mwcampbell

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by mwcampbell 4d ago
I'm still inclined to question whether the agent harness needs to be a million lines, or even a hundred thousand lines, in the first place. I mean, isn't one supposed to just hook up tool calling and let the LLM's intelligenc
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by mwcampbell 4d ago
I don't actually buy that tweet from Boris Cherny. When the Claude Code source leaked some months ago, there were many posts on Mastodon about how the revealed code was a shit show, a big pile of hacks. I wish now that I had bookmarked
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by mwcampbell 6d ago
This is probably biased by the specific multi-platform apps I've worked on, but my default assumption is that sooner or later, any non-trivial multi-platform app will need to reach for something that doesn't already have a KMP lib
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by mwcampbell 15d ago
So, steady-state performance that's about as good as Java or C# on average, but with memory safety, much smaller baseline executable size (yes, even compared to GraalVM Native Image; I haven't checked current .NET AOT), faster sta
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by mwcampbell 16d ago
> People don’t get it. I’ve given up trying to explain. Systems thinking isn’t as titillating as conspiracism, doomerism, or misanthropic cynicism I guess. OK, you've explained it, and I think I buy that explanation. But now what do
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by mwcampbell 16d ago
> Their stuff is already better than what nVidia is offering with stuff like the DGX Spark. How so? In tokens per second when running major open-weights models, or something else?
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by mwcampbell 1mo ago
A heavy way that, as typically used, goes against the grain of the web, particularly for document-centric sites. For example, on the Oxide RFD site, the RFD links don't do a real browser page load, but use JavaScript to fetch the new c
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by mwcampbell 1mo ago
The difference is that with software before the rise of giant machine-learning models, the software is derived entirely from human-understandable source, and often a full software stack can be built on a single computer, as anyone who ever
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by mwcampbell 1mo ago
> It's just not that hard to link to the system's UI libraries. Are you concerned that as SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose continue to become the preferred native UI frameworks on Apple and Android respectively, you're going to
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by mwcampbell 1mo ago
Wait, why involve wasm in this?
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by mwcampbell 1mo ago
I respect the people who still haven't tried. They held a firm line when the rest of us were drawn to the shiny new thing. They're not becoming dependent on yet another centralized service (let's be real, the big centralized
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by mwcampbell 2mo ago
To steelman the haters, I think their view is that the industry is so uniquely shitty that it's unconscionable to help the industry at all by using the tech, which is a product of that industry.
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by mwcampbell 2mo ago
I wonder how you arrived at that number. Is it perhaps a number that we should aspire to, if we want to write high-quality, maintainable code by hand?
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by mwcampbell 3mo ago
> once the RAM bottleneck passes Do we have evidence that this will actually happen? Maybe the belief that it won't pass is what requires evidence, but I think there's a widespread feeling right now that things are just getti
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by mwcampbell 3mo ago
Compiler developers didn't hoover up as much human creative work as they could, legally or not, to evolve a giant inscrutable thing that does what it does probabilistically, with the explicit goal of replacing as much human labor as po
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by mwcampbell 3mo ago
Well, the frontier models aren't freely available in the same way that the training data (the public web) is; they're only available as a limited no-cost tier of a paid service. There are models where the weights are released and
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by mwcampbell 3mo ago
Rust with wxWidgets via wxDragon has recently become a viable option for some kinds of apps. It even has dark mode now. wxWidgets comes with a disappointing amount of bloat though.
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by mwcampbell 3mo ago
I invested about $4,000 in an NVIDIA DGX Spark several months ago. 128 GB of unified RAM, and the NVIDIA GB10 chip. With the RAM, the several CPU cores, and the 4 TB NVMe SSD, it's a very capable ARM64 Linux computer even without the G
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by mwcampbell 4mo ago
Have you found evidence that the code is actually low-quality, or is that just an assumption based on the fact that it's evidently largely LLM-generated?
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by mwcampbell 5mo ago
IMO the word "compute" is too generic here. To me, the most valuable thing that personal computers have brought us so far is the ability to communicate smoothly across (dis)abilities through digital text. Think of a blind student
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by mwcampbell 5mo ago
Are there any models that are specifically trained to produce diagrams as SVG? I'd much prefer that to diffusion-based raster image generation models for a few reasons: - The usual advantages of vector graphics: resolution-independence
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by mwcampbell 5mo ago
> “A healthy man has many dreams. A sick man has only one.” I'm partially blind, and I know many fully blind people. None of us have being sighted as our one dream.
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by mwcampbell 5mo ago
That's fine, if we only care about ourselves. I guess the harder part is convincing everyone else to unplug from mass media and not raise their kids on it.
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by mwcampbell 5mo ago
Then maybe we need to kill mass media once and for all. Keep the global communication network, but let it be all small-scale communities.
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by mwcampbell 5mo ago
Your argument presupposes that we should accept escalating baseline hardware requirements as good or even necessary, for a desktop computing world that was, from the user's perspective, doing pretty much the same thing as before. I rej
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by mwcampbell 5mo ago
Yes, text shaping and layout are complex. My point is that the program wasn't doing anything that should have required a GPU, particularly for the resolutions that were common back then.
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by mwcampbell 5mo ago
> WPF was good As someone who saw what impact WPF had on average users running average hardware in the late 2000s to early 2010s, I disagree. In 2011, my brother was in seminary, using an average Windows Vista-era laptop that he had been
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by mwcampbell 6mo ago
Yeah, I see what you mean now. Sorry.
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by mwcampbell 6mo ago
DTrace was absolutely a product of pre-Oracle Sun, not Oracle.
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by mwcampbell 6mo ago
I hope we can still get to a point where wasm modules can directly access the web platform APIs and get JS out of the picture entirely. After all, those APIs themselves are implemented in C++ (and maybe some Rust now).

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