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Andi Roberts and "Communication Patterns Matter"(bytecode.news)
12 points by jottinger 3mo ago|0 comments
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by jottinger 3mo ago
It is, I think. I published the article on BCN (the preface is me, the rest is a reader submission) and I find I agree with relatively little of the article, but I think it has observations worth looking at, even so.
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by jottinger 5mo ago
In the sense that while there was a positive outcome ("We moved to Rust, which solved our issues with Zig no longer accepting AI-assisted content" - a projection on my part, but one I think makes sense) without an actual contribut
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by jottinger 5mo ago
If I recall correctly - and I might not - the process found places in the test suite that were wrong or lacked clarity, and the suite was modified slightly in a few places to actually fix things that needed fixing. I don't think it was
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by jottinger 5mo ago
As far as publishing "the prompt" - there's no "the prompt." The draft was put together and expanded over a set of interactions with an LLM and other people over the space of about six hours. "The prompt"
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by jottinger 5mo ago
Heh. Funny thing: I've been writing online and professionally for literal decades, since around 2002 or so, and the LLMs tend to change my actual writing voice relatively little and usually in positive ways, since they say I meander to
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by jottinger 5mo ago
Mostly because I finally figured out what I thought was relevant about the Bun port over the last couple of days, thanks to someone far more embedded in the ecosystem than I complaining about it. That complaint was the seed idea in the post
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by jottinger 5mo ago
Humans can make errors; part of why I waited so long to write and post this is because I'm not a great Rust coder (at all) and I don't use Bun, so I felt like I lacked enough relevant insight to say anything, and this is part of t
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by jottinger 5mo ago
Claude (and Codex) designed the site, mostly because I'm not a UI coder; if I'd designed the site nobody'd want to read it but me, simply thanks to the UX. And I have a full-time job and more; I draft with an LLM's assis
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Bun has been converted to rust. Now what?(bytecode.news)
53 points by jottinger 5mo ago|107 comments
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by jottinger 5mo ago
Bun was ported from Zig to Rust by an LLM and passed nearly all its tests - while shipping more than ten thousand unsafe blocks. Memory safety is the main reason you'd pick Rust. So what did the rewrite actually accomplish?
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Being Wrong in the Same Direction(bytecode.news)
3 points by jottinger 5mo ago|0 comments
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by jottinger 5mo ago
OMG I died laughing at this. Then I came back to life. And died again.
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by jottinger 6mo ago
My thought is that this is interesting, but very narrowly scoped. I thought the list would be, um, longer. By a lot. This feels like talking about all of the deaths in pre-Enlightenment Europe and coming up with a list of seven names.
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by jottinger 6mo ago
Also fair. I kinda thought the design for the UI was fairly normal - it looks like a lot of standard Wordpress themes would look, with an admin panel, a primary focused "recent post" and a list of other recent posts in descending
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by jottinger 6mo ago
This is also fair: it's definitely AI-assisted. I'm not a UI person; I have wonky color perception and synaesthesia, and a lot of experience has taught me that what works for ME in UI is what... uh... doesn't work AT ALL for
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by jottinger 6mo ago
What's your load chain? I've seen some other people (who use Tor through Brave) say that it's slow to load, and I'm curious to fix that - the front end has a cached version that should be rendering pretty aggressively wi
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by jottinger 6mo ago
Thanks. I decided long ago that I wasn't the kind of magnetic personality who'd be able to market a mass site - as a "face" I'm a very poor candidate, and I despise cults of personality, which seems to be the "
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by jottinger 6mo ago
Also: one of the features of the underlying tech stack is that the UI is actually a completely separate module than the backend API. Different github repo, everything: the site is akshually https://api.bytecode.news and the UI
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by jottinger 6mo ago
This is the second comment like that. It was honestly not intended - it was actually me trying to respond in my own context to the post, and WHY I was responding; "why" is more important to me than "what," and I have a h
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by jottinger 6mo ago
Ooof! If I'd thought of that, I'd have kept my trap shut. :( Art as expression, not as market campaigns, will still capture our imaginations - that's more my driving force than trying to sell more hotdogs.
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by jottinger 6mo ago
That's an excellent quote and I love it. I think of it more as Thoreau, or in my own terms, but I LOVE that quote, which I'd never seen before.
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by jottinger 6mo ago
Hrm. If you're talking about me: I doubt it. I've been a programmer for 30+ years: I've built a LOT of products, some of which got used, some of which ... didn't. If I was going to complain, that'd be new. And I kno
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by jottinger 6mo ago
Hmm, It's supposed to be using the device mode. I'll look at the UI code and see if I can fix that. I use dark mode and my eyes work well with the framing, so any information here is welcomed. Will tune.
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by jottinger 6mo ago
All fair, but: it's not a "news org." News is a business model, and, man, my business is feeding my family; this site's a passion project, fulfilling a need based on what I did back in the mid-2000s: curating stuff that
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by jottinger 6mo ago
I'm not going to optimize content for SEO - been on the other side of that, and I think it creates content that's bland and ineffective. Humans gonna human, machines gonna machine, and I'm not paying for ads. If humans want t
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by jottinger 6mo ago
I don't think i'm "choosing to fail," I'm choosing to accept the outcome given an effort to prevent it. Sometimes you try and it doesn't work out; I'm not committing the mortgage to the site or the effort,
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by jottinger 6mo ago
Dang, that hurt to read. I'm starting up a new news-ish site like the old TheServerSide.com, at https://bytecode.news , and I'm faced with the question of "how do I generate traffic in the face of AI and all the pe
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by jottinger 1y ago
Hopefully we see the history of the color computer as well. Tandy was really surprising: they had three successful computer lines, all different, and all for different kinds of markets, and STILL ended up where they are.
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by jottinger 1y ago
I worked at one of their computer centers - I wasn't a great salesman either, because I didn't want to sell something to someone who didn't want it, but I did all right. They had a heyday and blew it. I gotta admit, though: t

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