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New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate""

bobbylarrybobby — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 03:44:49 +0000

Someone has to deal with it, either you or the (strongly typed) language.

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate""

bobbylarrybobby — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 03:40:50 +0000

But you can't hold both a `Connection` and a `Connection` in the same variable or pass them to the same function, which defeats the point.

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Claude Opus 5.5"

bobbylarrybobby — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:34:42 +0000

I noticed that when opus 5.5 was on parts on my codebase that had lots of 5.0-generated comments, it picked up its style. Unfortunately I think 5.5 has been trained to mimic what it sees so that you can ease up on the instructions, but this does mean parts of your codebase that 5 touched will be somewhat viral.

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code"

bobbylarrybobby — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 03:29:04 +0000

I love the idea that a single user will have collected enough data to demonstrate to Anthropic a clear regression due to this change.

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Claude: System Prompts"

bobbylarrybobby — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:09:02 +0000

I almost wonder if Claude reads that it “keeps responses focused, brief, and concise” and interprets that as built-in behavior and concludes that it doesn't need to spend additional effort enforcing it, just as it doesn't need to expend effort being “accessible via this web-based, mobile, or desktop chat interface”.

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Waymo in Dallas"

bobbylarrybobby — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:41:44 +0000

1. We don't need to connect every nook and corner with public transit. Each city having its own would be sufficient. 2. The US is sparse _because_ of cars: the space allocated for parking pushes things apart.

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone"

bobbylarrybobby — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:42:06 +0000

The models themselves have far from plateaued. Maybe someone finds a way to get a really capable model down to, say, 12GB of ram. Then we'd be in business.

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Claude Opus 5"

bobbylarrybobby — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:41:37 +0000

If it switches mid conversation, this is a massive increase in token consumption because it has to re-read your conversation into cache, right?

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Claude Opus 5"

bobbylarrybobby — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:37:36 +0000

Definitely — the language comes pre-tokenized!

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "The git history command"

bobbylarrybobby — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:35:42 +0000

Do you really care if someone forgot to format before committing? They can always squash and push locally if they need to.

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries"

bobbylarrybobby — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:20:00 +0000

Paying for someone to clean your house? Thats so last year.

Why an AI company cleaned my New York City apartment for free

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwerjy20kyo

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Siri AI"

bobbylarrybobby — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:23:41 +0000

The original MCP!

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Dopamine Fracking"

bobbylarrybobby — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:13:39 +0000

I was very dismayed to find that the single serve maple syrup packets that I thought existed are instead just more corn syrup, which cost 21¢ per 1.4oz packet, or 15¢/oz. Meanwhile a jug of maple syrup is 56¢/oz and single serve packets seem to be a bit more than a dollar per ounce.

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity"

bobbylarrybobby — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:34:09 +0000

How does this cause a point particle to accelerate towards the sun? Must be something about the gradient, but how does the gradient of time cause you to curve towards the sun?

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

bobbylarrybobby — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:43:11 +0000

Getting inside traders to publicize their knowledge for a price is like half of the point of prediction markets

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app"

bobbylarrybobby — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:24:27 +0000

5.5 is absolutely comparable to opus 4.7 (both on highest effort), maybe even better. It generally seems less lazy, faster, and writes code closer to what I'd write. The only downside is that for very very long tasks, it can kind of lose track of the goal. For tasks under ten minutes I'll go with codex every time.

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew"

bobbylarrybobby — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:40:43 +0000

I have definitely wished that Homebrew would not wait for all packages to be downloaded before pouring them. It's nice that downloads happen in parallel (didn't always used to be the case iirc), but it feels like the pouring could also be done in the same parallel workflow.

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Claude's Cycles [pdf]"

bobbylarrybobby — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:15:25 +0000

Did you read the linked paper? Claude out-reasoned humans on a challenging (or at least, unsolved) math problem.

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "MacBook Air with M5"

bobbylarrybobby — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:38:52 +0000

And new wifi and bluetooth chips

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Apple AI servers unused in warehouses due to low Apple Intelligence usage"

bobbylarrybobby — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:03:22 +0000

Can't, the RAM is soldered to the motherboard