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Why are experiments like this done without air-gapping all the servers from the internet?

They can have it all on a LAN or whatever but it seems risky to allow agents access to the internet in these experiments.

I guess everything is so connected now, and this would be in one or more data centres due to the amount of computation & resources required so perhaps it's not feasible. Still seems risky.

I use rpy2 for that. The scientists wrote the calc engine in R (via my Python transscription of the Excel original :) and I wrote the dashboard and data pipeline in Python. The data pipeline batch process embeds the R interpreter to avoid spawning processes all the time.

Everyone in Silly Valley needs to read chapter 5 ASAP.

I'm stumped by things like this. The drawing & modelling are not the difficult bit - the CAM programming is.

That seems difficult enough that I have not found an open source program to load a 3D model and allow me to set the toolpaths in a UI, never mind have an LLM generate them from the model.

I'm from back then, love programming, and I can't type. Just can't be bothered learning how; it's not the bottleneck.

I have AuDHD - there is no way I'm running my own company. I'm a good developer but I need someone else to have the idea and run the business and I can lead a small team to bring it about.

Given I'm now in my mid-50s, things are looking grim. And I'm not getting paid SV silly money. I'm not even getting paid US dollers.

I think the number of non-programmers who think 'I want to learn to program; I'll start with common lisp but emacs is too difficult!' is so small it is not a group worth considering. It's probably MIT & Stanford undergrads?

It's their IDE and they can design it how they want, but that's a weird goal for a CL IDE.

Why would a non-programmer want to download, install and run a CL IDE?

We would not be sad if they were lawyers. But I'm sure they were not lawyers. Lawyers are how Oracle generates revenue.

Developers & QA are cost centres and liabilties.

I've been using DBeaver CE since I lost my DataGrip license.

This is still happening. The org I work at was all-in on Google stuff, then just before I joined 5 years ago, some senior exec joined. Must have been in tight with Microsoft because suddenly the org was all in on Microsoft. The exec left, job well done, and the org suffered for years during the changeover; we still suffer because all the Microsoft stuff is total garbage these days.

I yearn for the Microsoft software of the 90s and 00s, pre-cloud, pre-webslop, pre-AI.

I know how you feel. I'm 54 and resisted this stuff until about a month ago when I decided if I want any hope of staying employed as a coder I'll need to get on board.

Using codex has allowed me to add bring up my current project so much more quickly, and I'm enjoying saying what I want, asking for suggestions on how things could be improved, and having what is essentially a junior dev who knows way more about web tech than I ever want to, to put it all together. Every few days I go through the codebase and templates to look for redundancies, opportities for cleanup, check on db queries, etc.

Early days for me but it seems like a great way to build a system.

Of course the problem is you need to be a senior dev to keep things in check and know what you want and mostly how you want it done, and look for problems.

I've written enough code over the last 40 years that I don't feel the need to type every character.

I'm (unfortunately) running Tahoe on my M1 macbook pro and don't notice it to be slower than Sequoia. Where is your slowdown?

I'm dislike Tahoe as much as anyone else but performance isn't the problem for me.

I use UTM, it's simple and seems light. I can share my source directory with the VM so I can edit using macos pycharm, and test the containers in the VM.

What really caught me out was I downloaded an x64 image once (there was no arm64 image) and it somehow just ran anyway in the arm64 VM. That may have been some qemu magic?

I love the macos/virtualised linux dev workflow, but is isn't better than plain linux. I'm just still not convinced GUI stuff works on linux as well as it does on macos and macbook hardware is so nice (if you're not paying for it).