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dzonga

4,182 karma · joined January 27, 2017

All in on Agentic Applications

engineer at everywhere with a knack for product.

email: ptdzonga \\ at \\ gmail dot com

I build things.

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dzonga··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
Firefox sucks on memory though on MacOS.

I use Firefox when I want disposable tabs / containers.

then majority of stuff - Safari. private window work stuff set to chrome - since I can resume the session unlike safari.

dzonga··on What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s
it's a Sunday - I don't have time to put things into buckets.

there's coding - writing code to do something could be a game, utility to move files around. what have you. inherently the nature is a closed domain. AI is perfect here - the impact if something goes wrong is close to 0 or null.

then there's software engineering - which is both an art & science. u r dealing with rules of thumb. nothing is ever coded / written down. but a feel to whether something feels right or not. the domain is unbounded. the impact of something going wrong is catastrophic in all dimensions. coding is a delivery mechanism for software engineering. but not the actual work. using A.I here is useless.

but we keep having these pieces - I guess that's just shallow the industry is.

dzonga··on Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
the unfortunate thing - is the money pumped into omarchy + the hype around it .... a lot of sheepish followers will just follow the hype.

the tech might gets fixed later.

dzonga··on 9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight
wish more lawyers broke down things simply like you did.

unfortunately - as you pointed out the outcome of the cases being a coin flip at the supreme court is the tragedy in all of this.

dzonga··on Monzo Stand-In
monzo r the same guys who went in on micro services. at a time they were bragging 3 micro services per engineer. so yeah a lot of things don't make sense.
dzonga··on Small Models Have Arrived
there's this [0] - Zep.

e.g for a lot of small business - they generate invoices - feed that into a RAG system. Then have an agent etc do follow ups. for agents then the smaller models are enough.

[0]: https://help.getzep.com/graphiti/getting-started/overview

dzonga··on I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again
for Auth - why don't people go with trusted solutions that work without hiccups.

if you want hosted setups - FusionAuth, Stytch etc.

if you work in a mainstream language/framework - some excellent libraries eg in ruby authentication-zero, in js - BetterAuth, Django-all-auth.

for AWS as well - use their solutions where you don't need to read a lot of docs.

dzonga··on Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal
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dzonga··on Canada Hires 48 Scholars Away from Top U.S. Universities
it has been close to 100 years now - that the U.S has been the leading destination for researchers, scientists & other ambitious individuals.

before it was Germany - but then nazism took hold. & researchers left starting from 1925/30. Slowly now Germany is recovering their place in science.

such a tragedy - with the dismantling of NIH etc - smart people might say, the U.S made progress without the NIH. The issue is the US was able to invite a lot of immigrants, then even raid those ones with blemished records e.g during Operation Paperclip.

100 years of work, going to waste. It will likely take another 100 years to recover.

dzonga··on Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
I don't think software developers need to unionize - but to form French style co-ops.

e.g a lot of video game studios even the AAA ones could be co-ops. same as a lot of SAAS software companies. Linear - just announced a tender offer. I don't see a reason - why linear couldn't work as a co-op.

dzonga··on Software engineering is about managing complexity
pretty good article.

I wish everyone in our industry read 'No Silver Bullet, & Grug-brained Developer'.

a lot of complexity - is about what can we do now, with what we have.

dzonga··on Small Models Have Arrived
small models + a good application layer - are more than enough, good for routine business tasks.

the application Layer i.e having a good graph RAG & connecting it up together is the missing piece for most.

dzonga··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
bingo. capital, talent has no borders.
dzonga··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
the current admin are working hard to destroy the U.S as if they're foreign agents.

not only are they making it hard & unbearable for families of US citizens & PR holders to be together.

while at the same time - discouraging talent to come to the US at a crucial time when talent is at a premium due to A.I development.

last the backwards energy policy of banning renewable energy.

dzonga··on WebMCP: Teaching Your Website to Talk to AI Agents
I don't know anything about you or where you're based.

but in Main Street US - guess what the dentists are using ? guess what the auto-shop is using, the auto-dealer ?

mostly desktop software running on on-premise hardware, with some using cloud version but just being a small population overall. most of the software has no APIs, & no web version.

it's not sexy, nor fun. actual FDEs are needed for those industries, if anything A.I will unlock so much lost productivity.

dzonga··on GLM-5.3-Flash
> Before release, we tested GLM-5.3-Flash anonymously as ox-alpha on OpenCode and OpenRouter to gather user feedback. It quickly became the most popular model of the week — with all of this traffic served on Chinese AI chips.

Just like that we are witnessing an open burial. It's now in everyone's interest to keep the valuations in the 'A.I' economy as they're though it's apparent they're not justified.

whether it's the cost to develop models, cost of hardware, cost of serving ie inference.

dzonga··on WebMCP: Teaching Your Website to Talk to AI Agents
we already have something better than WebMCP - i.e general APIs.

more impactful work has to be done on the native legacy desktop app scene. that's where most of major companies big or small do their work.

agents automating websites is kinda easy. automating legacy desktop apps that's another issue though there's RPA.

dzonga··on AWS Acquires DuckDB
AWS acquiring DuckLabs is massive. nice move.

one feature I can't wait from the DuckDb team are real-time materialized views.

dzonga··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
these things have to be operated from Russia or some country that has total independence from US legal system.
dzonga··on Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues
effects of vibe coding + the zealotry like passion of DHH & this is the result.
dzonga··on Starbase, LA
Elon - great product guy - he has to let go of his scammy tendencies of overpromising stuff.

just one launch base will transform the Louisiana economy.

dzonga··on Show HN: PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage
only if it could be run serverless.

but nice product overall - just like s2 lite.

dzonga··on Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
having lived in Taiwan for a year. that's the sentiment of majority of the population - they want to maintain the status quo.
dzonga··on The Government Report That Made Me Stop Trusting Our Statistical Agencies
ministry of truth.

those r the versions or the truth the gvt wants you to see.

dzonga··on The Remote Work Challenge: Lessons from 5 Cities
the best approach & sustainable cities has always been mixed zoning.

city buildings at human scale i.e 4-5 stories like in most European cities. shops / retail etc at retail level. then offices / apartments occupy the other levels.

make places walkable & dense. then have public Parks etc. then shit like niteclubs etc - should be relegated to basement level. same as parking.

dzonga··on Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests
either wait for bigger batteries, hydrogen or some super efficient material to create the fuselage.

biofuels won't work. they take too much land and are inefficient in terms of producing.

dzonga··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
they carved because most of those places want access to the 'yuuuge' US market.

politics vs reality. they could correct though by selling US treasuries - but that would make the world economy sneeze which might result in pneumonia.

dzonga··on US debt has hit $40tn - Will that be a wake-up call?
the rate of growth is the worrying trend.

then that the debt has been accelerating with either party in power - means this is a problem that won't be solved politically by the current actors i.e both parties.

dzonga··on CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s
CIA has funded a lot of things that are of national interest.

From Google etc ...

dzonga··on AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
I think x.com does this too - haven't been able to dig deeper.
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