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> failing to fall asleep due to the existential dread of having already used up half of my time
Well depending on many factors you may have already used up more than half of your time. Also: the second half is not equivalent to the first, especially regarding your body.
Thanks! That's really reassuring and will definitely help my nights! :-D
andreabergia commented on The value of hitting the HN front page mooreds.com/wordpress/arc... · Posted by u/mooreds
If I might ask what does you employer need compiler experience for?
I work at ServiceNow, which sells an enterprise platform and a ton of products built on top of it.
Internal teams and customers can extend the platform by writing JavaScript, hence we have a JS runtime in the platform (the venerable https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/), which our team works on.
andreabergia commented on The value of hitting the HN front page mooreds.com/wordpress/arc... · Posted by u/mooreds
I once got a job from a post on my blog that hit the front page. So the value to me was enormous.
Same here!
I am now actually working in compilers, which is one thing I'm really passionate about, but not something I was doing professionaly. I managed to turn a toy project and some blog posts into an actual job at almost 40, so, thank you HN!
from gremllm import Gremllm
# Be sure to tell your gremllm what sort of thing it is
counter = Gremllm('counter')
counter.value = 5
counter.increment()
print(counter.value) # 6?
print(counter.to_roman_numerals()) # VI?
So you could presumably also set it up to implement its suggestions (i.e. if it "executes" its proposed definition for `succ` that would actually just update it in the global namespace). Fun stuff.
> a terminal UI where you can switch between Python and the agent via <tab>.
I'd suggest rethinking this; people usually expect the tab key to auto-complete.
At any rate, thanks for writing the description yourself. The usual LLM-generated copy for these kinds of projects is really obnoxious.
Yep, I've had that working in some earlier version of the tooling.
> I'd suggest rethinking this; people usually expect the tab key to auto-complete.
That's a fair point.
> At any rate, thanks for writing the description yourself.
I might let an LLM write the code, and even the user's manual, but I write my own blog post and comments. :-)