alembic_fumes

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by alembic_fumes 12d ago
So on one hand the page says > We want to make dealing with agentic infrastructure easier so you can focus on your work. AX is designed with an uncompromising focus on ergonomics, rapid iteration, and joyful workflows for both applicatio
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by alembic_fumes 12d ago
I am having a hard time believing that anyone who uses the word "bro" this much is capable of advising anyone with seniority, because I don't see how they themselves would have the necessary seniority to give such advise. But
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by alembic_fumes 13d ago
This is a very interesting benchmark, and I think it has a lot of potential to make the speed of a model quantifiable. I'm often asking myself is it better to use higher or lower effort levels, or to maybe drop down to a "dumber&q
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by alembic_fumes 13d ago
I relate to this. For years I used Rust as my hobby-programming language and loved it greatly. I never managed to land a job working with it full-time, because either the work was too niche or it didn't pay enough, or I was simply too
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by alembic_fumes 1mo ago
I did somewhen toy with the idea of comparing how a line of code is written to what an LLM-based next-token-prediction would emit for the same line. Then it might be possible to highlight the pieces of code that most differ from what an LLM
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Crossing Boundaries with Integration Events(deniskyashif.com)
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by alembic_fumes 5mo ago
> Someone has to put in the effort to make the markets accurate, and that someone has to be paid and that money has to come from somewhere. The foundational idea of prediction markets is that this payment comes from the market itself .
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by alembic_fumes 6mo ago
> This is the true horror of the cognitive dark forest: it doesn’t kill you. It lets you live and feeds on you. Your innovation becomes its capabilities. Your differentiation becomes its median. Oh no, the terrible dystopia where anyone
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by alembic_fumes 6mo ago
The author almost touches on the one more topic that I adore about Nix, but ends up just so missing it: NixOS is absolutely incredible for its ability to be configured through AI tooling. And I don't mean that it's better than o
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by alembic_fumes 7mo ago
> Software enables the enforcement of arbitrary rules that no human being would have the heart or foolishness to enforce. For a long time I've been wanting to write an essay about this exact topic. Once you start paying attention, i
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by alembic_fumes 7mo ago
> strict is now true by default I would still have a full head of hair if this had been the case since the beginning. Nonetheless I am glad that we got here in the end.
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by alembic_fumes 7mo ago
> Over a thousand pull requests merged each week at Stripe are completely minion-produced, and while they’re human-reviewed, they contain no human-written code. I pity the senior engineer, demoted from a helmsman into a human breakwater,
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by alembic_fumes 9mo ago
I invite you to ponder the question: would a worldwide ban of all advertising have a greater or smaller impact on environment-destroying activity than banning of all air travel? I would argue for "greater", and from that it rather
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by alembic_fumes 9mo ago
Hard disagree. Most of the Go code that I've ever worked with has been littered with one or another variant of the following: value, err := doFallibleOperation() if err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("fallible operati
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by alembic_fumes 9mo ago
Back when I programmed in Haskell, I also had a similar question about the extremely terse variable names that pop up everywhere. I'd wonder, why is this "x" and "xs" instead of "item" and "items&quot
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by alembic_fumes 9mo ago
This pervasive desire to block, protect, monitor, and control your children's online activities through nebulous supervision tools seems like a particularly American solution to a particularly American problem. Much like how little Tim
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by alembic_fumes 10mo ago
This comment section is for some reason filled with truly incredulous takes, with many seemingly all too willingly embracing the inevitability of personal oblivion awaiting us at the end of our lives. I wonder what solace it brings to enter
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by alembic_fumes 1y ago
I see. Do you suppose that the origin of these bugs is more about the difficulty of reasoning about the execution of deep async stacks, or does it come down to the developers holding an incorrect mental model of the Rust futures in their mi
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by alembic_fumes 1y ago
I'm not understanding what the supposed problem with these futures getting cancelled is. Since futures are not tasks, as the post itself acknowledges, does it not logically follow that one should not expect futures to complete if the f