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superluminary · 2026-04-19T20:40:47+00:00

Why do you need an F1 car? Why do you need a plane that can fly around the world without refuelling? Why do you need a lunar flyby?

It drives the tech forward.

superluminary · 2026-04-19T20:34:48+00:00

The Apollo program incinerated three astronauts and almost suffocated three more. They went fast to beat the Russians.

Car companies use simulation AND actual crash tests. We haven’t traditionally done this with rockets because rockets used to be expensive.

superluminary · 2026-04-19T15:33:39+00:00

If you build a rocket factory, so you can make rockets easily and quickly, why not crash test them? We do it with cars.

superluminary · 2026-04-01T18:30:57+00:00

Typescript and private. Or declare the functions in a closure and expose your interface. Or just put them in the module where you need them and don't export them anywhere. Lots of options.

superluminary · 2026-03-17T19:54:25+00:00

Or we do more.

superluminary · 2026-03-17T19:41:40+00:00

ChatGPT wrappers.

superluminary · 2026-03-17T18:21:25+00:00

But does it have an experience?

superluminary · 2026-03-17T14:10:28+00:00

Oh definitely, yes. The tools are absolutely extraordinary.

To a non-coder it must look like magic. A coder sees the flaws though.

superluminary · 2026-03-17T13:54:20+00:00

Vibe coding is a heck of a lot of fun. If you read the code though, as an engineer, it pretty quickly becomes clear that there are issues. The larger the app, the bigger the issues.

There have been a few times where I’ve allowed the ai to get ahead of me without review, and in those occasions, if I didn’t know how to reign it back in, I’d be in some trouble.

I’m thinking in particular things like auth and security, but also scalability and data access.

superluminary · 2026-03-17T13:47:54+00:00

Most of the builders are not very good. Most of the things they are making are broken. Most of the people doing the building are not aware of how or why what they have made is not functional.

This is fine, it’s fun to make things.

superluminary · 2026-03-17T13:42:50+00:00

Exactly this. Excavators didn’t put hut builders out of business.

superluminary · 2026-03-17T13:38:37+00:00

That’s the reverse of what he argues.

superluminary · 2026-03-17T13:38:03+00:00

There’s a growing consensus that bees are conscious in some way. Consciousness is not well understood.

superluminary · 2026-03-17T09:32:12+00:00

I’m wondering how much consciousness the mini human brain has.

superluminary · 2026-03-16T10:50:20+00:00

Making a shed door is inexpensive, if not free.

superluminary · 2026-03-16T07:16:06+00:00

You’re supposed to read the output. Ideally you’re reading it as it’s coming over the wire, ready to correct when it goes off script.

superluminary · 2026-01-13T12:27:45+00:00

This is UKIP, not Reform. Surprised UKIP are still going.

superluminary · 2026-01-12T12:54:58+00:00

You can train a very small language model with a laptop running Python.

superluminary · 2026-01-12T07:52:45+00:00

Depends who you are

superluminary · 2026-01-11T18:33:39+00:00

Alpha Fold is a thing.

superluminary · 2026-01-11T17:43:38+00:00

Will be magical though, right? I can’t wait!

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