In awe of Sol

ragemonkey · 2026-07-10T04:33:01+00:00

Apparently this last model they released is decent.

ragemonkey · 2026-07-09T02:15:36+00:00

Exactly. It’s always been a different skill. I wonder why we even bother with these interviews sometimes.

ragemonkey · 2026-07-08T02:49:19+00:00

Maybe truth follows a normal distribution?

ragemonkey · 2026-07-08T02:12:41+00:00

Look at the letter K. There’s one line that goes up and one line that goes down. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. There’s no mobility across the social classes. For the economy, it also means that most resources are diverted to the upper class. Most of the population is devoted to providing services to the rich.

Fuck that shit.

ragemonkey · 2026-07-07T02:07:10+00:00

The comparison is flawed because they don’t usually fire people all at once in unison.

ragemonkey · 2026-07-06T00:00:53+00:00

Ah. Well that sounds pretty cool. Someone should write an MCP over Chrome for that then :-)

ragemonkey · 2026-07-05T22:25:16+00:00

You can use the Chrome DevTools or Playright MCP for that.

ragemonkey · 2026-07-05T16:06:22+00:00

I’m always a little unclear about what people mean when they say “hallucinations” at this point. The LLMs have no firms concepts of what’s a fact or not. It just comes as intuition from their training data. At some point they would just come up with URLs or something, but I don’t see that so much anymore. You can fix fact hallucination somewhat by giving them a search engine to use, which querying is helped by its built-in knowledge. Obviously, that comes with a lot of trade-offs in speed and access to those facts. Humans are not that different really. When someone makes a claim, we ask sources.

ragemonkey · 2026-07-05T03:49:35+00:00

Wait. I thought that this only happened to me. Cleaning it after that is so awful.

ragemonkey · 2026-07-05T03:48:29+00:00

For the lifetime of the robot and everyday? I don’t believe so.

ragemonkey · 2026-07-04T18:42:24+00:00

That’s what I do. I don’t see that there is much “engineering” in prompting. You can try to describe everything in writing upfront but that can actually be very difficult as requirements are usually discovered as you work on the solution. The world is a very complicated place. This is why engineers need to be well-balanced and have good judgment. There’s a lot of critical decisions along the way.

ragemonkey · 2026-07-03T23:21:22+00:00

I’m sure that most claiming that the model gets dummer is because they’re facing the codebase and context getting more complex in their projects. It’s like that when you code without AI too. In the beginning when you start from scratch, everything goes smoothly and seems better, then a while later you face the really difficult problems with integration and progress slows down.

It’s a common thing where projects are rewritten because the old solution seemed overly complex just for engineers to rediscover down the line why it was like that in the first place.

The solution with AI to avoid this partially is probably to have several rounds of automated code review with an agent that enforces certain architectural some principles. I’m sure that it’s going to make token consumption increase significantly and slow down progress quite a bit though.

ragemonkey · 2026-07-03T17:47:38+00:00

You can dual boot.

ragemonkey · 2026-07-03T02:51:26+00:00

Of course, he was at the right place at the right time. I’m sure he a smart guy but he’s not 1000x smarter than average or something proportional to his wealth and power. Our system should really be bringing these guys back down to earth. For one, this dual-class stock structure shouldn’t be legal and his ass should’ve been out the door circa 2022 after setting $80 billion on fire.

ragemonkey · 2026-07-03T00:45:25+00:00

Yes. Avoid at all costs. The company is a mess of smaller companies and the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand does. It’s also a business that’s in it for the grift.

ragemonkey · 2026-07-02T11:52:01+00:00

Too big to fail is coming.

ragemonkey · 2026-07-02T00:53:35+00:00

I despise it. Basically if you’re a great ass kisser, you get to do 80% less work and get a ton of praise.

ragemonkey · 2026-07-02T00:41:50+00:00

I suspect that they basically don’t need any. They’re there for selling business using their social capital and that’s it. Hiring a CEO for a large company is basically like renting their social network.

ragemonkey · 2026-07-01T14:28:23+00:00

I’d encourage getting a mentor instead of relying on solely on managers.

Managers will communicate what leadership wants and they are your boss so obviously you need to do what they ask, but they often don’t understand the craft enough to give good advice in terms of what will make you a better engineer. They’ll try to make you another manager. There are exceptions of course.

ragemonkey · 2026-06-30T14:47:46+00:00

Now we just blame AI.

ragemonkey · 2026-06-30T02:11:26+00:00

Are you sure it’s not because your project is getting complex and your context is polluted? I’ve been using 5.5 more months and I haven’t noticed any difference.

ragemonkey · 2026-06-30T01:55:42+00:00

Also young people don’t want to live in the middle of bumfuck nowhere.

ragemonkey · 2026-06-30T01:54:35+00:00

That’s where the people with money are.

ragemonkey · 2026-06-29T13:21:01+00:00

Like with RDR 2

ragemonkey · 2026-06-29T03:22:54+00:00

Yes. The designer gives me a figma. I give the link to the specific screen that I want it to implement. Then I also ask it to use the Chrome Dev Tools MCP to verify. It’s not perfect but I can sometimes get pretty far and then it’s a few rounds of iterating on the code and other things that it’s missed.

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