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Building SageNet:

- builds a personalized learning plan - adapts as you progress - generates short audio lessons - gives real projects - has a daily voice check-in agent - lets you share a public progress dashboard

https://www.sagenet.club

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syndacks
·4 dagen geleden·discuss
Yes, the men running concentration camps are 100% absolved of their culpability. Not their fault!
syndacks
·10 dagen geleden·discuss
So don’t use it!
syndacks
·10 dagen geleden·discuss
Jamaica Bay has _all_ the VCs in NYC!
syndacks
·vorige maand·discuss
From what I understand, this isn’t so far from what Germany does with their secondary schools
syndacks
·vorige maand·discuss
Serious question, tell me what you think of using IQ tests to hire SWEs? Should we just do that instead?
syndacks
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Imagine the cognitive dissonance at play there, doing some DS work, realizing your product actively makes people depressed...all while driving back to your 5M+ home in a Tesla listening to podcasts about sunning your ballsack
syndacks
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
The archetype of the "jerk engineer" is over, because it turns out coding isn't all that valuable anymore. We now need "engineers" who understand much more than coding.
syndacks
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
it seemed HN was moving the right direction when we added the "no AI comments", and yet, every single post about a new model is from you and your pelican. it's tired. please stop, it adds no value and has become cliche.
syndacks
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
I think mandates are irrelevant. Unless you work at a monopoly or cutting edge domain, I don’t see how anything other than a “software factory” wins.

https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/
syndacks
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
lowercasing doesn’t obfuscate the stench of LLM
syndacks
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
I have a 20$ for both and like each for unique reasons. How do you all switch your programming paradigms for Codex vs CC?
syndacks
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
Ai shit post
syndacks
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
Does anyone have any solid patterns they can share around the “scenarios”/holdouts concept from the Dark Factory, where you create external system(s) to verify your main one?
syndacks
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
I largely agree with you. And, given your points about “not going back” — how do you propose interviewing SWEs?
syndacks
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
A lot of people here like this guys writing.

For a longer and more biting critique of SF one should read

Private Citizens (2016) by Tony Tulathimutte

“ Capturing the anxious, self-aware mood of young college grads in the aughts, Private Citizens embraces the contradictions of our new century: call it a loving satire.”
syndacks
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday, during Chinese New Year
syndacks
·5 maanden geleden·discuss


  Location: NYC, New York, Brooklyn, Queens
  Remote: Sure, or hybrid
  Willing to relocate: Yea
  Technologies: Python, Js, Go, PHP, React, Django, and more
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dacks-m-9451428a/
 
  About: I'm a hands-on engineering leader who builds teams that ship products and drive revenue. At Quizlet, I led a 30-person org across Ads and Growth, scaling advertising revenue from $20M to $50M+. Before that, I was CTO at Slader, where I grew the engineering team from 3 to 14 and led the company through its acquisition by Quizlet. I'm happy to be hands-on as much as needed.
syndacks
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
How do people evaluate creative writing and emotional intelligence in LLMs? Most benchmarks seem to focus on reasoning or correctness, which feels orthogonal. I’ve been playing with Kimmy K 2.5 and it feels much stronger on voice and emotional grounding, but I don’t know how to measure that beyond human judgment.
syndacks
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
LLM shit post
syndacks
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Can the same thing be said for using docker compose etc on a VPS to host a web app? Ie you can get the ergonomic / ease of using Fly, Renderer?

Historically, managed platforms like Fly.io, Render, and DigitalOcean App Platform existed to solve three pain points: 1. Fear of misconfiguring Linux 2. Fear of Docker / Compose complexity 3. Fear of “what if it breaks at 2am?”

CLI agents (Claude Code, etc.) dramatically reduce (1) and (2), and partially reduce (3).

So the tradeoff has changed from:

“Pay $50–150/month to avoid yak-shaving” → “Pay $5–12/month and let an agent do the yak-shaving”