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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • What the tech is being marketed as and what it’s capable of are not the same, and likely never will be. In fact all things are very rarely marketed how they truly behave, intentionally.

    Everyone is still trying to figure out what these Large Reasoning Models and Large Language Models are even capable of; Apple, one of the largest companies in the world just released a white paper this past week describing the “illusion of reasoning”. If it takes a scientific paper to understand what these models are and are not capable of, I assure you they’ll be selling snake oil for years after we fully understand every nuance of their capabilities.

    TL;DR Rich folks want them to be everything, so they’ll be sold as capable of everything until we repeatedly refute they are able to do so.



  • You must not write much Kotlin then? It’s far more than sugar when a language fixes core issues in another.

    It’s a modern, statically typed language that addresses many of Java’s longstanding limitations with robust type safety, expressive functional features, coroutine-based concurrency, and extensibility — all integrated natively. Interoperability with Java is a strength, not a sign of dependency.

    Calling Kotlin merely syntactic sugar is like saying Swift is just Objective-C with prettier syntax — it misses the deep improvements in language design, safety, and developer experience.



  • I’ve been building projects with Supabase the last few years now. It’s been pleasantly surprising.

    The only feedback I have for them is:

    • the CLI tooling around migrations is lackluster
    • they don’t let you have control over the version of pgbouncer that’s running
    • the auth product offering is a sore thumb in a variety of ways (fortunately they’re beginning to fix pieces here and there such as the new getClaims method)
    • Postgres 17 support is taking a while (but looks like it’ll come out this year)