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> Want it to go away, almost like magic? True, almost like magic and magic are not the same thing, but I'd hesitate to call this a strawman.

Would it be useful if the models were actually good at it?

I second the Victorian Internet recommendation! The book makes a good argument that if you plucked someone from the late 1800s and brought them into the modern day, the internet mi…

Obviously it's impossible to understand the whole stack. My rule of thumb is to understand at least two layers of abstraction above and below the thing I'm actively working on.

The old parser has p95 of like 450ms, that seems weirdly slow to me even for a parser generator. Is my intuition wrong? Maybe it's parsing some truly enormous SQL queries?

I've been on a crusade against sloppy use of AI recently. A conversation between my brother and I spawned the idea of "emoji reaction dog whistles" and I couldn't stop thinking abo…

I've seen the pendulum swing between duplication and abstraction a few times in my career, and I'm currently on team "it's usually not that hard to find a good abstraction up front…

As someone who has listened to this If Books Could Kill episode and read the actual book, I think the podcast is mostly looking for problems where there aren't any. Despite the boo…

So you don't care about things that indirectly affect your net worth? Credit score? Your overall health? How many friends you have?

In my experience, lack of style customizability is the biggest obstacle to using native HTML features

We don't need to give up streetlights to make huge progress. 20 to 50 percent of outdoor lighting is wasted. Just shielding streetlights would go a long way. https://www.nps.gov/su…

What do you mean by strictly more powerful?

Antkeeping, rockhounding, and flint knapping are things I've gotten into recently. Antkeeping and rockhounding in particular have a ton of room for citizen science. Lots of undisco…

It's not like the Shopify CEO intentionally tried to make something low quality. Was he out of his depth? Sure, but I don't fault him for trying. I think the people hyping up this …

Lambda calculus is a model of computation. A pretty lightweight model that can still do everything that other programming languages can. Combinators are an even simpler model of co…

What do you mean by "too heavy"? File size?

This is my experience as well. MJML is the older, more reliable, better documented technology. And when it comes to debugging email rendering, you really, REALLY want as much docum…

I used to think this, but lately I'm getting a lot of plain text marketing emails that are clearly LLMs. Now I dislike plain text emails just as much as HTML ones.

Writing HTML for emails is a lot harder than you're making it sound. But MJML does a good job of simplifying it for most use cases.

This surprises me too. I've experimented with using LLMs to convert lambda calculus expressions into combinatory logic. There is a simple deterministic way to do this, and LLMs cla…

I made a queuing theory calculator for this: https://joshmoody.org/blog/number-of-agents/#number-of-agent... Although you'll have to mentally replace the word "agent" with "PR" for…