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   Alex Russell (slightlyoff@toot.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 22:01:28 JST Alex Russell

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   Like, reading the deepseek paper, my overwhelming thought is "so wait, the secret sauce was...profiling the workload? Then deciding to program to the available hardware?"

   I stare at the results of people carelessly composing UI systems without the faintest concern for how they will work in practice, but somehow imagined that wasn't how it's going in the rest of the industry. Woof.

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     Alex Russell (slightlyoff@toot.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 22:01:29 JST Alex Russell

     The older I get, the more it seems that the rate at which we mint new programmers has sheered away from the rate at which we inspire people to want to learn about the computers they use.

     scriptjunkie repeated this.