Armin Ronacher
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
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AI agents can maintain kid-friendly interactive documentation that explains how game code works.
Their wordsnot only can you build a game with kids with AI, you can also have the agent maintain kids friendly interactive documentation along the way that explains how it works, linked up to the actual game code.
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Their wordsHot take for agents: there are situations were VMs work great, there are situations where sandboxes work great, there are situations where a durable object is all you need, and there are situations where you just need a javascript interpreter.
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Their wordsHoly shit is setting up a new Windows 11 computer a shitty experience.
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Their wordsI know y'all are dunking on Mistral, but this is a significant step up.
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Their wordsCrucially what is important for us, is that there is a dividing line between the harness brain and the target environment that runs bash and executes the tools.
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Their wordsIt’s not very hard to make an agent somewhat durable. It’s surprisingly hard to make an agent harness inherently durable and not turn into a crazy mess.
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Their wordsAustria was late 30 years with mass car ownership, 15 years with modern water infrastructure, 7 years for railways, 16 years for electric trams, 12 years late for diesel railways and 40 years with electric city lights. Just to set the expectations vis-a-vis AI here :)
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Now that AI agents are this good, Rust developers should stop being afraid of unsafe code.
Their wordsNow that agents are this good, Rust developers should stop being afraid of unsafe.
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Rust code is very pretty to look at, though the author suspects few others share this view.
Their wordsI might be the only person in the world that likes looking at Rust code. I think it's super pretty.
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coding agentsAnthropicdeveloper tools
Their wordsThe claude hack of adding everything to git and then diffing it is definitely an option but very heavy handed :-/
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Their wordsWithout going for a business account the best internet I can get at home is either 1100/275 or 2000/100. Duopolies suck.
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The terminal may persist for coding agents and programmers longer than most people expect.
Their wordsI wouldn't be totally surprised if the terminal hangs around for coding agents and programmers longer than we all think.
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The German/Austrian mindset leads to the defense of rules, resulting in their accumulation.
Their wordsThe German/Austrian mindset however is to defend every rule. As a result, we're accumulating more and more rules.
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Their wordsBut what really annoys me about the German speaking world is that the default behavior is to defend every stupid damn rule.
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Their wordsI think a healthy attitude in life is to look at a rule, assume it was made for a reason, but to always default to getting rid of it (situation might have changed).
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Their wordsmost harnesses need some pruning on compaction anyways for cost reasons which Jev might help with
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Their wordsif you rely on an LLM to give your text structure, it will score badly on Pangram even if you do plenty of edits over it.
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Their wordsNo software tells me quite as much about your org as the choice of video conferencing software. Meet vs Zoom vs Microsoft Teams vs Citrix vs Jitsi are all picked for very different reasons.
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Their wordsA powerful technology that is out there for everyone to use comes with built-in pacing. In a way it’s the truest form of MAD or proliferation.
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Their wordsI don’t think AI is going to usher in an extinction event. In fact, even if nobody were to slow down, I really don’t think humanity would have much to worry about.
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Their wordsthe models that are actually causing issues right now are all closed weight American models. I’m fairly certain if they were open weight models, we would not have that issue.
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Their wordsAll those things you can easily measure in isolation, and you can also optimize for them quite locally. But these local optimizations do not produce global optimums, and the fewer of us are looking at the output, the less it matters.
↗Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?lucumr.pocoo.org
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Their wordsI’m more and more convinced that all of AI engineering is Neijuan (内卷, meaning curl inwards). In China it describes a system that demands ever more effort and competition without improving output.
↗Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?lucumr.pocoo.org
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Their wordsThere is something powerful and strange about how LLMs diffuse knowledge and capabilities, while perhaps also nudging us all simultaniously and independently toward building the same things.
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Their wordsSo far we haven't really slowed down with what these models do and I don't think it's going to stop right now.
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Their wordsA nix based Omarchy would be amazing. Want to see this!
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Their wordsMaybe I just read too much AI text now vs before, but I really feel like the model's ability to produce text I actually want to read and understand went downhill with newer releases.
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Their wordsif I was stuck in this traffic every day in a car, I would go insane. No amount of self driving would change that. We need ACs, but the US badly needs to warm up to public transportation.
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Their wordsDo I program any faster? Not really. But it feels like I’ve gained 30% more time in my day because the machine is doing the work.
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Their wordsThe biggest issue is probably that we don’t control neutral networks enough to be able to ensure AI doesn’t harm humans. We can’t even control AI to not reveal internal prompts.