Darmani

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The Myth of the Solo Unicorn(stephenforte1.substack.com)
5 points by Darmani 2mo ago|2 comments
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by Darmani 3mo ago
There's a few obvious suggestions -- discuss design tradeoffs with the AI extensively, make sure you understand all your code, and understand the refactorings. I think using Command Center can lead to much better skills growth than any
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by Darmani 3mo ago
> Heh, personally I fixed this by just adopting the sleep cycle my body wants of going to bed at 04:00/05:00 and going up at 11:00/12:00, life is much better now when I just accept it. One approach if your life can allow it :)
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by Darmani 3mo ago
Most days I don't ship 20 PRs. But I think my record is 30. Three things made that possible. The first, obviously, is having Command Center. The second is that a lot of those were fixes or UX improvements under 100 lines. The third is,
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by Darmani 3mo ago
Hi Fizzadar, On the one hand, it is true that the website code was pushed 0 minutes before this announcement went up. On the other hand, I tested just now on two different phones and didn't see any issues. Can you say in more detail wh
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by Darmani 3mo ago
Hi egamirorrim, The basic answer is that it runs locally. If you turn telemetry off and don't use our free Gemini credits, it's trivial to verify that no traffic goes to our servers other than a tiny subscription check. For our en
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by Darmani 3mo ago
Thanks! The final moments before this launch announcement consisted of me twiddling my thumbs while waiting for our designer to upload any version he could get ready in time that is better than the previous version of our website. So we kne
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by Darmani 3mo ago
In fairness, I did most of these interviews last summer, and I know some people have changed. And while I did go a fair bit outside my network to interview people, there are all sorts of hard-to-understand selection effects that come from m
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by Darmani 3mo ago
We have a referrer program Doug has not signed up for it.
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by Darmani 3mo ago
In honesty, that's not a bad idea, and we hadn't thought of that. It's pretty expensive to measure even for small programs. It's also more of a relative than an absolute measure, i.e.: it scores two variants of the same
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by Darmani 3mo ago
And indeed, I think we're the only agentic coding environment with jj support. The most difficult code in the 1.0 release is some gymnastics to avoid the appearance of a concurrency conflict with a user running their own jj commands, m
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by Darmani 3mo ago
Ooh. The answer is probably more interesting and philosophical than you expected I can tell you that we do extensive testing, we figured out how to objectively measure the code quality on certain benchmark problems, empirically it's ex
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Show HN: Command Center, the AI coding env for people who care about quality(cc.dev)
69 points by Darmani 3mo ago|32 comments
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by Darmani 4mo ago
I started playing didgeridoo 10 years ago for precisely this reason. Sleep apnea already cured by weight loss, but I knew by air pathways were prone to it, and I never wanted it to come back. It worked It took me 1-2 years to learn circular
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by Darmani 4mo ago
> This is pretty damning for OpenAI I don't see how. Cases are decided by facts and law, not feelings -- except to the extent those feelings are probative of state of mind, which is relevant for some legal issues but not others. M
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by Darmani 5mo ago
Sounds like a fun life :) Have found in that roadmap things that would help me personally like making async functions dyn-compatible. Have not found the deeper stuff I thought you were hinting at. Last year, I wanted to use the 5- line Res
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by Darmani 5mo ago
This is getting pretty funny. In this branch of the thread alone, I've seen the defenses of: (1) "Rust is fine, you're just expecting the affordances of a GC language." (2) "Rust is fine, you're just expectin
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by Darmani 5mo ago
Oy. It is also a common experience that, when I struggle in Rust to use a pattern that's common in nearly every other language or find another way to achieve the same goal, people who know of my Haskell background call it a "Hask
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by Darmani 5mo ago
I respect that your experience is different. Please respect the fact that I do not understand how one can like Rust without giving up caring about modularity. I have pretty good reason for thinking this is a possibility. Directly, because
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by Darmani 5mo ago
Just investigated -- looks like this works now! Yay! For this family of examples, had been completely stymied by AsyncFnOnce not being released yet. IIRC it had been in the works for several years, was still an experimental feature when I w
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by Darmani 5mo ago
*`dyn Writer`. `impl Writer` can only be used in function parameters. This was one of the example approaches I gave. This works...at first. The problem is that, if you want to add a new function to the Writer trait which makes Writer no lon
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by Darmani 5mo ago
> Look up "callback hell". Basically they encourage spaghetti. Ah. I think you're confusing the general idea of a callback with one particular style of use. "callback hell" refers to the deep indentation that occ
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by Darmani 5mo ago
Good suggestion. I think started doing that kind of thing towards the end of my days with Rust. It's been close to a year now, and don't remember how well it worked out.
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by Darmani 5mo ago
Interesting. But when I search `"roadmap 2026" rust`, I only get results for the video game. Am familiar with Linear Haskell (and actually went on a walk through Tokyo with one of the authors just a few months ago). IIRC: still no
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by Darmani 5mo ago
Thanks! Very helpful. Pain is still there, but surfaced early.
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by Darmani 5mo ago
It seems to be a common reflex of Rust advocates that, whenever an issue with using the language is asked about, the response is "That's just a garbage-collected code pattern" followed by "and therefore you shouldn'
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by Darmani 5mo ago
> is unnecessarily insulting. I know that it's insulting! And it doesn't make sense, because I generally think Rust programmers are smart people. But right now, it's the only explanation I've got, so it is alas neces
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by Darmani 5mo ago
That "and so on" is doing a lot of work. You may accept rejecting garbage collection as a reasonable trade-off, but the bulk of the cost is coming from a much more aggressive tradeoff Rust is making with is at odds with the goals
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by Darmani 5mo ago
Rust is definitely very verbose. I think it's a fine choice -- probably even the best choice -- if you're doing systems code or if performance is your most important feature. If not, I would pass.
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by Darmani 5mo ago
I think Rust would be fine for application code if it kept the borrow checker, but had greater allowance for dynamically-sized variables, or even garbage collection. The reason calling things through an interface is so tough in Rust is beca

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