Sam Rose

It’s quite remarkable. Between Talon Voice and LLMs I can do my job without ever taking my hands out of my pockets.

I think Gas Town’s primary value is as a form of entertainment and upvotes on Hacker News for whatever Steve Yegge is working on atm. And to be fair to it, it _excells_ at this.

“Speed is a feature, actually.”

And that’s not to say dynamic languages have no place, I love Python and write a lot of it. But the answer was never to completely eschew performance for ease of writing. The answer will never be Gas Town.

I think it’s going to follow a similar cycle to the discourse around dynamic languages.

- “Developer time is the expensive bit, write in a more expressive language like Ruby or Python.”
- “Actually this is really slow and annoying, let’s make it faster.”
- “Maybe we actually rewrite in Rust.”

And of course you can build great software without LLMs. If your preferred workflow is to type the code I think there’s nothing wrong with that at all. The “you’re being left behind” narrative is ridiculous. Use the tools if they help you, don’t if they don’t. Everyone needs to grow up, man.

And this has all made it very clear to me that whenever I see slop in the wild, it has little to do with the LLM. If you aren’t spending the time to make sure what you’ve built meets the quality bar, that’s a you problem. A skill issue, the kids might say. You can build great software with LLMs.

And because I can talk to the LLM with my voice, it can interpret my words very well, it reduces the typing I do and thus the pain I get from tennis elbow. Hopefully those days will be soon behind me, but in the meantime this is a huge win for me.

And I like this workflow a lot. If I have an idea that’s a big departure from the current state it’s very cheap to try it. I’m iterating with the LLM, I’m using the components I’m building constantly, tweaking small things that feel wrong. I can bring ideas to life I may have skipped on before.

This is where my opinion has landed as well. Most of the “typing” is done by LLMs for my own code these days, but I’m still in my IDE, reading, watching the diffs go by, interrupting to tell it to do something differently, refactoring regularly to make sure the code is legible.

Damn, thought it was Aaron.

I’m doing my part.

I’m also 99% sure I know who that screenshot is.

Hive mind! My partner has fairly extensive bilateral sensorineural hearing loss and is meant to wear hearing aids but found the NHS ones very uncomfortable.

We’re looking at private options, and I’m wondering if anyone in my network has any recommendations?

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Same reason Gmail was in beta for a decade.

I’ve said similar in the past.

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It’s obvious in microseconds that it’s doing nothing to illustrate the point. I’m quite sure the author thought to themselves “yep, that’s cheese, ship it.”

committing my bugs at relativistic speeds so it clips right through the cheese slice

Yes 🙏

Article is here if you want, but I don’t at all endorse the conclusions or method of arriving at them: www.latent.space/p/reviews-dead

A screenshot from https://www.latent.space/p/reviews-dead titled “how to kill the code review”. It shows 5 layers of Swiss cheese, many have holes in the exact same places, and an attempt has been made to draw arrows that pass through the holes or get blocked by the cheese. But most of the arrows pass through the cheese. One arrow passes behind every slice.

It’s so fucking funny to me that an article about ditching code review shipped with this nonsense diagram, which was either not looked at prior to publish, or there’s a fundamental lack of understanding about the Swiss cheese model is all about.

I wish I didn’t own a suit. Hate them. But the social pressure to wear them at certain occasions is overwhelming.

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One of the great benefits of having thousands of followers and being willing to talk about this stuff is that people are able to genuinely help, and it’s happened a few times now that someone suggests something that ends up being extremely helpful.

No need to apologise at all :)

Your brain ain’t broken.

So many professionals. We’re well looked after, we get a lot of support with this stuff from the NHS.

Re: “they will eventually eat” sadly it’s not true for all kids. We’re friends with parents who have to tube feed (PEG) their kid because he won’t eat to a dangerous extreme.

It’s entirely possible, yeah. Not a diagnosis we’ve sought out but one that wouldn’t surprise me if we eventually get it.

Very occasionally. He enjoys buttering the toast he doesn’t eat 😂 it’s something we could probably do more of.

It’s not obvious to me what else we could do. We give him food to try, he doesn’t. Pretty much every moment of the day he has a safe food near him, doesn’t eat it. Short of force feeding him, what’s left? For the time being he’s still considered a healthy weight. Hoping he finds his appetite 🤞

His safest food, the one he will eat with a higher probability than anything else? Oreos. Fucking Oreos. But a lot of days, any calories that go into his body are a win. So we do what we can. It’s another one of those “am I a bad parent?” things we deal with every day. Could we be doing more?

The struggle at the moment is that our eldest doesn’t eat. He’s been tricky from day 1, he has a very narrow range of foods he will eat (we do give him things to taste, he rarely does) and often he won’t eat even his safe foods. As a result he’s skinny, 15th percentile weight for his height.