Wayne Ashley Berry

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[Wayne Ashley Berry @waynethebrain]

@dhh what laptop bag, if any, are you using these days?

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

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.

[Wayne Ashley Berry @waynethebrain]

@GrantHinds I can bring one down for you?

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Ghostty is leaving GitHub. I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008. I've visited GitHub almost every single day for over 18 years. It's never been a question for me where I'd put my projects: always GitHub. I'm super sad to say this, but its time to go. https://t.co/DQDemHdytV

[Wayne Ashley Berry @waynethebrain]

Lived in London, can confirm.

[WangNextDoor @WangNextDoor2]

Wow London is certainly not for everyone...
这女孩已经算挺不错了。。。

[christos @christosdotjpeg]

reject minimalism embrace medievalism

[Wayne Ashley Berry @waynethebrain]

This.

[dax @thdxr]

right now everything in the world is telling you to go faster, ship more, add that feature, start another project

so i'm actively working on feeling ok not doing any of that

[Neovim, e/plugins @Neovim]

Nvim 0.12 released.

sweet, sweet release.

[Wayne Ashley Berry @waynethebrain]

@shawnroos Definitely feels that way to me

[Wayne Ashley Berry @waynethebrain]

@neogoose_btw is there an existing fff alternative to https://t.co/PiipADSvXP in the works?

[Wayne Ashley Berry @waynethebrain]

@elonmusk could we increase the X username character limit by 1 so that I can use my full name… pretty please?

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

“Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life.” — Albert Einstein

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

My big conclusion from this week:

Introspection causes emotional disorders.

[Wayne Ashley Berry @waynethebrain]

This is such impressive work @neogoose_btw, keep it up 👏👏

[Wayne Ashley Berry @waynethebrain]

fff.nvim is crazy, wow 🔥 #neovim

[Wayne Ashley Berry @waynethebrain]

Life-long Alfred user here, Tuna just officially dethroned it for me... nothing else has come close. Do check it out! #macos

https://t.co/2DkT5lpFz1

🍣

[Wayne Ashley Berry @waynethebrain]

Here's a tiny fish shell plugin to make it easier working with Ghostty's native progress bars.

https://t.co/VV8xFdKe08

[Wayne Ashley Berry @waynethebrain]

@dhh I’d love to try both keyboards, which switches did you go for?

[Wayne Ashley Berry @waynethebrain]

#NewProfilePic