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by josephg 4mo ago
Claude is remarkably good at performance engineering and ports. It only takes one person on your team to ask claude to do a round of performance profiling and tuning. Or ask claude to take your react site and set up a server to render parts
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by josephg 4mo ago
> telling maintainers how to act will not fix anything. I'm just saying its ok to ignore overly enthusiastic contributors and tell them to just fork your project. I think this does help, actually. In my early days of maintaining ope
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by josephg 4mo ago
Please, everyone - don't let yourself be pestered into accepting PRs that you don't care for. Since the xz attack, the security of all our computers depends on maintainers not letting this stuff in. If someone really wants a featu
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by josephg 4mo ago
Better than a lot of web dev teams at least.
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by josephg 4mo ago
> "French setting fire to things" is a popular American trope, but things really don't work like that. They worked like that when I was in Paris ~3 years ago! At the time, people were rioting over the retirement age change
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by josephg 4mo ago
I saw a clip the other day of an American comedian doing crowd work in Paris. He asked the audience what America should do, and the French said - something like - they should punch the police more and light things on fire. To me that sounds
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by josephg 4mo ago
Heh this is one nice thing about doing engineering work in Australia. Our round-trip time to US data centers is often about 200ms. There’s no hiding from sloppy choices in the performance panel. I had an argument a few weeks ago because our
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by josephg 4mo ago
I’m curious if - and when - LLMs change this. They’re very good at web apps. And they’re great at rewriting existing stuff. Just give them a well scoped /goal and go get coffee. Theres lots of open questions about the future of our pro
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by josephg 4mo ago
I really like Fastmail. It’s just - clean and lightweight. It loads much faster. Has all the features you actually need. No mystery meat. And the UI doesn’t churn every few years for no reason.
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by josephg 4mo ago
> but I'd like to request that you give examples of what competing products are categorically better Personally I much prefer Fastmail to Gmail. The site is way faster and more cohesively designed. Fastmail supports jmap, and way mo
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by josephg 4mo ago
Yeah, you've certainly been able to get Opus to write a CRDT. It just needs a lot of hand-holding to make it correct. Opus always seems pretty bad at coming up with invariants and using them to make a piece of software correct. Without
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by josephg 4mo ago
I’d be fascinated to hear more if you’re willing to share. What is special about your document model which makes existing tools like automerge a bad fit?
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by josephg 4mo ago
I’ll ask it for a formal proof when I get home and see how it goes. I’ve read plenty of papers with “formal proofs of correctness” that turned out to have huge flaws. Machine verifiable proofs I trust. But I’ve personally found more bugs wi
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by josephg 4mo ago
I'm having the same experience. I'm in the process of implementing a new CRDT for realtime collaborative editing. There just aren't a lot of implementations of CRDTs kicking around online for opus or any of the other models t
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by josephg 4mo ago
Does apple's own siri need to pass requests through their gatekeeper AI? I bet it doesn't. Personally, I'm generally happy with any answer apple comes up with so long as they're bound by the same set of restrictions as 3
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by josephg 4mo ago
> There's absolutely no way I'd be advising friends or family to run a site vibe coded themself, that's nuts. Yeah, I'm going to act as a human claude frontend. But I don't think we're that far off. the site
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by josephg 5mo ago
> Exactly zero percent of the market is willing to pay for hand-built software. People are increasingly associating “AI art” with cheap slop. I wonder if the same will ever happen to programming.
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by josephg 5mo ago
What local model do you recommend these days? I’ve got a 4090, mostly sitting idle.
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by josephg 5mo ago
> That era is already long gone. Those things have been built in Wix for over a decade. I think there's still a lot more custom work than you'd expect. A recent example: My mum is ex-president of a small international NGO. When
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by josephg 5mo ago
I think AI programming just has a bliss period for a lot of people where it feels like you can solve every problem with a prompt. And you can, for a time. Eventually the chickens come home to roost and you realise what a mess you made. Give
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by josephg 5mo ago
Yeah I hear you with all of this. Its weird, working with LLMs. There are some things the LLMs are extremely good at doing autonomously. Like, reverse engineering, or reading documentation (and using that knowledge in other areas). There ar
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by josephg 5mo ago
Yes, I’m in this camp. I’ve been pushing forward some personal projects lately using LLMs. At first, I was delighted at how productive I was, prompting. But over time a lot of cracks have started to show. Claude is good at programming “in t
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by josephg 5mo ago
Sure. But most shots have a deep depth of field or just follow one person. Even when autofocus isn’t needed, you can just turn it off. It’s just kinda weird that they don’t include the feature at all.
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by josephg 5mo ago
As a counterpoint: I lived in Melbourne, Australia during the pandemic. We were going for elimination. We tried some of the world’s strictest lockdown laws. Apparently there were protests in NY of all places on our behalf. I don’t know what
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by josephg 5mo ago
> As for the US, probably 0.000001% or so had sad experiences at the border. Heh it’s a lot more than that. About 1/3rd of my Australian friends have a story to tell about unfortunate US border crossing experiences. I personally kno
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by josephg 5mo ago
> At the least in the USA, often the constitution is upheld Some of ICE’s detainees may have different opinions on that point. The UK may endow her citizens with fewer rights. But I have a lot more trust in British due process. British c
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by josephg 5mo ago
Me too. I’m going to wait a few more years before I visit again. I‘m also careful with what I say online. US CBP tracks what people post online, and has been known to deny entry to people for being critical critical of the current president
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by josephg 5mo ago
> a focus change should really be intentional; auto focus isn't that. Might depend on what you're filming though. As a solo operator, autofocus is great. Maybe the right metric is the number of crew per camera. 2-3 crew per cam
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by josephg 5mo ago
Hm, I'm not sure about that. I suspect autofocus motors are much more expensive to manufacture than mechanical lens throws. They're almost certainly more expensive to design. I don't know about other manufacturers, but recent
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by josephg 5mo ago
This is only true for photography. For some reason, cinema lenses are still - for the most part - purely mechanical. For film and TV, most camera operators still focus manually - often via gears attached externally to the lens. Coming from

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