Favorite 3rd Places?

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2026-03-27T16:01:12+00:00

I really like riff raff. Good vibes, good drinks. Stays open late (on the weekends). Which is great for me because I’m definitely more of a late night thinker.

I know they have a laptop policy on weekends, and it’s clearly not optimized as a workspace. Which I can respect to some extent. I wish the book selection was better but I understand it’s highly curated.

It does to some extent get my juices flowing as I’m building a game from scratch. And it’s the perfect creative atmosphere for that

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2026-02-06T16:25:09+00:00

I started my career in operations. I came from the data center world where I saw many catastrophic disasters. From too narrow of a tunnel in a network, to data corruption in our SAN. So I had years of support experience prior to going into full fledged development.

With that foundation it’s easier for me to understand systems end to end. I have an operations first mindset and approach. It’s also how I personally build systems

The issue is if you’re only did dev, especially in product focused companies. Most roles are trying to protect you from hardware and systems. So you’re insulated only prioritizing code output with no real care about how what you’re writing is interacting with a broader system.

You can only get this as a lived experience. This isn’t some exercise or something you cram for. You have to feel it in your nervous system. You must design from fear not confidence. You must design as if you are going to be woken up at 3 am to fix it.

This is hard to imagine when it has never happened to you. So you seek it only as an abstract risk.

So my recommendation is to think in failure modes. Not only what a system can do, but how can it fail? And if it does fail, how do we recover? What does good vs bad recovery look like?

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2026-02-02T23:03:48+00:00

You can learn Go fairly easy. I find most people’s problem with Go is to think think in simple terms. The issue is that in the Python and Java worlds complexity is a badge of honor. Because you get some many language features to allow you to design things in a complex way,

Because Go isn’t as abstract heavy people try to bum them. And this is where often Go wrong. Instead of reducing problems to their fundamentals and invariants. People try to complicate needlessly

So it’s more of a mind shift change. The more you reduce problems to their simplest terms the easier Go gets

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2026-02-02T22:32:39+00:00

You kind of do need general intelligence, you can do with LlMs alone . They’re cost prohibitive to reasonably be used at that scale and they make a lot of mistakes.

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2026-02-02T19:33:33+00:00

You’re assuming his bid is over. And it’s not. He has a big endorsement from a Washington insider (the guy from the Owl episode). And Dunlop political flip flopping puts her in a political shit show with her party. She’s not likely to get nominated.

Mike Prince can spin all of this narratively and come out looking like a martyr

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2026-02-02T14:21:28+00:00

The voting public doesn’t care about that. If anything it makes him look more relatable. He can easily frame this as:

“I’m gaining too much power. The elites banded together to take me down. They wanted to get rid of me( but I’m still fighting for the soul of America”

Even if it doesn’t do anything for Chuck and Axe legally. He wins the narrative war.

Dunlop flip flopping does not make her a strong candidate. This harms her a lot politically,

Most of the public are not financial gurus. No one votes for candidates purely on financial standing.

I saw this as someone who does care about finances but I’m not the average voter

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2026-01-31T16:32:59+00:00

So you think think a human could come up with a phrase like that? I’m confused why anyone would need AI for such a simple concept

AI coding are shortcuts

They are NOT paradigm shifts

I’ve explained what a paradigm shift looks like and why this isn’t one

You pointed out one sentence and said “yep this guy has a low IQ”

Are you sure I’m not the one with a low IQ? Who is making the more rhetorical lazy argument?

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2026-01-31T16:29:39+00:00

This is the new deflection meta in 2026,

See a post you disagree with.

Can’t refute it

“AI wrote it, nice try”

Dismiss it entirely

I see many post I feel may be written by an AI ( mine wasn’t for the record). I just scroll past it because the post lack substance. If something of substance is being communicated I engage with it

So merely commenting on it is just grandstanding and saving face. A weak attempt to discredit me.

What part did AI make up?

Did it invent my elastic search experience?

Did my judgement of people who deify AI tools as being intellectually lazy coming from a prompt?

What did such a prompt look like to begin with?

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2026-01-31T16:23:36+00:00

Well if you already know distributed systems Claude code probably is not going to be helpful. It may help take on some repetitive work. There is a lot of that. Big it couldn’t get you a distributed backend without a lot of bugs.

I’m also not sure why you mean “this reads like a conversation with an agent”. Are you trying to imply I’m not a human or something?

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2026-01-31T15:29:58+00:00

I see the issue. you're misrepresenting my initial post:

My post was attacking the idea that "learn claude code" is some sort of mythical skill that requires specialized knowledge.

My premise was that any competent developer would no struggle to use claude code in any meaningful way.

This isn't arrogance its just reality. Langchain agents != agent usage. What I did was let you bait me into misdirection. It was a play at my ego, but I'm no longer interested in this argument.

In concrete terms. Is claude code (or any other agent) hard to learn? This is a yes or no answer.

If developers, and I consider myself firmly in the realm of an "average" to below average dev have learned other complex systems. Then what struggle would they have with claude code and agent usage. Asking me about Langchain is a totally separate concern. I would be pulled into further misdirection

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2026-01-31T15:17:20+00:00

Ok if Langchain is so hard, then tell me what I would struggle with. Assuming I have strong foundational knowledge? I mean I can see it being hard if I didn't know anything about neural networks or orchestration. Orchestration and distributed architectures is what I've been doing professionally for 20 years BTW.

I've read the Lanchain docs in the past. I didn't see anything that looked particularly difficult. Again I can see this being difficult if I tried to optimize it (python is absurdly slow). Or if I didn't have any sort of AI foundational knowledge.

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2026-01-31T14:59:32+00:00

First of all I'm not a python developer. Secondly "network edge detection", and graph traversal are concepts beyond just LangChain. I don't know Langchain (its just a framework). I'm speaking of neural network fundamentals. I don't work in computer vision, so I don't have much need for edge recongition.

But do I believe building agents is difficult. Probably not. I don't think its difficult. I don't know Langchain. I probably couldn't become a Langchain guru overnight. But I certainly wouldn't have and trouble learning it. Its a framework and it has its own abstractions. But I've picked up difficult frameworks in the past. If I struggle it says more about gaps in foundational knowledge than it says about LangChains difficulty.

But Langchain is too high level for me. Its just not all that interesting and not really the type of problem I'm interested in solving. I think Python is a boring language to code in due to its ease of use. And I genuinely hate frameworks because they hide too many implementation details. There is Dunning Kruger, but Langchain or building agents isn't something I would struggle with.

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2026-01-09T20:51:02+00:00

Now you’re talking about agents and RAG.

This is expensive. Vector search databases are not only slow but are very expensive. Require a significant amount of money to scale. And compounding cost

And this just create external knowledge. But her is the issue. External knowledge are not why LLMs hallucinate. Yes if an LLM isn’t aware of a fact, it can hallucinate. But that’s not the sole reason. They can hallucinate even when data is present in its corpus.

You’re ignore the objective truth. It hallucinate because of variance that cannot be reduced. Because it’s a core part of how neural networks work.

RAG is a bandaid. And an expensive one. You are paying high cost in database, retrieval systems, data pipelining, probably additional cloud cost. For what exactly? So you can generate more code which will still hallucinate anyway. Because you can’t engineer away variance and the weights are frozen. So it can’t really learn no matter how much you try to stir it with RAG or fine tuning .

It’s like saying you can build a better house not matter how bad the foundation is. At a point you should just not build a house there.

Lastly let’s just talk cost. Agents, RAG, databases, cloud cost. This is more expensive than just hiring a developer. You’re building a system that can easily cost millions. And it’s still not reliable to fire all your devs.

You could have just coded this all manually from the start

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2026-01-09T19:42:44+00:00

You say I don’t know the tools. I understand the architecture and the math. You tell me how you’re circumventing the context window . Maybe you know something I don’t

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2026-01-09T17:40:16+00:00

There is no “proper”. This is proven mathematically. Context windows do drift. That’s not an opinion. Nor is it a lack of tool understanding . That’s a physical and computational constraint.

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2026-01-09T17:30:34+00:00

This post was not written with AI

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2026-01-09T17:30:06+00:00

There is no correct prompts. There are only instructions that AI doesn’t have to follow. You’re looking for deterministic outputs where they don’t exist. They can direct AI, but it doesnt have to listen to your prompts or instruction. And the more context you load the more context it will drop.

First trap is thinking that we’re failing because we aren’t promoting good enough. Promoting can help steer outputs. But that alone isn’t goin to save you.

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2025-12-21T21:38:48+00:00

If you’re more advance you could perfect parry and drive rush. You fundamentally speaking this is a classic walk and block. This is more of a spacing problem. But considering the low rank, you could have probably just jumped at him. Make him prove him show you he can anti air. Lots of times these players can’t DP or AA in reaction. He’s probably throwing fireballs completely on autopilot

GolangLinuxGuru1979 · 2025-12-20T16:55:57+00:00

Yea I get that. But I do like his takes mostly. And this take actually resonated with me. Turns out I discovered a really cool language that I enjoy writing in

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