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(Dr.) Eric Fritz

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Everything is a compiler to those with eyes to see. Doing cool stuff (mostly not compilers) at @render.

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@ericfritz
(Dr.) Eric Fritz
4 months
30.8 = 69.1 and 52.8 > 69.1 ??? wat ??? ig llms still can't do arithmetic
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@ericfritz
(Dr.) Eric Fritz
4 months
The chart on the left should be an absolute jail-able crime.
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@ericfritz
(Dr.) Eric Fritz
5 months
gg everybody
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Jerry Tworek
5 months
If people are naturally good, maybe AIs are too
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@ericfritz
(Dr.) Eric Fritz
7 months
But amp here works well and wondering if there was any trick to knowing when enough is enough, when it’s achieved its task or needs to do more, if it’s sidetracked away from previous request, etc
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@PabloPeniche
Pablo A. Peniche
8 months
The longer you look at this, the worse it gets
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Thomas Roccia 🤘
8 months
New business card 😁
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@ericfritz
(Dr.) Eric Fritz
8 months
It seems like AI really HATES the new syntax in Go that lets you do: for i := range 25 { ... } Every time I give it code with this syntax it just OBSESSES over how wrong it is. And then mansplains Go syntax to me. And then doesn't answer my original question.
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@ericfritz
(Dr.) Eric Fritz
8 months
Me: "commits.txt contains 150k git hashes. It's too large for me to use effectively. Please convert it to 160 byte integers laid end-to-end." AI: Reads the entire fucking file and blows up the conversation.
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@lemire
Daniel Lemire
8 months
The talk about AI making professionals obsolete needs to stop. It is hype, dangerous hype that is causing unnecessary fear. I keep hearing smart people say that translators are made obsolete by AI. There is no evidence to support this claim. 1. Translators have been using
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@ericfritz
(Dr.) Eric Fritz
9 months
Update: o3-mini fixed the death spiral I was on with Sonnet 3.7 (although it got everything _except_ parent relationships in a LOUDS trie right ... on the fifth from-scratch attempt).
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@ericfritz
(Dr.) Eric Fritz
9 months
That’s because our implementation doesn’t take into account “random bullshit”
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@ericfritz
(Dr.) Eric Fritz
9 months
I see the problem now
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@ericfritz
(Dr.) Eric Fritz
9 months
You’re absolutely right
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@ericfritz
(Dr.) Eric Fritz
9 months
vibe coding data structures is a new hell
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@ericfritz
(Dr.) Eric Fritz
9 months
just got yelled at by wife for asking what her top three diphthongs are
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@ericfritz
(Dr.) Eric Fritz
9 months
Shart
@tobi
tobi lutke
9 months
How is this even real? OpenAI cooked
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@ericfritz
(Dr.) Eric Fritz
9 months
(This is a subtweet of Docker on MacOS, if anything)
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@ericfritz
(Dr.) Eric Fritz
9 months
Spent a whole year at Render with an M2 and didn't hear my fan once. Join Atlassian with an M4 and suddenly my office is just brr BRRRR brrrrr rBRRRRRRRRRrrr RRRRRRRRRR im hot BRRRRRR BRRrrrrrrr rr RBRRR
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@typesanitizer
Varun / 王潤 / げんじ
9 months
In case you're the kind of person heading into the weekend and thinking to yourself "gosh, I wish I had a 15K+ word blog post on error handling to mull over", I've got just the thing for you. https://t.co/zcuZbbYY8r
typesanitizer.com
Musings on the representation, propagation and handling of errors in existing programming languages, as well as thoughts on future systems. (15K+ words)
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@xeophon
Xeophon
9 months
Coders love vibe coding because it’s just gambling: You give Claude code something you worked on for a long time, it takes some money, the little Claude asshole spins, and either your repo got a shiny new feature or it is fucked beyond repair. But the next prompt could fix it
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dinos
9 months
the adrenaline hit is insane when everything works fine for a long time. you know you're one prompt away from everything being completely borked
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@ericfritz
(Dr.) Eric Fritz
10 months
THANKS, MOM
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