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by jfb 10mo ago
I keep my agent workflows distinct; we have (for historic reasons) a lot of non-git controlled context that differs between branches, and moving all that around on checkouts is untenable. I use this tool: https://github.com/
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by jfb 10mo ago
I think it shouldn't be, and the poor affordances in git have hidden this for a long time.
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by jfb 10mo ago
That the product is useful does not mean the supplier of the product has a good business; and of course, vice versa. OpenAI has a terrible business at the moment, and the question is, do they have a plausible path to a good one?
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by jfb 1y ago
I think 2 is the big one; I also built a tool to maintain these fragments, and it's like, huh, this is just ... developer onboarding documentation?
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by jfb 1y ago
Oh man, that's awful.
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by jfb 1y ago
Yes, it's good! And I have a lot of sympathy for what I perceive to be Stahl's goals, and indeed, his methods. But I think I need an intercessor or interpreter to his prose style. This is probably a me problem and not a him proble
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by jfb 1y ago
This thing about Arcan is that the writing about it is almost deliberately incomprehensible.
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by jfb 1y ago
The obsequity loop is fucking maddening. I can't prompt it away in all circumstances. I would also argue that as annoying as some of us find it, it is a big part of the reason for the success of the chat modality of these tools.
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by jfb 1y ago
My sweet summer child
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by jfb 2y ago
Sometimes you want UNKNOWN, sometimes you want MISSING.
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by jfb 2y ago
Hey! Hit me up if you have any questions about engineering at Workhelix!
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by jfb 2y ago
Yep, I do this in a tmux session. But sometimes I'm on a call and forget and the ROBOT VOICE says "DATABASE DUMP IS COMPLETE" and I jump out of my skin.
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by jfb 2y ago
It is, sadly; we're a very small team and we don't have a lot of cycles to spare on onboarding, so the fewer new things a hire needs to learn the better. It's not ideal! But it's an age and stage thing rn.
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by jfb 2y ago
BRING BACK APERTURE YOU COWARDS
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by jfb 2y ago
shame.
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by jfb 2y ago
SWE at Workhelix here, happy to answer any questions!
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by jfb 2y ago
I'd be happy to, but there aren't any 8K TVs at 55" or smaller. I want the pixels, but I'm not going to put a 65" TV on my damn desk -- I have two 27" 4k now, and it's ... fine, I guess? but I want a 42&qu
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by jfb 2y ago
Of course they are. Good luck with that.
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by jfb 2y ago
Posted this on BlueSky. Just gutted. https://bsky.app/profile/tft.io/post/3krylxcef4z2k
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by jfb 3y ago
The real reason is always the same: it's cheaper. That's just the way it goes.
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by jfb 3y ago
The container is a great format, battle-tested, easy to parse and generate. It's really good!
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by jfb 3y ago
I played some games with QuickTime when I was at Apple, loved the format, even loved the stack, as creaky as it was in (gasp) 2004. The idea that the file can carry tracks that the given reader might not understand allowed me to, for instan
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by jfb 3y ago
Also, PS2 mouses and keyboards have physically identical but electrically incompatible connectors, which is like a precursor of the nightmare that is USB. ADB is positively magic in comparison.
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by jfb 3y ago
The file format is pretty good, though, and that's largely what's being discussed here.
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by jfb 3y ago
I had no idea how dumb the whole thing is going to turn out to be. Big Dumb.
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by jfb 3y ago
Yes, it is going to be Very Bad. There isn't even a pretence that this is anything other than a firing for-cause.
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by jfb 3y ago
I wish I could load Bryce up on a modern machine. I wasted so many hours on building and rendering crazy landscapes, just because.
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by jfb 3y ago
It means they'll end up fighting the platform, and that will lead to worse outcomes by many metrics.
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by jfb 3y ago
Yeah, 1000% this. The Java bridge was a catastrophe, and Objective-C worked beautifully with Cocoa.
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by jfb 3y ago
It is so amazing to me that Elon set himself the simplest possible problem in car manufacturing and is till terribly bad at it.

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