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by troupo 7mo ago
> My one hope for AI, robotics, self driving cars, is that they can enable people in cities to migrate back to rural places. Why? Honest question. A kid in a town/city has access to a billion opportunities many of which exist only b
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by troupo 7mo ago
Only if you don't care about output at all. Even with my eyes constantly in the logs window, credo + ex_dna + ash_credo [1] and looking at all the output, I still miss a bunch of shit that LLMs produce. Can't imagine just ssh&#x27
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by troupo 7mo ago
Yes! Completely forgot about OCaml because I only spent a couple of months with it
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by troupo 7mo ago
We need more pragmatic languages. E.g. Erlang and Elixir are functional, but eschew all the things FP purists advocate for (complex type systems, purity, currying by default etc.)
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by troupo 7mo ago
There's also a short web series which is very good: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm3ywOKVBeAp1CmOhpsfu... I haven't seen the short film, so cannot compare.
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by troupo 7mo ago
> I will cast my vote for mobile websites over apps on phones. For personal choice reasons I have always had a "budget" phone with less memory and storage (and less cost) than a flagship phone. I also kept them running for year
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by troupo 7mo ago
> The real world isn’t an exam hall where your boss tells you “no naughty AI!”, you just get stuff done, and if Bob can do that with agents, nobody cares. Indeed. That's why Anthropic had to hire real engineers to make sure their vi
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by troupo 7mo ago
Ah yes. The famous theoretical mathematicians who immediately started on novel problems in theoretical mathematics without first learning and understanding a huge number of trivial things like how division works to begin with, what fraction
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by troupo 7mo ago
Because it's inspired by Rust, but doesn't try to be Rust? And it's aimed at Go developers?
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by troupo 7mo ago
How can Bob produce novel things when he lacks the skills to do even trivial things? I didn't get to be a senior engineer by immediately being able to solve novel problems. I can now solve novel problems because I spent untold hours so
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by troupo 7mo ago
> The thing is, agents aren’t going away. So if Bob can do things with agents, he can do things. Can he? If he outsources all his thinking and understanding to agents, can he then fix things he doesn't know how to fix without agents
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by troupo 7mo ago
Ironic, considering the README: --- start quote --- These blog posts are written by the OneUptime team and open source contributors. We write about our experiences, our learnings, and our thoughts on the world of software development, Kuber
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Claude Code devs: use previos model, compact at 200k tokens to avoid usage limit(twitter.com)
5 points by troupo 7mo ago|1 comments
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by troupo 7mo ago
> Even I would have scored that goal" == "I would never ever have created a bloated mess like Anthropic" Since you keep putting words in my mouth that I never said, and keep being deliberately obtuse, this particular branc
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by troupo 7mo ago
> But that is a 'them' problem. I When a TUI requires 68 GB of RAM to run, or when they spend a week not being able to find a bug that causes multiple people to immediately run out of tokens, it's not a "them" pr
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by troupo 7mo ago
"Windows is the world's most popular desktop consumer OS. Microsoft are doing everything right, and should never ever change. Who are we to criticise them" Meanwhile I apparently need to change my persoective about this: htt
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by troupo 7mo ago
> Claude Code is an interface to using AI to do any computer task Claude Code is quite literally a wrapper around a few APIs. At one point it needed 68GB of RAM to run and requires 11ms to "lay a scene graph" to display a few h
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by troupo 7mo ago
> Sure. You could have. But you're not the one playing football in the Champions League. The only reason people are using Claude Code is because it's the only way to use their (heavily subsidized) subscription plans. People who
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by troupo 7mo ago
> Honest question: Why does it matter? Because it's unmaintainable slop that they themselves don't know how to fix when something happens? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47598488
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by troupo 7mo ago
It's a TUI API wrapper with a few commands bolted on. I doubt it needs to be more than 20-50kloc. You can create a full 3D game with a custom 3D engine in 500k lines. What the hell is Claude Code doing?
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by troupo 7mo ago
If your shop is unprofitable for years with no chance to recoup any of the costs, you close it, as your investments run out, and investors and banks stop giving you money as you keep losing them. US tech companies just continue operating be
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by troupo 7mo ago
Is this why they ran into a bug with people hitting usage limits even on very short sessions and had to cease all communications for over a day after a week of gaslighting users because they couldn't find the root cause in the "qu
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by troupo 7mo ago
They explicitly boast about using claude code to write code: https://x.com/bcherny/status/2007179836704600237 That's how you get "oh this TUI API wrapper needs 68GB of RAM" https://x.com&
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by troupo 7mo ago
What's the point - exactly - of a company being sustainable?
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by troupo 7mo ago
> Why are we treating OpenAI and Anthropic differently than say, Amazon or Uber? The dame Uber that lost close to 30 billion dollars over 10 years to subsidize its price dumping? No, no we are not treating OpenAI differently than Uber
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by troupo 7mo ago
"Profits will come later" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597480
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by troupo 7mo ago
> Profit is money you couldn’t figure out how to spend. Profit is the money showing your business is sustainable. Ever since the ZIRP era US companies keep haemorrhaging money at a rate that is physically impossible to recoup. If OpenAI
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by troupo 7mo ago
And that is revenue only. In the past 15 or so years most US companies (and especially startups) always talk about revenue only. Wheras only profit should matter. E.g. what good is 20 billion per year when "OpenAI is targeting roughly
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by troupo 7mo ago
"Here comes another bubble..."
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by troupo 7mo ago
--- start quote --- > The internet becoming majority bot content basically guarantees this becomes a real problem for the next generation of models. Only if you assume that people who train models are stupid. --- end quote --- And then l

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