Alexander Bandukwala 🦋

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Alexander Bandukwala 🦋

@abanduk

Pursuing the Future of Computing. PhD student at @UMichCSE. Worse is worse. @[email protected]

Ann Arbor, MI เข้าร่วม Mart 2010

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Alexander Bandukwala 🦋@abanduk·5 Nis

@defnotbeka Type holes, first class versioning, built-in API expand-contract, ability to deprecate/inline code into client code-bases, report usage statistics of APIs, facilities for state migration, no global namespaces, some form of differential programming for custom automatic patches

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Alexander Bandukwala 🦋@abanduk·9 Mar

Still looking for some participants if anyone is interested

Alexander Bandukwala 🦋@abanduk

I’m looking for participants for a paid user study on a prototype system for tabular programming (programming with tables / data frames). 2 hours • $50 Visa prepaid card Hoping to finish sessions by March 13. Details + sign up in 🧵 Reposts appreciated! 🙏

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Alexander Bandukwala 🦋@abanduk·27 Şub

Your participation will involve completing programming tasks using the prototype. We’re especially looking for folks with experience in statically typed functional languages (OCaml, Haskell, Scala, F#, Rust, etc.). Sign up: forms.gle/9DcPaH7Db78mvw…

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Alexander Bandukwala 🦋@abanduk·27 Şub

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Hunter Leath@jhleath·13 Ara

an interesting update: the team is starting to move away from AI coding completely (devin/claude/etc) because it's so much harder to review the AI code than writing things themselves

Hunter Leath@jhleath

just found out that since this, i've become a top 50 user of Devin globally, now pushing ~60 PRs a day. AMA

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Alexander Bandukwala 🦋@abanduk·16 Tem

@maulana_pcfre @disconcision Let it be

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Maulana @ Nothing to Play atm@maulana_pcfre·16 Tem

@disconcision where is the “let let” 🤣

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andrew blinn@disconcision·16 Tem

/someone/ filled a bug report just because hazel let them write this perfectly unobjectionable syntax

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Alexander Bandukwala 🦋@abanduk·16 Tem

@SadboyLocal @disconcision Is nothing sacred

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🏳️‍🌈@SadboyLocal·16 Tem

@disconcision What about if else then if else then

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Alexander Bandukwala 🦋@abanduk·16 Tem

@LongTimeNoDuck @disconcision The problem isn't reading it's if you press a space next to the variables they autoexpand to if statements

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Danny@LongTimeNoDuck·16 Tem

@disconcision I hope you are not planning to "fix" this. The syntax highlighting already makes it perfectly clear.

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Alexander Bandukwala 🦋@abanduk·16 Tem

@Keleesssss @HSVSphere @steinerkelvin @_hakagie @disconcision So in order to type `if` as a variable you need to complete the surrounding context and prefill any whitespace then go back and insert the text and navigate away without typing so it doesn't get remolded. And if anyone inserts whitespace there it re-expands to an if expression.

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Alexander Bandukwala 🦋@abanduk·16 Tem

@Keleesssss @HSVSphere @steinerkelvin @_hakagie @disconcision So there is a unmolded node that gets turned into a partial AST but this happens from inferring context based on the inserted characters. So if you type `if` and then write a space to the right of it it gets molded into a if expression.

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Alexander Bandukwala 🦋@abanduk·16 Tem

@Keleesssss @HSVSphere @steinerkelvin @_hakagie @disconcision Yeah, I just think the delineation between parsing and structured editing here is somewhat difficult since everything is inferred from text. You could imagine the same situation with an incremental reconstructing parser that operated on text patches.

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Alperen Keleş@Keleesssss·16 Tem

@abanduk @HSVSphere @steinerkelvin @_hakagie @disconcision Well I’m obviously not going to argue with you on how Hazel works or what its problems are. I just explained why I thought the claim is false, you can nest ifs, can’t you? > this should be a bug, because if <cond> should take any expression & you should be able to nest ifs there

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Alexander Bandukwala 🦋@abanduk·16 Tem

@Keleesssss @HSVSphere @steinerkelvin @_hakagie @disconcision Even if you’re not you’re interpreting it as a sequence of text post hoc, you’re interpreting it using a sequence of character updates that get manifested as structural changes. So you have an AST that is argue many users could not figure out how to insert.

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Alperen Keleş@Keleesssss·16 Tem

@abanduk @HSVSphere @steinerkelvin @_hakagie @disconcision Ahahah, I never said it’s not confusing, I just said you’re not parsing it as a sequence of text post hoc. Even if you produced a textual artifact to be parsed after the fact, you could just create valid AST blocks or raw identifiers to be able to parse it.

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Alexander Bandukwala 🦋@abanduk·16 Tem

@Keleesssss @HSVSphere @steinerkelvin @_hakagie @disconcision As /someone/ it’s a textually entered structured editor so it’s still confusing because you can’t type this straightforwardly

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Alperen Keleş@Keleesssss·16 Tem

@HSVSphere @steinerkelvin @_hakagie @disconcision It is editing, there is no post hoc parsing here it’s a structured editor (hazel.org)

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Alexander Bandukwala 🦋@abanduk·29 Nis

@disconcision dreams are memories

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andrew blinn@disconcision·27 Nis

looking through some family photos from my childhood and occasionally hitting some that are recognizable yet also indistinguishable from dreams

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David Moon@dm_0ney·14 Mar

I am once more seeking participants for a user study. We'll be evaluating a prototype code editor that completes your text with placeholders for missing tokens expected by the language. Here are a couple vids motivating the editor+study. Details in thread. RTs appreciated! 🙏