@webprofusion

Software Developer for a couple of decades. Riffologist. Shrouded Keybag. https://nitter.cf/t.co/P6XrmhLEuE, https://nitter.cf/t.co/uDRHPib4e9 and others.

Perth, Western Australia
Joined March 2011
Accidentally told a customer they need to select their DNA provider instead of DNS provider and wonder if they just think we have really fancy security.
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Looks formidable until both sides have the same stuff bought from the same manufacturers, then it's just mechanized chaos and purchasing power. – at Kuta, Indonesia
We’re launching the Army of Robots. In 2022, we launched the Army of Drones. Today, drones account for over 95% of battlefield strikes, and Ukraine has more than 700 UAV manufacturers. Now we need the next technological breakthrough: the robotization of warfare. The goal is simple — save lives. Robots should take on the most dangerous missions: evacuating the wounded, delivering ammunition, mining and demining, reconnaissance, defending positions and engaging targets. The Army of Robots is not one company. It’s an ecosystem. We will invest in defense tech companies, launch our own technology projects, test them with the military and scale what works on the battlefield. We’re now looking for defense tech companies and engineers working on robotic technologies — as well as a CTO / Tech Lead for the Army of Robots. Join us: thearmyofrobots.com/en
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Now go back and optimise the Rust compiler until everything it touches is 17x faster. If we're going to play at optimisation, I'll set the rules for you. – at Perth, Western Australia
I ported the Omarchy screensaver engine (ttfx) from Rust to x86-64 assembler, and it's up to 17x faster!! One-shot translation by Opus 5.5. We keep drilling until the agentic drill bit hits bedrock! github.com/omacom/ttfx/pull/…
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Thought I'd already fixed something but I'd actually just typed the prompt into Notepad.
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Asked the agent for a review and suggested product roadmap for a (large) hobby project. It said "Its a lot for one developer.." Buddy you've got no idea, I bite off more than I can chew for a living, and that was even before AI!
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"The total is roughly 20–22 engineer-weeks." We'll see about that.
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2hrs so far, looking good. We live in the future.
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Wipeout style racer in your browser. My computer can't cope but it's pretty polished.
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Christopher Cook retweeted
This video is dedicated to the AI safety kids
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Forgetting the name of that shiny new thing you were going to check out is a real problem. Weird also that the X web UI hides bookmarks almost completely.
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Since when was "noul" a word.
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Interesting how Discourse forums that used to be busy have dropped off to nothing. The machine answers everything now.
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Got a cheap USB-c audio interface for android and direct monitoring is always on, So naturally now I'm looking at replacing the devices firmware with my own, as you do.
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Turns out my 48Khz audio interface goes up to 192Khz if you know the right bits to tickle.
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Literally prompted "Lets make our hardware UI more awesome" and walked away. Top left it the original. Others are the new one. POD Go HD custom firmware to turn it into a full midi controller.
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"Here is an image of the unit. Lets use it as inspiration to make our desktop configuration app UI much more awesome." My prompting skills are the stuff of legend.
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Hacking on hardware to make your own custom firmware is such a brilliant use of agents and it will save thousands of tonnes of electronic waste for decades to come.
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Just realized a thing I wrote 6yrs ago (a 3d world scripting thing for coding classes etc) looks like AI now. I must have been the bulk of the training dataset lol.
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Changed style of my apps website to be a bit more modern a few weeks ago and have seen a drop in app uptake. Maybe people like websites a bit more rustic and trust them more if they are? – at Perth, Western Australia
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Mutually assured. Makes you wonder what it will take for global cooperation to kick in.
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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