adamzwasserman

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by adamzwasserman 7mo ago
I for one think it is hight time that we restore the study of quantum bogodynamics to its rightful place in the pantheon of human achievements. The bogon flux must NOT be interrupted.
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by adamzwasserman 7mo ago
I love it! You don't own him.
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by adamzwasserman 7mo ago
Correction. I copied some incorrect values from my test harness. So Honest Python does NOT beat Dishonest Swift. But it does beat the pants off of JS/TS on V8 which is quite the surprise. Also in the surprise category is that Honest Ja
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by adamzwasserman 7mo ago
The dynamism exists to support the object model. That's the actual dependency. Monkey-patching, runtime class mutation, vtable dispatch. These aren't language features people asked for. They're consequences of building everyt
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by adamzwasserman 7mo ago
The reason this is impressive has less to do with the tolerances themselves and more to do with backward compatibility across decades at scale. That's the genuinely hard part. The history here is deeper than most people realize. The Un
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by adamzwasserman 7mo ago
according to the WaPo, this guy was such a L33T hacker that 'he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer"'. Ooookay
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by adamzwasserman 7mo ago
I'm sure they are going to have a ball reading through thousands of lines of AI slop.
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by adamzwasserman 7mo ago
This is the strongest point in the thread. The article treats poverty, climate, and markets as though the obstacle is insufficient model capacity. But these systems contain agents with values and motivations who actively resist intervention
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by adamzwasserman 8mo ago
That's true in the same sense that agriculture and nuclear weapons are extensions of evolutionary pressure. Everything humans produce is, by definition. But it empties the term of any useful meaning. The distinction that matters: evolu
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by adamzwasserman 8mo ago
To clarify: I'm not talking about morals specifically. I mean value in the broader sense of spontaneously assigning relative importance to things, producing a hierarchy that drives action. You're thirsty. There's pond water i
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by adamzwasserman 8mo ago
The interesting version of the argument isn't about substrate: it's about motivation. Present the trolley problem to GPT-4 and it gives you a philosophy survey answer. Present it to a human and their palms sweat. The gap isn'
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by adamzwasserman 8mo ago
The substrate argument is the wrong hill for Pollan to die on. The stronger version isn't "meat vs. silicon" — it's that brains are value-making machines operating under evolutionary pressure, and no current AI architect
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by adamzwasserman 8mo ago
The commonality breaks down at value assignment. You hear an unexpected sound and have a threat/delight assessment in 170ms. Faster than Google serves a first byte. You do this with virtually no data. An LLM doesn't assign value t
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by adamzwasserman 9mo ago
Thanks, I will check it out.
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by adamzwasserman 9mo ago
I have written a research paper on another interesting prompting technique that I call axiomatic prompting. On objectively measurable tasks, when an AI scores below 70%, including clear axioms in the prompt systematically increases success.
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by adamzwasserman 9mo ago
I admire your honesty. I suspect that attitude will take you far. Exercism.io is excellent for exactly the experience you're seeking. The mentored tracks force you to see multiple solutions to the same problem, which builds pattern rec
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by adamzwasserman 9mo ago
Job security for those of us who think like this. Two layers vibe coding can't touch: architecture decisions (where the constraints live) and cleanup when the junior-dev-quality code accumulates enough debt. Someone has to hold the men
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by adamzwasserman 9mo ago
SQLite is battle-tested in production at massive scale. Discord handles millions of concurrent users with SQLite clusters. WhatsApp served 900 million users before Facebook acquired them, running on SQLite for message storage. The "lig
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by adamzwasserman 9mo ago
Although I write very little code myself anymore, I don't trust AI code at all. My default assumption: every line is the most mid possible implementation, every important architecture constraint violated wantonly. Your typical junior p
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by adamzwasserman 9mo ago
Been saying this for years about frontend environments too. My genx.software does the same thing with declarative HTML attributes instead of imperative JavaScript config. Zero setup, zero sync bugs between what you declare and what you get.
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by adamzwasserman 9mo ago
It is like the airplane with the bullet holes meme; looking in the wrong places, asking the wrong questions. The REALLY interesting question is: why does this guy have ANY intelligence and consciousness at all? https://www.scienc
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by adamzwasserman 9mo ago
I can't help you now, but for next time: Preventive measure: get Scrum Master certified yourself. The training can even be fun with a good instructor. Then when professional managers come sniffing around muttering about Scrum, you say:
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by adamzwasserman 9mo ago
The key to success in the world of coding assistants is to be a good manager. The AI is a very fast, but also very stupid, programmer. It will make a ton of architectural mistakes, and AI, more often than not pick the most mid solution poss
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by adamzwasserman 9mo ago
Mill's declarative build configs are just right. You describe what you want, not the 47 imperative steps to get there. Zero chance to call methods in the wrong order or manage intermediate build state that should never be your problem
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by adamzwasserman 9mo ago
SQLite's test suite is infamously gigantic. It has two parts: the public TCL tests you're referencing, and a much larger proprietary test suite that's 100x bigger and covers all the edge cases that actually matter in producti
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by adamzwasserman 9mo ago
fragmede is correct. I needed SQLite as a central system DB but couldn't live with single-writer. So I built a facade that can target SQLite, Postgres, or Turso's Rust rewrite through one API. The useful part: mirroring. The facad
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by adamzwasserman 9mo ago
This is exactly right. Client-side processing for sensitive data like contacts eliminates the trust problem entirely. Most migration tools want you to upload your entire contact database to some random server when the extraction can happen
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by adamzwasserman 9mo ago
Building a production app on Turso now. No bugs or compatibility issues so far. The sqlite API isn't fully implemented yet, so I wrote a declarative facade that backfills the missing implementations and parallels writes to both Turso a
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by adamzwasserman 9mo ago
IMHO breaking free of SQLite's proprietary test suite is a bigger driver than C vs Rust. Turso's Limbo announcement says exactly that: they couldn't confidently make large architectural changes without access to the tests. Th
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by adamzwasserman 9mo ago
This reminds me of my own experience in the early days of iPhone. I used to scan for new apps with excitement and expectation. At a certain point the cost of discovery became too high and I just lost interest. The long tail of apps simply b

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