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I've been using Resgraph, but it's based off Rescript, a fork of ocaml.

Curious how this compares to Melange which is used by Ocaml shops as well to double up on Ocaml for both front and backend (ahrefs being the major user and sponsor). Does this mean…

This is the workflow that Vs Code Copilot does. All the AI generated code changes are in a git worktree and you can step through them all. This is what I missed after Claude forced…

Whew... reading just the title I thought this was about me having to write code by hand.

They've also been making things smaller. Some would argue that it's a cultural thing, but being poor also means you have to start adopting austere cultural habits as a coping mecha…

If I understand the correctly the initial models were done by scraping the internet off public data. They now probably pay for access, especially to companies that hold the data. E…

They already "stole" it. They aren't giving it back and they've established their valuations based off of that. If they start paying now, it's simply going to be impossible for any…

This is the same argument people were making about how stealing music was the same as stealing a physical product.

Yes but all the AI companies took all the public data, so when you pay for an AI model you are paying for the marginal service of building a model off that data, not for the data i…

One the things I hate about Google is being forced to have location-aware search. I love how Kagi actually lets me override the country.

I guess it doesn't matter if they allowed OpenAI to do it or not because it seems other models were allowed to train off it too. I guess we should probably be giving kudos to GitHu…

What exactly did they train? Copilot is powered by claude, gemini, or ChatGPT these days. Did they train autocomplete? I mean the code is open source so anyone can scrape it and tr…

The US starts wars… they just often happen to be with dictatorships. The US definitely also supported dictatorships (like Taiwan and South Korea). You can argue all day about wheth…

The US starts wars… they just often happen to be with dictatorships. The US definitely also supported dictatorships (like Taiwan and South Korea).

Whether a country massacres its own people is not really a good litmus test since there are countries that treat its own citizens well but foreigners really badly. One such country…

A photo is easy to take but hard to reproduce.

The whole concept of intellectual property rights is a social and legal construct designed to promote innovation in an economy. If you don't care about that, then there really isn'…

Yesterday I was trying to figure out if my expired nacho dip would be safe to eat and wanted to know how much botulism would be toxic if I ate it and so I asked Claude. It refused …

It beeps at you if you stop paying attention, which is superior. Hands on wheel is an arbitrary design decision more likely to placate what a layman would think is necessary to ens…

This doesn't mean that it's over for SO. It just means we'll probably trend towards more quality over quantity. Measuring SO's success by measuring number of questions asked is lik…

To be fair with the languages I use there are only a finite number of ways a particular line or even function can be implemented due to high level algebraic data structures and str…

Was it the github issues copilot integration? I found that to be slow compared to natively running copilot in the IDE.

With coding agents AI almost never manually type code anymore. It would be great to have a code editor that runs on my phone so I can do voice prompts and let the coding agents typ…

I also try to do verbose type classes using Ocaml's module system and it's been handling these patterns pretty well. My guess is there is probably good documentation / training dat…

Actually I found the coding models to work really well with these languages. And the type systems are not actually complex. Ocaml's type system is actually really simple, which is …