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Running local models is good now

vickiboykis.com
1,596 points·by jfb·25 days ago·608 comments

The Silent Critic

tft.io
13 points·by jfb·last month·7 comments

Code review process is theatre

tft.io
6 points·by jfb·3 months ago·4 comments

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jfb
·15 days ago·discuss
The CalDigit TS5+. It's really nice!
jfb
·15 days ago·discuss
Yeah, I use DAC for the desktop and fibre between floors. It's just the Mac's desktop that uses RJ45 copper.
jfb
·15 days ago·discuss
Yeah, 10Gb ethernet runs hot. I just rewired the house with 10Gb (we have 8Gb FTTP) and it's kind of upsetting how hot my Thunderbolt dock gets.
jfb
·25 days ago·discuss
It produces beautiful PDF output from org-mode!
jfb
·29 days ago·discuss
Postage. Postage. Postage.
jfb
·last month·discuss
Yeah there’s a sense in which the approach is a bet on the commoditization of tokens, honestly.
jfb
·last month·discuss
Yep! There's a link in the prose, but also:

https://gitlab.com/tftio/tools
jfb
·last month·discuss
"cost code" for chrissakes. Sigh.
jfb
·last month·discuss
TIL! Thank you!
jfb
·last month·discuss
Some thoughts on a world of zero-marginal code code.
jfb
·2 months ago·discuss
The tab key in BBEdit inserts a literal tab character, or advances to a tab stop. It doesn't indent the line, which is what I would argue it should do when writing code.
jfb
·2 months ago·discuss
I wonder if it will ever get emacs tabs.
jfb
·3 months ago·discuss
I think about this has having two separate but related concerns; how do we build tools that focus attention on the parts of the problem where human judgement is highest leverage; and how do we build harnesses that enforce invariants such that humans trust the attention focussing part. It's a challenge!
jfb
·3 months ago·discuss
Definitely.
jfb
·3 months ago·discuss
Some of my personal thoughts on path dependence in the world of zero marginal cost code.
jfb
·4 months ago·discuss
Oh man. I used to use xv a lot. RIP, John.
jfb
·4 months ago·discuss
Don't love it. But, I'm glad the Astral folks are getting the bag.
jfb
·7 months ago·discuss
I keep my agent workflows distinct; we have (for historic reasons) a lot of non-git controlled context that differs between branches, and moving all that around on checkouts is untenable. I use this tool:

https://github.com/tdhopper/wt

with some custom shell aliases to make it easier.
jfb
·7 months ago·discuss
I think it shouldn't be, and the poor affordances in git have hidden this for a long time.
jfb
·7 months ago·discuss
That the product is useful does not mean the supplier of the product has a good business; and of course, vice versa. OpenAI has a terrible business at the moment, and the question is, do they have a plausible path to a good one?