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doesn't stop someone running a long running claude cli session in tmux and programmatically giving it messages... anthropic is fighting an unwinnable battle

crit was a game changer for my longer planning sessions and it gives me a good way to do code review for llm output locally first

I was anticipating setting up gitea or something and using that as a place where I'd push code while I was still iterating but thanks to crit I totally avoid that!

just fits into my workflow too

the problem with this is I'd strongly argue that you could do this pen and paper process with the human brain and our consciousness too; we just lack enough understanding to put pen to paper in that case

the notion of consciousness being something an experience that other animals/humans share is entirely faith based.

the only person with evidence of ones consciousness is the person claiming they're conscious.

yeah this is the distinctive ps1 look I think all games look like this, at least polygonal games

i think the original quote is "Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang" :-) but your point still stands

elixir is only better imo because of better tooling, more libraries/bigger ecosystem, and macros

give me macros and I'd be happy (not preprocessor stuff, not parse transforms)

honest q: how do you distinguish between single node erlang applications vs clustered erlang applications?

my personal reality is that the majority of projects I've consulted on have seldom actually leveraged distributed erlang for anything. the concurrency part yes, clustering for the sake of availability or spreading load yes, but actually doing anything more complex than that has been the exception! ymmv tho!

I recommend taking a look at the various open source Riak applications too! Might not be updated to any sort of recent versions of erlang but was a great resource to me early on.

ahoy!! thanks for spotting the issue I wrote the post in a stream of consciousness after a long day! I'll make that edit and call it out!

the statement about what historically constitutes a large erlang cluster was an anecdote told to by Francesco Cesarini during lunch a few years ago — I'm not actually sure of the time frame (or my memory!)

likewise I'll update the post to reflect that! thanks ( ◜ ‿ ◝ ) ♡

ahoy!!! never expected to see any of my posts on hn D:

for the first point it was purposely not written on the beam as otherwise there would be no post!

an original draft of did talk more in depth about replies but it just got convoluted and too long!! maybe I'll try to restore something to this end

granted on the runtime and genserver point (though technically it's just a process that receives messages, nothing so formal as a genserver itself)

Gleam runs on the BEAM

or use home-manager via nix!

well doesn't the argument suggest the only thing you can be certain of is I, or at least some 'experiencing agent' exist, otherwise there would be no subject to do the experiencing