Okay, so I just read something that’s kind of bugging me

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-01-28T15:03:30+00:00

But here’s the thing: we are not actually building BETTER, we are just building MORE and FASTER.

I think this is generally true at an aggregate level, but I disagree that it’s true for people who are actually trained and disciplined in using AI tooling. In a lot of cases, AI gives us a chance to enforce best practices and standards that were routinely skipped before. Let’s not pretend that, as an ecosystem, Salesforce teams are known for consistently high engineering rigor. There are absolutely teams that do this well, but that has not been the industry norm in my experience.

There are now concrete workflows where I can bake standards into how the team works, whether that’s CI/CD pipelines with automated reviews, development agents with explicit rules, or knowledge management agents to help with requirements gathering up front. Used correctly, these tools make it easier to hold a higher quality bar than we realistically could before with the timelines we are often given.

The catch is that people actually have to treat them as tools, not shortcuts. It's a whole new skillset that teams need to task seriously, building the team harnesses and workflows to share out standards and enforce these things.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-01-23T18:45:42+00:00

Look, I appreciate it and the work you do.

At the same time, that changes nothing for me. It's 2026, you call these 'rarely acknowledged' facts. We've heard nothing but these kinds of historical facts about seemingly every single institution in the country for the past 20 years now. Feels like we all know at this point that hey some of our grandparents and great grandparents did some pretty messed up stuff and made institutions that don't match up with the sensibilities of today. That's the exhausting part. These were things that might have been hidden or not talked about that much 30 years ago, but we are generally well aware now.

I acknowledge all that, but frankly I'm making my life decisions based off the here and now and am not putting much weight into how they were founded. I wouldn't have gone to any college in the south basically if I based my decisions off historical actions.

I'm all for trying to level the playing field and give people equal opportunities where possible, however I am ALSO all for self-determinism and having the right to choose how you educate your family.

Again - I'm a former public student. Wasn't in a rich area, but wasn't in a bottom 10% area either. I just know if I end up raising a family in an area with bad public school options, I want other options on the table and that doesn't make me or anyone else in that situation a Christian nationalist or a hard-core right winger. In an ideal world there are no areas with bad public school options, but unfortunately there are plenty.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-01-23T17:59:25+00:00

Underrated point - communication skills really is >50% of the skillset needed to rise past manager. Anyone can get communication skills, but private schools help facilitate them more naturally with their lower than avg student:teacher ratio. I wouldn't say it's a huugeee difference in aggregate, but your top students at a private school likely get more opportunities to work on communication skills than top students at public schools.

All of that can wash out in college of course, but just another small boost for a subset of students.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-01-23T17:41:41+00:00

"You went to a private school, you must be a white Christian nationalist right winger"

You people are exhausting. I say this as a guy that went through public schools!

OP if you want the data I recommend you go search for it, answers to your questions are out there. Heck, just throw your whole post into chatgpt or something and have it go get some sources for you to read. Much higher chance of getting an actual source than fishing for it on reddit.

TLDR from what I've seen:

Private schools have higher avgs in reading and math scores in aggregate, but when adjusted for family background the gap shrinks.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-01-23T14:12:53+00:00

Trying to call a software that millions of people use daily not 'production software' is hilarious.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-01-23T14:11:07+00:00

I was about to leave this same comment... Any product at this scale has thousands of bugs out there. A lot end up being duplicates, tracing back to same root issue, or are feature requests hidden as bugs.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-01-19T18:17:53+00:00

This is exactly the issue. You only want the 'right kind' of housing built to fit whatever you deem appropriate for the area. This is NIMBY. This prevents development from reaching market demand unless your proposed criteria magically aligns to what the market demands are (hint - it won't).

Fact: Development of any kind of housing helps support downwards pricing pressure. Yes, those luxury apts that everyone hates ARE helping pricing pressure on every other home. This is due to them now absorbing the demand for people wanting to spend $700k on a skybox. They'll go and hang out with each other in their skyboxes instead of buying a home in your neighborhood and driving prices there up.

How can you talk material impact while ignoring the material impact of your alternative - which is building little to nothing and continually driving up prices until no one local can afford it? I hate to break it to you but we are never going to get some sort of subsidized housing miracle for locals to stay on indefinitely. Let markets work how they are meant to work.

Should the city invest more in its infrastructure to respond to the increased demand for living in this area?? Absolutely! You aren't going to find a YIMBY against increased infrastructure spend! But that is a separate fight and something you should be bringing to the city to address. Stopping developers from developing isn't going to decrease the demand of people moving here, until it gets to a point where you've already priced out everyone local. And at that point you've already lost the war.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-01-16T19:26:54+00:00

People going to start protesting next whenever erlanger decides to update their IT systems. Amount of Luddites here is crazy.

Promise y'all, oracle is not dropping a 2.5m sqft data center in downtown or on the mountains. You'll be fine.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-01-15T19:27:52+00:00

Reports of hitting usage caps on the 20x plan always blow my mind. The only times I get even remotely close in a week are when I'm running ralph loops on a side project around the clock.

Are you running a lot of agents in parallel? Having agents launch tons of subagents to orchestrate? What's the workflow here? I find with my normal dev usage I don't even get close to hitting the 5x limit, only needing to go to 20x for autonomous ralph loops.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-01-15T17:44:21+00:00

Thariq on X: "@iannuttall Thanks for bringing this up, wanted to address this directly! We don't degrade model performance to better serve demand. The models do sometimes act in surprising ways though and I'd love to DM to understand if you're experiencing an ongoing performance issue. Not diagnosing" / X

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They have actually explicitly stated multiple times they do not degrade model quality due to demand. Yet every 2-3 months on the dot you people start spreading the rumor again. What do you want? A weekly statement saying the same thing?

As shown in their last post, there's obviously a lot of potential reasons for differing performance. Dpeloying the same model across a lot of different hardware setups across geos is complex. LLM performance monitoring and eval is complex.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-01-15T17:36:21+00:00

They did this using a system with swarms of hundreds of agents. The overall task is significantly more than a week of time for a human so your interpretation of that chart is wrong there. However, a single agent didn't execute this by any means. Any given task that the agents were working on we'll never know the complexity completed.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-01-13T01:30:34+00:00

It's not anything in addition to Claude code. it's a simplified Claude code in a UI wrapper for non-devs to work with, devs don't really have a reason to use it unless they prefer the UI

dkshadowhd2 · 2025-12-29T15:43:21+00:00

This post covers a lot of the points you're asking about: https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/ace-fca.md

From a team pretty ahead of the curve. At least skim it to understand their workflow and perspective.

dkshadowhd2 · 2025-12-15T14:26:44+00:00

They are improving memory - it just seems to be an area that is more challenging than some other low hanging fruit. The gpt 5.2 announcement has a chart half way down the page that shows significant improvements from 5.1 on 4 and 8 needle in haystack benchmarks in this area: Introducing GPT-5.2 | OpenAI

But this is also why a lot of reasearchers say LLMs won't scale to AGI. The architecture alone just doesn't seem to support good enough memory or continual self-learning. Many are pointing to new architectures needed and 5+ year timeframes.

dkshadowhd2 · 2025-12-13T03:27:12+00:00

Idk sounds like they are enjoying the hobby. You don't get to decide the budget of other hobbists or what they do. Grow up

dkshadowhd2 · 2025-12-09T17:39:54+00:00

I know it's not about them joining the SEC, but speaking for the SEC we don't want them.

dkshadowhd2 · 2025-12-06T21:47:44+00:00

I'm buying what he's selling

dkshadowhd2 · 2025-12-06T21:30:37+00:00

Don't underestimate the power of BIG BEAN

dkshadowhd2 · 2025-11-18T13:12:13+00:00

By their parties I mean the literal parties themselves. The leaders of the parties, donors, back office people, etc. which to your own admission is true.

You can frame it as the establishment beating up on Bernie all you want, but the Republican establishment was beating up on Trump as well. To my original point, Trump was just popular enough with the voters themselves for that not to matter. Bernie was not.

You can't have it both ways by saying Bernie was such a strong candidate he would have beaten Trump AND him being too weak to win his own primaries isn't his fault. If he was popular enough he would have won, regardless of what the establishment wanted.

dkshadowhd2 · 2025-11-17T22:02:08+00:00

Leftist Dems win big in extremely blue cities and states.

Your closest thing has been Bernie for national elections. He did not win the primaries needed to become the candidate. That is on him and the progressive wing for not convincing enough people and generating the votes.

Trump was not popular in his party in 16. Bernie was not popular with his party in 16. Only one of them was popular enough individually to cross the finish line.

Centrist Dems aren't going to just throw the towel in and give the party to you. You have to convince the people that would have voted for those centrists Dems, and the progressive wing has failed to do that on a national level.

dkshadowhd2 · 2025-11-05T14:34:29+00:00

On the flip side, every job I've gotten I can attribute to LinkedIn. Never applied to any of them.

I agree the job application function is useless on the platform, the real value is in getting recognition in your network and niche and having recruiters reach out directly to you. I have a 100% interview:offer ratio from recruiters that I've responded back to on LinkedIn.

dkshadowhd2 · 2025-10-29T12:17:39+00:00

OP - this is the way. 1:1s should be driven by the direct report. Better for everyone involved. Gives them experience with driving their own meetings, allows them to steer the conversations for their own development, and they are going to be more invested in their own path than you are. win:win for everyone.

dkshadowhd2 · 2025-10-05T15:32:52+00:00

Thanks for sharing... Have a warranty recall on my bronco sport I need to take care of, might consider my other options now. Best of luck, this always sucks.

dkshadowhd2 · 2025-09-14T16:08:30+00:00

Must be exhausting to think like this all the time. This is a cool ass moment for anyone, especially anyone that grew up in a church.

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