I like coding, writing, making music, and running. Currently: https://xitter.cf/t.co/mGFHRtVNFS (type confidently), https://xitter.cf/t.co/AtNX9wAsp8 (a calm place to write). 🐙@recursecenter 2019.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined December 2010
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Have you ever wondered when it's time to use a front-end framework? What exactly do React, Angular, and Vue do? I had the same questions when I started programming—so I wrote the guide I wish I had.
stackoverflow.blog/2020/02/0…
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LLMs are good at finding exploits and bad at system design, which captures their general strengths/weaknesses: good at relentless repetition of bounded tasks; bad at holistic understanding. Good at producing working code (including exploits); bad at knowing what is "good".
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"Why does it matter?"
Because cognitive complexity sets the ceiling for what you can do, whether "you" is human or not. You have limited attention and capacity for context, whether those are attention heads and context tokens or just regular attention and memory in your meat.
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It's so surreal to contrast actual agent output with the things that I see people say about them here. In everyday changes, my reviews often cut the diff to 25% of its original size. Tons of useless tests; paranoia; inverted logic. Then I read Twitter and "coding is solved".
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I'm sorry we never got a chance to meet, but getting this note from Dolly really had a an impact on me. She definitely didn't have to take the time to do it. Even for a kid who mostly listened to rap music, she was an icon. A superstar in every sense. Rest easy Dolly. And thank you for the kind words.
Whoever at @SlackHQ decided to add the cute lil huddle icon animation -- it distracts me EVERY SINGLE TIME I accidentally touch the hover area with my mouse. I'm in huddles once a month. No other icon is animated. Please remove it.
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"Why would you want to read and write code?"
because I like programming the computer, that's why I do it
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It's not misery. You look at the code, you tell it what to change. Cycles are quick. You can be very terse, often just a few words. You can queue arbitrarily many prompts while it's working. Currently I think of it like an abstract text editor, not a human I give instructions to.
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I'm an old programmer (by programmer standards). I use agents daily, extensively. Here's a view from the other side of "wooooow look how many lines it wrote!", taken from my work today.
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With all these AI coding improvements why isn't the software I use everyday getting better?
Attending the @recursecenter is without a doubt one for the best things I've done for my career and social life. (If you're curious, @InterlochenArts was the other.)
Been a little while, but I made some great progress on the next iteration of typerfast.com (personalized typing exercises) this weekend. I'm typing at work today, and my fingers are way more confident because I really drilled my weaknesses. Big updates are coming!
For over a decade -- probably forever -- @Reddit has had the worst error pages on the web. I get the joke, haha - but blaming users for your 500s is not cool. Snoo is sad because of something I did? Actually, no, you get the F.
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can’t even get a fucking beer in sf without seeing some b2b saas shit what are we even doing man
I love @WIRED, but this is the worst researched piece of rage bait I've read since I subscribed ten years ago. Vague and aimless, its only argument seems to be that Ruby isn't Python or JS. Ruby doesn't scale -- what is this, 2018?
wired.com/story/ruby-is-not-…
could people stop freakin' tweeting to get engagement and just be human for a change please and thank you? this place is a cesspool of bros feigning authenticity and humblebragging
also real quick heres my soundcloud