so excited to find the origins of the workflow model in this 1998 internal Amazon memo – I think this directly led to AWS SWF and Temporal. it turned out that tracking state changes wasn't just an afterthought, but should be the basis of the entire thing
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GeneralTask: Converting TodoList Tasks into Calendar Events
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came across @GeneralTaskHQ https://t.co/pGx0rjCCMk on HN
— swyx 🐣 (@swyx) 23 décembre 2022
takes the todolist -> calendar cycle very literally pic.twitter.com/cW8zdvfPdgcame across @GeneralTaskHQ https://
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=336587
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Testing Model Guidance Levels Finding Optimal Sweet Spot
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randomly had this page open so tried it on the published model. guidances at 7, 10, and 13 from bottom to top. looks like 10 is sweet spot
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Overloaded Partition Terminology and Data Chunking Concerns
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feel like the word "partition" is overloaded in this context but if i understand this correctly… yes i can split them up into arbitrary length chunks.. but thats just making one long list into a hundred smaller lists – feels like something that is a routine part of data eng
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Iterative Data Extraction with Error Recovery and Restart Logic
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great post! i have a variant of this kind of work that i do often but the "extract" develops over time – run `extract` on a list of items (api calls, google searches) and running it until error, then either iterating from error index or restarting from 0.
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ACM Journal publishes article on the end of programming
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The ACM Journal now has a thing out about “the End of Programming” and… f yeah https://
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/1/267976-the-end-of-programming/fulltext
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Shifting Vibes: From Throwing Errors to Intentional Error Handling
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it feels like the vibes are shifting away from throwing things willy nilly and passing errors as values instead. https://
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AI Tools Reduce Need for Google Searches and Testing
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it has eliminated a lot of googling and testing for routine tasks
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Humorous observation about someone’s initials matching LM abbreviation
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are we sure she’s not an AI? her initials are literally LM
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Building Copilot for X: Generative AI Moat Strategy
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What Building "Copilot for X" Really Takes https://
lspace.swyx.io/p/what-buildin
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… Everyone's talking about "Copilot for X", but few have actually built one. Presenting my first guest-post from @_anshulr
, on building @codeiumdev
! The first ever roadmap to a "generative AI moat" I've seen.