Ben Patterson

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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.

@UrbanikStephen @Underdog @UnderdogDrafts Honestly, first time I've heard someone ask for this

@UrbanikStephen @Underdog @UnderdogDrafts Honestly a great callout, with the countdown vibration maybe an option to have it ding?

@NEZtakes A lot more coming! We're always taking in feedback/ideas as well

this is very fun. sounds like there's more to come too. the games are alive and well

Somebody yell at Shane and tell him we should add this into the app

Total drafters in each Badge tier: Diamond - 35 Purple - 43 Emerald - 155 Gold - 350 Silver - 1,020 Bronze - 3,514 Diamond status is held by those who have entered 100,000+ drafts 🤯

Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”And they [Paul and Silas] said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Why is the creator of OpenCode pretty skeptical about AI productivity gains, and the hype around AI? A very conversation @thdxr (and lots of truth bombs:) Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 07:03 Dax’s path into tech 09:04 Early startup experience 13:16 Getting involved with open source 16:13 OpenCode 23:17 Anthropic banning OpenCode 30:34 From terminal to GUI 32:34 OpenCode’s business model 36:33 Why inference is profitable 39:11 GPU bottlenecks 40:54 AI hype 45:50 AI spending 48:47 Dax’s memo 55:41 Dax’s skepticism of predictions 58:58 Engineering culture at OpenCode 1:02:38 How building works at OpenCode 1:05:36 Taste and quality 1:11:32 Dax’s work setup 1:12:35 The role of engineers and EMs 1:15:50 Advice for engineers 1:18:12 Book recommendation Brought to you by: • @AntithesisHQ – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages antithesis.com/pragmatic • @WorkOS – everything you need to make your app enterprise ready workos.com • @turbopuffer – a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. It’s fast, cheap, and extremely scalable turbopuffer.com/pragmatic Three interesting thoughts from Dax: 1. No AI-native coding agent company is “winning” by being better with AI. Dax says that none of OpenCode’s competitors are crushing them, and that nobody is using AI so well that others cannot compete. 2. Most software engineers profit from AI as time gained, not increased output — unless you change incentives! Dax says the natural way for software engineers to “cash out” their AI tooling gains is with time savings, by doing the same work as before, but faster. Until compensation and motivation structures change, most teams should expect output to stay flat while engineers go home earlier. There’s nothing wrong with this, but AI vendors sell a different outcome to CFOs: increased output. 3. AI code generation mutes the “guilt” of doing the wrong thing, but this builds up tech debt. Pre-AI, writing a hack felt bad, the second time it felt really bad, and by the third time you’d often just refactor in order to fix up the code. Now, the agent hides the hack, which skews devs’ judgment and results in less tech debt being cleaned up.

@UnderdogDrafts We are aware that your badge color will default back to the old tier you were in. This is is being fixed and will be resolved by the end of the week🙏

@roqqet Glad to hear! Almost made my heart drop lol

If underdog thinks these new badges is going to motivate me to level up to the next tier, well…they were correct. Honestly great call from underdog.

🛡️The Badge System received an upgrade🛡️ We have added new badge colors to highlight your draft level! We are aware that badges are defaulting back to their old color in some places. This will be fixed by EOW🤝

the next generation of badge bros

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I feel like open code consistently gives us the features we actually want

@UnderdogDrafts What're we thinking? Let @Neumy2 know if he's cooking or not!

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@Saints2death @GaudreauJordan Neumy is one of the most genuine, thoughtful, and passionate people in this space. He's also incredibly open and always willing to help in anyway he can If you ask/speak with him about it I am sure he wouldn't mind posting more of this on X + UD discord as well

@GaudreauJordan I bet you almost all of the draft games winnings goes to regulars Neumy interacts with on that Discord every single day. It's probably illegal, but I doubt underdogs cares unless lawyers get involved.

The worst part of Underdog is that even if you don't watch any Peter Overzet or Badge Bros content, if you play any sort of draft games, you have to join their discord because Neumy does almost all of his UD business on that discord.

Everyone talks about craft and opinionated design, but as soon as Spotify drops a fun app icon, those same people freak out. The temporary icon is great. You know you’ve made something great when people have extreme reactions to it. Never aim to please everyone.

@freddiepearce19 @jlarkytweets Thanks for the info, we’re continuing to investigate and roll out improvements. I know words are cheap but we will get it fixed

@bennpatt_ @jlarkytweets Just laggy drafts if someone is ahead of me in a draft their timer will just run out and it will say 0 seconds forever until I back out of in draft screen and refresh, ios 16 mobile app. Once I switch to desktop lagging disappears

The first few years, Underdog had the best user experience for drafts Last year, occasional glitches popped up Then, they laid off the vast majority of their drafts team Now, every other draft I do on their platform has some type of lag or glitch or failure to update picks on time This happening to anyone else?