Excerpts from "The Shape of the Essay Field" https://paulgraham.com/field.html

So the three reasons readers might not already know what you tell them are (a) that it's not important, (b) that they're obtuse, or (c) that they're inexperienced.

so by implication,

If you're writing for smart people about important things, you're writing for the young.

Now that I know it, should I change anything? I don't think so. In fact seeing the shape of the field that writers work in has reminded me that I'm not optimizing for returns in it. I'm not trying to surprise readers of any particular age; I'm trying to surprise myself.

code that runs a million times needs thinking atleast twice.

a court order over trademark dispute from "iYO" against "iO" to take down an announcement page is crazy

We don’t agree with the complaint and are reviewing our options." ~ OpenAI

https://x.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/1936910167867863053

While trying to learn about setting keyboard shortcuts via vanilla javascript, I learned that

navigator.platform showed MacIntel despite my device being a post 2020 Apple M2 Pro .

I was confused. I needed to know if I should be.

Turns out that I needn't because there was this thing called Rosetta 2 that was intentionally returning MacIntel because it supported applications compiled to run on previously intended Intel X86 chips on now Apple owned silicon stack.

What is Rosetta 2? My notes: https://tnvmadhav.me/til/rosetta-2/

T.I.L. that A.R.M. initially stood for Acorn R.I.S.C. Machine and was rebranded to A.R.M. which stands for Advanced R.I.S.C. Machines Ltd.

T.I.L. that PowerPC was an alliance between Apple, Motorola and I.B.M.

I was almost certain that @digitalocean had a way to configure event alerts using webhooks.

after a clunky search, any attempt to land on an opportunity on closing this requirement led me to a haven of expectations or just ideas dot digitalocean dot com.

like what even?

The aforementioned haven of expectations:

https://ideas.digitalocean.com/core-compute-platform/p/add-webhooks-to-monitoring

Content I consumed today

1. Software is changing again [Video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEmiRjPEtQ
2. Future of AI [Video] https://youtu.be/mZUG0pr5hBo (weird and wholesome to hear sama without his signature vocal fry)

Content I consumed today:

1. Writing Toy Software Is A Joy https://www.jsbarretto.com/blog/software-is-joy/ (good arguments)
2. The Grug Brained Developer https://grugbrain.dev (funny, relatable)

1. “Don’t Mock What You Don’t Own” in 5 Minutes https://hynek.me/articles/what-to-mock-in-5-mins/ (obvious in hindsight)

Running notes from Software is changing (again)

software 1.0 -> computer code

software 2.0 -> language model weights

Software 2.0 is eating Software 1.0

A lot of software 1.0 or even 2.0 is being rewritten.

LLMs are people spirits"

a time machine gone wrong (if you will)

LLMs are like a person when their character-arc is complete.

LLMs generate while humans need to verify (as of today)

Going forward we gotta (as humans) setup systems that are intuitive, easy to modify and use. Fast recognition of LLM induced BS.

Karpathy's Slide:

1. describe single, next concrete, >incremental change

2. don't ask for code, ask for approaches

3. test

4. git commit

5. ask for suggestion on what could be implemented next

6. repeat

vague prompts implies vague verification bias. spend time strengthening verification. prompts get stronger as a result.

So test driven development with more steps but when done right, we can get a lot more done.

many people will not like this and they'd spend money 💰 to get it done for them. good business opportunity.

however being money minded without having the tenacity to solve the problem will lead to blow up. consumers of such businesses/solutions should decide before jumping in on the hype.