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I think pi-subagents (which can form arbitrarily long chains of subagents, with up to 8 in parallel) and Claude Code‘s new workflows feature, are quite convenient abstractions that can be setup quickly.

Maybe we will have only agents, soon.

Teachers can be bad without union, and unionized EV manufacturing was never a problem. If you are playing at German auto unions. The lack of European sourced batteries is the problem, unions have nothing to do with that.

I did mention that some side job is required for a good life. 15h certainly enough. Once AGI is here that might be our future.

And? Try doing that 200y ago. There was no system to exploit. The system exists because progress has made it possible.

But how? The training data is the unadulterated content those models are based on? I genuinely don’t understand, no snark.

In some European countries, you can actually go on welfare and never work again. It takes some tricks because the state doesn’t like it; and maybe you‘ll want to do some undeclared side jobs for 15h a week and you’ll be comfortable.

I don’t know how such people can live with themselves. But apparently, if you’re immune to the second factor, it is possible, nowadays, to work 15h or less, without any wealth, and lead a good life.

The only thing threatening this status quo is corporations and rich people pulling their wealth into other states; and related, being net importers. I don’t understand why the EU is allowing this to happen. They should grow some teeth finally.

Codex barely writes any comments, while Claude makes a slop article for every one line commit. I’d enjoy something in the middle.

Blacksmiths is not the best analogy here.

The Expanse also was (for me) the first to introduce the concept of a braking burn. Star Wars ships just stop without turning around - can’t unsee it. I think the way X-wing fighters “fly” also wouldn’t work at all, I don’t see any reaction mass coming out the sides.

Thank you for elaborating. Really interesting.

Can you share how you use it to edit code? I‘ve seen a couple approaches, curious what you are doing:

1. Spec -> plan -> code (all agent driven, maybe with grill-me or ultraplan)

2. Handwritten spec -> agent driven plan -> agent driven code

3. Agent driven spec -> vibed code -> Fix by handholding until ok-ish

4. Vibed throwaway prototypes -> extract useful patterns -> rewrite with handholding

5. Generate file structure with handholding -> manual TODO comments -> Fill in blanks with handholding

That’s not vibing, but waterfall development.

Check out its app-server, IMO it’s a decent foundation to the codex clients.

His quant that fits into 128GB looks interesting for Spark DGX as well IMO.

Certainly not trillions. The models costing tens of billions to train are a very new development.

Have you looked into DwarfStar 4?

Interactions with agents are conversational, while higher order langs are declarative. Spec driven development has been failing us, because there is no feedback loop from the runtime to the spec.

Ouch that’s rough. A few nights like that and life just feels hard for me. Gloomy outlook, bad memory etc

For me, sleep before midnight is the most important factor. If I need my brain working well the next day, all I need to do is go to bed by 10PM. Even if I wake at 5:30, it will be fine.

BTW, nights were I have dream recall afterwards, are the best. Anyone else have made the same observation?

It wouldn’t be useful with your setup, probably 3-4 token per second.

But how are Neo users dealing with this? It’s a new machine, surely it works with 8GB?

People drown in the Mediterranean every day, to live in Germany or the UK.

Many large systems can’t be built good enough because they just fall apart. Try letting a junior dev make an ERP or a database system.

You are describing the toy projects that had us all amazed end of last year. Large, maintainable software that can serve paying customers is in a completely different galaxy.

I‘ve used it in a previous engagement. Unfortunately it’s not customizable enough, and performance for deep forms is really bad. Also, I‘d definitely use agents to set it up.

Agents are read-only per default in Zed. You should really get off your high horse.

Curious, why did Zed with ACP not work for you?

Markdown covers only a very small subset of HTML. By definition you are wrong.

Yes that’s the case. And as Anthropic staff, author has an incentive to promote workflows that require an agent to interact with text documents.