Sounds great! Let’s see the code.
To understand if writing is good for a certain domain or purpose, you really do need to at least be decent at writing for that purpose. If it’s just about aesthetics or how it makes you feel, then yes I agree because…
People say this, and it sounds reasonable. But, as a user of software, I certainly am not feeling a lot of software getting more reliable and higher quality. Mostly I feel the opposite of that.
I like the idea, but we already have the terminal bell. In my setup, when an agent is done or needs something, it emits a bell. Based on config, this results in a desktop notification if I’m not in the terminal, or a…
One of the key points of the comment you replied to is that you don’t need a very powerful model to do MCP stuff, such as local Qwen. The “let the agent figure it out” approach works much better with powerful models,…
Yes, and now we are full circle: what is (allegedly) bananas is that using VSCode’s remote edit feature has the potentially surprising and unintuitive behavior of installing a VSCode agent on the target machine.
Spotify, the comment I replied to drew a comparison from Shopify to Spotify. I think I’ll start a company called Shpoptify.
Spotify has progressively gotten much worse over the last 15 years, all while the size of their engineering team has ballooned. I am very unsurprised by this outcome. People wonder why good software becomes bad, and…
The difference is that Minecraft gives you much more granular access to manipulate the world, which enables a lot people to feel more connected to the world and become more invested in it.
Agree with the thrust of your comment, but I had to comment on this: > In a full banana republic, technical compliance with the law will not prevent consequences for failing to do what the authorities want. In a…
I don't understand how you can read a thesis that predicts AGI in 2027 (and the subsequent explosion to ASI) and say that it "all ended up becoming true in 2026".
I do not understand why people who get serious about it want so badly for it to be called table tennis. Ping pong is a way more fun name, and table tennis just seems to make it out to be a smaller, inferior version of…
> They are indicted in federal court… what kind of mindless ideologue thinks this was just a whim for giggles? It is well-known that the bar for securing an indictment is very low. There is a famous quote about it: "Any…
Unfortunately I do not know, I haven’t done anything to configure this as far as I am aware. I am on macOS.
AFAICT Backblaze does back up .git directories. I have many repos backed up. The .git directory is hidden by default in the web UI (along with all other hidden files), but there is an option to show them. You should try…
Yes, I agree with you, I think that regulation is needed here and that this was a dumb thing to say. I'm just saying that my reaction to Zuckerberg saying that people must love his product if they use it a lot is…
> Can you imagine saying the same thing about oxycodone or cigarettes? No, but unfortunately I can very easily imagine people saying it, just like the people who made loads of money from pushing those products did. Also…
Prod in this context doesn't refer to one person's website for their personal project. It refers to an environment where downtime has consequences, generally one that multiple people work on and that many people rely on.
The point of the metaphor is not to say "spending time is mechanically similar to putting things in a container". It is to look at spending time from a new angle, and see if it helps you understand it better. A wise…
No, because the function of code is distinct from the implementation of the code. With software, something that is functionally identical can be created with a different underlying implementation. This is not the case…
Will you elaborate on the “indefensibly bad legislation”?
This is just unrealistic day dreaming. You can go be in a field picking produce for work - we have a shortage of these laborers. Most people don’t actually want to do that, they want a cushy office job that doesn’t wear…
This sounds very interesting, could you elaborate on your methods and tools?
I pay for Kagi to get better search results. Lately, I’ve felt that Kagi’s search has been just as full of low-information and AI generated results as Google. I’ve been wondering why I’m still paying for it. This seemed…
> If the behavior of the system is specified well enough Then it becomes code: a precise symbolic representation of a process that can be unambiguously interpreted by a computer. If there is ambiguity, then that will be…
Sounds great! Let’s see the code.
To understand if writing is good for a certain domain or purpose, you really do need to at least be decent at writing for that purpose. If it’s just about aesthetics or how it makes you feel, then yes I agree because…
People say this, and it sounds reasonable. But, as a user of software, I certainly am not feeling a lot of software getting more reliable and higher quality. Mostly I feel the opposite of that.
I like the idea, but we already have the terminal bell. In my setup, when an agent is done or needs something, it emits a bell. Based on config, this results in a desktop notification if I’m not in the terminal, or a…
One of the key points of the comment you replied to is that you don’t need a very powerful model to do MCP stuff, such as local Qwen. The “let the agent figure it out” approach works much better with powerful models,…
Yes, and now we are full circle: what is (allegedly) bananas is that using VSCode’s remote edit feature has the potentially surprising and unintuitive behavior of installing a VSCode agent on the target machine.
Spotify, the comment I replied to drew a comparison from Shopify to Spotify. I think I’ll start a company called Shpoptify.
Spotify has progressively gotten much worse over the last 15 years, all while the size of their engineering team has ballooned. I am very unsurprised by this outcome. People wonder why good software becomes bad, and…
The difference is that Minecraft gives you much more granular access to manipulate the world, which enables a lot people to feel more connected to the world and become more invested in it.
Agree with the thrust of your comment, but I had to comment on this: > In a full banana republic, technical compliance with the law will not prevent consequences for failing to do what the authorities want. In a…
I don't understand how you can read a thesis that predicts AGI in 2027 (and the subsequent explosion to ASI) and say that it "all ended up becoming true in 2026".
I do not understand why people who get serious about it want so badly for it to be called table tennis. Ping pong is a way more fun name, and table tennis just seems to make it out to be a smaller, inferior version of…
> They are indicted in federal court… what kind of mindless ideologue thinks this was just a whim for giggles? It is well-known that the bar for securing an indictment is very low. There is a famous quote about it: "Any…
Unfortunately I do not know, I haven’t done anything to configure this as far as I am aware. I am on macOS.
AFAICT Backblaze does back up .git directories. I have many repos backed up. The .git directory is hidden by default in the web UI (along with all other hidden files), but there is an option to show them. You should try…
Yes, I agree with you, I think that regulation is needed here and that this was a dumb thing to say. I'm just saying that my reaction to Zuckerberg saying that people must love his product if they use it a lot is…
> Can you imagine saying the same thing about oxycodone or cigarettes? No, but unfortunately I can very easily imagine people saying it, just like the people who made loads of money from pushing those products did. Also…
Prod in this context doesn't refer to one person's website for their personal project. It refers to an environment where downtime has consequences, generally one that multiple people work on and that many people rely on.
The point of the metaphor is not to say "spending time is mechanically similar to putting things in a container". It is to look at spending time from a new angle, and see if it helps you understand it better. A wise…
No, because the function of code is distinct from the implementation of the code. With software, something that is functionally identical can be created with a different underlying implementation. This is not the case…
Will you elaborate on the “indefensibly bad legislation”?
This is just unrealistic day dreaming. You can go be in a field picking produce for work - we have a shortage of these laborers. Most people don’t actually want to do that, they want a cushy office job that doesn’t wear…
This sounds very interesting, could you elaborate on your methods and tools?
I pay for Kagi to get better search results. Lately, I’ve felt that Kagi’s search has been just as full of low-information and AI generated results as Google. I’ve been wondering why I’m still paying for it. This seemed…
> If the behavior of the system is specified well enough Then it becomes code: a precise symbolic representation of a process that can be unambiguously interpreted by a computer. If there is ambiguity, then that will be…