Spanky McDoob

🍀 inventor

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Smalltalk-72 → HyperCard → Self → Lisp Machines → Pharo/Glamorous Toolkit →

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You’re approaching it from the narrow lens of writing. What about any other form of knowledge work an llm can perform. Is making an app or doing your taxes plagiarizing an engineer or an accountant. Don’t be silly.

And what are you going to say when you’re faced with the reality that an llm is capable of novelty. You’ll have nothing

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@ibuildthecloud As I said though, your wife will paradoxically get to eat the sandwich quicker

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@ibuildthecloud But really the fun starts when you make a new dish natively.

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@ibuildthecloud In fact you won’t modify the ham sandwich at all. You’ll add two or three files that’s it.

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@ibuildthecloud And what if I then explained calmly that, paradoxically, I could still put that cake on my plate Faster by just remaking it than I can keeping it in the fridge.

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Not in the slightest I take the idea and put it on ster-oids. I think of it like this

Why am I storing the cake when I can store the recipe for the cake and just make the cake whenever I need a cake. Why is that cake in my fridge, forever, if I can just make another one exactly like it

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@ibuildthecloud Oh boy

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@doodlestein These things are so good now. I really like no ceilings. I’ve had one too many times where I ask for a 100x and it could have been a 1000x improvement. But since I asked for the 100 I got the 100

Good poast

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@mandylu and honestly

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using claude workflows to run SWE bench

you can do that now without api key! have fun

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

yeah he's still got it

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@ibuildthecloud are you familiar with how bazel and nix handle this

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@ibuildthecloud can you explain a little further for big dummy like me>

"if only the world was immutable"

you mean, perhaps making sure anything coming into mine is? who cares whats outside if it cant come in

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@ibuildthecloud i also have this property where cache invalidation isnt a thing. once it happens, its there forever in cache. no need to evict it, its fine and up to date if its there

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@ibuildthecloud yeah bidirectional

like i said, its probably best to drop any and all of your assumptions about computer science. they are wrong

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@ibuildthecloud i dont hate them, theyre just unnecessary! in my system at least, i cant really speak for other setups, they are the flawless solution. websockets screw it all up for me

im also 100% crdt free. dont need

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@ibuildthecloud *advanced*

stop there.

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@ibuildthecloud dont make me tap the sign brother
https://t.co/oSwA2xoXXf

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The last 30 years of computer science has been people in tiny rooms smelling their own farts. None of the over complexity we are living with today is necessary. It’s all fake

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Yes: “A **REDACTED*** is below or near measurable timer resolution on this machine.”

too fast to measure reliably? you think youre catching me?