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Wish I could apply for Oxide. Been admiring from afar (physically)

Nah, I'm typically <20% context before I clear and continue

I use opus primarily, on a mix of pure coding tasks, and log parsing / incident investigation.

I don't have the mental capacity to do a lot of context switching between active work streams, so I'm not doing stuff like leaving a big agent workflow running while doing other things.

All through claude code.

Out of school for awhile, but covering low-level topics, down to logic gates, assembly, and doing floating point math manually, is not something I _use_ every day, but was crucial both when programming in higher level languages, and now using AI tools to write code in higher level languages.

It feels like there will be a beefy "middle" where people can probably drop some of that context, and get a lot of productive things done with AI. But there will still be a need for people more deeply knowledgeable and educated. It's probably just not in the proportions we have today.

_Kind of_ like the boom of coding bootcamps. A lot of people got good work done going through a coding bootcamp, but didn't get the deep background that a CS major would.

Coding bootcamps didn't mean we don't need CS education, and neither will AI, I expect. But the numbers and jobs are definitely going to change.

I don't think too hard about usage one way or another -- not tokenmaxxing, not avoiding AI. Regularly use up over $1500/m without really trying.

This is how I feel every time I read an AI PR at work. It looks like it makes sense. And the code passes tests. But it always feels off.

There's a big difference between holding up a phone and taking a picture and just... existing with glasses and having everything recorded without your knowledge.

Can't charge an AI agent itself with a felony, so intent or reckless behavior would have to be assigned to a person or corporation, I'd think.

Yeah it's an interesting turn. I remember seeing him talk about how programming for fun was part of essentially his rehab. Seems like it's turned into something different now if he's looking down on others for doing the same.

What in particular? I've enjoyed watching some of the community update videos and dev videos, but haven't followed the project closely.

In my city in Norway, at least, there is never a traffic pattern where it's not either:

* a small roundabout with really clear pedestrian right of way marked

* a pedestrian path that takes you over or under the road instead of crossing it

It's great!

Depends on the driving culture and familiarity with roundabouts for sure. Moved from the US to a city in Norway with almost exclusively roundabouts, and it's _so much nicer_. Even in the edge cases, I have never once found myself wanting a traffic light.

Simple intersections can have very small roundabouts, and bigger ones you can connect roads from so many weird directions and have traffic flow well that I would never want to return some of the intersections I experienced in the US.

I am an incredibly non-violent person, but have a toddler has really made me work hard to understand the difference in what associations we attach to "violence" as adults.

I try to help him understand this slowly, but a lot of "play" can look violent to my eyes, and I struggle to remember that. A 3 year old just doesn't see it that way yet, and that's fine. But it's hard to remember that in the moment.

Well said. The problem is that vibe coding can paper over bad engineering practices for awhile. And results look good, and when you raise concerns people look at you like you're dumb and trying to slow things down.

But the underlying bad practices _will_ bite the same they would have before AI, you just don't know when.

It's a really frustrating state of the industry to be in.

I went full circle on AI. For an in-editor experience, Zed is top notch. But I've found I actually prefer just to go back to claude code + Zed.

The "problem" it might solve for me, personally, is having a systems-level language that matches my personal style a bit better than Rust or other more modern systems level languages.

I know they're putting a lot of weight on GPU programming, which is fine and probably solves problems, but this is the part that would motivate me personally.

Once they get an async story figured out I will be much more motivated to dive deeper into Mojo

Don't give him any ideas.

Low value comment, so I apologize, but it's funny to note how many bottleneck articles there are now as a result of AI adoption. Lots of new bottlenecks.

`uv` helps but it's new, and I don't think it has the same mindshare yet on "I just globally want to install this thing that needs an interpreter/runtime", so Python probably just doesn't come first to mind.

This probably has a simple answer, and is something I can easily google. But it's always been in the back of my mind, what optimizations would be possible if you took actual python code and forced 100% type annotation. Could you meaningfully speed that up at the interpreter or with some pre-processing or compilation?

EDIT: I guess this kind of answers my curiosity: https://programming-journal.org/2023/7/2/

Everyone says they want the weird more personal internet back, then this is what we get when someone does a weird internet thing!

Having both floaters and visual snow, there is absolutely no way anyone would ever mix them up, though. Incredibly different experience.

Visual snow is different from floaters, though.

My point was more about the positive outcomes from these kinds of fines, rather than about _forcing_ corporate behavior change. If corporations are going to act like psychopaths, let's at least make them pay a tax for it with fines like this.

LAN parties were an odd but super fun part of being a teenager at the time!

I dropped it in to replace zellij, and get better agent integration in the process.

Makes me think of the DuPont settlement with Rhode Island: https://www.law.com/article/almID/900005544259/

As a result, Rhode Island has some great followup and public health programs. It wasn't that much money to DuPont, but it did real good in Rhode Island, and I believe DuPont changed their legal tactics afterwards.

Yeah the big driver for it, from memory, was them offering on-site deployment.

Hallucinations were low hanging fruit in some ways. As someone working on a large-ish complex-ish distributed system that has to be maintained and support customers, it's still very high value to have Claude in the mix, but the core problem of needing to monitor, advise, course correct, and make sure you don't end up with more code and complexity than you need is, at least in my experience, still roughly the same. The sharp edges are being filed off very rapidly, but the core experience of "make and maintain a large system" isn't advancing nearly as fast, IMO.