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That + coffee is the original spread. Just the way the cookie crumbles.

+1, even the strongest models still produce things that (I suspect) if it accumulates over time will cause issues.

Is my suspicion wrong? Are models getting better fast enough that they'll be able to add new feature (or fix bugs) and clean up even despite a mountain of AI tech debt [1]

[1]: I say AI tech debt because it tends to have some characteristics that are different from human tech debt, such as apparent lack of intentionality (which makes Chesterton's fence evaluation much harder). Perhaps if we make the AI write down somewhere, as briefly as possible, why it wrote each chunk of code...

I'm glad you're finding it useful. That makes two of us!

> And compared to Go, the production observability is very good.

Can you give some examples where Go is lacking and Java is great? (Ideally builtin things, and if not builtin, then things where Go doesn't have an externally developed alternative).

> I also use Clojure and can observe my running app with a full REPL.

Does this work with other JVM languages, like Java, too?

> All those things are true of Java/Kotlin, except even moreso.

The parent did mention:

> ...and is simple to deploy.

Also, my experience with Java programs is that the memory overhead is even higher than Go (where it's a ~2x of what the program holds as heap due to the GOGC=100 default).

Anecdata, but still:

I ordered a Xyber NAS (N150) back when they were still in stock, wiped the Ubuntu that came with it and built up a NixOS config [1]. The power usage is very good (12W with 2 internal SSDs, bluetooth, wifi and a bunch of services running).

If it dies, I won't be too sad since it was about $210. But it's doing pretty well (24/7) so far.

[1]: This ended up being useful. The built-in eMMC chip that I had installed the OS on gave out after ~1 month of usage and I had to reinstall. Thanks to the NixOS config, it took me much less time.

Great read. This is (unbelievably) impressive. Both from the model and the human. Congratulations. I also liked the postscriptum about the GPU driver.

Mac hardware is some of the best there is, but I lost faith in macOS around 2015 when I experienced a bug where XNU would shut down my device without warning if the wireless driver produced an invalid packet. (The shutdown code was in the open-source XNU part of Darwin. I don't know why the invalid packet was produced, perhaps there was a hardware issue, but the response shouldn't have been to hard reset the device immediately.)

Running Linux on this hardware, and being to use most of its capabilities, is awesome. Thanks to all the AsahiLinux contributors (directly and indirectly) for their work.

Given that Dutch is the ancestor here (not that Dutch hasn't changed since the split), I wouldn't call it "as if".

> For example, one of the unique features of my harness is that the filesystem is completely virtualized and all filesystem I/O is part of the session...

What are the mechanics of this? You mentioned bash so I asssume you don't "control" all the tooling. Is it running in a VM with an overlay filesystem that takes snapshots at every file interaction? Or perhaps outside a VM but containerized with a FUSE-based overlay filesystem?

My view is this isn't sufficent. They're pretty good at breaking out of stuff. A VM would be the minimal isolation boundary for me.

Hi Kenton!

One thing I'm wondering about (and was happy to see) is how you seem to have your (childhood) friends close by, at least on occasion.

I live in Europe and am considering what a move somewhere else in Europe (+/- 1000km) would mean. Seeing much less of my long-time friends, I imagine. But Austin seems much further from the earlier places you've stated you've lived. Did some of your friends just move with you? Are they visiting often?

> transparent matte coat for my exterior walls

I'm curious about this. Do you mean a layer of paint-like substance that makes the walls isolate better?