Made a quick bot app (OC clone). For me I just want to iMessage it - but do not want to give Full Disk rights to terminal (to read the imessage db).
Uses Mlx for local llm on apple silicon. Performance has been pretty good for a basic spec M4 mini.
Nor install the little apps that I don't know what they're doing and reading my chat history and mac system folders.
What I did was create a shortcut on my iphone to write imessages to an iCloud file, which syncs to my mac mini (quick) - and the script loop on the mini to process my messages. It works.
Wonder if others have ideas so I can iMessage the bot, im in iMessage and don't really want to use another app.
Compilation is transforming one computing model to another. LLMs aren't great at everything, but seem particularly well suited for this purpose.
One of the first things I tried to have an llm do is transpile. These days that works really well. You find an interesting project in python, i'm a js guy, boom js version. Very helpful.
You see a business you like, boom competing business.
These are going to turn into business factories.
Anthropic has a business factory. They can make new businesses. Why do they need to sell that at all once it works?
We're focusing on a compiler implementation. Classic engineering mindset. We focus on the neat things that entertain us. But the real story is what these models will actually be doing to create value.
Not only did it take > 5 seconds to load a page, images were progressively loaded as fast as two at a time over the next minute or so - if there were no errors during transfer!
I disagree I think we always need new languages. Every language over time becomes more and more unnecessarily complex.
It's just part of the software lifecycle. People think their job is to "write code" and that means everything becomes more and more features, more abstractions, more complex, more "five different ways to do one thing".
Many many examples, C++, Java esp circa 2000-2010 and on and on and on.
There's no hope for older languages. We need simpler languages.
> Every language over time becomes more and more unnecessarily complex.
Of course someone eventually will, so I might as well: Well, except for lisp-likes. I think the main reason programming languages grow and grow, is because people want to use them in "new" (sometimes new-new, sometimes existing) ways, and how you add new language features to a programming language? You change the core of the language in some way.
What if instead you made it really easy to change the core language from the language itself, when you need to, without impacting other parts of the codebase? Usually if you use a language from the lisp-"family" of languages, you'll be able to.
So instead of the programming language everyone is using grows regardless if you need it or not, it can stay simple and relatively small for everyone, while for the people who need it, they can grow their own hairballs "locally" (or be solid engineers and avoid hairballs in the first place, requires tenure/similar though).
Related to your comment. I was a "desktop" developer many years ago (about 20). Back then I mainly coded in Assembler, Visual Basic, and Delphi, and I also learned COBOL, C, and Java.
Just this week, I decided to start learning Kotlin because I want to build a mobile app.
Everything was going great until I reached lambda functions.
Honestly, I can't wrap my head around either their purpose or their syntax. I find them incredibly confusing. Right now, they feel like something that was invented purely to confuse developers.
I know this might just be one of those topics where you suddenly have an "aha" moment and everything clicks, but so far, that moment hasn't come.
Did anyone else coming from older, more imperative languages struggle this much with lambdas? Any tips or mental models that helped you finally "get" them?
You know how to add logic on the outside of a function, by putting that function into a larger one and calling the function in the middle.
However, how do you inject logic INTO the middle of a function?
Say you have a function which can iterate over any list and given a condition do a filter. How do you inject the condition logic into that filter function?
In the C days you would use a function pointer for this. C++ introduced templating so you could do this regardless of type. Lambdas make the whole process more ergonomic, it's just declaring a one-shot function in place with some convenient syntax.
They're just functions that you define inside another "outer" function's local scope, and depending on the language they will/can also work as closures - meaning they capture the values of variable in the outer function as well.
I don't know the syntax of kotlin, but lambda functions generally are usually useful to pass as parameters to other, generic/higher-order functions. For example if you have a sort function `sort(listofitems, compareitems_fn)` you could write the `compareitems_fn` as a lambda directly in-line with the call to sort()
We don't understand the brain. We fully understand what LLM are doing, humans built them. The idea we don't understand what LLMs are doing is magical. Magical is good for clicks and fundraising.
Been WFH for many years, but I can understand why some companies prefer (demand) in office. Sorry, but unless its written into employment law, no-one has a "right" to it.
I would think this could be a perk that companies could use to get an advantage in hiring. Although, maybe those who it appeals to on the whole may be lower performers?
I’d also distinguish between the hacker to gets access to a forbidden system out of curiosity or for a challenge, from a person who pays a ddos service to attack someone they don’t like (one of the accused actions of this kid).
The latter displays no competency in hacking or cybersecurity, only the attempt to harm another.
My concern in their access to secure government systems is not their hacking competency (which has not been demonstrated), but their sociopathy which has.
Sociopathy is a very strong word, but they do show a pattern of criminal and anti-social behavior. This is not too uncommon in teens, and many young problem kids reform into good members of society either by being shown consequences for their negative behavior, or more or less naturally "mellowing out".
The issue here is that these kids seem to fail upwards, and as you say, get rewarded for anti-social behavior, which sets them on a terrible path for the future. In the Com chat log shared in the article, they made fun of Edward Coristine for his complete lack of programming skills, and the other "doxxed" members of the DOGE team have some smaller projects online as well. If that's the kind of code SpaceX and Tesla run on, I'd give all of their projects a very wide berth.
The guy who bought a DDOS and got fired from an anti-DDOS company for leaking secrets to a rival is an ex-Wall Street multimillionaire's son. He's never going to fail any way but up.
Maybe because nobody really asked for these things gemoji and "rewrite my email".
Neural nets are a foundational technology there should be a ecosystem of apps based on it. People pay 1500$ for an iphone because it has apps, not to call and text people. I think its coming and Apple can't just NOT do AI, so I get it, but it will take a little time.
Runs git checkpoint every time an agent makes changes?
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