daily post volume than SA ever did.

And FB/X/Insta do 1000x more than that on a slow day!

How could you possibly apply "human judgement" to all of that, all the time?

1 year ago 2 0 1 0

How do you moderate at scale without *some* kind of flowcharts, though?

You literally couldn't hire enough people to apply extended, thoughtful, nuanced judgement to every single contested post/account. Ignore money; there aren't enough people capable. And you probably disagree with a lot of them!

1 year ago 1 0 2 0

how many monitors do you work with?

I've used two 24", one vertical + one horizontal, for a few years. recently been feeling like it might be nice to go down to just one screen, for (I think) similar reasons to you

1 year ago 0 0 1 0

> Chatbots may sound easy to use, but they really aren’t—and they’re getting harder to use all the time.

Really excited to see all the different UIs people come up with in the coming years to ease LLM interaction. Artifacts and Canvas are cool but can't wait for other takes; still feels wide-open.

1 year ago 2 0 0 0
Image of two blog posts with footnotes -- the second footnote is reusing the same content as the first one.

Image of two blog posts with footnotes -- the second footnote is reusing the same content as the first one.

fyi that footnotes are a little wonky on your main page! seems like they work as intended on the individual post pages, though

1 year ago 1 0 1 0

what kind of stuff do you include in anki? been feeling a similar way but never really dedicated any time to building an anki deck/second brain/etc

1 year ago 1 0 1 0

Code reviews != team having mutual understanding of changes, though. *especially* mandatory, perfunctory code reviews on every change, which I think is maybe more what @skamille.bsky.social talking about.

I think the "mandatory" bit can turn people's brains off in a way that reduces understanding.

1 year ago 2 0 2 0
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current Discover algorithm seems to do a pretty good job of serving me posts which are the top of good conversations, not just super high-like/rt

I wonder if this could be highlighted in UI to reinforce it more? "Good conversation below" banner sounds super cheesy but something like that

1 year ago 0 0 0 0