Mighty Byte

Engineering leader, functional programmer, student of leadership, devotee of skills acquisition who slacklines and rock climbs. It's all about balance!

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Seek out hard problems and revel in the joy of solving them.

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In the coming age of agentic engineering, I think the same things that the industry has considered "good software practices" will ultimately translate into more efficient token utilization.

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#OpenClaw

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"Code is about to cost *nothing*, and knowing what to build is about to cost you *everything*."

https://t.co/YutZTOHMXw

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@cryptopunk7213 > openai acquired peter steinberger and openclaw committing to keep the project 100% open source and make it a core part of openai’s ecosystem. zuck is fckin fuming.

Anthropic are the ones who really messed that one up with their overzealous lawyers.

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This is why Haskell still has a lot of value in the world of agentic engineering that we are entering.
https://t.co/rttPwtt5xd

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We now have a real live multiverse of all the universes created with every different prompt injected into an agent. They exist for the duration of the chat session and end when the context window is reached.

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@Visa @crossmint @solana @circle @stytchauth I really hope the solution we get is built on secure public/private key cryptography rather than our current inherently insecure system of credit card numbers that have to be kept secret.

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Life advice from Peter Steinberger...

"I think, isn't life all about experiences? If you tailor your life towards, 'I want to have experiences', it reduces the need for 'It needs to be good or bad'. If people only want good experiences, that's not gonna work."

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The cost of creating software just went to basically zero.

Stop and let that sink in for a bit.

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I think this guy's analysis is spot on.

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https://t.co/nYDBoC6DpD

"And the skill that matters now is not technical proficiency, it's clarity of our intent."

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LLMs are a phenomenal copy machine

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In the world we're moving into of AI-enabled software development, using Haskell and other similarly strongly-typed languages is going to be a massive advantage. They haven't gained mainstream use yet due to the steep learning curve. Well, that's gone now.

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Incredible athleticism! https://t.co/3TPamnqFlD

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"a helpful strategy for becoming a magician: Surround yourself with people who look like magicians to you."
https://t.co/MPdJC38Iw0

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Gotta love ChatGPT's precision here 🤣
#Haskell #rust

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Praise the effort, not the talent.
https://t.co/EZyxKF6Eyo

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@Jonathan_Blow "The way you make code last a long time is you minimize dependencies that are likely to change and, to the extent you must take such dependencies, you minimize the contact surface between your program and those dependencies."

Good advice indeed.

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I have seen a shocking amount of bad comments in my software career… comments that provide zero additional information. A good rule of thumb is names should communicate the what, the code itself should communicate how, and the comments should communicate the why.