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I've considered "great engineer" a hiring anti-pattern for a decade. (Specifically in the space of product-focussed pre-pmf startups, through into early scale-ups).

I'll take "great communicator", "great co-ordinator", "great collaborator" and "great technical designer" over engineering prowess any day of the week. That's where the 10x gains come from in a team.

Though, on that last point, I think most great engineers I've met are that way because they are great technical designers. It's not something that usually gets filtered for in hiring in my experience.

We have a career framework that I've refined across 4 teams now. 6 areas, and only one of those is "Coding and testing".

I spoke with Peer (the creator of Grisp) about this at Elixirconf earlier in the year, and I'm not an expert here so I hope I don't misrepresent his comments:

Grisp puts enough controls on the runtime that soft-realtime becomes hard-realtime for all intents and purposes, outside of problems that also cause errors in hard-realtime systems.

(Also, thanks Peer for being tremendously patient with a new embedded developer! That kind of friendly open chat is a huge draw to the Elixir community)

You're overthinking it. I'd rather have interesting than milquetoast.

Nailed it

Eesh, a disaster? I use it daily to do some pretty impressive things. Wouldn’t call it a disaster.

Is this actually a game?

It loads with one item in an inventory I can’t seem to use past the first room, and there seems to be nothing in the second room that is interactive except (spoilers) a cupboard door.

Is this just a tech demo of some features? Or something bigger that everyone in the comments is missing?

(That aside, the art is vibe is very cool. I love old-school point and clicks ever since Zak McKraken, and a horror themed one would be an instant buy from me)

> What I do care about is being met with something cutesy in the face of a technical failure anywhere on the net

This is probably intentional. They offer an paid unbranded version. If they had a corporate friendly brand on the free offering, then there would be fewer people paying for the unbranded one.

Not to speak for OP, and this library is very cool, but:

It’s ~20 commits done in two batches. 2018 for the initial release then some more work on it in 2023.

Zastai: you could have that kind of progress on any lib you wish to release, and it’s a nice feeling to have something out in the wild.

It’s not a tool for signatures. It’s also hard to sign documents with a paint roller.

But this UI is much better at, e.g. drawing a smooth, symmetrical heart symbol, with a crisp turn.

Different UI for different tasks, and it’s very cool to see something that intuitively lets you control something that is normally hidden under your finger.

What makes you say the library is modifying the signature? (It’s not)

For others reading this, “AI” in this context means Artificial Insemination.

We all know that being first does not mean success, and it’s not “gargantuan” mismanagement.

It’s rare to be first AND the leader 20 years later.

Annoyingly I'm finding cursor's autocomplete to be better than others, even though it's agent editing is not as good as claude code.

So I'm using CC in cursor (the little integration is nice) to get the best of both. None of cursors other AI features are helping though.

I've test-driven 2 cars in the last 2 years (because I'm environmentally interested in swapping my diesel for an EV), but each time has put me off that entire brand. First was Tesla, I can't stand the full iPad console with no physical controls. (And Elon... but that's a side thread).

Then, Volvo, with blue lights filling the cabin and these types of safety features.

Each time I've come away thinking what a shit-show the car was, and how that seems to be the opinion of the entire company line.

I'm still driving my 15 year old diesel with manual controls and dim orange status lights at night. I just want a simple EV with aircon and speakers with media controls by the steering wheel. Minimal extra bullshit.

I'd assume eventual IPO. And/or specific lucrative contracts within US Govt/Military/Tech.

But, why?

~5 year pro elixir here, various systems in production, I don't know any erlang.

I don’t quite understand why reforming the actual system, and moving away from first-past-the-post, isn’t higher on everyone’s list.

It feels like we don’t have a functioning democracy in the U.K., and that gets in the way of pretty much everything else.

Having been to a place that does this, before I had an online profile: I think this is only one side of their approach.

During my visit the team were super attentive and conversational and picked up on insanely small details. I’m sure if you weren’t a person of note, you’ll still get the same service but they have a different starting point to deliver it.

My friend does this and calls it “hedging humanity”. Every time some big political event has happened that bums me out, he’s made a few hundred.

Tried to login to the example site, unfortunately hit an error immediately after auth'ing with github.

Risk / reward tradeoff. There are other options that are as good, as cheap, as easy.

Why pick one with a significant, unpredictable, often unknown flaw. Where if it happens you end up needing major surgery?

I’ve built a few things like this using Nerves / Elixir on a pi. It’s got a really nice dev experience through to useful deployment and over-the-air updates.

I highly recommend it to anyone building little functional prototypes of this sort.

I had a go and it failed at the first hurdle I’m afraid. It was hallucinating my responses and inserting phrases that I wasn’t saying.

The teacher kept switching into an American accent when I was trying to learn French and the responses were getting very slow bitty.

Hopefully this is just an initial load of issues because the concept is great.

Sorry, I only just saw this comment. Feel free to reach out (email in profile) and I’d be happy to chat.

A point on skimming vs taking the time to read something properly.

I read a transcript + summary of that exact talk. I thought it was fine, but uninteresting, I moved on.

Later I saw it had been put on youtube and I was on the train, so I watched the whole thing at normal speed. I had a huge number of different ideas, thoughts and decisions, sparked by watching the whole thing.

This happens to me in other areas too. Watching a conference talk in person is far more useful to me than watching it online with other distractions. Watching it online is more useful again than reading a summary.

Going for a walk to think about something deeply beats a 10 minute session to "solve" the problem and forget it.

Slower is usually better for thinking.

I tuned in, and immediately watched a guy wait for his dog to shit, and then pick it up. The internet is a wonder.

Yea CC is great with phoenix / liveview. It’s been doing things that teach me new tricks about elixir I didn’t know yet.

Bad choice imo, given that there is another database called tiger beetle. I assumed they’d merged when I saw the title.

I understand it’s poorly promoted by the biggest users. But more of the web and world infrastructure runs on it than you realise.

Here’s an old post with some examples - https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/which-companies-are-us...