danielvaughn

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by danielvaughn 5mo ago
When I say "this stuff" I'm not talking about a link, I'm talking about the overall markdown/text capabilities that the post is talking about. I meant that I expected more parity with what you'd encounter on th
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by danielvaughn 5mo ago
I remember being a junior engineer in 2015, and being asked to render a clickable link within a paragraph in an iOS app. Swift had just been released so we were still entirely on the ObjC/UIKit stack. It was an absolute nightmare. I _b
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by danielvaughn 5mo ago
Given that this was published nearly a decade ago, I'd be very interested to see what the SOTA is today.
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by danielvaughn 5mo ago
A browser for designers: https://www.matry.design
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by danielvaughn 5mo ago
I've spent the last few months reading a lot of AI-generated code. It's extremely difficult. It's like how psychopaths are eerie because there's nothing behind their eyes. AI-generated code is eerie because there's
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by danielvaughn 6mo ago
I also spent years on the same problem. I was creating a programming language for designers, which was supposed to abstract away the complexity of CSS. Long story short, I gave up.
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by danielvaughn 6mo ago
What I want is a stateful file-writing layer that is aware of all clients (aka agents and humans) and their activity. It provides its own locking mechanisms, and prevents agents from overwriting each others work. That way you could have mul
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by danielvaughn 6mo ago
I think it's fine, so long as the intent is to refine the thing after you've validated the product idea and direction. There are a million things to optimize in web pages, and AI can't simply one-shot good decisions yet.
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by danielvaughn 6mo ago
I was thinking about this problem a few days ago, imagining a semi-online game where players could create a collective city by plotting buildings. The "grid" would be some kind of pre-determined voronoi pattern, in theory making o
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by danielvaughn 6mo ago
I'm building a browser for designers: https://matry.design/
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by danielvaughn 6mo ago
I also hate these sharp edges. After a long working session I have deep grooves in my wrists, and my skin is red with irritation. It's uncomfortable enough that it distracts me from work. It's the very antithesis of good design.
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by danielvaughn 6mo ago
AI has no intrinsic way to align its efforts to solve human problems. In order to solve that problem, you'd need an enormous amount of nearly real-time data feeding into the model. Then the model would need to routinely look for patter
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by danielvaughn 6mo ago
It's not a matter of whether it surpasses me. In some respects it already has - I watch Claude Code spitting out long terminal commands that I've never even seen in my 15 year career. The question is whether AI will ever become go
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by danielvaughn 6mo ago
No, I don't think it is temporary. As AI becomes more powerful, we'll simply ask it to do more difficult things. There's a level of complexity where "do the thing" is insufficient. We'll never be at a place whe
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by danielvaughn 6mo ago
Yep, for sure. Restarting is the right choice IMO, it's way easier than trying to untangle from a previous iteration.
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by danielvaughn 6mo ago
I'm not sure I agree the term applies. Comprehension debt, as I understand it, is just the dependency trap mentioned in that arxiv paper you linked. It means that the AI might have written something coherent or not, but you as a human
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by danielvaughn 6mo ago
Disagree with the overall argument. Human effort is still a moat. I've been spending the past couple of months creating a codebase that is almost entirely AI-generated. I've gotten way further than I would have otherwise at this p
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by danielvaughn 7mo ago
I work with security researchers, so we've been on this since about an hour ago. One pain I've really come to feel is the complexity of Python environments. They've always been a pain, but in an incident like this, where you
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by danielvaughn 7mo ago
Not sure, but there's also a Van Gogh in that 3D collection, you could ask the same question for that one.
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by danielvaughn 7mo ago
Glad this was one of the objects captured, it's absolutely stunning to see in person: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/24671 I wish they had captured one of their Faberge eggs; those are a
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by danielvaughn 7mo ago
I'm not an expert in LLMs, but I don't think character length matters. Text is deterministically tokenized into byte sequences before being fed as context to the LLM, so in theory `mySuperLongVariableName` uses the same number of
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by danielvaughn 7mo ago
In addition, I think token efficiency will continue to be a problem. So you could imagine very terse programming languages that are roughly readable for a human, but optimized to be read by LLMs.
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by danielvaughn 7mo ago
I'd pay good money for a small phone with nothing but a unix terminal
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by danielvaughn 7mo ago
People make fun of me but I'll never skip a chance to complain about how large these phones are. I hate it so much. I have a standard iPhone, not a max, and it causes real pain in my wrist if I use it too much. Was honestly thinking ab
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by danielvaughn 7mo ago
I really enjoyed Obj-C when I did some iOS work back in 2015/2016. It was my first non-JS language, and it taught me so much that I didn't understand since I started out doing web dev.
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by danielvaughn 8mo ago
I'm curious which skills you think are much harder than programming.
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by danielvaughn 8mo ago
It's very obviously not "the easy part", it's definitely hard. It's just not the only hard part. And there may be other parts that are harder in some sense.
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by danielvaughn 8mo ago
Sure, but they're going to be stuck writing software for yesterday's problems. As our tools become more powerful, we're going to unlock new problems and expectations that would be impossible or impractical to solve with yeste
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by danielvaughn 8mo ago
Same, which is why I asked. My naive intuition is that if you had an industrial grade turntable, like the one in the below video, you could hack together a hardware setup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWaJEnKSM0w
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by danielvaughn 8mo ago
How feasible would it be to scale this up to several feet in diameter? Like if you wanted to scan furniture? The device itself by default looks to hold much smaller items.

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