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had some fun implementing Conway's game of life with @patrickgwsmith's qip today. hand-coded it in zig, compiled to wasm, works in the browser just as well as in the terminal, and 64k of memory is more than enough. Each frame takes ~137µs to render. Nice!
We deleted 800k lines of unit tests from the @sazabi monorepo earlier this week.
Three hypotheses:
1- Unit tests "lock-in" slop code by making it hard to change or remove
2- Unit tests slow down dev cycles by making your agent do more work locally and by increasing CI times
3- Unit tests waste money by making your agent generate more tokens and by adding useless CI runs
Will report back soon with the results!
My colleague Paul Thompson (I don’t think he’s on x?) shared another interesting perspective. Letting LLMs do the writing erases the author’s “accent” -- their own unique voice.
paulthompson.dev/posts/accen…
Yeah, it’s hard to keep reading when a piece reeks of LLM.
I found it difficult to finish reading oxide.computer/blog/performa… for this reason. While it was technically very interesting, the rampant use Claude-isms throughout was a bit of a bummer.
