codingwagie

Love the comments:

"7/27/78 FIXED BUG WHERE FOR VARIABLE AT BYTE FF MATCHED RETURN SEARCHING FOR GOSUB ENTRY ON STACK IN FNDFOR CALL BY CHANGING STA FORPNT TO STA FORPNT+1. THIS IS A SERIOUS BUG IN ALL VERSIONS."

Not far off from a comment I might make these days

https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502/blob/main/m6502.asm...

Right but you cant expect perfect implementation, as the complexity of the business needs grows, so does the accidental complexity.

I think this works in simple domains. After working in big tech for a while, I am still shocked by the required complexity. Even the simplest business problem may take a year to solve, and constantly break due to the astounding number of edge cases and scale.

Anyone proclaiming simplicity just hasnt worked at scale. Even rewrites that have a decade old code base to be inspired from, often fail due to the sheer amount of things to consider.

A classic, Chesterton's Fence:

"There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”"

ive wasted so much time fiddling with notion documents

JetBrains product quality has really gone downhill.

theres alot of wealthy people in NYC and its only increasing. in neighborhoods like west village or soho, the majority of people are not working corporate jobs. they are paying 7.5-20k a month in rent out of their pockets.

I think coding manually is like doing wood work manually, its going away. I am planning my exit, expecting it to take a few years for me to fully leave the field. But I want out, and this is coming from someone with a ton of FAANG experience.

It took me a long time to learn this

AI is way underhyped, its just going to take society a long time to integrate this tectonic shift into our existing ways of working

hahaha

the founder went to harvard, is basically the answer

Financial engineering is why people are poor. They are literally competing for goods and services with investment firms.

I've commonly seen grants like this diluted to almost zero. I would think carefully and strategically about how you can get some sort of value for the equity you vested. Its probably harder than you think to get decent liquidity on it.

there are deep reasons for why society is not like this anymore

This works for UX. I give it vague requirements, and it implements something i didnt ask for, but is better than i would have thought of

Yeah but theres also sorts of political implications for admitting that

The value of these researchers to meta is surely more than a few billion. Love seeing free markets benefit the world

OpenAI SDK is much simpler to use and understand than langchain etc. I havent deployed really complicated agents, but I have a number of simple use cases that work just fine

I love to hate on google, but yeah their models are really good. The larger context window is huge

this only works for very early stage

I'm seeing big advances that arent shown in the benchmarks, I can simply build software now that I couldnt build before. The level of complexity that I can manage and deliver is higher.

Real reason is apple is probably stacked with legacy employees with 30 years of experience in some hyper specific apple stuff, and now with the ai paradigm shift, legacy employee expertise is not only obsolete, but is probably a hinderance. They will recover, will just be slow

in my experience it is 100% true, every contract i have seen with over legalese is created by people who expect to be acting on those terms

I think its completely possible to start a side business, people just dont 100% validate business ideas before building

any extremely long contract with obtuse terms is designed to screw you in some way. you just wont know until you get there, unless you are willing to spend 10-20k on lawyers to argue the terms

This is something you learn when you actually raise venture and meet peers that have raised capital. Beyond the very early stages, the CTO can easily be replaced, the CEO is the face of the business.

O3 is far ahead of the competition.

AWS is unusable in alot of cases.

point still stands

Personally think that supabase and vercel are giving AWS a run for their money, and will start to eat into their market share. The developer experience is far superior to AWS, in a way that cannot be argued away by AWS handling "more complexity and scale". Supabase/Vercerl products are superior to large cloud providers, and while they target a narrower aspect of the tech stack, and to smaller customers, they will expand into more enterprise as their users grow.

AWS needs to get their act together and start prioritizing developer experience

Also, supabase is looking like the go to database for ai created apps. Which will be a major tailwind