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by wiremine 1y ago
> As mentioned in the article, the big trick is having clear specs I've been building a programming language using Claude, and this is my findings, too. Which, after discovering this, makes sense. There are a LOT of small decisions
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by wiremine 1y ago
Jon has been around for a long time, and I've been a long-time fan. He's a bit of an elder: he's seen a lot of things, and he's worth listening to. > I’m a fan of web components but it’s the React flavor that dominate
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by wiremine 1y ago
> knowledge just isn't needed anymore I would argue we still need the knowledge: the principles aren't changing, and they are needed to be truly productive in certain things. But the application of those principles _are_ changi
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by wiremine 1y ago
I've been experimenting with model-based development lately, and this resonated strongly with me. The section "What Even Is Programming Anymore?" hit on a lot of the thoughts and feels I've been going through. I'm u
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by wiremine 1y ago
How quickly we shift our expectations. If you told me 5 years ago we'd have technology that can do this, I wouldn't believe you. This isn't to say we shouldn't think critically about the use and performance of models, bu
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by wiremine 1y ago
The cartoon explaining Oracle's org structure feels appropriate: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/code-review-on-pr...
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by wiremine 1y ago
I spent a lot of time thinking about this recently. Ultimately, English is not a clean, deterministic abstraction layer. This isn't to say that LLMs aren't useful, and can create some great efficiencies.
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by wiremine 1y ago
Lol. I have 25 years of experience coding and am a CTO, I'm interested in coding faster, and focusing on higher-order problems.
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by wiremine 1y ago
A bit off topic, but I've been finding myself write "plan.txt" files for claude code. 1. Write plan 2. Ask Claude to review for understandability 3. Update as needed until it's clear 4. Execute the task(s) in the plan. I
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by wiremine 1y ago
> I would have expected not to see any quantitative indications of the mess brewing up only by summer. Just curious why you would think this? Markets react fairly quickly to major events...
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by wiremine 2y ago
> MacBooks are not modular, completely proprietary, and have a perishability built into them. I'm ok with this... maybe I'm odd? I view my laptops like I view my cars: I expect them to be replaced after a period of time. I&#x27
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by wiremine 2y ago
> developer ergonomics That was a huge reason JSON took over. Another reason was the overall XML ecosystem grew unwieldy and difficult to navigate: XPath, XSLT, SOAP, WSDL, Xpointer, XLink, SOAP, XForms... They all made sense in their ow
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by wiremine 2y ago
> GPT 4.5 pricing is insane: Price Input: $75.00 / 1M tokens Cached input: $37.50 / 1M tokens Output: $150.00 / 1M tokens > GPT 4o pricing for comparison: Price Input: $2.50 / 1M tokens Cached input: $1.25 / 1
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by wiremine 2y ago
> genuinely curious what sort of conversation you had We're in the US, and we're looking at a UK trip. I've lived in the UK, and we've done a fair amount of international travel. We're in the "brainstorming&
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by wiremine 2y ago
I'm not optimistic, but my recent experiences with Gemini's mobile app gives me pause on my pessimism. My wife and I are planning a family vacation, and we had some questions about various destinations. I opened Gemini, and we had
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by wiremine 2y ago
I took this as "don't stress about things you can automate." Yes, you need to care about this. But for the most part you should just follow the conventions of the language/framework, and not reinvent the wheel. Instead,
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by wiremine 2y ago
Just confirming I did read the article in its entirety. Not reading it is like HN sin #1.
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by wiremine 2y ago
The most recent one was a typescript project focused on zod. I might be reading into your comment, but I agree "top-down" development sucks: "Give me a react that does X". I've had much more success going bottom-up.
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by wiremine 2y ago
> "oh sht, we're all out of a job next year" Maybe. My sense if we'd need to see 3 to 4 orders of magnitude improvements on the current models before we can replace people outright. I do think we'll see a huge pr
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by wiremine 2y ago
> Tbh the reason I don't use LLM assistants is because they suck at the "low level". They are okay at mid level and better at high level. I find it's actual coding very mediocre and fraught with errors. That's in
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by wiremine 2y ago
I'm going to take a contrarian view and say it's actually a good UI, but it's all about how you approach it. I just finished a small project where I used o3-mini and o3-mini-high to generate most of the code. I averaged aroun
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by wiremine 2y ago
Looks like it's still in beta? I tried it out a few weeks ago and it was extremely buggy. I'm curious how it has been for others.
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by wiremine 2y ago
I agree 100% with this approach, and I'd love to see some research to back it up. I think a lot of software development is "way finding" - Experimentation to figure out an architecture, an implication, a performance improveme
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by wiremine 2y ago
I played around with it a bit, here are some hot takes. For context, I first tried this procession of searches on the Mac OS app. 1. "Who won the world series" 2. Who was the MVP?" 3. "Give me his bio" My observatio
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by wiremine 2y ago
> There can’t be any information about “truthfulness” encoded in an LLM, because there isn’t a notion of “truthfulness” for a program which has only ever been fed tokens and can only ever regurgitate their statistical correlations. I thi
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by wiremine 2y ago
It could see it as disingenuous, or a targeted message to those users still on those older x86 machines.
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by wiremine 2y ago
Nice! Reminds me of the ergonomics of Rebol's money type: https://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-16.html#section-... > $100 + 11 $111.00 > $10 / .50 $20.00 In general, Rebol's type system
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A teacher in Canada built a working hovercraft from salvaged car parts(nytimes.com)
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by wiremine 2y ago
> Boeing developed Starliner under the exact same set of constraints that SpaceX had for crewed dragon. You could be right. My (limited) understanding is that SpaceX is doing most of their R&D internally, and therefore they don'
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by wiremine 2y ago
I read "A City on Mars" last year, and it opened my eyes to just hard space travel is. The government constraints on aerospace projects doesn't help. There's a reason SpaceX moves so much faster; they don't have to

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