mikewarot

It was in watching a recent video by Nate B Jones[1], in which he claims that Intent Engineering is the next phase of adoption of AI, that I was given some hope for the future. To me, it seems that we're about to have…

I searched for "hellfire missile speed" (which, by the way, is about 995 MPH according to Wikipedia[1]) Apparently this along with my search history somehow triggered a terms of service violation. I was just curious…

Why is everyone in FAANG is willing to put up with the blatant title inflation and call programmers "Software Engineers"?

Have you been told by someone "That's impossible!" and then went on to do it, just to prove them wrong? What current things do you think are impossible? Please share your stories, and your challenges!

If someone comes up with an idea, and pushes it through TinyTapeout or some other ASIC shuttle, and it actually meets design goals, such as lowering the cost of LLM computation by an order of magnitude. How does that…

I once spent a lot of time getting Unix and MS-DOS to dual boot because I was told it couldn't be done, it was "impossible". What have you folks done with that same motive?

I'm aware of VAX/VMS's versioned files, which was super useful back in the 1980s. Hello;1, Hello;2, etc. We've got GIT, and other version control systems, but this idea came up last night during Lex Fridman's podcast…

Now that we have TinyTapeout, and the design and development of small custom chips is within the grasp of almost anyone, what new directions do you think chip design will take?

I've come up with an architecture[1,2] that I think could be quite useful. But I've been stuck on how to actually compile "code" for it for far too long. (Decades, actually) It's my hobby horse, and I want to ride it…

I'm of the opinion that thanks to a memory prosthesis tacked on (and training to use it), MemGPT will make it possible to build an AGI in the next year or two. However, due to the nature of the prosthetic to expand its…

It occurs to me that I might be able to use Copilot or some similar tools to help me fork/refactor an old program I use that appears to no longer be supported (WikidPad). My experience is in Pascal, and the like, though…

It's obvious to me that we need a completely new set of words to describe capability based security[1]. Even here on HN, every time it comes up, people assume they know what it is from smartphones and "apps". ---…

I'm an old MS-DOS / Windows programmer used to Turbo Pascal, Delphi, etc. The old days were simple, in that you compiled code, and gave it to your customers. Everything just works. Now every time I try to learn…