Kyle Mathews

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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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Exactly! Summaries suck a lot of joy out of reading. Also hilarious timing you responding as I'm literally lying on my bed reading Jingo right now 😂

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Oh nice! Must be in the air as I also read this nice piece which touched on the same issue https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-management-singularity

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Yeah Google's LLM notebook is a nice blend as it summarizes but heavily references sources. Been trying that more and more

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Reality has a lot of detail and summaries fairly consistently pick the same subsets so unless you go to the reality-level, you're missing 95% of what's actually there. And the details sometimes matter a lot.

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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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Yeah true about more variety in stars. Three Body Problem is another good example. A colliding galaxy would be very fun with a very slow motion integration of two galaxy wide civilizations

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Yeah true. I was reading a book where you could travel instantly through a sort of wormhole concept but all action was confined w/o explanation to the milky way. So I was curious how other books treated multiple galaxies more realistically.

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Ah nice. I also remembered The Player of Games is set in a different galaxy.

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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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Also bash is a ridiculous language — I never would have gotten this working without my buddy windsurf 🙏 https://github.com/electric-sql/electric/blob/a6191f515eda5bbcd45dbabb946c132dc6523837/examples/bash/client.bash

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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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Gonna call this "Butler Software" — a recent conversation: AI: > Would you like me to add a template entry in your log for today's split sessions now? That way you can just fill in the details after each session. Me: > yes, add the remaining templates to the log and I'll fill them in later

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The AI overlords demand markdown

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@vgr you might like this — I've been setting up my exercise program for this & just dump a bunch of logs and info from different places and it did a great job consolidating it all into a daily/weekly plan with guidelines

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Heh and chatgpt just launched projects. I'll have to go check that out https://www.youtube.com/live/FcB97h3vrzk?si=Aa4qDq3iQEBu8f-O

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