Bill Piel

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[Bill Piel @bpiel]

In the future, when type systems are perfected:

VegetableNameString v = "Tomato";

Compiler Exception: Botanically, a tomato is a fruit—a berry, consisting of the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant. However, the tomato is considered a "culinary vegetable"...

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@jeayewilkerson Is jank ready for its game engine now?

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Soon only agents will google?

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@oakmac1 It had a good run

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@jeayewilkerson Awesome! Alpha!

[Bill Piel @bpiel]

@AnthropicAI

[Bill Piel @bpiel]

@claudeai The anthropic billing page took my $6 payment, but didn't credit my account. The help chat bot said it would escalate to a human, but there's been no response. Now it ignores me. It's been 2 days. Can you get them to fix it?

[Bill Piel @bpiel]

@bengarvey @claudeai That would be a crazy mistake. Regardless, I checked my other account to be sure. No money ��

[Bill Piel @bpiel]

So you are ignoring me too nowadays? I see how it is

[Bill Piel @bpiel]

People don't get that AI is just another tool. And just like how you know that one day that hammer in your toolbox will beat you to death, you can be sure that AI has its own plans too

[Jeaye Wilkerson @jeayewilkerson]

Having trouble sticking with your projects? Feeling burned out? Check out my #clojure Conj 2025 talk for a helpful guide.

https://t.co/13fcr9b7bN

[Jeaye Wilkerson @jeayewilkerson]

I have a 💰 $1,000 USD 💰bounty on the last issue which is preventing jank from using upstream Clang/LLVM. I've outlined the problem in this ticket and I'm calling anyone interested to help us solve this!

RT this to help jank.

https://t.co/Qp36A2Lw8R

[Bill Piel @bpiel]

@jeayewilkerson @janetacarr Plot twist: LLMs become better at vibing brainfuck than clojure. Who has the advantage now? 😏

[Bill Piel @bpiel]

@jeayewilkerson @nubank Wow! Amazing, @nubank!

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@jeayewilkerson @clojure_conj Awesome!

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@oakmac1 @potetm @clojure_conj 🙀🙀🙀

[Jeaye Wilkerson @jeayewilkerson]

I've just built a distributable Arch Linux tarball for jank which can run on a fresh Arch Linux image with a couple of pacman deps installed. We're getting close to easy distro packaging and release binaries.

We're getting close to jank's alpha release. 😀

[Jeaye Wilkerson @jeayewilkerson]

Live on Twitch, hacking on jank, the native #clojure dialect on LLVM. Come say hi!

https://t.co/bLQvxmS3po

[Bill Piel @bpiel]

I asked ChatGPT about the immense wisdom in the lyrics for Van Halen's Jump. It explained, "Culture is the unconscious philosophy of its time". So, now I know that

[Bill Piel @bpiel]

LLMs don't know what's real; they just know the approximate shape of it.

[Bill Piel @bpiel]

10 years later. Time for a Mad Men reboot. 1980: Peggy becomes a Creative Director (as forseen by Pete) and hires Sally. How will they pitch the Walkman?