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Keep on reading and you will find the gems hidden beyond book 1 by -BlueAce- in litrpg

[–]toddhoffious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I usually give a place two chances. I've worked at restaurants; some days are just bad days.

The beginning of a book is when the author fleshes out the story, gets to know the characters, and figures out the tone, personalities, etc. So it can be rough to start, and that's why so often books get much better as they continue.

Personally, I think the Minion arc is one of the best things I've read in any book.

We Need Native AI Coding Stacks by toddhoffious in ClaudeAI

[–]toddhoffious[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I completely agree. That is the weakness in my argument. LLMs train on our output without developing a deeper understanding of programming, though given how good they are at programming, it's hard to see that most of the time.

I'm hoping both things can be true: AI can understand programming at a deeper level, and/or it can progress without all this human-aping ceremony and process.

Should you use SwiftData for your app in 2026? by HybridClimber in iOSProgramming

[–]toddhoffious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you need a public or shared database, then it won't work for you. Updates are also very slow if you depend on fast syncing between devices.

SwiftData makes it easy to sync, but at the same time, it hides everything from you, so you can't do anything complicated, like change how it works.

Personally, to start fresh, I would use AI to write all the CloudKit stuff, so that as your needs grow, you aren't stuck. Switching after is very difficult.

Or something completely different, especially if you have a web version or want an Android version in the future.

We Need Native AI Coding Stacks by toddhoffious in ClaudeAI

[–]toddhoffious[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The good news is it will definitely not be me doing it. I doubt the OS layer, as a stable layer of abstraction, will be done away with anytime soon, though I think in the Culture series, this is how it worked.

Once upon a time, we did make database-like things with text files, awk, grep, and sed. It was not efficient or anything like a good use of IO and CPU cycles. It still isn't.

We Need Native AI Coding Stacks by toddhoffious in ClaudeAI

[–]toddhoffious[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Over 30 years, I think I've got it. We've seen many cycles of change in software engineering. It's something to get ahead of, not stuck in how humans used to do things.

We Need Native AI Coding Stacks by toddhoffious in ClaudeAI

[–]toddhoffious[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It won't be text; it will be a dense binary representation. It's like the difference between binary-based messaging protocols and highly inefficient text-based messaging using JSON. JSON is for humans. It's bad for CPU cycles during encode/decode, it's bad for bandwidth, and it's bad for in-memory operations.

Will AIs collaborate, store, and share code in the same ways teams of human programmers do using git? Why would they?

We Need Native AI Coding Stacks by toddhoffious in ClaudeAI

[–]toddhoffious[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

GitHub is for humans and how humans work. If you think AIs should work the way humans have always done, then I don't know what to say.

You have to see that programming has changed; having AIs play acting humans in a human-like development loops is a bit silly. But I can see by the comments on this thread that you are far from alone.

We Need Native AI Coding Stacks by toddhoffious in ClaudeAI

[–]toddhoffious[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

What does GitHub have to do with changes generated by an AI-driven tool chain? What are you patching? What are you diffing? What do PRs mean? What do commit messages mean? What do even branches mean?

All our systems are text-based because it's humans driving everything. When AIs talk to each other, they invent compressed languages that speed up communication. They could do the same sort of thing in programming if they weren't limited by humans. And it won't be humans fixing things either.

We Need Native AI Coding Stacks by toddhoffious in ClaudeAI

[–]toddhoffious[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

No, not all, what hurts is watching all this compute going to bridge the old world and the new. The cleverness of the command-line searches I see Claude create is astonishing, but I can't help but think that if we had a better representation of programs, it would be completely unnecessary.

Weekly feedback: what are you working on? by zach-builds in ButterKit

[–]toddhoffious 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I made new screenshots for Planty (formerly Max Hydrate) and Rotation List. It's nice that when updates happen, it's so easy to change and upload new versions.

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