I’ve found Sol performance to be incredibly spiky. It has tremendous IQ and can fix very difficult bugs. But it is horrible at design (both visual and system design), anything that involves thinking about users or UX, and massively overcomplicates almost all work.

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ghosty141 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I noticed the same. I wanted a simple crud webapp and suggested an insane techstack involving C#, Razor Pages, MSSQL and more. I went with my planned setup of python flask with an sqlite db which served me well for years.

It's still incredibly important to have a human in the loop correcting design decisions and having good taste.

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swingboy 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Was your prompt just "I want a simple crud webapp" and that's the extent of it? There's absolutely no way you included the words "python", "flask", or "sqlite" and it still went with a Microsoft stack.

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Atotalnoob 36 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Dotnet minimal APIs plus mssql is fine for simple crud apps… I would do Postgres, but that’s me.

Swapping mssql to SQLite would also work perfectly

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EduardoBautista 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You could have just added “flask SQLite stack” to whatever prompt you added. Just those three words, randomly somewhere in your prompt.

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jiggawatts 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> insane techstack involving C#, Razor Pages, MSSQL

Is a very sane tech stack, you're just biased against Microsoft.

Half the world's enterprise apps run on that combination, or a minor variation of it.

Like Java it is full featured ("batteries included") but unlike Java it is relatively terse and actually pleasant to work with.

Oh, and unlike Python, it is very fast, within spitting distance of compiled Rust and C++ web apps.

	▲	kyleee an hour ago \| parent [-]
		There are a million and one reasons to be biased against Microsoft, regardless of the fact that C# tech stack is decent

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gruntled-worker 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> massively overcomplicates almost all work

People with high IQ often do this IRL. There's training tension in this area. Intelligence and overcomplication correlate and are hard to extricate.

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puttycat 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Intelligence is actually correlated with the ability to simplify complicated things. Occam's razor. Compression as comprehension.

	▲	gruntled-worker 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		We're not asking the model to simplify something, we're asking it to perform a task. Its subtle preferences show up as an overcomplicated path to the goal. In some cases, there are also nuances that we don't pick up on. Here it's our preference for simplification that's showing up. We set the lossy compression factor higher than it does.