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dylanowen··on How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
I definitely comprehend coding language better/faster when I want to fully understand a program. I usually skip docs and go to the sources when possible. I think it's deeper than just the code though, the biggest thing I haven't seen in using natural language is good organization to express the program.
dylanowen··on Bend – a language that blocks AI mistakes via proof and runs on GPUs
100% agree. It's crazy so many Ai articles are heralding the end of code while at the same time defining more complex ways to write code under a different name.
dylanowen··on Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended
Kind of ironic for these companies to make their moat software while at the same time saying that SaaS and software development in general is obsolete
dylanowen··on I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch
I have a hard time imagining anything where writing a browser wouldn't be an excellent transferable foundation. Even your example: writing css will never teach you as much as writing a css engine.
dylanowen··on The development pipeline is a production system
I feel like your example exactly describes why the development pipeline is production. Just because the critical hours of the system are different doesn't mean it's any less important.
dylanowen··on Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard
I was trying to debug/fix a segfault in the JVM which kept getting flagged
dylanowen··on Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom
That sounds very dystopian. The ai teacher part, not the no devices part
dylanowen··on Car Seats as Contraception
Last sporting event I went to I was able to check my car seat at the stroller check, the workers didn't bat an eye :)
dylanowen··on My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
I know right. I kept waiting for a sarcasm tag at the end
dylanowen··on Oxide raises $200M Series C
I've seen Bryan Cantrill present at a few conferences and his talks are always the best.
dylanowen··on The mythical AI-agent month
This exactly matches my experience. I also suspected that it was my higher threshold for code quality but Ai generated code is just not worth adding to a project without very strict reviews, unless it's non production and I want to fully give the project over to Ai
dylanowen··on After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
But those are the parts where it's important to struggle through the learning process even if you're slower than AI. if you defer to an LLM because it can do your work in a new codebase faster than you, that code base will stay new to you for forever. You'll never be able to review the AI code effectively.
dylanowen··on The Inevitable Rise of the Art TV
When I first heard about these I thought eink had gotten cheap and good enough for that to be part of the display. The fact that it's just a regular tv displaying a painting was so disappointing.
dylanowen··on Jujutsu worktrees are convenient (2024)
I use work trees so my prototype can be open while I build my final code, but I never thought of local remotes! That'll be so much easier!
dylanowen··on Touching the Elephant – TPUs
I assume the nuclear reactors are to power the data centers using the new chips. There have been a few mentions on HN about the US being very behind in building enough power plants to run LLM workloads
dylanowen··on YesNotice
That's if the website you're querying is a static html file but the web is much more dynamic and varied. Some of the questions I have: does yesnotice execute js, does it handle an answer appearing on a different page, does it handle ambiguous launch language. In essence: how does it work?
dylanowen··on Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs
This seems a lot like what the scala libraries Zio or Kyo are doing for concurrency, just without the functional effect part.
dylanowen··on The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience
For me it's a discovery problem. I have a hard time finding papers to read. Where do you go to find interesting or relevant papers?
dylanowen··on Liquibase continues to advertise itself as "open source" despite license switch
Why not, if liquibase isn't directly completing with your company and your bug fixes help their business, why would they care?
dylanowen··on Liquibase continues to advertise itself as "open source" despite license switch
The comments here are pretty surprising. a lot of commenters are very worried about something that seems like a very reasonable change. The license change is to prevent someone like AWS offering managed-liquibase. It might not be technically open source anymore but why does that matter? You can still read/fork/contribute to the source and leverage liquibase internally. The fact that liquibase the company exists and provides this library is great. They shouldn't have to live in fear of their hard work being co-opted into managed liquibase to pass some open source purity test.
dylanowen··on Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?
For people who don't or can't have Ethernet wiring, I've had great success with Ethernet over coax. My ancient coax wiring gets 800mbps back to my router with a screenbeam MoCA 2.5
dylanowen··on Are people's bosses making them use AI tools?
Sounds like a great way to script yourself a bonus
dylanowen··on Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 with Debian 13 released
I'm using it for a browser extension, just because I wanted to code more in rust. It's great at what it does and has all the same paradigms from React. The best use case though, would be if all your code is already rust. If you have a complex UI I'd probably use react and typescript.
dylanowen··on Scala 3 Migration: Report from the field
This is a great write up! For people using gradle to compile scala (definitely not my first choice) the initial hurdle to migrating individual modules has been fixed! I'm guessing it'll be in gradle 8.13 https://github.com/gradle/gradle/pull/31118
dylanowen··on Ask HN: Resources for General Purpose GPU development on Apple's M* chips?
Oh good to know! It's been a while since I've looked at the osx implementation
dylanowen··on Ask HN: Resources for general purpose GPU development on Apple's M* chips?
People have already mentioned Metal, but if you want cross platform, https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu has a vulkan-like API and cross compiles to all the various GPU frameworks. I believe it uses https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK to run on Macs. You can also see the metal shader transpilation results for debugging.
dylanowen··on How I Experience Web Today (2021)
Time to switch to kagi.com
dylanowen··on Pocket-size AMD Ryzen PC in a folding keyboard
For the iPad I've been using https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hdmi-monitor-orion/id645935507... you need an adapter though
dylanowen··on Maker Pipe – Structural Pipe Fittings for DIY Builders
They also provide cad models for some of the connectors which I found very useful: https://connect.makerpipe.com/build-help/post/if-you-would-l...
dylanowen··on How to Learn Rust in 2024
Why not just look at the source of that magical crate?
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