> I'm trying to wrap my head around exactly why so may people seem to want the best model available
I've been programming since I was a kid. I enjoy it a lot, I like knowing how things work, I get excited about new compiler features, I stayed up every night for a week when I discovered Lean 4, etc etc etc.
At the same time I realized a few years ago that I just don't want to write any code ever. Or read any code. Coding is addictive and fun, but I'd rather talk to the computer and have things magically get done. (FWIW learning how to use LLMs feels more.. fulfilling, too)
Anyway. GLM 5.2 is nice and all, but I might have to spend half an hour guiding it to come up with a plan I'm happy with. And with Opus it could be 15 minutes. I'm still going to spend an hour talking to LLMs one way or the other, but with Opus it will be a less frustrating hour. If Fable gives me a frustration-free hour, I'll switch to Fable.
I worked at Standard Chartered and it's a bit similar, but it's hard for me to judge how much.
SC has its own Haskell compiler that produces bytecode that you can run locally, serialize, send to be executed somewhere else, etc. Most of the code still lived in a monorepo, though.
We did have a global data store (well, several) that any code could access. I was working on a more "normal" application that was still written in the SC haskell dialect but otherwise mainstream architecture -- postgres, deploying to a boring linux server, etc.
A colleague once described our dialect as "Python that looks like Haskell". This is an exaggeration, but a) we did use a lot of untyped dicts and everything-is-a-giant-relational-table structures, and b) my understanding is that the actual financial modelling was done in C++ and the SC Haskell was glueing things together. Idk.
About uv -- I did try to convert ppl to uv but it probably didn't spread further than my few colleagues at the Warsaw office.. well and also I merged a monorepo-wide documentation system that used sphinx and uv, but idk if it's still alive after I left.
I have the same feeling. I got used to infrastructure being run as a democracy, not merely “source available under GPL/BSD/MIT”. (It’s a big thing to want, sure, but I don’t mind wanting big things.)
This is exactly what Unison (https://www.unison-lang.org/) does. It’s kinda neat. Renaming identifiers is free. Uh… probably something else is neat (I haven’t used Unison irl)
A promise of money in the future is worth less than getting this money now. Present value (PV) here would be - how much you would pay now to get $X after T time.
Turns out that sum of PV($X in 1 year) + PV($X in 2 years) + … converges even though the series is infinite. Look up “perpetual bonds”.
The value of $10 paid annually forever is probably $200-500 depending on [things].
Source: I work in a bank but I’m also shit at finance so take this with a large grain of salt.
I started a `#shitty-server-suggestions` channel in one of the Discords I'm in and it's my favorite type of channel. Now we have the same thing online! I'm genuinely happy
At work I’ve been using jj for the internal Standard Chartered monorepo (6.5 MLOC). I didn’t ask anyone, just installed and started using it. Git compatibility is a killer feature.
(if anyone from SC is reading this -- search our wiki for "Jujutsu" and come say hi!)
Pretty much a strictly better experience than git so far — I’m not going back. `jj undo` is something that I expect in every program now and get vaguely annoyed it's not there.
Not having index/staging is great. Checking out another branch, switching to work on another thing, fixing a typo in an unrelated module, etc are all frictionless. "I'll insert a new commit five-commits-ago, do the refactoring there, and resolve conflicts" turns out to be much nicer than "I'll do the refactoring here and carefully stage it hunk-by-hunk". (I get distracted a lot -- maybe if you aren't tempted by shiny refactorings, this isn't a big deal for you.)
The merge story is also great. I have a commit with multiple parents. I can add more parents to it, change parents, rebase it somewhere, move it around. I have no idea how "rebasing a merge" works in git, but I'm afraid to try. In jj I don't care.
There are a few issues with jj that happen to not be a big deal for me, but I can imagine they could be a dealbreaker for someone else:
- No submodules support (yet)
- No LFS support (yet?)
- Doesn't track renames (yet?)
- When you do `git pull` with rebase, git skips duplicate commits -- this is great if something got rebased/amended on the remote. I was always suspicious that `git pull` just works even if I rebased the branch remotely, and now I know why it works. jj doesn't handle this yet. Not a big deal unless two people collaborate on a branch and want to do it the jj-way with rebases of everything.
Btw — how hard are these problems nowadays? Back then, 8 top Soviet students solved only half of them in a month — has anyone tried giving them to students now?
I used the debugger all the time when I was writing in Pascal (and later Delphi). It was great.
Then I switched to Haskell. No (useful) debugger there.
Now I write TypeScript, and.. somehow I never figured out how to do debugging in JS properly. Always something broken. Breakpoints don’t break, VSCode can’t connect to Node, idk. Maybe I should try again.
My understanding from reading the Apple v Epic court documents is that Apple is unique in that it doesn’t force cheaper prices outside the ecosystem. I might be wrong though.
I've been programming since I was a kid. I enjoy it a lot, I like knowing how things work, I get excited about new compiler features, I stayed up every night for a week when I discovered Lean 4, etc etc etc.
At the same time I realized a few years ago that I just don't want to write any code ever. Or read any code. Coding is addictive and fun, but I'd rather talk to the computer and have things magically get done. (FWIW learning how to use LLMs feels more.. fulfilling, too)
Anyway. GLM 5.2 is nice and all, but I might have to spend half an hour guiding it to come up with a plan I'm happy with. And with Opus it could be 15 minutes. I'm still going to spend an hour talking to LLMs one way or the other, but with Opus it will be a less frustrating hour. If Fable gives me a frustration-free hour, I'll switch to Fable.