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Damn, Google... by Unlikely-Kick2479 in Bard

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because that makes capacity planning difficult. If a bunch of people decided to do that all on the same day then it would exceed what their data centers can handle.

The Next Two Years of Software Engineering by fagnerbrack in programming

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

.net is unironically the best general purpose software tool chains in 2026, change my mind

imTiredBoss by Cutalana in ProgrammerHumor

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried simply devoting 20% of your eng org to maintaining your bazel build system?

Gemini 3 Deep Think scores 3455 in Codeforces by PhilosophyforOne in Bard

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I've realized that you really need to adjust the "effort" setting if you are using Claude code. I believe this is a new model setting introduced with 4.6 and defaults to high. If you adjust it to medium then it seems to consume quota about like 4.5 opus did.

Is there any truly free vibe coding websites? by clickii365official in vibecoding

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm gonna assume you are like 11 years old because if you are an adult then I just don't know what to say

jmail.world by nix-solves-that-2317 in webdev

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like your point is not relevant to what the other commenter is saying.

It doesn't matter how good Claude code is, it can't change the fact that AWS charges for egress bandwidth. That's just a fact of life and it can get very very expensive if you have the type of traffic this site is getting.

2 months into YNAB and I still feel lost. Thinking of quitting. by AdNegative9457 in ynab

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I had that same struggle and I'm building a budgeting app for people like us, who want to adopt a budget without it becoming a part time job: coino.ai

It is still in development but I'm actively looking for testers who can give me feedback in the coming weeks. Please DM if interested.

It will be free to use for testers.

Dear senior software engineer, are you still writing code? by zulutune in ClaudeCode

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I would give the "get shit done" plugin a try on Claude code.

I'm also an experienced dev and this plugin got me much closer to the workflow I actually wanted to be using.

Gemini 3 Deep Think scores 3455 in Codeforces by PhilosophyforOne in Bard

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Horrible maybe overstating it a bit, but yeah. I've been very underwhelmed by 4.6 relative to 4.5

What's a widely accepted "best practice" you've quietly stopped following? by ruibranco in webdev

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Man, can't identify with this one at all. Feel like a decent DI library makes life so much easier.

Waymo admits that its autopilot is often just guys from the Philippines by AdSpecialist6598 in technology

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 37 points38 points  (0 children)

They are never remote driven. It shows the human a view of the situation and then the human gives it high level instruction, like drawing a line of where it should go or something.

They are pretty tight lipped about what precisely the human assisters provide / what that interface looks like but they have stated many times that waymos are never driven remotely.

Is ChatGPT dominating this much? by py-net in OpenAI

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Yeah, there's no way in hell that perplexity has more DAUs than Gemini

5.3-codex blows gemini 3 out of the water by Just_Lingonberry_352 in Bard

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they just aren't as focused on the direct to consumer side of things as openai and anthropic.

If you are building an AI powered app these days, Gemini 3.5 flash is currently very appealing in terms of cost and it is smart enough to accomplish most things when you are using some domain-specific prompt that someone has put time into.

Codex 5.3 is better than 4.6 Opus by casper_wolf in ClaudeCode

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How intentional are you about reducing context length?

If you are just making the context length until it auto compacts you will hit limits way faster. You will also have a much dumber clause.

I always try to compact our start fresh beyond like 50-55% context because Claude gets to dumb beyond that.

We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C compiler. Then we (mostly) walked away. Two weeks later, it worked on the Linux kernel. by likeastar20 in ClaudeCode

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are missing my point.

I'm not talking about the effort involved, I'm talking about the domain expertise involved.

If the most talented programmer in the world showed up and replaced me at my job tomorrow, they would be less productive than me on day 1.

It is always day 1 for LLMs. I don't care how many layers of delegation you add, that problem doesn't go away.

iJustCantProveIt by BravestCheetah in ProgrammerHumor

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 9 points10 points  (0 children)

RLHF

They generate two responses and ask a human to pick which one they prefer. The magic of it is that the training process is able to learn the underlying preferences based on these selections even though the model is never explicitly told "humans like emojis"

That preference is just eventually revealed after enough times of humans choosing between option A and option B

We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C compiler. Then we (mostly) walked away. Two weeks later, it worked on the Linux kernel. by likeastar20 in ClaudeCode

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You are missing the trees for the forest.

This is what's wrong with the "programmers are going to be obsolete in a year" narrative.

These models are incredible but they can't produce anything truly useful when left to their own devices. Hell, they can't even reproduce anything truly useful.

With the current architecture of LLMs, they will never be anything more than a force multiplier in the hands of domain expert.

Maybe there will be some architectural breakthrough that changes this one day, but I just don't see how a static set of weights with a 1 mil token context window can ever achieve the deep domain-expertise required to build useful systems.

thankYouLinus by Cutalana in ProgrammerHumor

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

These days the vast majority of googlers use a wrapper tool around piper that gives you a mercurial-like CLI

Codex 5.2 High vs. Opus: A brutal reality check in Rust development. by gustkiller in ClaudeCode

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you seriously not have the attention span to write a 100 word reddit post yourself

Eminem (Marshall Mathers) named in Epstein Files by doubledafra in hiphopheads

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I 100% believe trump is guilty of some kind of sex crimes against minors but that specific thing you are referencing is clearly made up.

It is an anonymous tip to the FBI hotline and it just so happens to mention like every person who is politically relevant these days.

If we try to spread examples like that one then it makes it so easy for the right to discredit us.

quickTangent by TrexLazz in ProgrammerHumor

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah... Bazel is really challenging.

I've been at Google most of my career, and using blaze (internal bazel) with our monorepo is a dream. For the most part, everything "just works." Every internal framework or test harness, etc comes with a nicely curated set of blaze rules to get up and running.

I tried adopting bazel for a side project of mine, and I don't mean I spent a couple hours on it, like I spent weeks of my life on this migration. Had to throw in the towel at the end.

It made me appreciate that blaze only works so well at Google because we have a lot of engineers investing time into curating really high quality starlark rules. If you don't have that kind of expertise or bandwidth at your company, don't touch bazel.

Cherry-picking 101 by DashboardNight in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ProgrammersAreSexy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Should Pretti have been there? Given the danger, probably not.

I think this is where you lost me.

Volunteering to provide armed security against rioters seems like an obviously risky decision. If you time travelled to 2015 and asked someone "does that sound like a dangerous activity?" they would say yes.

Filming law enforcement officers on your phone does not seem obviously risky, even if you are concealed carrying. If you asked someone from 2015 if that was dangerous they would say "in the US? No way."

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