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whoke

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About whoke

Software engineer working at the intersection of realtime systems, compiler architecture, and agentic interfaces. I'm currently building Tropical, an IR for stateless signal computation backed by a multi-backend realtime audio engine.

https://github.com/willishoke/tropical

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    Comment #49093558

    I like the concept of "inevitable grittiness"! I think languages like Lean actually do a very nice job of pushing the grittiness out to the boundaries of your program. Everything e…

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    Comment #48741602

    I'd say this is relative to the novelty of the problem domain. At work I'm often solving problems that have fairly standard solutions, e.g. Python scripts to automate build and exe…

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    Comment #48710202

    "you haven’t done any of the hard thinking you would normally do in writing the code yourself" It's true, I spend less time solving problems that arise naturally from the process o…

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    Comment #48700862

    I think the interesting part here is that the black box gives us a starting point. And it's not a true black box: if a model is generating Lean, we can examine the entire source, i…