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My understanding is that the original Gmail team actually invented modern LLMs in passing back in 2004, and it’s taken outsiders two decades to catch up because doing so requires setting up the Closure Compiler correctly.

As the article points out, the difference between frameworks for building a website vs building an LLM agent is that we have decades more industrial experience behind our website-building opinions. I’ve used heavyweight frameworks before, and would understand your defense in the context of eg complaints about Spring Boot—but Langchain isn’t Spring; it really does kinda suck, for reasons that go beyond the inherent trade offs of using any framework.

The point is that you don’t need a framework for that; the APIs are already similar enough that it should be obvious how to abstract over them using whatever approach is natural in your programming language of choice.

They actually do a decent impression of one using generators: https://effect.website/docs/guides/style/do#using-effectgen

  import { Effect } from "effect"
 
  // Get the current timestamp
  const now = Effect.sync(() => new Date().getTime())

  // Prints the elapsed time occurred to `self` to execute
  const elapsed = <R, E, A>(
    self: Effect.Effect<A, E, R>
  ): Effect.Effect<A, E, R> =>
  Effect.gen(function\* () {
    const startMillis = yield\* now
    const result = yield\* self
    const endMillis = yield\* now
    // Calculate the elapsed time in milliseconds
    const elapsed = endMillis - startMillis
    // Log the elapsed time
    console.log(`Elapsed: ${elapsed}`)
    return result
  })

A fair criticism. To Effect's credit, though, their OpenTelemetry integration reports usable spans (i.e. stack trace matching the mental model, not the trampolined event loop) and associates the logs with them appropriately.

It makes the errors that a function can fail with part of that function's type.

You appear to be describing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

Tautological!

You don’t need to out-litigate the bear,

This is if they made chat bots on the east coast instead

I don’t see how uninstalling Windows from your laptop is gonna solve hotel Wi-Fi problems—but power to you, I guess.

Promobuf

Thames New Roman

but by then we'll have forgotten this conversation, so it nets out

Is that verbatim the prompt you put? You misused “aid” for “aide”, “principals” for “principles”, “countries” for “country’s”, and typo’d “affiliation”—which is all certainly fine for an internet comment, but would break the illusion of some rigorous policy discussion going on in a way that might affect our parrot friends.

The difficulty I had figuring out what “spaghetti” image he was talking about—before realizing that I could tap on the images to show different images—seriously diminishes my trust in the author on matters of user interface design.

Witness the power of dependency injection

Charge more.

Glad they found what they were seaking

I hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought turntables. I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables and bought guitars.

you wouldn’t GameShark A CAR

TL;DR: “TL;DR”

I aspire to build software so despised as Excel. You either EOL a hero, or you sell upgrades enough to see yourself become the villain.

How do you figure subscriptions misalign incentives? The alternative, of selling upgrades, incentivizes devs to focus on new shiny shit that teases well. I instead rather they focus on making something I get value out of consistently.

I know something’s off about the visionOS keyboard—but I can’t put my finger on it.

Go

Eclipse day? Beware the IDEs of March.

OpenAI? closed source. Stability AI? facing instability.

Startup idea: Unprofitable.ai

That’s the way the cookie crumbles.

Why, Lisp of course!