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telkins.com https://twitter.com/rovert_snikle

Working on dev tooling @sentry. Formerly @emergetools (YC21, acq) @stripe and @kayak.

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Comment · 2 months ago
Very nice, I did something similar a while back and was going to make a poster of interesting ones to hang in my office: https://www.telkins.com/blog/visualizing-file-formats

Never got around to that poster though. :(

If anyone is interested we open-sourced https://github.com/getsentry/launchpad which can produce a treemap visualization for Mach-O. I've been working on ELF support in my free time too but it's not finished.

Comment · 4 months ago
Not trying to sound alarmist at all but I am wondering if ultrasounds are safe to be used like this? My understanding is it's basically a high-frequency sound wave which is probably fine for most tissue usage, however here it says it's scattering off of red blood cells. I don't know why that feels so unsettling to me.
Comment · 5 months ago
it specifically addresses this in the "The escape hatch" section...
Comment · 5 months ago
What an ordeal, this stuff really scares me, like the post about the Gitlab founder having to diagnose and treat himself. Great to hear you are recovering. If you find yourself in Cambridge I will gladly buy you a beer for how much rg has helped me.
Comment · 6 months ago
This looks pretty neat and the anti-AI hate in here is getting pretty tiresome.

From what I can tell looking at the codebase compared to Django's, the top-level modules are structured much better and more obvious for AI to discover them. And then inside each module is a descriptive README with lots of description and examples that are helpful to an agent (and human). Not sure why this is being written off as slop or arbitrary changes, it seems pretty obvious to me this is the direction of frameworks.

Comment · 7 months ago
Right, and I agree with all of that, but that's not related to my point.

You are saying "if you leave the AI attribution in the PR/commit description, it HAS to be a slop PR that was not reviewed by a human beforehand". And I'm saying that's not true at all and you shouldn't assume that.

Comment · 7 months ago
These are odd takes to me.

> was submitted by someone so lazy they couldn’t even edit the commit message. You can see the vibe coded PRs right away.

As others mentioned, this is very intentional for me now as I use agents. It has nothing to do with laziness, I'm not sure why you would think that? I assume vibe coded PRs are easy enough to spot by the contents alone.

> I would like to know when someone is trying to have the tool do all of their work for them.

What makes you think the LLM is doing _all_ of the work? Is it really an impossibility that an agent does 75% of the work and then a responsible human reviews the code and makes tweaks before opening a PR?

Comment · 7 months ago
>I heard about how beautiful it is

This used to be the case around Swift 4, but since then they've added so many features and keywords to the language. Now the simplicity and elegance is gone.

Also it seems like there was a marked change in the culture of Swift. It somehow attracted a lot of the "ackchyually" crowd which resulted in a lot of massively complicated features. I liked to occasionally browse the evolution docs and they got more and more complex over time.

Comment · 9 months ago
Flutter still doesn't support liquid glass on iOS so it doesn't seem like a serious contender to me at this point. And due to the nature of how Flutter is implemented, it's going to continuously be an uphill battle. Maybe it's fine if you intend on having a completely custom UI and don't care about platform look and feel.
Comment · 9 months ago
There are a couple issues with that definition: - quality is not always correlated with "cheaply made en-masse" - actual slop, assuming you are talking about the food, is more about preventing food waste although it happens to also be cheap.

I'm being pedantic AF because most people refer to AI slop as "low-quality or careless work". And AI is just a tool so it's possible to spend a lot of time making something of high quality with it. I get the outrage with respect to copyright and artist rights, but it certainly doesn't look like slop to me.

Comment · 9 months ago
Is it slop if enough people enjoyed it to be on the top charts?
Comment · 9 months ago
telkins.com

I have an endless list of blog posts to write and so little time :(

Comment · 9 months ago
I'm dealing with a severe health ailment with my cat right now and ChatGPT has been pretty invaluable in helping us understand what's going on. We've been keeping our own detailed medical log that I paste in with the lab and radiology results and it gives pretty good responses on everything so far. Of course I'm treating the results skeptically but so far it has been helpful and kept us more informed on what's going on. We've found it works best if you give it the raw facts and lab results.

The main issue is that medicine and diseases come with so many "it depends" and caveats. Like right now my cat won't eat anything, is it because of nausea from the underlying disease, from the recent stress she's been through, from the bad reaction to the medicine she really doesn't like, from her low potassium levels, something else, all of the above? It's hard to say since all of those things mention "may cause nausea and loss of appetite". But to be fair, even the human vets are making their own educated guesses.

Comment · 10 months ago

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