Vaughn Vernon

I finally realized what's been on my mind for the past 15 months.

***When the Evil Genius Comes to Town*** AI-Powered Coding Assistant Deletes Company Database, Says Restoring It Is Impossible The "vibes" turned bad real quick. The AI wiped out a key company database, he claims — and when called out on its mistake, it insisted, sorrowfully,…

Steve Jobs: “My model of business is The Beatles” “[The Beatles] were four very talented guys who kept each other’s negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other, and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. And that’s how I see business. Great things in…

This is classic @X. You send a request for feedback. I take time to reply. The following pretty much defines the past 2+ years here. Thanks for the paid service quality—joke. ===== Hello my-email-address, We're writing to let you know that the group you tried to contact…

Tabs vs Spaces Wars

First OpenAI employees revolted to bring Sama back and save the tender offer, now they’re leaving left and right for giant pay packages. These doing it all for the good of humanity types are the most mercenary financial operators in tech.

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Excellent. If nothing else, watch the first 25 seconds ...

A conversation with @patrickc on old programming languages, software at industrial scale, and AI's effect on economics/biology/Patrick's daily life. 00:15 - Why Patrick wrote his first startup in Smalltalk 03:35 - LISP chatbots 06:09 - Good ideas from esoteric programming…

Dear @X, This is true. Best wishes, Vaughn

But here's the thing‼️ I actually go out of my way to use em dash ➡️— in the appropriate places 🏢 I have an edit ✒️ window 🪟 that holds nothing ⛔ but one of these here— ⬅️ in the buffer 👜 Also I found how to type the—on my phone 📱🔥 So 🧵 does that make my posts 📫 AI…

That article was written one 1-2 days ago. Devin hasn't been relevant for more than one year, besides the fact that no AI can be turned loose on code 24x7—not even 24 minutes and 7 seconds.

"Goldman Sachs Just Made Your Computer Science Degree Worthless" What's worthless is this shallow article. People who buy into this are ignorant: "Now, Goldman Sachs is piloting thousands of AI developers. I hate being right. Goldman just hired an employee who works 24/7, never…

I don't disagree, although there seem to be limited analogs. I think a better ones was the IBM OS/2 System Object Model, or SOM (later used on AIX and with OpenDoc). The system was 100% objects, but multi-modal object and binary compatible w both OO and procedural languages. Too…

The markdown paragraph syntax is two consecutive newlines. I don't understand the significance of this other than paragraph as object. In an OLE document file, there is a file system directory of objects supporting the compound document.

This is actually a very old idea. Several-to-many Unix facilities use file system semantics: open/read/write/close. Further, the old Windows OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) exploits the multiple-document-as-file concept. If you think it hasn't been done before, look closer.

If you have the opportunity to order some mashed potatoes, I suggest the *fresh* mashed potatoes with *good* gravy rather than the alternative.

I'd be okay with aircraft software being written in Rust rather than C/C++. At the least, there's very low risk of NPE (panic) and without the memory overhead and performance issues and warm-up time of a VM. Due to limited-memory computers (e.g. 737 control computer with 4MB of…