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New comment by duttish in "Virtual Oxide Labs: Emulating a Full Oxide Rack"

duttish — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:06:22 +0000

30% is surprising, did you dig into it at all? Sounds like a bunch of active polling or something?

New comment by duttish in "Virtual Oxide Labs: Emulating a Full Oxide Rack"

duttish — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:35:11 +0000

They mentioned this on the podcast, the problem is that since they're development tools the networking stack is still scaled for a full rack with pretty beefy switches.

Either they need to support a whole second network stack with firmware etc which they don't want to do now, or a racklette would cost way too much and almost nobody would pay the price.

New comment by duttish in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

duttish — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:16:18 +0000

Hm, that doesn't make sense to me.

The difference between intent and implementation seems like a very common source of bugs?

If intent and implementation was the same thing programmers as a profession would have been left behind 20 years ago.

New comment by duttish in "I let an AI run my startup for a week"

duttish — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:25:15 +0000

"Hi, this is AWS Support. Your backup disk usage is over limit. Please remove all backups or we'll need to close your account.

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions."

New comment by duttish in "Agent erased full season of "The Challenge Swe": "Hundreds of days of work gone""

duttish — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:21:11 +0000

Hm, what guard rails are needed for agents that aren't needed for humans if you want to handle insider risk properly?

New comment by duttish in "Agent erased full season of "The Challenge Swe": "Hundreds of days of work gone""

duttish — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:02:04 +0000

Yea this.

Agents doesn't cause new problems, they reveal existing weaknesses.

Proper working backups. Proper IAM setup. With agents things can go wrong so much faster, the margins for allowed systemic/tech debt are shrinking.

New comment by duttish in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

duttish — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:30:41 +0000

This has become my approach as well. Create a work tree per larger thing / batch of things and manually review everything in small commits, then squash merge the whole tree to keep the history manageable and clean.

New comment by duttish in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

duttish — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:46:34 +0000

Every time I stop reviewing the code from Claude I later find janky crap. Not every review finds janky crap, but often enough that I can't stop reviewing everything.

This is my disconnect with this kind of speed, how are they avoiding the janky crap? Or are they just accepting it and hoping it won't be too crappy or be found soon enough?

I don't have any insight into Anthropic but it seems like that's the case which is just depressing.

New comment by duttish in "Where is all the new, good software?"

duttish — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:02:04 +0000

I have no clue where the author is working but...

We've lost 75% of the team over the last year.

We write code faster. It's not getting merged faster because we usually find something janky.

Decisions aren't made faster.

Understanding doesn't come faster.

Code doesn't have value. A well working system has value, the bottleneck is now between having code and having a working system, rather than producing the code.

New comment by duttish in "AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software"

duttish — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 04:07:23 +0000

Whenever I've tried skipping code review I've later found janky crap or weird decisions made.

Agents allow me to build cool stuff but atm they're far from good enough to not review the code.

New comment by duttish in "AI agents in a stand-up call"

duttish — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 06:05:53 +0000

Whenever I stop reviewing code I later find yanky shit or a small but important misunderstanding in the plan or...

Claude has let me build really cool things but so far I'm not letting it run on it's own.

New comment by duttish in "Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video]"

duttish — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 04:31:24 +0000

https://aisle.com/blog/system-over-model-zero-day-discovery-...

My understanding: Many many small models in a custom system rather than the biggest and latest

New comment by duttish in "LinkedIn Larpmaxxing"

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:53:19 +0000

Those people are what "Unfollow " under the 3 dots on the posts are for.

I actually see posts from maybe 5-10% of my connections on LI, one strike for being boring or bland or performative and they're out of my feed.

New comment by duttish in "What even is an OS now?"

duttish — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:56:57 +0000

Iirc he was one of the founders :)

New comment by duttish in "Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service"

duttish — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:57:54 +0000

I've been a happy customer of Tresorit for several years now. Give them a try if you're fed up with Dropbox.

At first I was selective in what folders I synced but after a few months I decided to just sync my entire workspace folder with everything in it.

Incredibly convenient, everything is automatically synced between my desktop and laptop.

If you go this route look into filters, it's not a very advertised feature but works great for excluding build output, venvs and other stuff.

New comment by duttish in "Why building a Rust LSP is hard"

duttish — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 03:13:33 +0000

I've never looked into LSP, how would you design it?

New comment by duttish in "Version control second coming"

duttish — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:30:12 +0000

Oh wow, I didn't know it had things like that.

Especially the CPU functionality is really interesting. I'm pondering similar problems and the current solutions just aren't good enough.

New comment by duttish in "Do people prefer stories written by AI?"

duttish — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:27:35 +0000

I don't quite know why but something in the realisation that something is made with AI removes all the joy from reading/listening to/viewing/watching it. It was interesting reading your take on it, I'm not sure it's why I don't like it but I also don't have a better explanation.

It's not about skill either, I'm quite sure I'd react the same if AI writing surpassed Hemingway, it's still not art.

New comment by duttish in "Show HN: The cheapest GPU cloud – H100s at $2.04/HR, H200s at $3/HR"

duttish — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:01:06 +0000

Do you mean $8-12 per day? Otherwise I'm confused how it's cheaper.

New comment by duttish in "Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates"

duttish — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:40:13 +0000

OPs post made me curious about jumping in, how often do they release updates? If I'm going to wait for this and the next one.