I like OCaml. Formerly Microsoft (O365 Core/Substrate internals), Facebook (Hacklang). I identify as a peacenik
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2BitSalute retweeted
"coders are fine with repetitive elements and inefficiently written statements"
- someone who has never met a dev
absolutely tickled by how these llms currently seem to work better for lawyer-y tasks than they do for my friend who's been ghostwriting smut for the last 15+ years
specifically, she says:
> biggest pain point is the fact that output matters for writing but coders just care that the code works
> coders are fine with repetitive elements and inefficiently written statements, but when writing, the repetitive patterns turn into limericks after 300 words
> which then requires me to either prevent this at the input level by heavily seeding the inputs with non slop writing patterns or almost go through entire rewrites on the outputs
> the former means a 100k book might require 50k words of scaffolding
> the latter means i'm probably rewriting 75k by hand
and her comment today:
2BitSalute retweeted
You just don't get it. Software engineering has been solved already. It's beyond our comprehension.
2BitSalute retweeted
The world if Dennis Ritchie had chosen Pascal strings instead of NUL termination:
2BitSalute retweeted
not sure what’s stupider - losing 6 figures a month because of calendly or thinking twitter is your personal concierge
2BitSalute retweeted
Непопулярное мнение про переписывание Bun с Zig на Rust. Мне кажется, что сейчас главные выгодоприобретатели — это разработчики Zig. Потому что код Bun был насилием над принципами Zig, а теперь он точно так же насилует Rust. Enfant terrible какой-то.
2BitSalute retweeted
Sufficiently detailed and correct specification is as achievable as bug-free code.
2BitSalute retweeted
You were already right - Anthropic is late to that party. OpenAI literally said and did exactly this seven years ago for GPT-2:
