> Does every car mechanic need to be able to explain the principles of a combustion engine?
Probably. I’d certainly not want to use a mechanic who doesn’t understand the combustion engine, or who is incapable of giving at least a high-level overview of it.
Yeah. I have my own file formats for music, pixel art, and levels in a little game I’m building with the kids. LLMs are really good at understanding these proprietary formats that exist nowhere else in the world except on my old laptop.
So, what are you arguing? If a group of people like their jobs, society should disallow disruption to that group? Why? It seems to me that we may reach a point where machines can replace humans for most tasks, and I don’t think we should try to make that state of things illegal. We should instead try to solve the economics of it in a way that benefits all.
I don’t know. Niri took the PaperWM idea and built a first class experience around that, and it’s fantastic. I think that’s the way to do this sort of thing. Have a standalone project do the legwork while keeping legacy desktops stable.
Is nicotine a problem, though? I'm not a cigarette or vaping guy. I do like a nicotine pouch, and I love an evening pipe. My understanding is that nicotine is not much of a problem, but the smoke / vape contaminants are where the real hazard lies.
The way I do it is each worktree gets its own .env, with dev credentials to whatever it needs access to, and my coworkers have theirs set up to have an isolated Postgres database per worktree, but I didn’t bother with that in my setup— maybe I will, though. It’s a simple script to create a worktree and properly prepare it.
I just use git worktrees in a single container. Albeit I don’t have more than 3 agents going at a time generally due to my own context switching limitations.
“Your job isn’t your job. Your job is to find your next career step.” Paraphrasing from memory from Scott Adams’ “How to fail at almost everything and still win big.”
I haven’t followed that advice, because I quite like my jobs, and getting deep into a problem space is one of life’s pleasures. But, I do think it’s sound advice all the same.
> It's asking somebody who writes code to now read and debug others code.
This has been a big part of the job for anyone on a team for at least 20 years. I do agree that it’s the hardest and worst part of the job, and has now become the majority of the job for anyone who isn’t vibe coding. So, that sucks.
A friend of mine and I played Secret of Mana until our money overflowed the bounds of an int (or whatever was backing it. It evidently caused save game corruption, and that was the end of our epic run.
Sort of unrelated, but I recently built an http server in Odin to learn the language. It’s a pleasant language, and very low memory usage, if managed well. Around 50k requests per second on my old laptop. The surprising thing was that Bun matched it (albeit at 50MB RAM usage vs 3MB for Odin).
It’s a lot of fun working on such things, but the reality is, for most apps, almost any stack is more than fine.
Huh. Pretty cool. I haven't looked at vnix in a while, and it's been almost as long since I looked at V. It had a lot of controversy early on. I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has tried it recently to find out if they ever ended up delivering on their promises.
I use them. The top 3 models still write terrible code, regardless of harness. They’ll litter the code with safety checks for scenarios we’ve already guaranteed won’t happen. And they’ll solve problems you didn’t ask them to, and they’ll come up with a working, but convoluted solution. They’ll sometimes write really weird code if you’re using them in an obscure language.
Basically, they still need a human guiding them pretty closely unless you’re happy to just ship a mountain of vibe coded mush.
That said, I haven’t tried Astra in earnest yet. We’ll see in a few weeks whether or not it is a step change.
Tangentially related, but Astra generated some of the worst Odin code I’ve ever seen. Turns out AGI is indistinguishable from an Oracle subcontractor who hates tech and hates his job.
It’s in loads of things. Peanuts, spinach, beans, chocolate, avocados, corn, soy… the list is endless. If someone is really sensitive, they can have problems with high oxalate foods. Some people seem to accumulate oxalates, meaning their problems compound, where others have no problem at all. Biology is weird.
I run Niri and Dank Material Sell on Fedora. It’s perfect, and better than Omarchy from what I’ve seen. I much prefer scrolling window managers to tilers.
Is that the case? It seems to me that the people who cared about Snowden are basically the same people who care about Flock. Most of the people I know who didn't like Snowden also don't seem to care about Snowden. I do find it interesting / strange that conservatives (of which I am somewhat) don't care about Snowden or Flock. To me, the things Snowden revealed, and the crap Flock is doing are completely incompatible with the way I think government should function. But, maybe I'm more libertarian than conservative.
Yeah. I see this estimate as either A) hot air (my serious take), or B) a dire warning of out of control inflation, or C) a prediction that they'll be a going concern in 500 years when $30T is in fact an average corporate revenue figure if the USD still exists by then.