ctvo

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Comment · 9 days ago
Or you could write like it's for human consumption who don't have your session context in memory so they know what you're talking about or why they should care.
Comment · 21 days ago
OK do it. And make yourself 90K along the way.

This is the typical "ugh that's just rsync" when Dropbox was announced, but for a new LLM age.

_If it's so easy, do it_. Don't post about it. Do it. Fix these bugs at scale. Charge people money for it once you've built up a reputation. Get your own bug bounties.

Comment · 21 days ago
Impossible is a very strong word. There are core systems at all the major cloud providers with the same constraints handling more requests per second.
Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
I wouldn’t write Zig off yet. The faster compilation time is a giant moat. Depending on how LLM usage evolves it could be what ends up mattering.
Comment · 5 months ago
I think Sam Altman is an asshole and I prefer to spend my money elsewhere.

Frontier models being commoditize is inevitable. OpenAI thinks they're still competing on technology, and not user experience and market reputation otherwise they'd understand the continuous negative PR generated by Altman's chaos is going to cost them everything.

Comment · 5 months ago
> The subjective joy is a result of the delusion.

Repeat after me:

_Other people can experience things you do not experience and it is still valid, and not a delusion_. They are not sheeple who fell for marketing.

Comment · 8 months ago
Carrion Comfort is still one of the most creepy horror books I've ever read and is seldom mentioned when we talk about Dan Simmons.
Comment · 9 months ago
You listed common items you think may be counterfeits, and all your effort in checking, but fail to mention av single time you _actually_ ran into a counterfeit. I'm sure if it occurred you'd happily mention it since it would do wonders in reinforcing the paranoia.
Comment · 10 months ago
No. Why the hell would I use Angular 1.x style directives in 2026? For the simple contact form and todo apps, why would I even use client side scripting? Go away.
Comment · 1 year ago
You've been spamming this in a few threads.

A private business can 100% refuse service to you. Examples with regards to "delegation":

- If you come in using a form of non-cash payment that doesn't belong to you.

- If you're purchasing a car, and are filling out paperwork under someone else's name. FYI, you can buy cars on Amazon.com.

- If you attempt to pick-up a pre-order or an item earmarked for someone else.

...

Of course some businesses are more or less restrictive base on fraud chance, yada yada, but you get the idea. You're not being oppressed. Go shop elsewhere.

Comment · 1 year ago
> top of a regular API

What is the regular API? How do you express all the integrations needed in this API? Who provides the integrations? Answering these questions lead you back to something like an MCP, which is an API contract that can be as generic or as specific as needed. Wasting context window to understand and re-implement each integration is why MCPs exist.

All the security issues are orthogonal, and occur regardless if invoking this API occurs via code or natural language.

Comment · 1 year ago
... maybe you don't get it?

_Telling the browser how you want the DOM manipulated_ isn't the expensive part. You can do this just fine with Javascript. The browser _actually redrawing after applying the DOM changes_ is the expensive part and won't be any cheaper if the signal originated from WASM.

Comment · 1 year ago
It's winning by default because _there is nothing materially better_. React was _materially_ better than Ember, Angular, plain JQuery, etc. at the time.

Front-end engineers have no issues adopting new frameworks. See the common complaints about the speed front-end stacks change vs. say Spring MVC or Rails.

A more interesting examination is what is the impact of agentic AI tools being able to write better, more idiomatic code in React vs. Svelte because there's more of it. The human side is less of a barrier here.

Comment · 1 year ago
And this is good or matters to customers because?

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