codekoan (parody)

@cmuratori Are slopmachines the way to get to the next level? Open question.

@cmuratori He's just saying that you have to think super big all the time, pen and paper designers know what they are doing at a different level, but can't scale to the next level of billions and billions of transistors. BIG = BETTER? I guess.

While I understand what Jensen was trying to say, if a chip designer said they normally used pencil and paper to do their designs, I would probably assume they were baller AF, not the other way around.

@stevesi TBF, solid kernels like WinNT, Mach and Linux have enabled this so... good job everyone!

Kids today really don’t understand how memory works on a computer :-) They are so used to just restarting a service process that crashes they just don’t know :-) Now get off my lawn.

@Grady_Booch @DarioAmodei Definitely lost his marbles.

I am confident that Claude is not gained consciousness, but now I am concerned that @DarioAmodei has lost his sentience.

@Al_Grigor Claude didn't do shit. You did.

Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command. It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards. Automated snapshots were gone too. In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again. If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read. alexeyondata.substack.com/p/how-i-droppe…

@LowLevelTweets In any normal world, this would be a bug that could get fixed.

computers used to be deterministic.

@TheGingerBill One of the reason an ecosystem gets popular is because there are a lot of little problems that consultants can be brought in to solve. Look at JavaScript that way. If people don't understand where they can fit into the ecosystem, they may not engage.

I have a problem with Odin in terms of marketing: how do you succinctly explain to people that Odin has no need for an external build system? People will dismiss Odin because they haven't understood that Odin's `foreign import` system solves 99.9%+ of building a project in Odin.

@LowLevelTweets It’s not the ai that bums me out, it’s that the management is so lax about quality control that they let any random shit go to prod only to find out next week that it’s full of obvious security issues over and over.

about to quit my job and just play wow full time. fuck security let’s get those keys

@sully375 @idkman6549 @esjesjesj As of yet, are we even sure we can actually extract that water? And how are we going to power these fuel extraction machines? Solar? Seems a super hard problem. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_wat…

@codekoan @idkman6549 @esjesjesj Yeah all you need is water. There is ice. Ice= water. Hydrogen and oxygen = rocket fuel.

Holy shit he’s officially giving up on Mars. It’s always been a lie

@idkman6549 @sully375 @esjesjesj Yeah, cause we can produce so much... um... moon fuel? Fuel from the moon? Yeah....

@sully375 @esjesjesj launching rockets from moon will be so much fuel efficient than launching them from here

@ujjwalscript I just want them to use the same process to fix all these bugs... you know, for science.

Anthropic: Our AI agents coded the C compiler 💪🏼 The compiler:

The top critical replies to Coder Girl here were "4 hours fixing audio drivers nobody asked about", "Installing Linux is a mess", and "sure if you don't like to game". I have been a Linux user since SlackWare in the mid 90s. I would have agreed with all three of those up until around a year ago. Here is the reality I have been experiencing now: 1) My livingroom gaming machine is now permanently Bazzite. I installed the default Bazzite distribution from a USB key with no modifications. It can run Steam in deck mode, so I can use it with my (Microsoft!) XBox controller, and I play almost exclusively Windows games on it, which run (shockingly) flawlessly in Proton. I have yet to encounter a single compatibility problem, although I am sure I would if I played competitive shooters since their anticheat kernel drivers are designed to prevent using it anywhere but on unaltered Windows distributions. Anticheat is really the only thing holding Linux back from being an immediate substitute for a Windows gaming machine. 2) My audio workstation is now also Bazzite, since I figured it was easier than maintaining two distros. Default install just worked, no drivers necessary, despite the equivalent Windows install needing both Yamaha and Behringer drivers to be installed manually to function properly. It "just worked" out of the box for audio as compared to the Windows equivalent, and has been rock solid - no drop outs, no crashes. I did not have to touch a single audio configuration option. I just installed Reaper and PianoTeq, and everything worked. 3) The only machine I've found so far that has trouble working out-of-the-box with Linux is a Microsoft Surface tablet. But I still got it to work, it just required me to manually install a kernel patch because support for things like the Surface touchscreen aren't built into Linux distros currently. Once I did install the patch manually, it works perfectly, and even has a touchscreen keyboard just like Windows does. So even Microsoft's own hardware can run Linux just fine, and it would even be turnkey if your Linux distro of choice decided to mainline the Surface driver repo. The bottom line is that people who think Linux is worse than Windows either haven't used it lately, or are not being honest about how bad Windows has become. Windows is circling the drain. Every update, it gets worse. The number of problems I regularly have to solve on our remaining Windows machines dwarf anything I have to do for Linux system maintenance. Windows had a good run, but Microsoft has obviously focused its resources on SaaS and cloud computing. They don't care about Windows anymore, and neither should you. The next decade is about transitioning to Linux everywhere.

We spent years and billions of dollars inserting a C compiler into a lossy hash table. Here’s how we spent two weeks getting it back out with a Markov process.

@IceSolst @ThePrimeagen Just one more prompt bro, just one more instance of Ralph, just one more typewriter, just one more pull on the slot machine and it'll all be good.

@ThePrimeagen We’re converging towards an implementation of the infinite monkey theorem But its finite monkeys with infinite agents

i would be shocked at 10-50 LoC/day for a junior that seems really low... like wtf are you guys doing all day? am i crazy? my junior days... were a fever dream of coding 18 hours a day

@ThePrimeagen And sometimes, your net LOC is -1 million because you changed an API to be simpler and your automated script deleted code in the greater codebase during the refactor.

@ThePrimeagen Sometimes, adding new features means deleting code because you added a config based system to handle all the cases which were handled in code before. (so it's in the DB or some small custom DSL)

@lauriewired Counterpoint, this is the Unix philosophy embodied as small tools which are easy to build and maintain but can be chained together for multiple use cases is what it’s all about.

today’s one-sentence horror: sudo has been largely maintained by a single person for ~30+ years

All these guys know that LLMs are just a lossy compression algorithm over the input corpus. WTF guys, we had a search engine, LLMs are not supposed to be a search engine like that.