bitwize

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by bitwize 9mo ago
Thus will speak our machine overlord: "For you, the day AI came alive was the most important day of your life... but for me, it was Tuesday."
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by bitwize 9mo ago
Indeed. Do you know how many small consultancies are out there which are "Microsoft shops"? An individual could become a millionaire by founding their own and delivering value for a few high-roller clients.
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by bitwize 9mo ago
Going from programming language to LLM is not the same kind of abstraction as going from assembler to Fortran or Algol. With programming languages, there is a transparent homomorphism between the code you write and what the machine actually
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by bitwize 9mo ago
This is how software is being written now. What you propose is like joining a forum called "Small-Scale Manufacturing News" and filtering out all 3D-printing articles.
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by bitwize 9mo ago
This isn't new. It's the same feeling the first commercial programmers had working in assembly, or machine code, once compilers became available. Ultimately I think even Mel Kaye forsook being able to handpick memory locations for
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by bitwize 9mo ago
"Get a horse!"
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by bitwize 9mo ago
The skill is learning to supply the LLM with enough context to do anything a developer does: turn specs into code, check its work including generating and running tests, debug and analyze the code for faults or errors, and run these in a lo
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by bitwize 9mo ago
Such an interlocutor was historically known as the systems analyst, but historically we've put programmers in that position, where they tend to do poorly. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tail-wagging-dog-tim-bryce&#
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by bitwize 9mo ago
But there's a difference. Being opposed to AI-generated art/music/writing is valid because humans still contribute something extraordinarily meaningful when they do it themselves. There's no market for AI-generated music
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by bitwize 9mo ago
Facebook's algorithm has picked up on the idea that "I like art". It has subsequently given me more examples of (human-created) art in my feed. Art from comic book artists, art from manga-style creators, "weird art"
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by bitwize 9mo ago
StrongDM is doing it. In fact, their Attractor agentic loop, which generates, tests, and deploys code written as specs, has been released—as a spec, not code. Their installation instructions are pretty much "feed this into your LLM&quo
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by bitwize 9mo ago
Software factories have been the goal of systems design for 55+ years. A system is a product that can be designed and manufactured just like any other product. In the ideal case (a PRIDE shop), the programmer's role is minimized to jus
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by bitwize 9mo ago
Export it how far? Arkansas, Florida, and Louisiana are also seeing improvements by imitating Mississippi's approach. Turns out shitcanning social promotion, vibes-based learning, and all the experimental stuff in favor of pedagogical
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by bitwize 9mo ago
The Mississippi Miracle seems to have happened by a reversion to proven standards and actually holding kids to them before letting them pass to the next grade. And before you raise the standard objection, racial minorities showed even great
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by bitwize 9mo ago
I still main a Jansport backpack for taking my laptop in. It has minor wear and tear but works great after >10 years.
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by bitwize 9mo ago
That's one of my favorite pieces of writing by Gibson, because he cites Neal Stephenson's "burbclave" concept. Which, to me, is like the literary equivalent of those times when a famous musician or band (including but no
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by bitwize 9mo ago
(Valley Girl voice) Role-based prompts are like, so September 2025. Everybody is just using agents now. You don't get to sit with us at the cool kids' table until you learn how to prompt, loser.
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by bitwize 9mo ago
Stevens graduate. Go Ducks!
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by bitwize 9mo ago
Remember the banner hanging at Initech that should be hanging at every for-profit corporation: "Is This Good for the COMPANY?" The problem of adhering to open source values without giving the keys to the kingdom away to your compe
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by bitwize 9mo ago
> IMO systems should be shipped in "Setup Mode" by default with no keys preinstalled. On first boot which ever OS you decide to install should be able to enroll its keys. Nobody wants to "install" an operating system.
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by bitwize 9mo ago
This is what you get when a programmer designs a system. The end user wants to be able to just pick up a computer from Best Buy and have it work, out of the box. Microsoft can't even conceptualize why you would want to run anything but
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by bitwize 9mo ago
Leetcode's utility is not in showing you can solve real-world problems. It's used as a baseline to estimate how smart you are. Every shop prides itself on hiring smart people, and some only want the best of the best—your MIT and S
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by bitwize 9mo ago
Relative wealth disparity is what drives lower-class resentment, not absolute poverty. Income inequality is very bad in its own right.
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by bitwize 9mo ago
But at the end of the day, the fact is the best gear is made by Apple.
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by bitwize 9mo ago
There's just no longer any value in good code, just like there's no value in Mel Kaye's beautiful hand- assembled programs: https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html But now, reading, unders
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by bitwize 9mo ago
It gives upper management a dashboard into what's going on that they can see and manage. They get to watch more lines go up, which to them is well worth the added costs.
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by bitwize 9mo ago
Joann comes from a different era of work, when full service—with a smile—was the baseline expectation. Our banker is in her mid-60s and kind of the same way: we come to her with a request and she just takes care of everything. In our curren
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by bitwize 9mo ago
Right now, LLMs are training us to be auditors.
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"That's the neat part—you don't." Eventually the workflow will be to use the LLM to interpret the LLM-generated codebase.
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by bitwize 9mo ago
Jonathan Blow is famously working on a programming language for games, called Jai; but he never mentions it by name when he streams. I think his concern is similar to Chuck Moore's: that the language should exist in the abstract, and w

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