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The visual component editor does look pretty nice :-) I guess I always just associated sbc's with a more 'hands on' style...

Anyway, seems like a pretty cool project - congrats!

just curious - if it runs from a docker container, what is the advantage of running the browser as opposed to just ssh'ing in ?

Amazon (use to ?) have roles where your expected to be on-site with clients 20-25% of the time. But given how often they were hiring for the roles, I think the turn over was pretty high.

Anyway - Good luck!

I came, I saw, .... I geeked :-D

Nice project - how did you like working with Servo ?

Having held a similiar position for IBM, personally I just don't like dealing with customers. Some are great, others are just a pain ... I like my machines better :-)

You might have more luck looking at people with 'pre-sales engineer' experience for the role? They are used to lots of customer engagement ?

Odd - its been working fine here all day. Its when they claim to be up I usually have problems :-P

Wow - has it been over 20 years already? Congrats !!

"SourceForge was abandoned due to UX issues and the adware debacle"

I'd say SourceForge was abandoned due to VA Linux going under. I remember the pain/panic as large numbers of OSS projects were suddenly scrambling to find alternatives to SF. I actually started a subscription to GitHub just to try and help ensure they had the money to stay in business, and we didn't have to go thru that again.

I've had a similar experience - I basically have to tell it to do everything twice now. It especially loves ignoring instructions to re-read a file (or re-read in FULL) and just uses its (stale) cache/context version. It also wants to 'pattern match' instead of actually reading what's provided which leads to lots of really basic logic errors.

Have you seen Genode (1) ? An operating system framework with a pretty usable OS built on top. Last I heard, it was getting pretty close to being usable as a daily driver. lots of cool tech (micro kernel(IIRC), capabilities, sandboxing as a first class citizen, GUI system, posix compatibility layer, etc). Its been around for ages, has full time developers (its used as the basis for some (all?) of their products.

From the website: "Genode is based on a recursive system structure. Each program runs in a dedicated sandbox and gets granted only those access rights and resources that are needed for its specific purpose. Programs can create and manage sub-sandboxes out of their own resources, thereby forming hierarchies where policies can be applied at each level. The framework provides mechanisms to let programs communicate with each other and trade their resources, but only in strictly-defined manners. Thanks to this rigid regime, the attack surface of security-critical functions can be reduced by orders of magnitude compared to contemporary operating systems."

1 https://genode.org/

Ahh - the circle of life... Its now cheaper to hire humans then to buy more nvidia cards to spin up AI workers! :-P

I can believe it - maybe they feel they have enough of a lead in usage with programmers with Opus that they want to locking down the tooling side as well.

edit: clarify

The part I never really understood, was I thought the subscriptions were to try and boost Opus usage, not claude code usage ? I'm not sure why they care whether you use API or claude, as they limit the number of tokens you can use anyway - and once the request hits the model, I would have thought it takes the same amount of effort to process it regardless of where it comes from ?

I'm surprised that people think this is some new 'save-the-children' thing ? Didn't Zuck say like 10 years ago, you should not be allowed to be anonymous on the internet ? This just seems on-brand at this point.

That's actually a pretty cool - especially for a portfolio piece. While it's not for common use (yet?), it gives prospective employers an idea of how you would work with safety critical code, as we as the 'normal' CRUD/web stuff.

It's going to be interesting when the Millenials retire - IIRC, that generation was almost as large as the boomers. Gen-Z/Gen-Alpha that are going to be supporting them are a LOT smaller.

Yeah - but you have to be a good enough programmer to really understand the headers.. the 'bootstrapping' problem was real :-) Especially if you didn't live in a metropolitan/college area. My local library was really short on programming books - especially anything 'in depth'. Also, 'C' was considered a "professional's language" back then - so bookstores/libraries were more likely to have books on BASIC then 'C'

I started by working on back-end accounting systems - most of those seemed to be COBOL ... or SHUDDER RPG.

Thats sorta the point... at one time or another, those were all projected to be 'the end of programming as we know it'...

Hell, COBOL's origins was in IBM wanting to make programming an 'entry level' occupation.

Oddly enough, spreadsheets had a huge impact (and still run a lot of companies behind the scenes :-P ) But I can't remember anyone claiming they would 'end programming' ?

Oh yeah - thats a good one...

Maybe the move from teletype to CRT's as well ?

Hmm - I'm not sure I'd say that 'changed programming' - but the internet in general changed 'learning to program'. I can remember when I first discovered gopher and found I could read tons recent material for free, or finding stonybrook on the web - that was like a gold mine of algorithms! :-D

Off the top of my head, I can think of the following during my career:

   1. COBOL (we actually did still use it back in the 80s)

   2.AI back in the 80s (Dr. Dobbs was all concerned about it ...)

   3. RAD

   4. No-Code

   5. Off-shoring

   6. Web 2.0

   7. Web 3.0

   8. possibly the ADA/provably correct push depending on your area of programming

TBH - I think the AI's are nice tools, but they got a long way to go before it's the 'end of computer programming as we know it'

edit: formatting

IIRC, that was inspired by the SGI interface. Wonder what other movies saw that and decided to crib it ?

"you literally have to tell it to slow down, focus and think" - This soo much! When I get an unexpected result from claude, I ask it why - what caused it to do such-and-such. After one back and forth session like this putting up tons of guardrails on a prompt, claude literally said "you shouldn't have to teach me to think every session" !!

That sounds neat! I especially like "I give the code a sense of its own emotional state". I can just imagine a function crying "Why did they use that algorithm ?? Why so much spaghetti ?? I'm soo ugly ..Why Why Why" :-D

That would probably motivate me to fix the poor thing, just so I don't feel like I'm torturing it! :-D

Yep, it was a 'momentary' glitch in the matrix ... Things came back even stronger then before, and 'off-shore' just became another tool. Its still around, but it hasn't destroyed the domestic programming industry. However, it was painful for a lot programmers at the time and _seemed_ like the end of the world to them...

Which is why I say, it reminds me very strongly of the current AI trend. AI won't 'go away' - but I don't think it will 'be the end' of programmers (at least not in the next 5-10 years). It will just become another tool

If offshoring started before your time, that might be coloring your perception.

I had already been working in tech for decades when the offshoring craze started. It was remarkably similar to the current 'ai craze'. Loads of jobs lost, predictions it was the end of (on-shore) programming, long job searches (and even longer ones for recent grads, etc. All in the name of 'cost reduction'. Thing is, in a couple of years when the savings didn't materialize/live up to expectations, companies started hiring on-shore again (and even paid better!). Now, offshoring is just one more tool. It still exists, it's still used - but it didn't destroy domestic programming market.

Personally, I think AI will follow the same trajectory. Its gonna be rough, but then it won't be the 'magic bullet' management wants, and they'll start hiring again. AI (just like offshoring) will still be there, still be used - it will just be a tool rather then a complete replacement.

Hmm - that might be ?? This has been going on for a week or two, but it definately seems worse tonight...

I've been doing it myself for 40 years...I wanna play with the new shiny abit :-D Whats the point of being a geek if you don't play with the new shinies ?

Maybe I should just hang it up and go to bed:

  That's a Claude Code issue — queued slash commands not executing between steps.

 you didn't answer me - is that last rule we added to MEMORY.md active and working ?

● Your point: you're asking whether rule 4 ("restate before responding") is actually being followed, because I just failed to do it two messages ago.

  No, it's not working reliably. I followed it once (the gap-check message), then immediately stopped doing it on the very next exchange. The rule exists in memory but I'm not consistently applying it.