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If someone ever makes a documentary about electric-sql.com they should name it "Straight Outta Postgres"
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First Deep Research blocks me and now Claude — I guess that's the sign from the AI overlords that it's time to go take a bath.
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OpenAI's Deep Research feels like as big of leap as the original ChatGPT. Also, in a strange way, I feel more keenly sad I didn't have it when I was younger than ChatGPT. So many questions I could have blitzed through...
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Huh it almost looks like the Canada/Mexico trade war was just a smoke screen for the ongoing attempt to take over the federal government spending
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It's a field-day for megalothymia!
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It seems like "The Bitter Lesson" from AI is just a general lesson for the design of any system with emergence. It's very fun to tinker with a system's details but a simple design with emergence always works better http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
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AI really changes the calculus on API design. It is perfect at verbose but very explicit code but struggles at elegant but high-conceptual-density APIs.
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A common way designs fail is the designer eliminates "ugliness" from the design too early, before they understand the space. Similar to Andy Grove's famous management quote — “Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos”. The chaos and ugliness hold great ideas — if you can tolerate them long enough.
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Reading LLM summaries vs raw writing has a similar feel to reading a "popular" social media feed vs a chronological feed. Often the summary or highlights is what you want but too much and I start craving all the missing details and serendipity.
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@vgr is there a pdf of all the protocols essays? I've been playing with https://notebooklm.google/ and it's quite handy to have a canonical set of resources to insert a specific block of knowledge. I have a notebook I want to mix-in all the protocol ideas.
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What are some reliable ways to tell the difference between a system that's breaking down and one where you've just gotten far more sensitive to its shortcomings?
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Are there any sci-fi novels that seriously try to grapple with the problems of multiple galaxies?
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Because electric-sql.com's sync protocol is HTTP, you can do ridiculous things like write a client in Bash
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Another easy and would-have-been-tedious-but-for-windsurf PR I whipped out in < 1 hr earlier this morning https://github.com/electric-sql/electric/pull/2184
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Experimenting with using Windsurf/Claude to create text-based programs. I ask it to write ad-hoc "prompt code" into different files & I can have it ask me for data which it then writes out. Very fluid and interesting. Been using it for the last week or so to design/run my exercise program.
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Claude is really good at asking questions — ChatGPT/Gemini kinda don't.
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ElectricSQL is now in BETA! We're a Postgres sync engine. Check out our new 1 million clients benchmark and demos: https://electric-sql.com/blog/2024/12/10/electric-beta-release Electric is ready to sync with companies like trigger.dev, ottogrid.ai, and https://www.doorboost.com/ using us in production.
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Been enjoying thinking lately of electric-sql.com as syncable data structures. Postgres supports a huge range of data structures and they're all syncable now with Electric.
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Congratulations to Trigger.dev on hitting GA for their realtime product! They're an early adopter of electric-sql.com and it's been great working closely with them. Syncing data in real-time right out of Postgres into your app — it's a thing people! https://x.com/triggerdotdev/status/1863599508283912356
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instabuy https://x.com/longnow/status/1861174297810628780
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