wcedmisten

5일 전discuss

For what it's worth, I use OSM for my modest project SurpriseDateSpot[1] which will randomly pick a restaurant (or other amenity) in your area! It gets a few thousand users per month :)

I've also used this project to upstream 2,000 suggested edits to OSM

[1]: https://surprisedatespot.com/

wcedmisten

4개월 전discuss

> Software engineering is a mostly solved problem at this point

I guess that's why Claude Code has 0 open issues on Github. Since software engineering is solved, their autonomous agents can easily fix their own software much better and faster than human devs. They can just add "make no mistakes" to their prompt and the model can solve any problem!

Oh wait, they have 5,000+ open issues on Github[1]. I'm yet to be convinced that this is a solved problem

[1]: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues

wcedmisten

6개월 전discuss

Having spent 3 years of my career working with Clojure, I think it actually gives you even more rope to shoot yourself with than Python/JS.

E.g. macros exist in Clojure but not Python/JS, and I've definitely been plenty stumped by seeing them in the codebase. They tend to be used in very "clever" patterns.

On the other hand, I'm a bit surprised Claude can tackle a complex Clojure codebase. It's been a while since I attempted using an LLM for Clojure, but at the time it failed completely (I think because there is relatively little training data compared to other mainstream languages). I'll have to check that out myself

wcedmisten

3년 전discuss

Yes! I've found this approach very useful with my own projects. I might not be out here inventing C++ or Linux, but it's actually not too hard to find projects where you can apply well known computing techniques or technologies to a new domain to do something truly new.

I think this is really motivational because doing something new and showing the world is really fun!

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