teunlao

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writes code, deletes code https://github.com/teunlao
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Comment · 1 year ago
Impressive tech execution, but the format has fundamental scaling issues.

Clubhouse lost 93% of users from peak. WhatsApp sends 7 billion voice messages daily - but those are DMs, not feeds.

The math doesn't work: reading is 50-80% faster than listening. You can skim 50 text posts in 100 seconds. 50 voice posts? 15 minutes.

Voice works async 1-to-1. You built Twitter where every tweet is a 30-second voicemail nobody has time to listen to.

The transcription proves it - users will read, not listen. Which makes this "text feed with worse UX"

Comment · 1 year ago
Learned more about attractors dragging this around than from wiki. This is how math should be taught.
Comment · 1 year ago
SQL interface for querying traces is the real killer feature though.
Comment · 1 year ago
SARCASM: the only acronym worth building hardware for
Comment · 1 year ago
This looks promising for vanilla PHP projects

Two questions:

How does this differ from Laravel's Vite plugin? I'm curious if there are specific advantages for non-framework PHP apps, or if the component system offers something unique.

When a PHP component changes, does it trigger a full page reload or partial re-render of just that component?

Comment · 1 year ago
Love the DSL. Saw caching is roadmap — does a failed step restart everything, or resume partway?
Comment · 1 year ago
Nice work! Batch generation is underserved for sure.

One question: how do you handle consistency across generations? With Veo's non-deterministic nature, keeping 50 product photos stylistically coherent seems tricky.

Comment · 1 year ago
Agree. Starting from Python for-loops is embarrassing baseline. Any decent implementation gets you most of that 5x for free. The interesting part isn't the speedup - it's that AI can do routine optimization unsupervised. That's the actual value prop.
Comment · 1 year ago
Great library. Just memo your custom nodes properly - edge re-renders cascade faster than you'd expect.
Comment · 1 year ago
Humans cut the phrase to avoid sounding like AI. AI copied it because humans used it. Style collapsed into feedback loop.
Comment · 1 year ago
Chromium fork with AI sidebar. Revolutionary? No. The limits-for-default-browser bait though - that's actual strategy. Will people stay after seven days? My guess most won't.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is the kind of tool that actually gets used daily, well done!
Comment · 1 year ago
Nice try inventing algebraic independence. Two moments here: the concept exists, the name doesn't. Whether it's useful in crypto - we'll see when someone actually tests it.
Comment · 1 year ago
us-east-1 down again. We all know we should leave. None of us will.
Comment · 1 year ago
Been using both daily for three months. Different tools for different jobs.

Claude Code has better UX. Period. The permission system, rollbacks, plan mode - it's more polished. Iterative work feels natural. Quick fixes, exploratory coding, when I'm not sure exactly what I want yet - Claude wins.

Codex is more reliable when stakes are high. Hard problems. Multi-file refactors. Complex business logic. The model just grinds through it. Less hand-holding needed.

Here's the split I've landed on - Claude for fast iteration tasks where I'm actively involved. Codex for delegate-and-walk-away work that needs to be right first time.

Not about which is "better" - wrong question. It's about tooling vs model capability. Claude optimized the wrapper. OpenAI optimized the engine.

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