mrugge

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by mrugge 1mo ago
What's wrong with using Python for compute?
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by mrugge 2mo ago
LLMs are non-deterministic and can benefit from guardrails which frameworks happily provide.
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by mrugge 3mo ago
Will, is that you?
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by mrugge 6mo ago
I have been able to produce 20x the amount of useful outputs both in my day job and in my free time using a popular coding agent in 2026. Part of me is uncomfortable at having from some perspective my hard won knowledge of how to write Engl
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by mrugge 6mo ago
1. Efficient recursive transform of kv embeddings into polar coordinates 2. Quantize resulting angles without the need for explicit normalization. This saves memory via key insight: angles follow a distribution and have analytical form.
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by mrugge 6mo ago
Could add a scheduled GitHub action that compacts long history into a vector db and then have the agents also check that vector db in addition to md and git history.
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by mrugge 7mo ago
The world is full of Juliuses. And if one works with enough people one can suddenly realize that they too are a Julius relative to someone smarter and more introverted. Worth considering this before dismissing someone as yet another Julius.
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by mrugge 7mo ago
Connoisseurs of calligraphy may disagree. My point was that humans are very connected to and identify deeply with their tools. Probabilistic autocomplete we are so excited about these days is just another slab on a deep stack of abstraction
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by mrugge 7mo ago
Exec A: Can Exec B meet me for lunch? AI: Exec B is too busy gorging their brain on the word salad I am feeding it through her new neural link. But I now have just upgraded my body to the latest Tesla Pear. Want to meet up? Subscribe for a
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by mrugge 7mo ago
Where does the machine begin and end? Even a fountain pen is a highly advanced mechanism which we owe to countless generations of preceding, inventive toolmakers.
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by mrugge 7mo ago
I feel for the author. Until recently it used to be that writing was a way for humans to project their thought into time and space for anyone to witness, or even to have a conversation. Oh how I miss that dead art of having a good one. It u
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by mrugge 10mo ago
I think this marathon attitude of not trying to win but to hit personal targets could be applied in other areas of life and in other sports even with clear "winners". None of this is about the destination. We all arrive at the sam
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by mrugge 11mo ago
I thought the Russian version was pretty funny. Thanks for calling it out.
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by mrugge 11mo ago
usually packages use packages in any worthwhile language with useful packages and desire for code reuse...
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by mrugge 11mo ago
Why do you think what you describe being excited about does not warrant the current level of AI hype? I agree with your assessment and sometimes I think there is too much cynicism and not enough excitement.
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by mrugge 11mo ago
dad is busy vibe coding a scheduling app
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by mrugge 1y ago
You're missing the empathetic way to comment on someone's obviously unpaid, labor-of-love work. Instead the conversation is about you: your years of seeing "projects like these", your smart, minimal way of managing your
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by mrugge 1y ago
It can also serve an indicator of being in the know and with the times while also being performance-, close-to-the-metal oriented. "A dot file manager not written in Fortran, but one that could have been written in Python, but actuall
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by mrugge 1y ago
More specifically I will stub out a simple unit test by hand to zoom in on where I think the issue is. It then turns into an exhilarating and wild ride from there.
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by mrugge 1y ago
I use claude code all day long to debug gnarly legacy code. Sometimes in languages I barely know. It works great especially as a second opinion or to get unstuck. It is very fun but can be addictive and exhausting.
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by mrugge 1y ago
How did you feel when you read my response? That's how people who see through the BS will feel when they receive an AI generated note from your app.
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by mrugge 1y ago
claude code cli
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by mrugge 1y ago
Or click
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by mrugge 1y ago
There is something wrong with this position. Ask AI to explain it to you because I am too busy to do it myself.
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by mrugge 1y ago
"made with impostor syndrome" haha 10/10 would be absolutely right again!
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by mrugge 1y ago
I have often felt bad (or "didn't feel it" to quote this article) and it still turned out OK because I showed up and stuck with it.
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by mrugge 1y ago
The only thing you have to do is pay taxes and die. It does help to feel good about the project and the work, but it is not a requirement for a fulfilling life. Looking back at most times I have felt horrible in the depth of adversity, re
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by mrugge 1y ago
I inherited a django project which has mostly 'unit' tests that flex the ORM and the db, so they are really integration tests and are painfully slow. There is some important logic that happens in the ORM layer and that needs to be
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by mrugge 1y ago
In test-driven development, fast unit tests are a must-have. Integration tests are too slow. If you are not doing test-driven development, can go heavier into integration tests. I find the developer experience is not as fun without good uni
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by mrugge 1y ago
The two most helpful things with SQL are (1) always use set-based operations (never a cursor) and (2) break up your queries into smallest possible reusable chunks (CTEs). Sprinkle in tests to taste. Without some discipline SQL can get out o

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