Zagreus2142 (u/Zagreus2142)

Zagreus2142 commented on BrowserPod: In-browser full-stack environments for IDEs and Agents via WASM labs.leaningtech.com/blog... · Posted by u/apignotti

apignotti · 3 months ago

We are working on it. Firefox is currently unsupported due to Atomics.waitAsync being not yet enabled by default. Safari on the other hand has some subtle inconsistent behavior at the edge between getters, global variables and `this`.

BrowserPod is intended to work across all browsers, but we are not there yet.

Zagreus2142 · 3 months ago

Having banged my head on years/decade old inconsistencies between Chrome and Firefox with respect to webrtc APIs, some of these inconsistencies will never be ironed out.

But also, imo, Chrome is way more entrenched that LLM agents. I'm sure people will be happy with chromium being containerized this way.

Zagreus2142 commented on US cities pay too much for buses bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/pavel_lishin

whimsicalism · 3 months ago

i think main thrust, you are right that the numbers are less extreme than i had recalled. SF (which i imagine is the top end) is $31-$47 range or so. i see lower ($25) for greyhound than you do, but frankly that seems unreasonably low so i think “salary.com” is not giving me solid numbers there.

Zagreus2142 · 3 months ago

It's not starting $31-$47 it's $31 starting and as you build seniority and tenure you can get up to $47. https://careers.sf.gov/classifications/?classCode=9163&setId...

Indeed shows an active listing in SF for Greyhound for the same amount as Seattle. Greyhound appears to have a single national salary scrolling through different cities. https://www.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=ad2e68b167688669

Zagreus2142 commented on Pairing with Claude Code to rebuild my startup's website blog.nseldeib.com/p/pairi... · Posted by u/nadis

Zagreus2142 · 3 months ago

I'm sorry but this article is marketing. From the 3rd paragraph from the end:

> Since our landing page is isolated from core product code, the risk was minimal.

The real question to ask is why your landing page so complex, it is a very standard landing page with sign-ups, pretty graphics, and links to the main bits of the website and not anything connected to a demo instance of your product or anything truly interactable.

Also, you claim this avoided you having to hire another engineer but you then reference human feedback catching the LLM garbage being generated in the repo. Sounds like the appropriate credit is shared between yourself, the LLM, and especially the developer who shepherded this behind the scenes.

Zagreus2142 commented on Pairing with Claude Code to rebuild my startup's website blog.nseldeib.com/p/pairi... · Posted by u/nadis

ericmcer · 3 months ago

Good point and it really makes you concerned for the branches your brain will go down when confronted with a problem.

I find my first branch more and more being `ask claude`. Having to actually think up organic solutions feels more and more annoying.

Zagreus2142 · 3 months ago

I had not thought of visualing my mental debugging process as a decision _tree_ and that LLMs (and talking to other humans) are analogous to a foreign graft. Interesting, thanks!

Zagreus2142 commented on US cities pay too much for buses bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/pavel_lishin

whimsicalism · 3 months ago

e: after looking at the numbers again, i was wrong.

Zagreus2142 · 3 months ago

The market clearing wage only applies in economic textbooks, in a perfectly competitive market with balanced supply and demand. The US public transportation sector has major supply/demand imbalances and is a regulated market.

Also the median weekly wage in the US is currently $1196 a week (https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf)

Seattle is currently paying bus drivers $31.39 an hour, 40x = $1256 (https://kingcounty.gov/en/dept/metro/about/careers/drive-for...). And I'm sure the pay is less in less affluent/dense US cities.

It's not exactly apples to apples because the bls figure is nationwide and doesn't include healthcare benefits, and king county metro may have better than average healthcare, but at least ballparking this: No, public bus drivers are not paid "well above" the median wage

Edit: I found this listing on indeed for greyhound bus drivers (the closest comparison I could think of in the private sector) and starting rate is $28-$31 in Seattle (https://www.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=2516c81006044ec8).

Zagreus2142 commented on ChatGPT Pulse openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

danenania · 3 months ago

Lol is that really the best example you could find?

Zagreus2142 · 3 months ago

Truly the response of someone who is a perfectionist using llms the right way and not a slop coder

Zagreus2142 commented on ChatGPT Pulse openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

danenania · 3 months ago

My own code quality is better with AI, because it makes it feasible to indulge my perfectionism to a much greater degree. Before AI, I usually needed to stop sooner than I would have liked to and call it good enough. Now I can justify making everything much more robust because it doesn’t take a lot longer.

It’s the same story with UI/UX. Previously, I’d often have to skip little UI niceties because they take time and aren’t that important. Now even relatively minor user flows can be very well polished because there isn’t much cost to doing so.

Zagreus2142 · 3 months ago

https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex/blob/9017ba33a627c518a...

Well your perfectionism needs to be pointed towards this line. If you get truly large numbers of users this will either slow down token checking directly or your process for removing ancient expired tokens (I'm assuming there is such a process...) much slower and more problematic.

Zagreus2142 commented on ChatGPT Pulse openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

wussboy · 3 months ago

We know that relying heavily on Google Maps makes you less able to navigate without Google Maps. I don't think there's research on this yet, but I would be stunned if the same process isn't at play here.

Zagreus2142 · 3 months ago

Yeah this definitely matches my experience and guess what? Google maps sucks for public transit and isn't actually that good for pedestrian directions (often pointing people to "technically" accessible paths like sketchy sidewalks on busy arterial roads signed for 35mph where people go 50mph). I stopped using Google maps instinctually and now only use it for public transit or drives outside of my city. Doing so has made me a more attentive driver, less lazy, less stressed when unexpected issues on the road occur, restored my navigation skills, and made me a little less of, frankly, an adult man child.

Applying all of this to LLMs has felt similar.