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We might be moving towards putting more intent - in text - into the code itself, for agents. We should've been doing that for other humans in the past, but it wasn't always encoura…

But couple that with a deterministic system - the type checker with exhaustive destructing (and pattern matching, while we are it it) - that would become a fool-proof combination.

I hadn't considered that, you are right. Though I would still prefer TS because the language is all about types; the entire ecosystem is well-typed and the type system is quite pow…

I'm curious about the choice of Python, rather than TypeScript. I find Ruby a very beautiful language, and Rails is an excellent web framework, but I need typed functions, record t…

There is no other stack in the last 15 years or so that I look back with the same fond affection as building business applications in Clipper. One important aspect was that softwar…

"There was no exploit. No vulnerability disclosure. No CVE for me to write. The attacker filled out my signup form 942 times, made 942 workspaces, sent 942 batches of about a hundr…

In my early programming days, working with Clipper, I used to look at Delphi from a distance with awe and a bit of jealousy. There also used to be PowerBuilder and Paradox, as comp…

Everytime someone mentions Clipper (or dBase or FoxPro, or even FoxBase, but Clipper the most), I feel a sene of productive nostalgia, and a constructive anger at the state of tech…

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but there is a proposal in DataFusion to allow user defined types. https://github.com/apache/datafusion/issues/12644

Parquet files include a field called key_value_metadata in the FileMetadata structure; it sits in the footer of the file. See: https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/blob/master/…

I think this post is a response to some new file format initiatives, based on the criticism that the Parquet file format is showing its age. One of the arguments is that there is n…

Well put. It should always be "Created by " rather than "Processed by LLM". We can already see it with Claude Code - its commit messages contain a "Generated by Claude Code" line, …

I'm sorry I don't follow. The fact that you use an LLM to classify a transaction does not mean there is no audit trail for the fact. There should also be a manual verifier who's ul…

Accounting, specifically book-keeping, really plays to the strengths of LLMs - pattern matching within a bounded context. The primary task in book-keeping is to classify transactio…

I can think of two instances, where the LLM embracing best practices for human thought leads to better results. Claude Code breaks down large implementations to simpler TODOs, and …