TIL github linux kernel mirror does not have mirror for version 1.1.85, a version where first iteration of kernel module system is available
https://t.co/6oGUVsw2DO
(dude who’s not watched a movie/read a book/listened to an album in 6 years) “the movie/music/literature industry is so screwed, you can now generate all of it with a single prompt!!”
that’s what a lot of you sound like to me. it’s annoying as hell. you are but vessels for LLMs.
"Wow you must be doing something really weird, or running weird hardware! Works on my machine!"
I PLUGGED IN MY HEADPHONES. ON UBUNTU. ON A MODERN INTEL LAPTOP. STOP BLAMING USERS. THIS SHOULD OBVIOUSLY WORK.
What a joke of a platform.
To put it another way, the senior hand trained programmer + LLM is an endangered species and will almost certainly become extinct, so what’s the plan after that?
Adding spice is a monad. You can take any dish and make it spicy, eg:
spice: Lasagna —> Spicy Lasagna.
Spicing a spicy dish and mixing just results in a spicy dish,
mix: Spicy (Spicy Lasagna) —> Spicy Lasagna.
A monad is a lasagna in the category of recipes
R: Food —> Food
I've got an agent in a loop optimizing a renderer with the goal to minimize frame times (and tests to measure). It got times down from 88ms to 2ms and allocations down from ~150K to 500. Sounds good, right? Wrong. This is exactly why agent psychosis is a big fucking problem.
As an experiment, I rewrote the Ghostty core render state in Go, with access to identically laid out data structures as Ghostty and the exact same validation tests. I made a purposely naive renderer (simple, correct, but slow). 88ms per frame with 150,000 allocations (horrendous, lol)!
I then kickstarted a Ralph loop to bring the frame times down. I told it it can't modify input data structures or the public API or tests (they're correct), but it can do anything else it wants. It got to work.
It has worked for about 4 hours. I've spent around $350 on this experiment so far. The results?
88ms => 1.5ms
150K allocs => ~500 allocs
Incredible right? Nope.
My hand-written renderer I ported has frame times (same benchmark) of ~20us (0.020ms) and 0 allocations in the update path.
This is the problem with psychosis and lacking systems understanding. If you don't understand the system, you're going to accept that this is an incredible result. If you understand the system, you'll see better solutions immediately and can do roughly 75x better on throughput.
The people who blindly trust agent output are in the former camp. They're sheeple, overdrinking from a fountain of mediocrity.
Standard disclaimer: I use AI all the time. I like AI. The point I'm making is to not blindly accept results. Think. Analyze. Learn.