christophilus

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by christophilus 3mo ago
Yeah. This is why BRK is in cash equivalents rather than being short. Buffett has said a number of times that he never is intentionally sitting on the sidelines as a bet that things will go down. He’s simply there because he can’t find valu
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by christophilus 3mo ago
Yeah. This is the whole “market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent” thing. I think there’s almost always a plausible bearish case to be made. Hence: permabears.
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by christophilus 3mo ago
Yeah, but OP has built web applications without those. So, I wonder how they went about it.
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by christophilus 3mo ago
On the other hand, it does appear to be the same hand.
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by christophilus 3mo ago
I find they’re pretty good with Odin. Not as good as with Go, and nowhere near as good as Typescript, but definitely good enough.
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by christophilus 3mo ago
I’d be interested in reading about your experience building web applications with it. Last I looked, its stdlib didn’t have great support for that.
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by christophilus 3mo ago
I can see why you would think that about Jon Blow, though I disagree. But Casey? He has a number of thorough videos with plenty of evidence, and has never struck me as arrogant.
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by christophilus 3mo ago
I hear this take a lot, but every app I’ve ever built was like 80% similar to every other app out there. The unique/ creative part of an app is not the bulk of it, and LLMs have been pretty good at helping me explore the 20%, too.
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by christophilus 3mo ago
If a dependency gets compromised, that’s a problem. If you have thousands, you increase the odds vs if you have one.
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by christophilus 3mo ago
Andrew is right. I’m sure his emotions come through here, but his take on these things lines up with everything I’ve seen.
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by christophilus 3mo ago
This underscores a huge risk of broad agentic adoption in an enterprise. Your engineers atrophy and if the agent provider decides to squeeze you, you’re SOL.
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by christophilus 3mo ago
Competition is here. I personally prefer Codex. Opencode with a variety of Chinese models is also just fine for 80% of my use cases.
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by christophilus 4mo ago
Agreed completely. It’s my favorite language in its class. I need to build something serious in it someday. So far, I’ve only used it for building personal tools.
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by christophilus 4mo ago
Niri is a perfect window manager approach, in my opinion. I don’t need tmux. Just Niri + Foot (terminal) and it’s perfect for the way my brain works. If you haven’t tried it, I highly recommended it.
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by christophilus 4mo ago
> alarming Literally. It’s the windows visa-ification of cars. I hate it.
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by christophilus 4mo ago
I doubt the thousands of lines per day claim unless the lines are trivial. It’s quite fatiguing to read hundreds.
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by christophilus 4mo ago
Hm. I must be holding it wrong. I hit $20 easily in 5 hours with deepseek in opencode.
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by christophilus 4mo ago
Honestly, I hate that Bun is vibe-coded and seems amateurish in many ways, but it’s still an excellent tool.
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by christophilus 4mo ago
> static electricity typing I assume that was an autocomplete typo?
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by christophilus 4mo ago
As in inverse correlation? The best programmers I know have barebones text-based sites.
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by christophilus 4mo ago
ex-Elastic here, too. It was a great place to work pre-IPO. It seems the culture has shifted a lot since the IPO, though.
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by christophilus 4mo ago
I've been working with Deepseek V4 Flash (with opencode as the harness). It's been almost indistinguishable from Codex / Claude Code for me. I'm sure I'll run into problems when I get to a stickier ticket to tackle.
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by christophilus 4mo ago
I agree with that. You can use Postgres as a message queue / task manager backing store without a database function, though, and it works quite well at the small scale that most sites / SaaS products operate at.
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by christophilus 4mo ago
Hm. I’ve been way, way underselling myself this whole time.
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by christophilus 4mo ago
Woah. I missed that one. Had to look it up. That’s one hell of a surprise bill.
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by christophilus 4mo ago
To me, the justified text makes it an effortful read.
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by christophilus 4mo ago
Well, everyone's bashing on OpenAI as well they should, but just a reminder, unlike Claude Code, Codex is officially available to customize here: https://github.com/openai/codex It's fairly easy to patch.
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by christophilus 4mo ago
I don’t trust any agent to respect any boundaries. They might today. But tomorrow’s vibe coded slip update might break it in subtle ways. My solution to this is to only run agents in a sandbox of my own making (a locked down Podman containe
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by christophilus 4mo ago
I find Claude Code nearly unusable. I always have to type in neovim if I’m typing anything more than a few words.
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by christophilus 4mo ago
Codex is much better, which is to say, it’s only pretty bad.

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