hollowturtle

AI in its current form, it's not a tool, it's a product you pay a subscription for

I hope Digital Minimalism doesn't mean depending on an AI product subscription, his written code(which is not minimal) or having a black hole of npm dependencies for running a wallet on the cli that(reporting what's on their repo): "NOTICE: this CLI has NOT BEEN AUDITED and IS UNDER ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT and HAS BEEN WRITTEN WITH HELP FROM CLAUDE et al"

What a "fantastic" era we're entering into. I think eventually these people will have a minimalistic life, with malware stealing everything

Totally agree but I suspect that our desires are in contrast with ai companies profits

LLMs. This month has been very busy

How we've ended up cornered in this spot as an industry? From human craft to onboarding and baby sitting agents?? That sounds just stupid. I won't be surprise to learn, after ai companies go public, that those who pushed hard for agentic coding just disappear o will push for something else. What we have produced so far of extraordinary or even just good value? Please no math conjectures or advancements, there is no field benefit in brute forcing problems

> Though I think a far more interesting thing would be whether AI given the corpus of 19th century mathematics and physics reproduce what Ramanujam or what Einstein did.

I don't think so, it was a big leap forward in terms of creativity, imagination, rigor and experimentation. Einstein was able to "run" visual thought experiments inside his mind

I have the same theory but for different reasons(commented something similar to a recent css functions thread), in this case though I don't thing you can solve it with a library, the canvas api is very limited, text layouting is very hard especially if you want to support different languages and directions. Let alone rendering a text input, if the use case is games, those usually don't have very complex inputs and that would be ok I think to implement a simpler one. IMO we should just have exposed the Skia text layout api in javascript.

Gosh how much I'd love to have a separate accessibility and text layout api like skia has and ditch the dom completely

> Because those making the standards only work on creating gimmicks.

Totally agree, but afaik we are a very small minority. My tinfoil hat theory is that all of this is intentional to keep monopolies and making it impossible to compete in the browser space

> typescript added human readability

Ehm no, added type safety, and dealing with a type checker it's exactly what agents need.

> if no human is coding

Nope outside the bubble there are many still hand coding(me too)

> I guess it will be soon that typescript won’t matter anymore since agents will be writing code is Rust

Oh hold on a second isn't Rust the same as Typescript "adding human readability"?! Why not trashing Rust and just have LLMs output WASM directly? XD Wasm which is basically useless outside the browser or some microvms on the edge, and in the browser you don't even have an interface for directly rendering anything and still have to deal with the dom

You either are highly non technical, very junior or I just don't know

All of this just for enabling the WASM use case? Why not keep supporting Deno then that is written in Rust? To me it just sounds like a technical ai journey and a blow to the go port

Then you have a skill issue :)

> Especially early-stage businesses where time to market and test ideas is paramount

To me it's just crazy of how dumb it is to test an idea with a vibecoded shitty app. I'm not saying it should be perfect from day zero, let's pretend we are talking about cakes, how crazy it would sound you will tell people to try and judge your new idea of a cake you don't even know how it taste or what's inside?

> We've vibecoded scripts recently that genuinely are better than what I would have written and I don't think I'm terrible.

I'm ok with vibecoding scripts, I love programming the machine and making the end user happy and not dealing with bash! I don't judge scripts quality as long as they are tools in the workflow, I dont care about that, unless they will somehow be part of the production. The name Script implies that, there isn't any architecture and Claude Opus sucks at architecture

Then you're just a stranger in a land of nerds, only knowing about the history of computing you would know that coding isn't only a means to create something but it is everything. Would the Michelangelo statue have been 3D printed hold the same value? The problem is that programming got popular because it paid good salaries