Well, the crazy thing I'm working on (100% self-funded thus far): https://trivyn.io. The main idea is moving most of the reasoning to the symbolic layer so the "neuro" piece can be a small model able to be self-hosted on reasonable hardware.
True. Sometimes I'll run front-end and backend work in two different claude instances, but always on the same project/product. I'll have "reviewer" instances in opencode using a different (non-Claude) model doing reviews, that's about as much as I can handle. You've got to supervise it while it works. I do have to stop claude from time to time when I catch it doing something naive or unnecessarily complex.
Yea, my issue with Opus 4.5 is it's the first model that's good enough that I'm starting to feel myself slip into laziness. I catch myself reviewing its output less rigorously than I had with previous AI coding assistants.
As a side project / experiment, I designed a language spec and am using (mostly) Opus 4.5 to write a transpiler (language transpiles to C) for it. Parser was no problem (I used s-expressions for a reason). The type checker and transpiler itself have been a slog - I think I'm finding the limits of Opus :D. It particularly struggles with multi-module support. Though, some of this is probably mistakes made by me while playing architect and iterating with Claude - I haven't written a compiler since my senior year compiler design course 20+ years ago. Someone who does this for a living would probably have an easier time of it.
But for the CRUD stuff my day job has me doing? Pffttt... it's great.
Trivyn: Ontology-first knowledge platform. Runs on a single machine, via a single executable. I wanted a simpler alternative to the large complicated enterprise products that tend to dominate this space.
I'm really trying to get a private beta out the door by Christmas. I do plan to have a free version for academic/personal use.
Backend is written in Rust, uses oxigraph for its triple store.
I worked in defense contracting for most of my ~20 year career up until a few months ago. So I'm experiencing this culture shock the other way around. Being the oldest person on a team is... strange.
Still have my clearance for a couple years I suppose - perhaps all this anti-remote madness will be over before then.
I simply can't get interviews now (I've had two so far over the last 6 weeks). A few years ago I would be getting absolutely slammed with interview requests to the point I'd have to be selective. Now, I'll talk to anyone with a job.
I've never seen the job market for engineers this bad. I was unemployed in 2008; this is worse.
My Ryzen 9 is just a bit more performant than the MOS6502 my Apple ][ was rocking back in the 80s.
Ok... it also has things like a built-in FPU, multiple cores, cache, pipelining, branch prediction, more address space, more registers, and manufactured with a significantly better (and smaller) process.
Yea. I only have an edgerouter 4 as far as Ubiquiti equipment goes. It works great for its intended purpose (I needed a dual WAN router and consumer level gear generally doesn't do that). I was eyeing their WAPs, but I believe I'll pass on them now.
Your starship would have to be something similar to Rama[1] for me to even consider it. A thousand years on anything similar to an upscaled contemporary spacecraft sounds like torture.
Oh good, I put my SaaS (running mostly on Linode) up yesterday, then this happens. Can't wait for Linode to apply this patch to their infrastructure :(
I'm cursed when it comes to timing. It's like when I bought that house in 2007, held onto it waiting for the market to recover, then tried to sell it only to find out my tenants had been using it to operate a rabbit-breeding business for years and completely trashed the place (thank you, useless property manager), forcing me to sell it at a loss anyway (6 months ago).
Also, I hate rabbits now. And I veered off topic, sorry.