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Intentional writing will likely become more valuable.

1042 points•mooreds•9 days ago•451 comments•
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Two rules keep an LLM from pasteurizing your writing: never take a word it suggests, and never let it encourage you. Then hand it all the tedious work.

696 points•joeriddles•13 days ago•396 comments•
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358 points•erwald•11 days ago•169 comments•
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Writing requires thinking, don't let an AI do the thinking for you.

96 points•eigenBasis•10 days ago•52 comments•
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Write and run custom C kernels for Intel Core Ultra NPUs - hsfzxjy/npunlock

67 points•hsfzxjy•8 days ago•16 comments•
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34 points•shriy-singh•6 days ago•28 comments•
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A searchable, syncable, content-addressable notetaking system - btrask/stronglink

33 points•xcombelle•about 11 years ago•14 comments
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Remember when using autocomplete meant you weren't "really" programming? A real Stack Overflow...

26 points•mikachu•2 days ago•7 comments
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I use AI constantly when I code and when I write. I use it to research ideas, plan code, debug,...

23 points•mikachu•1 day ago•6 comments
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I was trying to write a post about art with squarable numbers, and so I thought quilting a Mrs. Perkins' Quilt might be a nice addition to the exploration. With 1500 words almost ready to hit send, I ended up down a…

21 points•evakhoury•13 days ago•6 comments•
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LLM agents can write a lot of code for you very fast, but they also take away opportunities to learn and grow.

16 points•meetpateltech•8 days ago•4 comments•
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Last month a teammate pasted a Playwright test into our PR channel and wrote "AI generated this in 4...

14 points•speaklouder•12 days ago•12 comments
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To me, AI writing always results in this: And If it's read by a human it should also be written by a human.

12 points•zazuke•8 days ago•16 comments•
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I like to think I write good code, or that I write more good code than bad code. My favourite property of good code is boredom. Dull statements one after another, no surprises, no tricks, no special...

11 points•inactive-user•almost 12 years ago•1 comment
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In this series, we will explore how to write a compiler for a small subset of C to LLVM in Haskell. Our language, Micro C, is basically a small subset of real C. We'll have basic numeric types, a real bool type,…

10 points•calvin•over 6 years ago•0 comments
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Write SQL. Keep TypeScript. Skip the query-builder translation layer. - Clickin/SQLBraid

8 points•Clickin•10 days ago•3 comments•
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Last year, a critical payment processing service went completely silent during Black Friday traffic....

6 points•tarikmostafa•6 days ago•1 comment
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4 points•levmiseri•9 days ago•0 comments•
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I write less code by hand, ship more software, and spend much more time deciding what I am willing to own.

3 points•feisal•1 day ago•0 comments•
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Thélyson Orélien had been in the running to win a top literary prize before the AI claim emerged on social media

3 points•pieterr•5 days ago•0 comments•
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3 points•ferryth•6 days ago•1 comment•
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Give your scripts and AI their own tamper-evident notes. Prove nothing changed, encrypt with your own key, write over MCP or one curl. Free to start.

3 points•arsphy•6 days ago•1 comment•
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A novel technique for writing ELF shared objects and achieving code execution in Python, Ruby, and Node.js using the sqlite_dbpage virtual table.

3 points•gabdevele•7 days ago•0 comments•
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Commit messages matter. Here's how to write them well.

3 points•ibobev•7 days ago•0 comments•
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Explore codebases visually as an interactive call graph and export structured, low-token context directly to AI coding assistants. - otobongfp/code-graph-view

3 points•otobong•9 days ago•2 comments•
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The simplest way to write decision workflows in Python. Python with a smart if. - sumanmichael/jevlang

3 points•sumanmichael•10 days ago•1 comment•
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When it comes to public incident write-ups, GitHub continues to be the gift that keeps on giving. They keep suffering collateral damage from the AI boom, as more developers using AI means more load…

3 points•RohanAdwankar•10 days ago•0 comments•
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“What is the relationship like between your team and the data scientists?” This is, without a doubt, the question I’m most frequently asked when conducting i...

3 points•agent281•almost 5 years ago•0 comments
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The agent reports through a fixed set of typed blocks instead of prose, and the UI draws them.

2 points•skolos•4 days ago•0 comments•
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I built NutriScan, a PWA that reads nutrition labels from a photo and tracks macros. Then I noticed I...

2 points•mrtigafk•5 days ago•1 comment
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Without watermarking, nobody will write, and nobody will read

2 points•mathieu4v•6 days ago•0 comments•
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As I write, Apple and Meta are rolling out their latest gadgets: intrusive glasses that allow anyone to film you without your knowledge, and a watch with a permanent listening mode, recording all your conversations and…

2 points•speckx•7 days ago•0 comments•
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2 points•retrocryptid•7 days ago•2 comments•
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Coding agents are getting very good at producing code. Maybe too good. One engineer working with...

2 points•lezli01•8 days ago•1 comment
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I have never dared to write or define a standard for the web, let alone one about design. I am more of a technical person than anything else. But for…

2 points•andros•8 days ago•0 comments•
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We use Natural Intelligence to build software libraries and applications in production today. Some of them you may be using right now.

2 points•batmang•9 days ago•1 comment•
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Intentional writing will likely become more valuable.

2 points•cyndunlop•9 days ago•2 comments•
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2 points•dalvrosa•11 days ago•0 comments•
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Evaluating if my puzzle solutions help Haiku 4.5 and Sonnet 5 solve Jane Street puzzles.

1 points•speckx•about 7 hours ago•0 comments•
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1 points•meetpateltech•about 8 hours ago•1 comment•
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I have been dancing around how I was going to write this review for a week.

1 points•layer8•about 9 hours ago•0 comments•
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The agent reports through a fixed set of typed blocks instead of prose, and the UI draws them.

1 points•skolos•1 day ago•0 comments•
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Learn how serialized writes and coarse locks limit throughput, increase tail latency, and constrain real-time graph workloads.

1 points•taubek•1 day ago•0 comments•
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Write a diagram as stated relationships and watch it solve, in the browser.

1 points•mooreds•2 days ago•0 comments•
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The agent reports through a fixed set of typed blocks instead of prose, and the UI draws them.

1 points•skolos•2 days ago•0 comments•
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I work on AI evals and reliability for agentic systems. Skeptical of tooling hype, mostly because I keep measuring it.

1 points•max-t-dev•3 days ago•0 comments•
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The agent reports through a fixed set of typed blocks instead of prose, and the UI draws them.

1 points•skolos•3 days ago•0 comments•
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Sometimes it takes almost 5 months to write about a 2-day trip :D

1 points•dichik•3 days ago•1 comment•
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1 points•hum3hum3•3 days ago•1 comment•
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A private journal that remembers with you. Write a little every day; each morning Llamora opens the page with a few lines about the day before, responds when you ask, and notices what keeps coming back.

1 points•anon1253•4 days ago•1 comment•
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I write this at 11:19 PM, due to Star Trek barging back into my head minutes from going to sleep.

1 points•p-hereford•4 days ago•0 comments•
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Agents can write code faster than we can understand it. Documents don't fix that. What reviewers need is a briefing: something they can sit back and listen to, and interrupt when it matters.

1 points•yuyafujimoto•5 days ago•0 comments•
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Xidian’s AlScN/AlN device exceeds 10¹⁰ write cycles by controlling nitrogen vacancies, a major endurance result for…

1 points•yogthos•5 days ago•0 comments•
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Spend tokens on judgment, not typing. An MCP-native autonomous SDLC pipeline: frontier models plan and review, local models implement — engineering discipline on a $20/month budget. - motock/fagan

1 points•motock•6 days ago•0 comments•
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1 points•BiraIgnacio•6 days ago•0 comments•
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I have never dared to write or define a standard for the web, let alone one about design. I am more of a technical person than anything else. But for…

1 points•ibobev•6 days ago•0 comments•

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