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@stephenbalaban @cbspears honestly this is a great idea lol

why not at this point, make them tourist landmarks people want to see

[EL4 @EL4Build]

as models get smarter, more and more i notice it not budging on the averagely accepted "right" answer

no reason that would change short term with the focus on benchmarks and post-training

makes me hopeful taste will win and win big for a little while longer

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@micsolana wild that this is a topic, and wild the amount of negative comments even on X

if you don't care for AI, worse case is it doesn't affect you, but it brings jobs and wealth to your locality + country

worse case for not building them in the US is game over?

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@CrazyRetroGame1 Don't know why we're fighting this, we're here to make really fun games no?

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@theo I do hope ios gets it better, cause I barely find reasons to unfold my fold 7

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@TimSweeneyEpic Kudos to you calling it out, but outside of epic, every marketplace is charging these insane rates

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"solve a problem you have"
but it's hard to spot original problems

people mostly live regular lives, and ai leans towards popular ideas

is being able to stack nonconventional ideas still a moat in 2026?

[Jon Yongfook @yongfook]

Why are there suddenly so many indie social scheduling apps?

Is there something open source that people are tweaking and building on? I somehow don’t believe that these are all vibe coded from scratch.

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@sdmat123 Just stop us using sol on simple tasks where luna can do the job

I'm pretty much maxing my typing speed when I'm awake and doing overnight jobs on a huge codebase and I'll hit 100% day 6 or so

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@dhh can't get past the lack of gaps in the xps keyboards

I don't know why they've insisted on them since mac, framework, lenovo keyboards are just WAY better

even if i have it plugged in 90% of the time it hurts me every time i have to type on those things

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@alightinastorm Wdym? Like a community? Or a company?

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@DannPetty product -> ux -> ui , it's all part of one puzzle, i really never got how someone who could only produce wireframes could dictate great user experience...

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@seeitkeepit1 100%

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best one shots are codebases that can fit within 256k token space, or unix style modular libraries that individually fit easily

both fable + sol close to flawless on these

would be a great idea to whip through and batch convert half of npm/pip repos that fit this description

would help out our current mem + cpu constraints too

[DHH @dhh]

Fable one-shotted a Rust rewrite of the TerminalTextEffects Python library in 11M tokens. Startup time went from 87ms to 2ms and rendering speed is up by 9.6x. Now zero dependencies and a 3mb single exec 🤯 https://t.co/3cTEQAqYdO

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@emonuxui Yeah super human level for those

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@swyx Pnpm!

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@thdxr Its surprisingly hard to say things you've been typing for years

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@paulg Does it feel much harder to advise? Or are the lessons mostly the same?

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@alightinastorm The whole growth through social is being being gamed too hard, the loudest mic promoting the shittiest products/ideas

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@MatthewTCowan But great news for builders and consumers

Please let us build enough energy and datacenters to get here

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@dhh We need omarchy level Ai customization for mobile 👀