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epolanski

13,689 karma · joined March 14, 2020

Freelancer/contractor.

Mostly interested in functional programming and effect systems.

contact me at

enricopolanski at gmail dot com

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epolanski··on Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age
I highly doubt those numbers, Leapmotor sells a lot of T03 and Bs and it's not even in the rankings.
epolanski··on Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age
Point is: those cars differentiate little to nothing among themselves except in design gimmicks.

The latest Grande Panda is an example of that.

epolanski··on Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age
Citroen is already the Stellantis' equivalent of Skoda niche for Volkswagen.
epolanski··on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
Why wouldn't they be able to grow, its just one data point more in their training, in your notes or in their instructions.

It doesn't matter if they are beings or not. They will replace most humans in the offices like machines replaced most humans in fields or industrial plants.

epolanski··on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
I already felt our civilization was on a steep decline, but AI is the final nail in the coffin, technology kills my own job too, hooray.
epolanski··on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
I keep hearing about this "when things break" argument, but things broke all the time with humans writing code too, if anything it feels like it's getting patched faster.

Look I loved our field, functional programming, etc. But the field as we knew it is dead, and if you think that your work is anything but providing new tests/edge cases and occasionally providing some guidance, you're in denial.

epolanski··on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
The US alone!
epolanski··on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
I think he means LLMs, we knew about RL already.
epolanski··on Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]
It's not balanced, the market keeps shrinking visibly.

There's CVs out there that would've made recruiters go mad 36 months ago sending their hundreth application.

epolanski··on Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]
Doesn't matter, if the number of position keeps shrinking so will our job prospects.

I'm a freelancing consultant since 5 years, I've had 2 major customers now for 3+ years. I have a very good pulse of the market: being good, or being even very good and being among those that brings AI and automation to organizations will not save our jobs.

In fact, AI has sped up so much the work that 2 out of 5 people in my current team are being let go: I find it absurd, our productivity has more than doubled over the last years and we've made ourselves redundant. Money is money, I'm on one side making non-tech workers redundant (people whose job was menial boring office stuff), and building the systems that will make myself redundant.

epolanski··on How to Build Wealth as a Career Person
That's more of a "build a career", than "build wealth".
epolanski··on Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team
I run Deepseek v4.1 flash and pay per token.

I get more intelligence and mileage out of few tens of euros on their APIs than I would've got out of Codex+Claude 200$ subscription in June.

If you don't see the downward trend that's a you problem.

epolanski··on Why hasn't SpaceX, worth $2T, paid this Bay Area chef the $70K it owes him?
Is there anything "original" anymore when it comes to thumbnails or titles?

They are tweaked all time to maximize views.

epolanski··on Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team
Only one of the two trends is downwards.
epolanski··on Grieving the loss of details
Previous poster stated ai can't do hard problems.

Yet there's a typescript compiler vibe coded, 100% compliant.

epolanski··on Grieving the loss of details
Your comment feels like it was written 18 months ago.

A vibe coded typescript compiler runs twice as fast as the one maintained by two dozen people led by some of the most brilliant language and compiler experts out there backed by thousands of open source contributors.

All of that by saying "here's the tests, implement it in rust".

epolanski··on Grieving the loss of details
That and the fact that people void of any skills, coding or engineering ones, could still find a six figure job.
epolanski··on Grieving the loss of details
Programmers were all futurists, then the future came for their job.

Few years from now we'll be fighting to get a semi stable job that will pay like any other office job, and feel lucky we did.

epolanski··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
Marketing is irrelevant.

Companies will keep using Google/Microsoft/Amazon cloud offerings due to the ease of extending existing contracts and procurements.

Virtually all my clients use Bedrock or Azure with zero data retention. Not one would use openai/anthropic or chinese cloud offerings.

Only devs do so.

epolanski··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
> It's really not cheaper than frontier subscriptions.

I use DS 4.1 flash it all the time, i struggle to spend more than 1 euro per day on it, even working all day long.

epolanski··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
DS 4.1 flash is much much better than Opus 4.6, even quantized.
epolanski··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
Opencode Go for 8$/month feels like getting more intelligence and tokens than Claude in June 26 at the 200$ mark.
epolanski··on Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM
What are we arguing really?

An LLM has reimplemented a 2 times faster version of a program developed by a team of dozens of brilliant engineers led by few of the biggest experts in compilers and programming languages in the world.

While maintaining 100% test coverage and so far compiling every single project that the original compiler did.

If your takeaway here is "yeah, but the other one has been checked by dozens of paid devs and an entire community", and still those dozens of devs with the backing of thousands of contributors could not make a compiler faster I can't buy say: "maybe we humans aren't as good as writing code as we thought and LLMs are exposing us".

epolanski··on Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM
Because there's no evidence LLMs struggle to maintain or add features to complex codebases.
epolanski··on Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM
Your comment would've made sense in 2024, not now.
epolanski··on Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM
Either the current test suite covers the apis and expected behavior or it does not.
epolanski··on Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM
> Good luck adding new code to it.

Interestingly, your whole comment implicitly has the answer to this. In the future you don't add code or read it, you only add test cases and have the loops work on covering the new case.

epolanski··on Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM
I don't think the author even knows Rust.
epolanski··on Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM
> And how would you trust this to build your code?

In the same way you trust any build of the official compiler: it passes all of the existing tests.

epolanski··on 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth
Didn't expect folks to take a fact statement as an attack.

The point was to emphasize the longevity of some animals, as for us humans the US constitution is 8/9 generations away.

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