wwind123

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by wwind123 9d ago
Hard mathematics problems used to take years if not decades to tackle manually. But now with enough compute and a hint that a certain approach might work, it just takes a few days. This could be the last year that humans could still make mo
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by wwind123 10d ago
Amazingly, these few days the Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) has been catching much more problems in code reviews than before. I think it started from the second day since I posted the observation above. Maybe somebody from Google saw my posts and
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by wwind123 11d ago
I like the "Dark Integers" series of stories written by Greg Egan. They might even have inspired Liu Cixin to write in Death's End that somewhere deep in the universe, some powerful civilizations would weaponize physics laws,
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by wwind123 14d ago
Yeah, my tool to automate these review loops is https://github.com/wwind123/coding-review-agent-loop . It's basically a script calling Claude, Codex and Antigravity CLI's. The benefit of using CLI's is,
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by wwind123 14d ago
I've been trying this Gemini 3.8 Flash for a day. Looks not much different than Gemini 3.7 Flash in my use case: I have Codex (gpt-5.6 sol) write up a design plan to implement a feature or refactor a portion of a system I am building,
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by wwind123 21d ago
Taxing resource consumption, would likely encourage companies to optimize for less and less resource consumption. That by itself might be a good thing. But what if some day companies achieved the ultimate savings, using very little resource
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by wwind123 24d ago
I understand the approach to wait until the same pattern shows up across multiple different problem domains, to build a good solution for all of them. But sometimes it's a chicken-and-egg problem. Teams most often don't have the p
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by wwind123 25d ago
Nowadays I mostly listen to e-books when I am doing house chores or driving or doing some other things that require the eyes but not the entire brain. Not sure if it counts as reading. If it does, then I read about 10-15 books a year. I hav
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by wwind123 1mo ago
I learned BASIC in 1985 on an Apple II, and 6502 machine language in 1987, while in high school. I was able to publish a 6502 machine language program on a national computer magazine that year. Back then we printed the hex code of the progr
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by wwind123 1mo ago
A lot of old mission-critical banking or commercial software systems have been running on those machines for decades. Before the AI age, it'd seem impossible to migrate those programs off. Now with the AI help, there might be a glimpse
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by wwind123 2mo ago
Yeah. Bug-for-bug migration is a real thing in large code-bases in the industry. You want to replicate all behavior of the code regardless whether the behavior is a feature or a bug. See Hyrum's Law: https://www.hyrumslaw.co
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by wwind123 2mo ago
I am guessing that's because Sign in with Google is the least of the evil, as compared to other popular OAuth Sign-in options like Facebook, X...
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by wwind123 2mo ago
I think it'd take some time for people to figure out what kind of harness or workflow would work best with each individual codebase or team culture. AI certainly can help speed things up a lot, but for now the humans driving the AI nee
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by wwind123 2mo ago
Last time I looked into this (about a month ago), there's a lot of restrictions on the use of Gemini's search grounding results. There's not even an easy or approved way to de-mangle their returned URL's to get to the re
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by wwind123 2mo ago
As a side note, I previously commented somewhere else that, if a language has a terse way and a verbose way to do the same thing, preferring the terse way might be more economical because it saves bunch of tokens for the LLM. But for humans
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by wwind123 2mo ago
I think it's kind of awkward either way. The standard committee keeps adding new features to the language to address common pain points in the industry. But many people don't have that much time to learn the new features, and hate
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by wwind123 2mo ago
I think it's just a common practice to do it this way in the industry. May not mean these companies are intentionally hiding something at this point of time.
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by wwind123 2mo ago
A side note: the article starts with "If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have?" but does not mention China: usually Li Bai (李白) and Du Fu (杜甫) from Tang Dynasty
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by wwind123 2mo ago
A typical suggestion is to make the agent create or update a .md file once in a while, so the agent would remember the new important things that have shown up since the last update. The problem is, how would the agent know which things are
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by wwind123 2mo ago
Why not try a real database like Postgres? It's not as light-weight, but when operations get complicated, real databases are much easier to work with. I had a website that started with SQLLite, but when it got complicated enough, I spe
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by wwind123 2mo ago
Also...allow people to work from home more. During the Covid pandemic, most white-collar employees work from home, and the commute and the traffic is usually not a big problem. But now more and more companies ask employees to go back to off
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by wwind123 2mo ago
Yeah, some work from Google has had an outsize impact on the entire industry. Won't be surprising if they eventually get a nod from the Turing Award. Including the main authors of the Transformer work for driving the LLM revolution, an
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by wwind123 2mo ago
I still remember back in 2005 when I just joined a company, a coworker was quipping Google is not a real elite company, because it doesn't even have a Turing Award winner. I showed him the news that Vint Cerf joined Google recently.
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by wwind123 2mo ago
To be honest, I'm more worried about another side of the problem. LLM's are good at learning from whatever humans have posted online. But with the agentic workflows getting more popular, more and more problems those AI agents figu
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by wwind123 2mo ago
I think a main worry is that, this AI wave is quite different from past technological revolutions in that, this wave is happening so fast, the speed that humans learn new skills and master new jobs would lag more and more behind the speed t
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by wwind123 2mo ago
A few years ago I listened to a seminar where a few real professional doctors discussed the hospital scenes in movies or TV shows. They mentioned that those dramatic and chaotic operation room scenes where the doctor yells commands with a l
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by wwind123 2mo ago
In every company I've worked at (all with >1000 employees), there is always some text in the offer or onboarding documents clearly stating that you should not bring any previous employer's trade secret or intellectual property
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by wwind123 2mo ago
Ha, finally found time to get it working. Yeah it's more hassle than Claude Code since this needs a separate daemon server, but not very bad. 1. Install another copy of codex in a special dir on the Linux machine: $ curl -fsSL http
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by wwind123 2mo ago
Hmm, I don't have a desktop computer. I prefer my laptop be used for other purposes, and can sleep when not in use, instead of running a coding agent 24x7. That's why I prefer running coding agents in the cloud.
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by wwind123 2mo ago
Hmm, thanks. Didn't know about this. But looks like a bunch of hassle to set it up?

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