jwblackwell

It's starting to feel like we'll soon be able to run open source models on our own hardware and use them for serious coding projects. Even if some tasks still need to be handed off to larger closed source models, that's a huge improvement over where we are today.

The trend also seems pretty clear. These models will keep getting better. Coding may already be close to a "solved" problem for LLMs. Yes ofc there will always be frontier stuff that you need gigantic cutting edge models for but let's be honest, most software is not that.

Nice! works well - I couldn't get huggingface to work either

Yea as somebody who played extensively with Lego as a kid, almost exclusively just the "base components", I never really got the appeal of those set with all sorts of custom, single-use items

I absolutely love the idea of Replit and I think it's an awesome platform and idea.

I do wonder how sustainable it is as a business though. I expect Replit is sending the majority of that money to the big AI labs through API costs

As soon as anything becomes serious you're going to try and take it off Replit and use something like Claude Code and AWS etc

With all due respect somebody could launch a version of Discord that's 10x faster tomorrow and nobody would know about it

It's very difficult to unseat those incumbents, especially those with strong network effects.

Plus the people that work in those larger companies are not at the edge of AI coding at all and not motivated to rock the boat

A lot of people in the UK seem to think the trains in Europe are so much better, but that's not the case, at least in my experience. We took an interrail trip a couple of years ago and spent half the time sat on the floor and waiting for delayed trains. If anything, the overall experience was much worse than trains in the UK, especially if you factored in the difficulty in procuring the correct tickets.

It works much better with AI though, which is really all that matters at this point

Yeah I am currently enjoying giving the LLM relatively small chunks of code to write and then asking it to write accompanying tests. While I focus on testing the product myself. I then don't even bother to read the code it's written most of the time

Yeah I do feel the pressure to run multiple instances of Claude Code now. Haven't really managed to find a good workflow, I find I just get too distracted swapping between tasks and then probably end up working slower than if I had just stayed in one IDE instance

This is just crying out for AI to help you get started.

One slightly unexpected side effect of using AI to do most of my coding now is that I find myself a lot less tired and can focus for longer periods. It's enabled me to get work done while faced with other distractions. Essentially, offload some mental capacity towards AI frees up capacity elsewhere.

> the current PHP+MySQL combo was not fit for purpose anymore

He lost me here. Sounds like he tried to change from a boring stack he understood, to Go and Clickhouse because it's cooler.

You're asking for trouble. LLMs are great and getting better, but you can't expect them to handle something like this right now

Your site would look way better with mx-auto max-w-7xl :)

The content is far too wide on big screens