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by zoogeny 2y ago
I follow a YouTube channel Gamma1734 [1] where the creator who runs it plays a bunch of piano sheet music from the past, a lot of it in the Romantic style. The artists played on the channel are all obscure to me. None of the names I conside
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Is what you are insinuating that the only licensing model for independent MCP authors is open source? Are you assuming that MCPs are only viable as free (as in beer) projects? I feel like software license and business revenue models are onl
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Right, that is why I said it makes sense for existing products . I mentioned desktop apps, but it would apply to any existing project. Like JIRA, or HubSpot, Wordpress, or Figma, etc. But there is hype around MCP as if independent devs cou
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I'm curious what the revenue plan is for MCP authors. I mean, I can see wanting to add support for existing products (like an code/text editor, image/sound/video editor, etc.) But is there a market for stand-alone paid M
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I hate to admit it, because I don't particularly like Rust, but I'm slowly coming around to the idea it should replace things. The major change is a recent comment I made where I was musing about a future where LLMs actually write
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by zoogeny 2y ago
What you are feeling is described in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction [1] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_...
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I'm slightly baffled by this acquisition but arguing against you actually helps me make some sense of it. If Google wants to be "the best of the best" at security and some set of potential customers use Wiz as their "bes
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I love the Beatles and recognize their impact. But to say there was rock and roll before the Beatles as if Elvis wasn't a massive international thing is downplaying it, as if it was this underground phenomenon. The members of the Beatl
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I think this kind of change is maybe more common than we think. I mean, when Nirvana showed up and was juxtaposed next to the hair metal kind of vibe of the day you had the same weird juxtaposition. Or think how weird that 90s vibe of movie
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by zoogeny 2y ago
That is one system. Are there zero others? Funny thing about this thread and black and white thinking. I feel a different kind of loop.
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by zoogeny 2y ago
An interesting question you might want to ask yourself, related to this idea: what would you do if your compiler wasn't deterministic? Would you go back to writing assembly? Would you diligently work to make the compiler "more&quo
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by zoogeny 2y ago
There are more elements to a compiler than determinism. That is, determinism isn't their sole defining property. I can compare other properties of compilers to LLMs. No "flip flop" there IMO, but your judgment may vary. Perha
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Well, we're in a loop then because my response was "you don't care about maintainable assembly". I want maintainable systems you want maintainable code . We can just accept that difference. I believe maintainable syst
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Humans aren't deterministic. I've trusted junior engineers to ship code. I fail to see a significant difference here in the long term. We have engineering practices that guard against humans making mistakes that break builds or pr
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Yes, that is fair and probably the accurate assessment. A bit like Tim Cook. He may not be innovative but Apple sure has been profitable. I guess it is easy to view it from my own perspective, one tinged with a hope for invention and innova
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by zoogeny 2y ago
On the topic of better management, I can't believe they haven't replaced Sundar Pichai. Satya Nadella by comparison really seemed to have turned MS around. Larry Page was making the rounds when all of this AI hype started. He seem
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Lets imagine we are assembly programmers. You have a particular style of assembly that you believe gives you some advantage over your competitors. The way you structure your assembly gives you a lower maintenance burden and faster developme
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by zoogeny 2y ago
> static languages end up being faster somewhere around a week into the development process And when you factor in LLMs being ridiculously good at scaffolding basic apps, the time to reach that turning point will continue to decrease. It
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Yeah, "scripting" language isn't a good word choice on my part. I did mean dynamic/interpreted. But even nowadays that line is blurry with bytecode VMs. > And I'd much rather debug/modify semantically rich,
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I suspect this will be the case. And people arguing about dynamic interpreted scripting language vs. static compiled binary language will be like people arguing over flavors of assembly. Just like being familiar with assembly is extremely u
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by zoogeny 2y ago
> compiling your code for every combination of architecture and platform you plan to deploy to I mean, on the one hand you are arguing for C FFI and on the other worrying about compiling for every combination of architecture. Those posit
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I'm not here to predict the future, rather to reconsider old assumptions based on new evidence. Of course, LLMs may stay as "autocomplete" forever. Or for decades. But my intuition is telling me that in the next 2-3 years the
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by zoogeny 2y ago
You said: "Inevitable means impossible to evade. That's about as close to a black and white statement as possible." I used Google to point out that your argument, which hinged on your definition of what the word "inevita
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Ah, now we're at the dictionary definition level. So let's check Google: Inevitable: as is certain to happen; unavoidably. informal as one would expect; predictably. "inevitably, the
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by zoogeny 2y ago
> your larger point which seems to be that all greenfield projects are necessarily best suited to low level language That is not my intention. Perhaps you are reading absolutes and chasing after black and white statements. When I say &qu
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by zoogeny 2y ago
I wouldn't think choosing a native language over a scripting language is a "gamble" but I suppose that all depends on ability and risk tolerance. I think it would be relatively easy to develop using Rust, Go, Zig, etc. I woul
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Right, which is my point about LLM code assistants. If you did have two cases in the past: native but slow to add features so the project eventually dies vs. scripted but performance is bad enough it eventually needs to be rewritten. (Of co
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by zoogeny 2y ago
What is GSP in this context? Searching Python GSP brings up Generalized Sequence Pattern (GSP) algorithm [1] and Graph Signal Processing [2], neither of which seem to be a protocol. I also found "Generic Signaling Protocol" and &q
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by zoogeny 2y ago
Fair, I was looking at the wgpu-py [1] page but only skimmed it. It does indeed look like a wrapper over wgpu-native [2] which is written in Rust. 1. https://github.com/pygfx/wgpu-py 2. https://github.com&#x
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by zoogeny 2y ago
> powered by WGPU, a cross-platform graphics API that targets Vulkan (Linux), Metal (Mac), and DX12 (Windows). The fact that they are using WGPU, which appears to be a Python native implementation of WebGPU, suggests there is an interest

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