mattdeboard

Your last two sentences remind me of the olden days of people building applications on top of FB and Twitter APIs (and later, Reddit), only to to have the rug pulled out from under them in one way or another

I'm working on https://xingolak.pages.dev/

I've been learning Basque and wanted to see a visualization of how the semantics move into different grammatical structures when translating between Basque and English/Spanish.

Under the hood it's using Stanford NLP to analyze the input then that analysis is given to Claude to generate the data structure needed to visualize the translation. It's really cool and maybe my favorite of the itch-scratchers I've built for myself over the years.

(Xingolak is Basque for "ribbons," a nod to the visualizing metaphor used in the UI.)

I traded emacs for vscode several years ago now but this post made me wonder if I'd be insane for dusting off my herd of finely shorn yaks to try typescript dev again with it.

At the time I left for vscode, emacs had a REALLY bad Typescript story and it felt like a revelation doing TS in vscode.

Surely emacs has gotten a definitive TS solution since, idk, 2018? 2019? Right?

The road to eternal burning hell is paved with stored procedures. My experiences (!!) make it so i will never be convinced on the risk:reward being worth it.

The way this position conforms to the interests of the capital class, and conflicts with those of the labor class, is a red flag.

It simultaneously and conveniently: 1. takes the heat off AI blowback 2. synergizes perfectly with "RTO" mandates (to the extent this needed synergy to become A Widespread Thing)

On that basis alone, I'll wait for further analysis.

Edit: to be clear I'm no anti-AI holdout, and I actually don't mind working from the office (which i do 4x a week). Just observing.

It's not that i don't like it. It's that I've got 10-15 years (i think) of muscle memory with magit

I've been retired from emacs for several years now but I'm still looking for a magit replacement that is independent of my editor. Vscode's magit extension is really good but i split my time between IntelliJ and vscode.

Anyone know of something like this?

"don't be evil"

You would be lying if you wrote that because you do not know if that is true.

Uh, yeah, dude, when Whitehouse.gov announces its new app, the app is a government program. Hope this helps but something tells me it won't.

Are you upset people are being critical of a shabbily run government program?

He explicitly says he can't determine it, but that the location tracking as configured will turn on once the user grants consent. All true statements.

How would you have written it differently

Ok but are you arguing against code reviews of AI generated code?

People are determined to make the future of code an even bigger dumpster fire than the present of code.

Do you not review junior developers' code? I don't understand your point

Hey just saw this. I will probably take a look at this on Monday.

I also have a a scratch-my-own-itch project[1] that leverages an LLM as a core part of its workload. But it's so niche I could never justify opening it up to general use. (I haven't even deployed it to the web because it's easier to just run it locally since I'm the only user.)

But it got me interested in a topic I have been calling "token economization." I'm sure there's a more common term from it but I'm a newb to this tech. Basically, how to optimize the "run rate" for token utilization per request down.

Have you taken a stab at anything along this vein? Like prompt optimization, and so on? Or are you just letting 'er rip and managing costs by reducing request volume? (Now that I've typed this comment out I realize there is so much I don't know about basic stuff with commercial LLM billing and so on.)

[1] https://github.com/mattdeboard/itzuli-stanza-mcp

edit:

I asked Claude to educate me about the concepts I'm nibbling at in this comment. After some back-and-forth about how to fetch this link (??), it spit out a useful answer https://claude.ai/share/0359f6a1-1e4f-4ff9-968a-6677ed3e4d14

Honestly this insight feels very actionable to me. I do more SQL reporting for biz analysis than i would like (i'm a dev not a biz analyst).

I may take a crack at this tool next week.

Interesting note about left join in the CTE being converted into an inner join. Didn't know that

did you use AI to write this response? Why?

Not many, but junior devs grow into senior devs who do, which is the point. If there are no junior devs there is no one growing into those skill sets.

My work-issued dev device is a Surface Pro 10. I can't use WSL2 for various regulatory reasons. I will never, ever work on software like this again. Worst development experience of my life because of what a miserable dev env windows is.

I know that's been a meme since forever, but my first hand experience supports it to the extreme.

it means their servers were unreachable due to network misconfig.

Yes

LLMs are about as good at "therapy" as talking to a friend who doesn't understand anything about the internal, subjective experience of being human.

You can tell the difference bc if it's lead eventually you'll die

frick no it's not

exactly! it's really hard to find something that's truly _uniquely_ human...

Bees.

Re: oral transmission , I'm operating under the (unsubstantiated) assumption at least some species of dolphins and whales, at least, are conveying "tribal" information orally between generations (locations of reliable hunting grounds, stuff like that). There's no definitive proof of this, afaik, it's just something that seems likelier than not to me.

Re: defining it broadly... The definition I've landed on thru defending my stated belief in these comments is, "Conveying information symbolically by etching it into or onto a durable medium so it can be referred to later."

But I guess an important quality of "writing" is that it's information that could otherwise be communicated with spoken language, and that the written and spoken languages are isomorphic.. maybe?

Honestly this is the first time I've put this idea out into the world for criticism so I'm still working thru these things :)