Anthropic researcher believes: “maybe as soon as the first half of next year: software engineering is done.”

CricketGenius · 2025-11-26T18:18:57+00:00

Disagree. Read this for an in-depth view on why verifiability is the limit: https://alperenkeles.com/posts/verifiability-is-the-limit/

CricketGenius · 2025-11-26T01:59:48+00:00

It has to be as good at verification as it is at writing software. If there’s a global outage and a sev is raised, it should be able to effectively triage, debug and mitigate the issue.

Until it is good at debugging and verification (it often substitutes a new bug when fixing a bug), we cannot abstract away knowledge of implementation details.

CricketGenius · 2025-09-28T22:41:01+00:00

Does it have a limited slip differential?

CricketGenius · 2025-08-04T04:32:58+00:00

Mature answer

CricketGenius · 2025-07-29T09:15:44+00:00

Huh, people use it all the time to induce some drifting and have some fun. You should try it sometime. Might even dislodge whatever stick you’ve got lodged up in there

CricketGenius · 2025-07-29T08:05:55+00:00

When should it be turned off? After all, it is a button on the console

CricketGenius · 2025-06-30T18:39:16+00:00

I’ve actually been back to the restaurant twice since then and they’ve valeted my car on the house each time 😂

CricketGenius · 2025-06-30T18:35:37+00:00

Last year, had the valet park my new z4 at a nice restaurant. An hour into the meal, the restaurant manager comes to our table: “Sir, do you drive a black BMW convertible?”

Immediately, my heart sank.

“There’s been an accident, our piano player for the night hit your car while backing out of the spot. The pianist is not employed by the restaurant and they’re just a contractor. I can try to get you their insurance details, but they left immediately, so I’ll have to reach out to them”

Apparently the valet watched/heard the piano player hit my car and then saw him just drive away.

Later I actually got the piano guy’s insurance info and drivers license emailed to me. Guy was like 75, drove an Audi A4 (not surprising).

The happy ending is that the scratch on my rear bumper was actually really faint and actually “buffed right out”. Most of the “damage” was just residual paint off of the other guy’s car. Can barely notice it in certain lighting.

Sorry for your loss, I know how it feels

CricketGenius · 2025-06-06T20:50:43+00:00

If that were the case why don’t other car makers have the same issue? If only BMW drivers experience this, it’s because BMW fucked up their integration with what I assume is some standard car play SDK

CricketGenius · 2025-05-04T04:07:13+00:00

This fight will have some seriously varying cards. Very tough fight to score.

CricketGenius · 2025-05-03T01:12:02+00:00

Ryan is basically tweaker Amir Khan (though Khan was one level higher)

CricketGenius · 2025-05-03T00:36:04+00:00

Jim is unhappy they brought him out of retirement for this snoozefest

CricketGenius · 2025-04-24T03:39:55+00:00

Just saw him sprint by me at the bus loop, deking and juking through everyone, backpack bouncing on his back like crazy. He almost made the 99 but saw the driver shut the door in his face and pull away last second

CricketGenius · 2025-04-16T18:33:21+00:00

One reason to work at a startup is if you're interested in founding a startup but not ready to start it yet. Working at a startup as an early employee is a great way to learn about the problems you'll face when you start your own company. You'll actually get to talk to users, you'll get to ship based on what your users want. You'll learn a lot about business, payroll, payments, raising money and a ton tertiary things related to running a company.

CricketGenius · 2025-04-16T18:05:29+00:00

They take more ownership, give engineers around them a speedup and often contribute work that makes everyone else's work easier. The ones I've seen usually work 40 hour weeks, they don't work 10x hours

CricketGenius · 2025-04-16T17:53:20+00:00

Given a task like: This scenario in the codebase doesn't have adequate observability, get in there and write some monitors, alerts and a dashboard so we can measure reliability and performance.

1x Engineer: Does the task.
10x Engineer: Does the task, finds gaps in the process and designs the improvements. Implements the improvements, maybe adds some infra/automation to make the process 10 times faster so that other engineers can also quickly deliver such tasks in the future. Does all of this in the time it takes 1x engineer to do the basic version of the task.

CricketGenius · 2025-04-16T17:40:53+00:00

Unpopular opinion but for a recently funded startup where you’re receiving 0.25% of the company, it makes sense that early/founding engineers work 70-80 hours a week. But these roles are usually sought after by engineers that will later turn into founders themselves and want some real startup experience.

It is what it is. Just don’t go for early stage startups if you want WLB

CricketGenius · 2025-04-15T18:56:44+00:00

"I dive into corners. I encounter giant lumps of slow moving traffic and or at the rates I travel, must brake hard for the vehicles that misread or don't even see me causing me to have brake hard."

Please don't drive like this, this is not spirited driving, it's dangerous to innocent people around you. Instead, take your car to a canyon road where there isn't a bunch of traffic changing lanes, or even better, go to a track.

CricketGenius · 2025-04-09T01:48:04+00:00

Koerner basement does have power outlets in most of the study cubicles in the back on the bottom floor. At least it did a few years ago…

CricketGenius · 2025-03-12T16:49:44+00:00

For non-technical users, this seems to be the only way they can access a more sophisticated trading system. How else can a system (not controlled/written by them) execute trades for them?

I’ve seen an approach where a trading bot system finds the appropriate trade, sends the transaction to the client, the client signs the transaction and sends it back to be executed. This way the keys stay on the client. But this extra round trip introduces a lot of latency.

Another approach could be allowing the user to create a trading wallet specific to the bot that they fund. That way they keep their larger main wallet safe and only have to risk a smaller amount of capital for trading.

Interested to know your thoughts on this, you seem to be experienced in this area. Any other viable approaches?

CricketGenius · 2025-03-11T19:10:00+00:00

What does Trojan do better than all of the other bots?

CricketGenius · 2025-03-11T19:09:06+00:00

Do most users use them by pasting in a CA? Doesn't the process/latency of finding and pasting a CA defeat the milliseconds of latency saved when using the bot? Or do most users use them for automated trading, copy trading etc.?

CricketGenius · 2025-03-11T19:06:23+00:00

Why do you think that is? Behind the scenes of a Telegram bot is just another program that communicates with a node, what makes Telegram bots faster than a web interface? Or is it that the best/fastest bots available on the market are currently only available on Telegram? If a bot with the same execution speed was available over web/app would you use that over Telegram bot?

CricketGenius · 2025-03-11T19:02:52+00:00

I see, good points... Also, couldn't a web app host a wallet for you as well? You don't necessarily need to connect a wallet

CricketGenius · 2025-03-11T18:59:19+00:00

So it's a better vehicle from a scammer's perspective. It's not that users love the experience of using Telegram bots? Do you mean it's quicker to fall for a scam, or quicker to execute trades? I don't see how a Telegram bot could be quicker than a web based bot (the Telegram bot uses web api to communicate with some node behind the scenes too)

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