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I understand that people who like to stay on their job dislikes this kind of questions, and I also sympathize on why tech sector now doesn't have places for them and asking people to keep improving.

However for those who are superstar / plan maker, this discussion is actually beneficial. This is the moment where among all of things available, prioritized items will be officially registered, rather than your manager make assumption on what needs focus / not. The field staffer has more knowledge on that so managers may also missing some points that can be unraveled during this discussion.

Yes, sometimes it's difficult to find the correct driver for Linux and set it up. Having steam machine be start and play like steam deck really brings the console feel on PC. Moreover it's still Linux which you can use for other things, so people doesn't feel loss for this.

oh but it'll be very2 helpful and the time spent will be short. It's easy to verify:

* new contributor?

* more than 10 files affected (higher count are more valid)?

* wall of text on description without screenshots, etc?

just close the PR as AI, and then the contributor can challenge it if they feel it should not.

Curiosity or anticipation I think. I have tried it in the name of those 2 factors, because when the frontier model price increase happens and we don't know anything about local models, we're screwed

Claude Fable 5 1 month ago

Opus will be gutted furthermore. /s I feel 4.8 is very slow in last 2 days

Claude Fable 5 1 month ago

20x the cost means you need to have fable to be 20x better than the alternative, which is a tall order. And there's more options out there too, perhaps the 4x cost is enough.

This means if the deepseek / under 1k alternative is at least x1.2 improvement, fable needs to be x24, which I think is very2 unreasonable. It is possible for it to worth if it can x2 a $20k SWE, though I doubt it can do that.

If they (AI) able to compete with even 30% of workforce, that alone is a big enough leverage over the already powerful companies. At minimum it will cause another phase of wealth inequality, which is already a big problem atm.

Open model with affortable computing power can be the alternative, but we don't see it soon.

it's so frustrating in Cities Skylines without mods, that it's so common difference in height causing so much placement issues

As always, I think this happen more to vibe coder. They don't understand that bigger project means worse AI performance. On top of that Opus felt being nerfed at understanding prompt so if your spec is bad you won't get good result.

Oh Opus is nerfed sure, but not that hard. Early this year opus 4.6 can understand your prompt and your intention easily, it got worse around mid April. Opus 4.7 even worse than that.

However that's just it, you just need to improve and make clearer of your prompt and it will perform just as good.

For me I need to compare the code generated before committing. Also I need to read markdown plans generated for review before commit to execution. VSCode CC extension also generate clickable links to the file directly if the query has something to do with it.

All of them are valid usecase of VSCode CC extension for me.

Stay with 4.6 if you can, it is disabled (afaik) on vscode claude code extension.

4.7 IMO is around 10-20% worse at understanding your prompt intention. You need more effort to explain your intention clearer so it doesn't divert.

if constructing houses or buildings are quick, the bottleneck will be moved to other things. Like city planner, regulations / legals, material procurements, furnishing / equiments, etc.

for software it will be requirement gathering, product planning, looking for buyer / customer, even brainstorming on finding what to make.

yes, the exact point I've mentioned, feels like an organized effort to reduce the importance of free time. "Look at those European with astonishing 5 weeks of paid vacation and they aren't productive at all!" argument without getting the point:

* no source to back them up, and equalize everyone without considering some will be productive

* equating all non-money making or enterpreneur activities as non-productive and equal to doomscrolling

* ignoring other limitations like living space size, funds availability, opportunity, license or regulation

Yep, the statement is so bad with a pattern of "because most won't, then all won't", which commonly used during birth rate issues too. It's either ignorant or malicious with hidden agenda behind.

Giving employees 1 week of free time? That's nothing, and nothing will change too as a result. Give them a whole month of free time? I bet they will make some small, short term projects, even doing hobbies like gaming, fishing, cooking or golfing where it wasn't available before.

there is middleground: tax / fines, whatever you name them. It will be free if you filled the paperwork, and it start out cheap, while gradually increase yearly. Can be different depending on the density or how heavy traffic an area is. However you should improve the public transport at the same time too.

there are parties that don't want that cooldown, libraries or software writers. XZ utils backdoor are found by Microsoft and Postgresql developer Andres Freund due to high CPU usage (or latency? CMIIW) during SSH tests, those are the people who will keep the same workflow.

I'm not an expert, however what I believe is brain has limited capacity, and old memories keep being deleted when unused after long time. It is impossible to remember everything unless you have photographic memory. It makes remembering facts like syntaxes challenging and most of the time useless, and keeping logic is better in the long run.

Let's for example about html boilerplate, where you don't remember the syntax. What you remember is the components & why they are needed, then add them one by one as you recall your memory. Doctype, html tag, head, body, etc. It works because html is simple and common.

Then for express it is harder, because you need to recall javascript syntaxes and express syntaxes, and most of the time you don't get involved with express outside req and res. You recall that express need body parser, register routers, and finally listen, whether you use http server first or directly from express. Now you compose one by one, looking at docs or web for the forgotten pieces, but you don't lose the understanding / logic of express, you just forget the syntaxes.

As for stream where I keep forgetting it, I just need to remember that stream need source, event handler such as on data, error, finish / end. Pipe if needed. However I never remember whether to use writable, readable, streamable, etc because I seldom get involved with them, and can look up for references anytime.

In my 7th years of professionally programming node, not even once I remember the express or html boilerplate, neither is the router definition or middleware. Yet I can code normally provided there's internet accessible. It's simply not worth remembering, logic and architecture worth more IMO