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I'd consider a lot of spring annotations "black magic" , because you can't simply go to definition and see how/what they do.


Spring's annotations arguably are black magic, but while Spring offers DI, DI is not Spring, and honestly something like Guice is a lot easier to follow since it only does annotation-based DI and not a bunch of other stuff.


You... literally can? Yeah, you may have to grep for the annotation's name, but it's not like it's hidden/closed source/whatever.


grep for annotations...

That mentality is how you get death by a thousand cuts.

Cognitive load matters.


Search within your IDE, do a Google search, whatever suits you.

What mentality? And the cognitive load is to RTFM, so that you understand what are you doing. If that leaves any questions you can attempt to do a deep dive. It's not particularly high cognitive load to know that @GET is a get rest endpoint.

How is that different without annotations? Documentation is also your best bet at first in case of a normal library function call. Jumping into that codebase can also be quite involved, depending on what it does.


This is 2025.

If you can't jump to your own code implementation without having to search for strings, your tech sucks.

And most of your message doesn't even apply. How would I Google or read the manual for my own code?

We're talking about different things it seems.


With a 1980's technology out of Xerox PARC, it is called IDE.


Exactly. Although from the reply I got above it seems to be alien tech to some.


There was a 'may' in my original comment. It is metaprogramming, so you can't see every usage automatically even with "alien tech" like IDEs, unlike in case of a normal type.

Especially that we are not even talking about own code, but third-party annotations with its third-party consumers. Also, grepping is a pretty standard term, it doesn't necessarily mean literal CLI grep, but go on with your advanced tooling as if no one else would be familiar with an IDE.


Seems to me that he thinks he's being fired for mentioning that grok 3 exists but he's actually being fired for saying that chatgpt is better than grok 3.


Grok 3 is an unreleased product, he has access only because of his job and he's not authorized to speak publicly about it. So both of those apply.


From what I'm reading, he has no access to Grok 3.

https://x.com/BenjaminDEKR/status/1889543681188774300


Then deciding not to take down a “random opinion of a guess” and instead opt to be fired is an extremely odd decision and/or hill to die on.


He didn't get fired for saying chatgpt is better than grok 3. He was fired for breaching confidential information which is performance of grok 3.


Seems reasonable. If my employee acknowledges in public that competitor x is better, they will be fired. Shouldn’t surprise anyone yet here we are.


Then when you fire them, tell them that. But they threatened him using a different reason, a reason that he has support showing that his action was within guidelines.

He’s also clear in his comments that xAI has the right to do whatever they want. He is giving more data points on how xAI/Twitter/Musk operate. This also doesn’t surprise anyone.


We don't actually know what he was told. We only know what he is saying he was told, with no evidence, and in a context where he's playing to the crowd.

He might have misinterpreted what he was told. He might have been told multiple problems, and only reported one. He might be actively lying.


There was this differentiation and discussion in the thread. He claims he has the support. But you are correct, everything I’m relating is his statements on the Twitter thread. For all we know, the entire story could be false.


I've managed to get llms fail on simple questions, that require thinking graphically - 2D or 3D.

An example would be: you have a NxM grid. How many shapes of XYZ shape can you fit on it?

However, thinking of the transformer video games, AI can be trained to have a good representation of 2D/3D worlds. I wonder how it can be combined so that this graphical representation is used to compute text output.


Great app! I've been building something similar, but for less advanced language learners, who wouldn't understand definitions in their target language.

My app [1] is basically a combination of SRS flashcards with an ebook/YouTube/Website reader. Unlike Anki though, AI creates example sentences, definitions, images and audio.

I find it interesting that you want to get inspired by Duolingo. My approach is to have the most efficient grind possible - no gamification. I've found Duolingo was wasting so much of my time with exercises that did not really teach me anything and took a long time to complete + the XP points/levels etc. were quite distracting.

[1] https://vocabuo.com


With all the (somewhat competing, though aimed and monetized differently) products in this thread, are there any promotions in place for extensive testing and comparison?

(E.g., your vocabuo website prominently points to possible promo codes.)


This is one of the reasons why I'm building my app in Flutter and not Swift/Android, which is not mentioned a lot in cross-platform vs. native discussions. Neither of the native frameworks compile to JS/we assembly, making it useless if the app gets randomly deleted from stores.


Nice game! Not sure about the IQ though :D


You don't go through entire loops everywhere because if there isn't a match in the first two tables, you don't have to check the match with the third table.

It's better to check A x C before A x B if you know that A x C has less matching rows, because the final loop will be shorter.


Ah, I see the numbers in the example are the numbers of matched rows, not a total number of rows... Make sense. I do not work with databases, did not know that you should pay attention to the order here.


Are you saying you don't want to unlock your full creative potential with unique and scalable ai designs?!?


I have two!

https://gifmemes.io, haven't touched the code for years, makes between 100-300$ a month, depending on the season.

https://vocabuo.com - a side project I hope to turn into a business, so I work on it around two days a week, made around $3.5k in revenue last month but most of it went back into ads.


Wow! So both projects revenue come from ads?


Neither is.

Gifmemes - you can buy a 10 USD watermark removal Vocabuo - freemium and you can buy classic Appstore/Playstore subscription to unlock the other 80% of the features


The vocabulary tool is from pay as you go on App Store.


A language learning app that combines Anki like spaced repetition with language learning ai tutor. https://vocabuo.com


This is an awesome idea. Traditional use of anki (i.e. med school) is super helpful for memorizing and retaining a vast amount of information making it especially great for recall when solicited on a test or irl. Have you found the ai component to help with learning the meaning of a word or phrase in various contexts?


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