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by barrell 1y ago
100%
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by barrell 1y ago
Not really. I think people rightfully feel that there are algorithms online trying to identify every person and every relation and store every bit of information about everyone. They feel that everything now is so permanent and public, that
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by barrell 1y ago
Heh I’ve often daydreamed of one day setting up a darkroom and buying a couple medium format cameras, I wondered if that would be disarming enough (I love medium format and TLRs). Can’t do it while I’m renting, but maybe one day!
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by barrell 1y ago
Can’t I just not care that I’m making other people uncomfortable and power through? I think for obvious reasons that takes away a lot of the enjoyment, both of photography and socializing. YMMV, but every time I’ve brought out a camera in t
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by barrell 1y ago
I also used to be really (really really) into photography. Personally, I’ve stopped taking pictures because of the stigma around a camera. Everyone, me more than most, doesn’t want their picture taken, or to be in the background of other ph
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by barrell 1y ago
I upgraded to iOS 26 when the beta first came out. It’s remarkable how they have just kept changing the transparency of things back and forth, while the critical bugs have remained untouched. There’s no way I’m (ever) upgrading to Tahoe, I’
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by barrell 1y ago
I’ve been a ClojureScript developer for many years, and we (as a community) have had the pleasure of the reagent library. From the early days of react, it was basically a signals-like library with an ergonomic api. Signals are almost a requ
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by barrell 1y ago
I’m not convinced the current capabilities have impacted all that many people. I think the economy is much more responsible for the lack of jobs than “replacement with AI”, and most businesses have not seen returns on AI. There is a tiny, t
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by barrell 1y ago
I have the opposite experience. Even in production builds, I get Elixir stacktraces, and they're exceptionally helpful. Macros only save me time and LoC, I think maybe once I've struggled with a macro-caused issue (and it was imme
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by barrell 1y ago
I would not entirely compare it to TypeScript. Due to pattern matching, legacy elixir will probably come out roughly 50% typed (extrapolating from my own usage, I'm not sure the accuracy of this number). Then since vanilla elixir is ge
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by barrell 1y ago
I get very tired of comparing every thing OpenAI does or says to all of these historic tech moments as if they’re remotely comparable - Sam Altman gets fired, Steve Jobs moment - Custom GPTs, App Store moment - Says “hardware”, iPhone momen
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by barrell 1y ago
Phrasing.app | Co-founder | EU Remote | Elixir | Clojure Phrasing is a language learning app built by a polyglot, for polyglots. It was designed to be language agnostic, and currently fully supports over 80 languages. It brings a beautiful,
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by barrell 1y ago
Not op, but had a very similar story. Got crippling RSI to welcome me into my 30s. Couldn’t work for several months and ended up getting a Glove80 because I needed to make a living. This definitely does not describe me. I typed around 100wp
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by barrell 1y ago
Been working on https://phrasing.app for about 18 months now. I wanted a way where I could learn a maintain multiple languages, all in one place. I wanted the power of spaced repetition, the frictionless experience of social med
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by barrell 1y ago
I would guess that it is essentially just a “grok 4 mini”, but if you use mini as the qualifier then most people will be inclined not to use it. If you call it fast then it gives people a reason to select it.
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by barrell 1y ago
I have never met an engineer whose abilities were limited by their typing speed. Most engineers can already type far faster than they can critically think/store memories
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by barrell 1y ago
To be honest, I’m more inclined to attribute the rampant use of LLMs just to the dopaminergic effect of using them. It feels productive. It feels futuristic. It feels like an unlock. Quite viscerally. It doesn’t really matter your sen
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by barrell 1y ago
I'm not convinced it's what the future holds for three main reasons: 1. I was a pretty early adopter of LLMs for coding. It got to the point where most of my code was written by an LLM. Eventually this tapered off week by week to
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by barrell 1y ago
The onboarding flow is already updated with better examples. It’s been my main task this past week — it still needs quite a bit of QA, but it’s been better than the previous flow, so I decided to ship it early. Any bugs will get ironed out
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by barrell 1y ago
Nooo you are definitely not alone. gpt-5-nano even is slowest model I’ve used since like 2023, second only to gpt-5-mini
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by barrell 1y ago
IIRC growth wasn’t flattening, it was growing pretty fast, basically hockey stick. It just wasn’t hockey stick enough to get to a billion users quickly. At least, that was their justification publicly, maybe the real numbers were less optim
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by barrell 1y ago
Ah yeah. I’m only grading it on its prose, formatting, ability to interpret data, and instruction following. I do not use it as a store of knowledge
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by barrell 1y ago
Here is an example of the formatting I desired: https://x.com/barrelltech/status/1963684443006066772?s=46&t=... Yes I use(d) structured output. I gave it very specific instructions and data for every paragraph
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by barrell 1y ago
https://phrasing.app I’m making an app to learn multiple languages. This portion of the pipeline is about explaining everything I can determine about a work in a sentence in specifically formatted prose. Example: https:/&#
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by barrell 1y ago
I did not! It’s not on azure yet and I’ve still got some credits to burn. That’s exciting though, hopefully it will iron out this weird ghost character issue.
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by barrell 1y ago
Thanks for the kind words! You can find me at https://reddit.com/u/phrasingapp and https://x.com/barrelltech I don’t write much about elixir (or clojure) as I’m terrible at technical writing, but I am
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by barrell 1y ago
I provide it with data and ask it to convert it to prose in specific formats. Mistral medium is ranked #8 on lmsys arena IIRC, so it’s probably just not your style? I’m also comparing this to gpt-5-mini, not the big boy
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by barrell 1y ago
I’m curious too. I’m building https://phrasing.app . A quick glance at my profile should be enough to disprove the claim that I work for mistral. I have no affiliation with mistral, I just have recent experience with them and wan
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by barrell 1y ago
Yeah, that’s infuriating. They’re getting better now with structured data, but it’s going to be a never ending battle getting reliable data structures from an LLM. This is maybe more maybe less insidious. It will literally just insert a ran
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by barrell 1y ago
It’s user facing, so will just have an option for users to regenerate the explanation. It happens rarely enough that it’s not a huge issue, and normally doesn’t effect content (I think once I saw it go a little wonky and end the sentence wi

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