Steve Hallman

Director of Engineering @BreaktimeMedia. Let's build!
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[Steve Hallman @hallman76]

@mitsuhiko Yegge has burned more tokens than I ever will, so I'm a little dumbfounded. LLMs can handle a lot, especially when the task is well defined or the tools are there to help it figure things out.
Where is the disconnect?

[Steve Hallman @hallman76]

@kevinroose Maybe don't search for yourself lol. What did you'd think would turn up??

[Steve Hallman @hallman76]

@SaveYourSons Robot

[Steve Hallman @hallman76]

Congrats @meta on doing the bare minimum to protect our teens! Now do more. @finkd @JusticeOIG have y’all met?

[Steve Hallman @hallman76]

@universalhub How many more trucks can that bridge handle? Has anyone done the math?

[Steve Hallman @hallman76]

@aschwortz @universalhub GPS apps for commercial trucking already include routing based on height restrictions. People that Storrow themselves aren't using it.

[Steve Hallman @hallman76]

@molly0xFFF More recently, maybe 2010, we know that algorithms control the content we see but now you might not click on a link because you know it's going to alter what The Algorithm thinks about you.

[Steve Hallman @hallman76]

@molly0xFFF Late 90s you could understand how ephemeral certain content was, e.g. someone's blog would be around until they graduated or found another host. Then google/deja news brought back all of the newsgroup archives from backup tape and that changed everything.

[Steve Hallman @hallman76]

@mitchellh Turns out, writing code and solving problems is *actually fun* for some of us!

[Steve Hallman @hallman76]

@petergyang Very cool. What's "policy" in this context?

[Steve Hallman @hallman76]

@_monicarey_ @universalhub @LiveBoston617 Looks a lot like the pro-Hamas protest paint job on a building in in Central Sq recently

[Steve Hallman @hallman76]

Happened to notice that Mac OS has an executable called [. Ubuntu does too. What does it do?

[Steve Hallman @hallman76]

https://t.co/Nmleq5kutX

[Mihovil Ilakovac @infomiho]

Declarative frameworks like @WaspLang enable GPT-4 to generate apps more easily (experiment in progress 🧑🏻‍🔬)

[Steve Hallman @hallman76]

My take is that code generation by LLM is going to get good enough to be interesting REAL SOON. Then we'll start to see frameworks, libraries, and documentation twist just a little to be more LLM-friendly, making LLM code generation really, really, good.

[Steve Hallman @hallman76]

We're already seeing more structure prompts https://t.co/loj8cDXVqY

[Steve Hallman @hallman76]

I get this all the time from VS Code and it's never clear what's going on. Is a plugin installing a bitcoin miner? I need more info than "a helper tool" #VSCode

[Steve Hallman @hallman76]

Was just personally attacked my MacOS Tips

[Steve Hallman @hallman76]

`npx mkdirp` 🧐

[Steve Hallman @hallman76]

@mpv Are you thinking of this XKCD comic?https://t.co/d1ldpVa0b4

[Steve Hallman @hallman76]

When everyone started signing on to Mastodon I wondered how server administration would scale. Turns out that in some cases it hasn't been so easy.