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by johnfn 10mo ago
I would be happy to discuss more. I am genuinely curious (though I do hold a pretty strong belief that React is a good abstraction). When you say that the DOM is the authority on state, I’m not sure if that addresses my concern. Let’s revis
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by johnfn 10mo ago
> When you click it, HTMX POSTs to /clicked, and whatever HTML the server returns replaces the button. No fetch(). No setState(). No npm install. No fucking webpack config. Can someone explain something to me? To my view, the single
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by johnfn 10mo ago
Who reasonably believes that you can "play a game at 1 frame a minute" on Nano Banana? Isn't that a truly absurd claim, one stronger than "AGI has been achieved"? Is it really that unreasonable to ask my audience to
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by johnfn 10mo ago
But obviously not? Who could possibly think that?? Bah, no, I understand your point, and I will have to think more critically about my titles in the future.
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by johnfn 10mo ago
Yes, you are not literally playing an RPG. Somehow I thought that would be obvious? Do I really have to preface every bit of AI-related content with a disclaimer that you should not take everything I say pain-stakingly, excruciatingly liter
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by johnfn 10mo ago
> The thing people miss in these “replace juniors with AI” takes is that juniors were never mainly about cheap hands on keyboards. They’re the only people in the org who are still allowed to ask “dumb” questions without losing face, and
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Nano Banana is so good that you can use it to play a RPG at 1 frame a minute(johnfn.substack.com)
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by johnfn 10mo ago
But what OP is saying, and what I agree with, is that I don't think Katie Ledecky put in small levels of effort consistently over time.
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by johnfn 10mo ago
The article is an explicit response to the point you’re making.
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by johnfn 10mo ago
That's a fun idea. How do you get the transcript into Claude Code (or whatever you use)? What transcription service do you use?
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by johnfn 10mo ago
Literally yesterday we had a post about GPT-5.2, which jumped 30% on ARC-AGI 2, 100% on AIME without tools, and a bunch of other impressive stats. A layman's (mine) reading of those numbers feels like the models continue to improve as
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by johnfn 10mo ago
Vite and Bun are about a billion years ahead of their analog in the Java ecosystem in the early 2000s. I do agree that the editor story for Java was very good, though -- way ahead of its time.
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by johnfn 10mo ago
I appreciate you saying so.
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by johnfn 10mo ago
Surely there are some! I think AI is the obvious one. Also, VSCode (or whatever modern IDE you use) is definitely better than the IDEs that existed 20 years ago. LSP is fantastic. Hm... StackOverflow was definitely a step change over existi
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by johnfn 10mo ago
I will accept for the moment that you are not just being willfully cruel. Let's talk a little about FOUC and the waterfall. I am aware of both issues. In fact, they're both on my personal TODO list (along with some other fun stuff
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by johnfn 10mo ago
I mean, in my comment I did say that an AI skeptic probably wouldn't buy that argument. So I'm not too surprised that you're not buying it. That being said, I have taught myself a ridiculous amount of tech with AI. It's
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by johnfn 10mo ago
What you are seeing is the difference between what I personally feel and what I could objectively prove to an AI skeptic. If I have to "prove" my productivity in a court of law - that is to say, you - I'll down-modulate it to
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by johnfn 10mo ago
Yes, it is live. I never claimed to be a god-level designer - but you should have seen what it looked like before. :)
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by johnfn 10mo ago
If I were to summarize the intent of my comments in a single sentence, it would be something like "I have been an engineer for a while, and I have been able to do fun stuff with AI quickly." You somehow managed to respond to that
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by johnfn 10mo ago
> This and the fact that the end result is so poor isn't really selling your argument very well If you ever find yourself at the point where you are insulting a guy's passion project in order to prove a point, perhaps have a de
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by johnfn 10mo ago
But I really did do around 4 to 5 weeks of work in a single week on my personal site. At this point you just seem to be denying my own reality.
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by johnfn 10mo ago
> Have you received a 5-10x pay increase? Does Amazon pay everyone who receives "Not meeting expectations" in their perf review 0 dollars? Did Meta pay John Carmack (or insert your favorite engineer here) 100x that of a normal
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by johnfn 10mo ago
Did you see the comment that I was responding to? It said "your intuition is a liar" and said they would only believe me if I was compensated 10x a normal engineer. If that's not the comment of a hater, I'm not sure what
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by johnfn 10mo ago
This suggests that the best way to grade predictions is some sort of weighting of how unlikely they were at the time. Like, if you were to open a prediction market for statement X, some sort of grade of the delta between your confidence of
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by johnfn 10mo ago
I think AI only "got good" around the release of Claude Code + Opus 4.0, which was around March of this year. And it's not like I sit down and code 8 hours a day 5 days a week. I put on my pants one leg at a time -- there&#x2
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by johnfn 10mo ago
Yes, I save an incredible amount of time. I suspect I’m likely 5-10x more productive, though it depends exactly what I’m working on. Most of the issues that you cite can be solved, though it requires you to rewire the programming part of yo
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by johnfn 10mo ago
I only write around 5% of the code I ship, maybe less. For some reason when I make this statement a lot of people sweep in to tell me I am an idiot or lying, but I really have no reason to lie (and I don't think I'm an idiot!). I
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by johnfn 10mo ago
To answer your question: I think that GP mostly wanted to share the insight that the future zig-zags, which is kind of non obvious and a fun thing to think about. People often like leaving comments about interesting thoughts or ideas, even
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by johnfn 10mo ago
How does the Vision Pro not qualify as a "thing" Apple made?
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by johnfn 10mo ago
> Claude Code has absolutely zero features that help me review code Err, doesn’t it have /review?

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