I've actually really been a fan of her, and her music before I heard about her Service95 endeavour. So seeing that video led me to looking into her Service95 work, and yeah, I have to say, she's the real deal.
Have you built any tooling or products around all of this and deploying it somehow? I’d love to learn more and share notes, because we’ve been doing this too. About 3100+ PRs merged across our 4 person team in 4 months. Impossible without harness engineering, and I agree, the tools are getting even better.
This is awesome! I just came back from Cancun with my family, and I was on a WestJet flight. I was taken aback by a) free Wifi and b) how fast it was to support everyone streaming YouTube even. Your tracker let me figure out that it was a WestJet flight; now I know that I have to seek out these flights from now on.
Not wrong at all, that’s why I’m building my own platform for this. That’s also why I haven’t publicly done much on First Cut yet. I’m using my platform to actually build the product, so the intent is that I use my expertise and oversight to ensure it’s not just slop code. So most of the effort has gone into building that platform, which has made building First Cut itself slower. But I’ve actually got my platform running well-enough that now my team is able to get involved, and I can start to work on First Cut again, which means that I should be able to answer your “concern” definitively. I share it.
I am having the greatest time professionally with AI coding. I now have the engineering team I’ve always dreamed of. In the last 2 months I have created:
- a web-based app for a F500 client for a workflow they’ve been trying to build for 2 years; won the contract
- built an iPad app for same client for their sales teams to use
- built the engineering agent platform that I’m going to raise funding
I see a lot of people in this thread struggling with AI coding at work. I think my platform is going to save you. The existing tools don’t work anymore, we need to think differently. That said, the old engineering principles still work; heck, they work even better now.
Having incorporated libghostty into my current web-based project, I can't say enough thanks. I've lived in the terminal since 2003, resisting IDEs, VSCode, everything because I'm a die hard Vim + tmux guy. Vibe coding coming back to the terminal, and being able to use libghostty to facilitate that is a serious vindication of my steadfast resistance to move away from the terminal.
I'm sure you feel the same watching Ghostty become what it has. Big thank you.
Furthermore, it's actually kind of annoying that the LLMs are not better than us, and still benefit from having code properly typed, well-architected, and split into modules/files. I was lamenting this fact the other day; the only reason we moved away from Assembly and BASIC, using GOTOs in a single huge file was because us humans needed the organization to help us maintain context. Turns out, because of how they're trained, so do the LLMs.
So TypeScript types and tests actually do help a lot, simply because they're deterministic guardrails that the LLM can use to check its work and be steered to producing code that actually works.
You know, I love this comment because you are where I was 15 years ago when I naively decided that I wanted to do my master's in medical biophysics and try to use NVIDIA CUDA to help accelerate some of the work that we were doing. So I have a very... storied history with NVIDIA CUDA, but frankly, it's been years since I've actually written C code at all, let alone CUDA.
I have to admit that I wrote none of the code in this repo. I asked Codex to go and do it for me. I did a lot of prompting and guidance through some of the benchmarking and tools that I expected it to use to get the result that I was looking for.
Most of the plans that it generated were outside of my wheelhouse and not something I'm particularly familiar with, but I know it well enough to understand that its plan roughly made sense to me and I just let it go. So the fact that this worked at all is a miracle, but I cannot take credit for it other than telling the AI: what I wanted, how to do it, in loose terms, and helping it when it got stuck.
BTW, everything above was dictated with the code we generated, except for this sentence. And I added breaklines for paragraphs. That's it.
I have my own fork here: https://github.com/HorizonXP/voxtral.c where I’m working on a CUDA implementation, plus some other niceties. It’s working quite well so far, but I haven’t got it to match Mistral AI’s API endpoint speed just yet.
This is actually a really good description of the situation. But I will say, as someone that prided myself on being the second one you described, I am becoming very concerned about how much of my work was misclassified. It does feel like a lot of work I did in the second class is being automated where maybe previously it overinflated my ego.
I’ve been doing Vim + aider, and now Claude Code. Those tools I understood. I never got into Cursor because I’m too old to give up Vim.
Clawd.bot really annoyed me at first. The setup is super tedious and broken and not fun. That’s mostly because I’m too impatient to tinker like I used to.
However, once you tinker, it’s so-so. I don’t think it’s a lot better than Claude Code or anything, but I think it’s just a focused vector for the same AI model, one focused on being your personal assistant. It’s like Claude Code vs. Claude Cowork. They’re the same thing. But given the low cost of creating custom tools, why not give people something that Clawd.bot that gives them focused guardrails?
Anyway, I could end up abandoning all of this too. And it’s all a kludge around things that should really be an API. But I do like that I can run it on my Mac Mini and have it control my desktop. It’ll be a cold day if I let it message for me; I’d rather it write deterministic code that does that, rather than do it directly.
Amazing project and write up, very good timing too! I’ve been into amateur astronomy since I was 13, owning a few telescopes and spending many hours with family at star parties.
This week I pulled out our big Meade 10” SCT and our small Meade 4” Newtonian to show my 7yo son the moon and Saturn from my parents Bortle 8 backyard. It was wonderful seeing his awe and surprise, and the fact that my parents were there to see it too.
That 10” SCT is on an old fork mount which is motorized but has no GOTO capabilities at all. I’ve also gone down the rabbit hole of researching mount options, thinking I could just buy my way out of it. However, as much as I like the idea of GOTO, a big part of the fun is finding the objects. So I’ve never been able to pull the trigger. I did buy a ZWO 585MC though, I’ve always wanted a dedicated cooled camera.
That said, we have lost way too many hours to trying to find objects. The Telrad isn’t always enough!
I’ve been looking into using my 3D printer and electronics know-how to build my way out of this. I was even thinking of swapping the motors for NEMA 17 steppers.
Then I stumbled upon PiFinder, and I think this project is going to be the exact balance of automation and Push-to guidance that I would like.
It’s a wonderful hobby and I think the latest in 3D printing and PCB manufacturing does mean we’re going to be able to solve a lot of these problems soon.
Which we now know is suboptimal. Humans need more protein than we’ve been eating on the SAD. This is especially true as you age and you start losing muscle mass.
I aim for 1g per lbs of weight. There’s so many numbers out there for what’s the right amount, based on lean mass vs total mass, so I figure my number is close enough.
I’ve thought the same, but then my food intake would truly be just plain chicken breast, fish, protein shakes, and green veggies. Which is basically what it is now, but I’d have to cut out the Greek yogurt, berries, and handful of nuts, and maybe the eggs. Remember, I weigh everything.
I can find the calories to cut, it just makes it difficult to sustain for longer than 2 weeks due to the mental load. Plus, I would bet my lifts in the gym would suffer after a while too.
Frankly, it’s probably easier to just go for an extra 20 minutes run.
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