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Jack Vance uses this to move things forward in the Cugel saga. Cugel is always strapped for cash, and spends most of his time scheming and swindling to earn the day's room and board

@wolfaidev @levelsio It's like the vim of coding agents. Relatively minimal but infinitely extensible

@rsaksida @levelsio What’s so good about Pi?

Another great argument for running Claude Code on your VPS server and not your laptop is its battery use "Terminal" app here is all Claude Code sessions, ignore the Claude app here I have a MacBook Pro 13" M4 and with Claude Code running even on idle my battery dies from 100% to 0% in about 3 hours, it's insane Claude Code on server via Termius SSH sucks 20x less power for your laptop

@kemishrafael @levelsio Nope. Vast majority of Italian immigrants in South America were before WW1

I was not clear, I meant a lot of people from Italy migrated after the World Wars all over Latin America. Certain countries that were probably richer at that point in time had more migrants but it was all over the region. My grandma went through the initial process when I was a kid so we could all had the Italian citizenship. If you look at Lima in Peru, a lot of business were founded my Italian immigrants and you will find a lot of italian last names, biggest current bank was called Banco Italiano I believe for example.

Funniest part of it that this was mostly Brazilians with Italian heritage getting passports A demographic that's high educated and high income and culturally aligned with Italy and Europe, I mean they're genetically Italian! Instead they'll now give away passports to low educated welfare seekers without income from cultures that hate them It seems European governments enemy is immigrants that are a net positive addition to their culture while wanting to bring in more people that want to destroy their societies

People have awful taste, news at 11

I wrote a short piece on the ancient human practice known as ape coding. rsaksida.com/blog/ape-codin…

@GregorySchier Someone tweeted something like "what if you were a time traveler with Claude Code in 201x?" a while ago and I immediately thought of him

Miss this guy areyougoingexponential.rhys.dev/tj

@niklassheth @luciascarlet I got `hunter2`. Looks pretty good?

@luciascarlet Lmao

>using LLMs to generate passwords infosec is doomed pack up

I think any kind of marketing using the word 'vibe' is a bad move. It has too many negative associations It's an unfortunate term in retrospect because while it was an accurate description of most LLM-generated codebases when it was coined, models progressed to the point that saying something is vibe coded doesn't necessarily do it justice. Vibe coding was fundamentally unserious then, but it isn't now When I think of vibe coding, vibe-anything, I think of slop It's better to communicate it as declarative programming, spec-driven development etc Call it a declarative programming engine that runs on GPUs or something like that

For example, if we post it like: Bend - Vibe coding without bugs It will be confusing to people that already associate Bend as a parallel language. And this: Bend - Vibe coding without bugs, and as you can even run it on the GPU! Is too overloaded and dissolves attention

So, with Bend2's launch incoming, I'm struggling a bit with the branding. The coolest feature of Bend2 is that it is built from scratch around the idea that we, humans, will stop maintaining codebases. Instead, we write specs - i.e., what we want, as *precise types* - and the AI does the coding, and then *proves that it is correct*. In other words, Bend2 is a way to use vibe coding when you can't risk having bugs at all, and that's something that doesn't exist today. Problem is: Bend1 has already been "marketed" as a language centered around parallelism, and *that is true for Bend2 too*. It will be able to run on GPUs, and will solve most of the Bend1's limitations (2 GB memory, 24-bit numbers, no IO, ultra strict evaluator, etc.). Now, the thing is: how do we market that? Do we talk about all the updated parallelism features? Or do we keep the communication simple and focus about the "vibe coding without bugs" thing? If we talk too much, it may look like feature bloat and not really click to many people. But if we focus only on the AI proof system, it may look like we're completely dropping the old features, which isn't the case. I also wonder if we should rebrand it as ProofScript... "So what is your codebase written in?" "ProofScript!" "Wait what's that?" "Oh it is like TypeScript but we can write these super precise specs and the code is only accepted if the AI proves mathematically the specs are fulfilled. It is super nice because we can vibe code all we want without worrying the AI will break things. You should try it!" "Uh sorry JavaScript is too slow for my serious bank code" "Oh no it compiles to C, and even runs on the GPU if you want to" "Wait what" Hmm I don't know...

@burkov I haven't used other harnesses in a while, but Claude Code does 50 tool calls every time I sneeze. Does Cursor do that? It feels excessive but it also feels like it actually makes a difference

I tested Claude Code with an API key where you pay for tokens. Every code update request for my apps costs about $0.80 in token cost. I make a couple hundred requests every day with my Max subscription ($100/month). If I paid for tokens, that would cost me around $80/day. So, Claude sells Max about 30 times cheaper than it sells Opus to third parties. There's no way a third-party IDE company without its own Claude Opus-like model can provide a competing agentic coding service to Anthropic. Cursor? Are you kidding me?

I'm bearish on Google because of recaptcha

@tannerlinsley Cheers! It's a great framework.

@rsaksida Will fix.

The TanStack Start deployment docs are really missing a $5 VPS target

@luke_leisher_ @grok give me some sci-fi book recommendations for each quadrant here.

Helpful guide to interstellar travel:

@levelsio Not Lindy. It will have a comeback

Alcohol being uncool has escaped our bubble and is now mainstream though

@Andercot It's a great book and along with Deepness I feel it's underappreciated. In particular because Pham Nuwen is a great take on a pulp hero, and it's a shame Vinge didn't write more stories featuring him.

This is the best Sci Fi book of all time and it's not even close

@cursor_ai would really benefit from official Linux packages for the major distros. AppImages are still wonky as hell

@oguilhermemora @AkitaOnRails Você quase acertou, mas a lógica é exatamente inversa. É grande a chance de que o Itaú vai durar mais 79 anos. Se o Nubank vai durar mais 11, não sei.

@AkitaOnRails Faltou colocar em quantos anos ambos levaram pra chegar nesses números. Nubank: 11 anos Itaú: 79 anos No longo prazo, eu apostaria meus trocados no Nubank.

@othm_g @craigzLiszt Curiosity is a necessary trait for a good engineer. And that often translates to a wide range of interests.

@craigzLiszt For me as the “idea” guy it was hard to find a dev that had any passion in a specific topic. They all had a wide range of “interests”. And given the sacrifice and long term commitment a startup requires, passion beats talent.

I tried YC cofounder matching once, and got overwhelmed by thirsty ‘idea guys’ looking for a dev to build for them. Eng founders are a rare catch, it seems