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mattbillenstein.bsky.social
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Programming can be really fun, but we've drown ourselves in complexity and tooling...
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Yeah, had to get out of pdx for this reason - Reno is sunny!
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Haven't tried a shell, but sounds like fun - must be best to do in an event-driven manner; maybe epoll?
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Like complete loss of coding or reasoning abilities - crippled by an LLM - it's weird to me and kinda frightening. Like Flowers for Algernon shit.
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But yeah, the talk of replacing all of some large class of jobs with AI I think is hugely over-estimating what current AI will be capable of or how close we are to actual AI; a _thinking_ machine. Current AI + robots I think is going to displace a lot of manual labor as well...
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I think this is basically going to be replacing two devs with one, two lawyers with one, etc. Perhaps a higher factor than two in the longer term... Or perhaps lower?
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And all benchmarks are kinda bad - especially micro-benchmarks...
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Tldr, very long video, bug in input parsing makes fortran look like a boss...
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cli is easier - just ask chatgpt...
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Quite nice code!
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Came to a much more elegant solution after talking to some other folks - amazing how easy it is if you take a more optimal approach. github.com/mattbillenst...
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Actually, the really easy trick is just to print ansi escape home "ESC[H" aka "\033[H" before you print your stuff...
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Using any libs to draw in the terminal here? Or any tricks?