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HTML and HTTP? TCP was the real mistake.

It’s funny. I thought the same thing before taking the time to become familiar with VIM keybindings and now I find VS Code tedious and painfully slow.

No I agree. The article seemed like it was going somewhere and then just sort of trailed off and never reached any sort of conclusion.

What about Cat 8? I know it’s not really used in consumer grade applications but is it in TIA/EIA standards?

Eye eighteenin

“I die,” grass

Until you have to pay back your advance to the record label.

That’s actually the perfect name for it!

Yes! I said this same thing in a separate comment! It sounds like Eczema Script

EcmaScript is an awful name. It sounds too similar to eczema or ectoplasm. Ugly name.

That is not a good analogy. Games are built using programming languages. JavaScript is a programming language. Cars are built using metals (usually steel). A better analogy would be like trying to build a car out of iron, a really heavy metal. Since js/node is very resource heavy requiring transpilation/etc…

If the output generated by his attempts at making a better game is a much faster node runtime, then even if the game is still not usable does that matter? The end result is still an improvement over something that existed before. The game was just a catalyst.

Isn’t every success story really an example of survivorship bias?

My thinking is that they’re trying to capture that market for JavaScript before another AI company does. To put it bluntly they want to capture the revenue generated by writing JavaScript code, which is currently being captured by independent JavaScript developers. The reason for a JavaScript is that is the most ubiquitous language, and id guess there are more jobs available for JS/node than any other language. Of course, as a JavaScript developer, this may just be my paranoia. <sweats profusely>

I’m guessing he was probably a JavaScript developer that wanted to make a game. He began building it using what he knew and then he hit the limitations of it. Rather than switching to something else, he tried to figure out why fast compile times weren’t possible and determined that they were possible and started to build a solution for it.

That’s kind of the opposite though. I guess if you’re saying that there’s an art to building things using the least efficient means possible just as there’s an art to being maximally efficient (like the 4k demo scene) then your point stands.

Rushing things to completion using unfinished code is the JavaScript way!

- a javascript developer

How is their Web app any different than any other AI? I feel like it’s on par with all of them. It works great for me. Although I mostly use Claude code.

At least Anthropic itself has the stated goal of creating ethical AI that benefits humanity. That’s more than can be said for any other AI companies. Time will tell though. Google‘s motto used to be “don’t be evil” and now it’s basically the opposite.

This is most likely the reason.

It’s good for users of Claude though

That’s kind of why Anthropic became a separate company in the first place though isn’t it? Dario Amodei was former head of research at OpenAI and left along with 6 or 7 others to form Anthropic.

This is correct

Good thing they got acquired by a company that also has a snowballs chance in hell of ever paying back their investment

This explains why Claude started transpiling & running JavaScript code! Yesterday, when I asked it to generate a document for me in JavaScript, it generated the JavaScript and then ran it to generate a document. I had never actually seen it compile and run any code before. It only would ever output code and either use the shell (Claude code) to run it on my local computer or allow me to copy and paste it.

“Seeing what changes are coming” is insider information.

Somehow I don’t think paying them more is going to be a very popular idea among the citizenry.

And there’s no planning

It’s only a matter of time before MS starts asking us to send Wal*Mart gift cards.

“Trite” is an adjective, not a noun.

> you wouldn’t download a car would you?

When these companies make their services so painful and inconvenient, of course people are going to go to (less ethical but more convenient) alternatives.