stuartaxelowen

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by stuartaxelowen 21d ago
Agree on the changing work interface layer going higher to product capabilities, but not on “the code base is no longer important”. It’s easy to dismiss given how easy it is to ask an agent to generate a bunch of code. But the code base enc
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The Secret Killer of Startups: Low Ambition [video](youtube.com)
3 points by stuartaxelowen 29d ago|0 comments
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A Vine in the Wind(blog.sao.dev)
1 points by stuartaxelowen 2mo ago|0 comments
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Structural Correctness(blog.sao.dev)
22 points by stuartaxelowen 3mo ago|1 comments
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by stuartaxelowen 3mo ago
This blog post pints to the fact that you need information across scales to make really insightful products and software. You need to understand fundamental mechanisms, strengths, and risks of your software to know where to make bets next.
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by stuartaxelowen 4mo ago
My dream is, instead of separating data storage, state machines, valid state constraints, and the logic that transitions between valid states, we can actually unify these into some kernel of app state. Honestly, Postgres already has a lot o
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by stuartaxelowen 4mo ago
Why’s that?
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by stuartaxelowen 6mo ago
In Taiwan the standard way to drink beer is to get it in large bottles, but shared with a small glass per person. Easy to not drink much that way, and promotes the social “let me fill your glass” behavior. (making it harder to not drink mu
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by stuartaxelowen 6mo ago
Given the atomization and layering of work, this has become much harder to truly judge. Ten years ago I was excited to join a customer feedback platform - what could be better than helping companies understand their customers and provide be
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by stuartaxelowen 7mo ago
It seems that we have forgotten how to distinguish between value and profit, and now celebrate the latter instead of the former. Currency enables ever broader and more niche markets, but the financialization of everything is the Faustian ba
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by stuartaxelowen 7mo ago
I too am still investigating the space, but what's attractive to me about CPNs is that they can be both the specification and the implementation. How you describe the CPN in code matters, but I'm toying with a rust + SQL-macros ve
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Colored Petri Nets, LLMs, and distributed applications(blog.sao.dev)
53 points by stuartaxelowen 7mo ago|6 comments
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by stuartaxelowen 7mo ago
It is tempting to think that we can delegate describing the mental model to AI, but it seems like all of this boils down to humans making bets, and it also seems like the fundamental bets engineers are making are about the formalisms that e
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Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding(fast.ai)
1 points by stuartaxelowen 8mo ago|0 comments
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by stuartaxelowen 8mo ago
Notes are options. Sometimes options for taking action later, sometimes as reference for related action. The bet when writing a note is that its risk adjusted return for those avenues is higher than the opportunity cost. I also have similar
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by stuartaxelowen 8mo ago
I’m curious why you don’t target an HDL, which seems like it should match very well to llm capabilities, and rely on existing layout solvers for describing the last physical layout step?
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by stuartaxelowen 8mo ago
https://blog.sao.dev
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Threads – A context strategy for humans and LLMs(blog.sao.dev)
3 points by stuartaxelowen 9mo ago|0 comments
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by stuartaxelowen 9mo ago
Does that mean pass every needed function as a parameter? Or just don’t write generic functionality?
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by stuartaxelowen 9mo ago
The answer I’ve seen is “just pass structs of functions around”, which is just one step more explicit than the implicit version we’re all use to, but honestly I kinda like it to free ourselves of all the ceremony around generics.
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by stuartaxelowen 1y ago
I think this is where it gets interesting. With partition dependency propagation, backfills are just “hey this range of partitions should exist”. Or, your “wants” partitions are probably still active, and you can just taint the existing par
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by stuartaxelowen 1y ago
Definitely open source!
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by stuartaxelowen 1y ago
I'm working on a partition-oriented declarative data build system. The inspiration comes from working with systems like Airflow and AWS step functions, where data orchestration is described explicitly, and the dependency relationships
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by stuartaxelowen 1y ago
Live Photos work for me on iOS.
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by stuartaxelowen 1y ago
I love the distribution of answers to this.
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by stuartaxelowen 1y ago
It sounds like you implicitly delegated many important design decisions to claude? In my experience it helps to first discuss architecture and core components of the problem with Claude, then either tell it what to do for the high leverage
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by stuartaxelowen 1y ago
Did you compare to vega/vega lite? Curious to hear how they compared!
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by stuartaxelowen 2y ago
The hard part about documentation is that it requires you to have a component that can be comprehensibly and sufficiently documented. So much of the software written is seen as provisional, that even its authors think “well, we’ll document
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by stuartaxelowen 2y ago
Python showed that you can be wrong about your types and still build a successful product.
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by stuartaxelowen 3y ago
Completely - they simplify the act of transforming data into visualizations down to the essential association of dimensions to axes/color/etc visualization concerns.

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