@controlflow

I work on JetBrains .NET IDEs (Rider & ReSharper) · Mostly about IDE tooling · Drones · 3D printing · Opinions are mine

 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Joined May 2009
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damn... in my archives I've found a .dat file from the year 2008, no visible textual data inside... almost removed it... Codex: "this is the Miranda IM database file, 90k ICQ messages from three years"🤯🤯🤯
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I loved Miranda IM so much back in the days. It was _fully_ modular app: IM protocols, contact list, chat - all interchangeable parts. With my setup it was smth like <10Mb of RAM. Need animated smiles? Switch to chat plugin with the embedded browser (IE), pay in perf/memory
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“properly prompted”
Chris McGraw
@SleepRebellionOct 15
Replying to @Perpetualmaniac
This is no longer a real issue. C is superior again, because very complex pointer and memory management is no problem for a properly prompted AI.
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wang
@wangzhr4Oct 14
What happened to the C compiler project that Anthropic initiated with "16 agents"? Can it printf "hello world\n" now? And you believe its shitpost about "Git is our bottleneck and we developed a new VCS."?
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TL;DR if you haven't watched it yet
Martin Odersky@oderskyOct 13
The End of Programming? Video of my talk yesterday at #scaladays. youtube.com/watch?v=jlJyuJhD…

Martin Odersky – Keynote: The End of Programming? #ScalaDays

More: https://scaladays.org/sessions/Opening-Session-Keynote-The-En...

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Seb Johnson
@SebJohnsonUKOct 13
Anthropic is offering a 145k salary for a personal assistant in London. Responsibilities include: "Scheduling and managing calendars for leader(s) and their organization" "Building and maintaining organizational systems for tracking and managing inbound requests" "Managing the leader's inbox and communications with precise attention to detail" "Handling travel logistics" Somebody should really build some sort of tech tool that can handle this stuff autonomously.
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this week in AI native software engineering: let's kill all or "intermediary" abstractions. "every layer is just one more place for the agent to guess wrong".
David
@dzhngOct 11
my new AI native software engineering principle is to delete as many layers of abstraction as possible at this point, all my webapps are written in rust and compiled to wasm, UI is rendered directly in html and/or raw webgpu calls no react/threejs/nextjs or any other intermediary abstractions all my effort goes into writing custom validation harnesses for each app that fully quantifies perf / usability / what "good" means for the coding agent so it can hillclimb it every agent sessions are planned via my explore unknowns skill (github.com/dzhng/skills), so all major decisions are frontloaded, then I just let the agent rip for 12+ hrs at this point I'm solo shipping products that I wouldn't even dare to dream of a year ago

GitHub - dzhng/skills: Reusable AI agent skills for software factories: explore ideas, write specs,...

Reusable AI agent skills for software factories: explore ideas, write specs, implement, review, and run autonomous research. Works with Claude Code, Codex, and other skill-compatible agents. - dzhn...

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I think this is a great point no one is willing to accept :)
Alam Khan
@Indefatigable_3Oct 10
Replying to @GergelyOrosz
If AI is basic like the keyboard then let candidates use it in the interview. You cannot require it at work and ban it in the test. So which one is the real job?
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Oliver Fish
@_Oliver_FishOct 7
$300 for a bug that gives free access to OpenAI’s paid models with no API key or account. Zero reason to report anything else I find to them.
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Theo - t3.gg
@theoOct 7
Replying to @bta_ckr
Probably not
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samim@samimOct 3
water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum, so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light".
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AI devs are still able to surprise me with the development things they are trying to discard :) High-level languages, human code review, now… tests! Yesterday I thought it is all about verification loops…
Sherwood
@shcallawayOct 2
We deleted 800k lines of unit tests from the @sazabi monorepo earlier this week. Three hypotheses: 1- Unit tests "lock-in" slop code by making it hard to change or remove 2- Unit tests slow down dev cycles by making your agent do more work locally and by increasing CI times 3- Unit tests waste money by making your agent generate more tokens and by adding useless CI runs Will report back soon with the results!
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Nandkishor
@devops_nkOct 2
Only software engineers will understand why this is actually funny.
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Levi
@CheckmateDevOct 3
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That’s cool! I have always dreamed for the future where the layout of the “logical”, human-written “procedures” is completely transformed at the runtime, to execute faster/have more optimal register allocations/offload the dead & cold code.
Aleksey Shipilëv
@shipilevSep 23
Deopt is usually talked in context of speculative type/value optos, but IMO the killer thing is flow optos. JIT can decide to compile only the actually taken paths through the code, and then sprinkle deopts on all stone-cold branches. Which saves *a lot* of compilation time.
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Basically, I want for the same code, for any possible function/method layout (at the programming language level) to have equal performance characteristics. Inlining is with us since forever, cold code splitting… I wish to see something more ambitious :)
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Brayo
@brayozin_Sep 15
o cara que desistiu de programação em 2023
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Dwayne
@CtrlAltDwayneSep 14
Generational levels of narcissism.
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Sorry, but what is the point? Hardware that no one can afford. Specs that are both overkill for the “agentic era” development and too far from user machines. Same fate as other recent dev projects like Volterra and Dev Box — irrelevance and abandonment.
Pavan Davuluri
@pavandavuluriSep 4
Today, we introduced Project Zenith, a ready-to-code Windows experience on developer-class hardware. Alongside @jackhuynh I also shared that Project Zenith will first be available on systems powered by @AMD’s Ryzen AI Halo. With more devices from our partners coming in the months ahead. blogs.windows.com/windowsdev…

Announcing Project Zenith: The ready-to-code Windows experience on developer-class devices

Breakthroughs in computing become real through the experiences developers create. Our goal is to have Windows be the best platform for developers. That means pairing the latest in hardware innovation...

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