barefootford

I love zed but it’s become just a terminal and markdown editor. All of my LLM usage is outside of it.

If there is really no teacher around, the premise is 7 year old kids will show up to teacher-less classrooms and then hop on a computer for a few hours (a whole day?) and willingly sit through hours of tutoring? Rather than just leaving and having recess all day?

Demos dead on iOS on iPhone 16 pro.

It’s worth a reminder on this thread that this 20 year-old game just got ported to macOS last week and is available on steam. For those of you interested in playing again but don’t have a gaming PC sitting around.

How long does it take to run this? How much is automated vs manual evals?

Theoretically I agree, but practically without guidance agents aren't really able to edit video ATM. Without hand holding Claude will just call ffmpeg and look at a few frames.

Really impressive work guys! It seems like YC has funded a few companies attacking this but I think you all might have the best approach so far. Behind the scenes is the agent just editing using text/annotated timelines? I feel like the move is probably text for roughcut/narrative, then a vlm for digesting the initial roughcut, then adding broll and fixing timing issues. Feel free to steal my FCP xml generator. https://github.com/barefootford/buttercut

Also ordered a pebble 2 duo, and haven't been wearing it ever since.

Sorta wish they would ship the last watches before announcing more that are months away. I’m pretty sure I preordered 9 months ago and still have nothing to show for it.

I switched from structured outputs on OpenAI apis to unstructured on Claude (haiku 4.5) and haven't had any issues (yet). But guarantees are always nice.

I've wanted to build a video editing agent this year but I kept putting it off because I thought it would take too long. Having simple Claude Skills as markdowns + a little bit of Ruby made this a lot easier than I expected.

Behind the scenes we transcribe audio, analyze frames, and then build a combined/combed transcript of all the footage. Claude can then build rough cuts by just laying out clips with the correct timestamps. After a yaml rough cut is built, a Ruby library generates basic XML for Final Cut or Premiere.

The design taste on almost all these humanoid bots seems off. If I'm going to have some AI-powered alien in my house I want it to be and appear harmless, helpful, maybe even cute? These look creepy and dystopian.

I look forward to trying this out. Any benchmarks or demos on how long it actually takes to restore? I ended up cooking my own boring S3 backup because previously litestream took 20 minutes to restore something like 1000 rows. It felt extremely unoptimized. How long does restoration take today?

This is so nice. This feels like Postico for sqlite. Definitely switching from TablePlus to this.

gpt doesn't respect masks

Hey I’ve been trying to get Claude code to generate Final Cut xml myself. Mostly I just have a Claude.md with the FCP xml reference and some guidelines. What does this do differently?

and then get the honor of copy and pasting all of the changes afterward?

I don't know if I'm a fan but I've almost never had erb be the problem in a Rails app. The LLMs can work with it easily. Don't need to bring in extensions to work with major text editors. Sticking with ERB for now.

This gem is a really nice all-in-one setup! \n (Also worth noting that Rails 8 now supports sqlite for your application database (no more warnings about using it in prod), job queue (active job/solid queue) and cache (solid cache) out of the box.)

Maybe. Probably! But he never followed up to clarify or respond to real use cases.

Downloaded it and gave it a spin. Seems quick. The team collaboration features look great. Themes look fun. But. I switched from Sublime to VS Code in order to have a Copilot extension that works out of the box. I would love to see either a copilot extension or something integrated for ChatGPT. That has become a new essential these past few months and I'm willing to sacrifice some editor smoothness for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz6Ade9PDzg I put out a bait bike in San Francisco and was surprised how relatively straight forward it was to get it back. It's disappointing how few bike companies are installing trackers from the factory.

Fun idea. I'm a big Anki fan for learning languages. I'd consider turning off case sensitivity and ensure you're stripping spaces and making it as easy as possible to match answers. If you have to manually type in the answer its a pain to remember what case the answer should be in too. Still not sure what the sweet spot is for click vs typing outside of language context.

Very cool idea - Surprised there isn't already someone doing this. Annual surveys are interesting but a bit of a slow feedback loop.

I don’t think we should share authoritative seeming advice when the first instruction is to read a 700 page book “in a couple days”. How many non JavaScript programmers could keep up or absorb anything from that pace?

Haven't done their Elixir course but can vouch for their Ruby/Rails stuff. They just really value simplicity and sweat the details more than most instructors. Great stuff

I've found that setting a very hard deadline, ideally with some money on the line, is the best way to guarantee something gets done. It seems like this should be the authors next step. To get my last video out, I sent a friend $200 through Square Cash and said "Only send this back to me if I have X published by X hour on X date". It worked!

I definitely feel resistance in the last stages of side projects, but I don't necessarily buy Pressfields reasons for why it's there. Still valuable to know it will be there ahead of time though, regardless of what its origins are.

I've got a subscription. When I finally felt on my feet as a programmer I got a subscription to the NY Times and my hometown paper. I think we should support publications that do good work, rather than trying to avoid them/hack around it.

If you're a working programmer/job-in-tech a newspaper subscriptions is almost nothing money wise, but contributes lots back.

Just got the same email. What a bummer. Detour is a great app that I always look forward to using in new cities.

Q: Assuming your new battery tech scales easily and economically for mass production and given the intensifying demand for such tech, when would you expect to see it supplant lithium-ion as the battery technology of choice for manufacturers?

JBG: It will take competent battery manufacturers about two to three years to develop a marketable product. Once the technology is demonstrated by one, others will fall into line very rapidly.

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Q: How do you respond to critics of the new battery technology? When can we expect to see them hit the street?

JBG: We respond by demonstrating the concepts in individual coin cells. We do not do the development work. We believe that practical batteries can be marketed in about 3 years.