I finished Quantum Radio last week and Im quite far in Rainbows End. I think the former is ok, not great; the latter is a better book (with AR future vibes), but still lacking something that makes u never drop it before u finish it.
From my experience Zed agents oftn just goes and edits your files without your asking it to. Even if you ask questions about codebase, it assumes you want it to be changed. For it to be useful it must be better at understanding prompts; I would also like it to generate diffs like it does but prompt me if I want to apply them first
Not having the leader really annoys me but I’ve found myself using Zed more and more recently regardless. I think their LLM integration is just right for me unlike the neovim plugins I’ve tried. It’s really annoying because Ive been using vim for well over a decade so Id prefer to stick at home, but Zed is really reaching the level Im starting to like
> This is huge, as long as there's a single standard and other LLM providers don't try to release their own protocol
Yes, very much this; I'm mildly worried because the competition in this space is huge and there is no shortage of money and crazy people who could go against this.
It's an open protocol; where did you get the idea that it would only work with Claude? You can implement it for whatever you want - I'm sure langchain folks are already working on something to accommodate it
Something is telling me this _might_ turn out to be a huge deal; I can't quite put a finger on what is that makes me feel that, but opening private data and tools via an open protocol to AI apps just feels like a game changer.
Yep, this is the right take. Somehow entrepreneurs are perceived in the EU as tich freeloaders and not as job and innovation creators who tend to take a lot of risk and go through tremendous pressure while running their companies. I feel the influx of VC money skewed the vision of what it entails to start a company: it is true that the investment slightly "de-risks" founders (emphasis on double quotes!) but that's often an illusion - I don't think people who never ran a company understand the pressure of a founder's responsibility towards their employees, investors, etc... most of the generally very risk-averse Europeans will never grasp this
Europe being Europe. But more importantly, I find it a but strange the countries with growing deficits thinking that raising taxes is the right move towards improving the economic situation instead of restructuring
At one of the gigs I had, the VP of Engineering was running the engineering department like your good uncle rather than actually managing it so it becomes a well oiled high performing department. And it showed. And not in a good way. It set the company back badly.
My theory is all developed societies converge on having no accountability in the governing positions. Of course, I may and most like am wrong but if you look at say politics you must at least think about this being a real possibility
This is true, but as I learnt [1] recently, adversarial attacks on LLMs can get incredibly sophisticated, so this is kinda apples and oranges ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is awesome! Over the summer I wrote API clients for both Go [1] and Rust [2] as we were using Play in my job at the time but there was only Python and Node SDK.
Incredible achievement, my American friends! Congrats! We, Europeans, can only feel jealous, but hey at least we have free [but comically broken and dysfunctional] healthcare, so, there's that. I hope you'll bring a lot more progress to humankind beyond space exploration!
If, and it is an IF, this does turn out the way he is imagining, the transitional period to the AI from the economic PoV will be disastrous for people. That's the scariest part I think.
I didn't say it was bs. I was alluding to the timing of this essay being published but, clearly, I didn't articulate it in my message well. I also don't think everything he says is bs. Some of it I find a bit naive -- but maybe that's ok -- some other things seem a bit like sci-fi, but who are we to say this is impossible? I'm optimistic but also learnt in life that things improve, sometimes drastically given the right ingredients.
I think Dario is trying to raise a new round because OpenAI has done and will continue to do so, nevertheless, the essay provides for some really great reading and even if the fraction comes true, it'll be wonderful.
It took us almost 2 decades but finally the truly cloud native architectures are becoming a reality. Warp and Turbopuffer are some of the many other examples