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crubier commented on JSON-render: LLM-based JSON-to-UI tool json-render.dev/... · Posted by u/rickcarlino

viraptor · 21 days ago

While is a cool idea on its own, I don't get why they try to reinvent it as a new system. We've got swagger, openapi, graphql and many other systems that already describe the APIs. They mostly include documentation too. Why not just expose those for the same effect? (If I was cynical, I'd guess Vercel wanting a proprietary thing of their own just for less portability)

crubier · 21 days ago

OpenAPI, JsonSchema, GraphQL all describe *Data*.

This describes *User Interfaces*. The closest alternative would be to just return React JS code directly.

But this adds a layer of constraint and control, preventing LLMs to generate e.g. malicious React JS code.

crubier commented on 2025 Letter danwang.co/2025-letter/... · Posted by u/Amorymeltzer

allturtles · a month ago

> Carefully consider the lifestyle of someone living several decades ago. Would you honestly want to live such a lifestyle yourself?

Sure, I lived it, and it was very pleasant at the time and in many ways better than now in retrospect. e.g. always-on access to infinite content engines like YouTube, TikTok, X, Facebook, etc. is probably a net negative, both for individuals and society. I wouldn't want to go back a century or more and give up air conditioning, dishwashers, washing machines, air travel, electric lights. But a few decades, sure, in a heartbeat.

crubier · a month ago

The good thing about YouTube, TikTok, Facebook etc is you don’t have to use them if you don’t like them!

crubier commented on 2025 Letter danwang.co/2025-letter/... · Posted by u/Amorymeltzer

scubbo · a month ago

A fascinating and eye-opening read.

One of my intentions for this coming year is to critically examine and (if appropriate) alter or dispel some preconceptions I have. To that end, I'm curious about this part:

> You don’t have to convince the elites or the populace that growth is good or that entrepreneurs could be celebrated. Meanwhile in Europe, perhaps 15 percent of the electorate actively believes in degrowth. I feel it’s impossible to convince Europeans to act in their self interest.

Can someone elaborate on how growth is aligned with the general interest? To my mind, although growth could _theoretically_ lead to a "lifting all boats" improvement across the board, in practice it inevitably leads to greater concentration of wealth for the elite while the populace deals with negative externalities like pollution, congestion, and advertizing. Degrowth, on the other hand, would directly reduce those externalities; and, if imposed via progressive taxation, would have further societal benefits via funded programs.

I'd very much like to hear the counter-argument. It would be pleasant and convenient to believe that growth and industry are Good, Actually, so that I needn't feel guilty for contributing to them or for furthering my own position - but (sadly!) I can't just make myself believe something without justification.

crubier · a month ago

> Can someone elaborate on how growth is aligned with the general interest?

Empirically, the past 200 years have seen high growth globally, and human well being has improved massively as a result. Life expectancy has skyrocketed, infant death, hunger have gone down to near zero, literacy has gone up, work is much more comfortable, interesting and rewarding, etc. But at a more fundamental level, our material quality of life is that of literal kings. The 1st decile poorest people in the US or Europe have much better living conditions than a king of 500 years ago. We are so lucky to benefit from this, yet we completely forgot that fact. You complain about congestion and advertizing, but with degrowth you would complain about hunger and dying from cold during winter.

crubier commented on Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say washingtonpost.com/nation... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

bdangubic · 2 months ago

exactly what we need, more cameras everywhere

crubier · 2 months ago

I mean, yes? The cameras do help solve a ton of crime. The real issue is using them for surveillance without a cause, and that imo this is what should be under scrutiny. But trying to fight cameras existing in general is a lost cause imo

crubier commented on Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components react.dev/blog/2025/12/11... · Posted by u/sangeeth96

McGlockenshire · 2 months ago

> And we're all just supposed to act like this isn't absolutely insane.

This is insane to you only if you didn't experience the emergence of this technique 20-25 years ago. Almost all server-side templates were already partials of some sort in almost all the server-side environments, so why not just send the filled in partial?

Business logic belongs on the server, not the client. Never the client. The instant you start having to make the client smart enough to think about business logic, you are doomed.

crubier · 2 months ago

> The instant you start having to make the client smart enough to think about business logic, you are doomed.

Could you explain more here? What do you consider "business logic". Context: I have a client app to fly drone using gamepad, mouse and keyboard, and video feedback and maps, and drone tasking etc.

crubier commented on Size of Life neal.fun/size-of-life/... · Posted by u/eatonphil

crubier · 2 months ago

My kids will LOVE this

crubier commented on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%? martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald

SauntSolaire · 2 months ago

Are they actually as simply to deploy as Excel? My guess would be that most streamlit apps never make it further than the computer they're written on.

crubier · 2 months ago

If you have the right tooling (e.g. Streamlit.io) then yes, literally.

To 'deploy' an Excel file I go to Office365 and create my excel file and hit share

To 'deploy' a Streamlit file I go to Streamlit and write my single file python code (can be a one liner) and hit share

crubier commented on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%? martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald

nesarkvechnep · 2 months ago

I’m yet to see a spreadsheet workflow successfully replaced by something else.

crubier · 2 months ago

Streamlit apps or similar are doing a great job at this where I'm at.

As simple to build and deploy as Excel, but with the right data types, the right UI, the right access and version control, the right programming language that LLMs understand, the right SW ecosystem and packages, etc.

crubier commented on BERT is just a single text diffusion step nathan.rs/posts/roberta-d... · Posted by u/nathan-barry

tekne · 4 months ago

Weird anecdote, but one of the reasons I have always struggled with writing is precisely that my process seems highly nonlinear. I start with a disjoint mind map of ideas I want to get out, often just single words, and need to somehow cohere that into text, which often happens out-of-order. The original notes are often completely unordered diffusion-like scrawling, the difference being I have less idea what final the positions of the words were going to be when I wrote them.

crubier · 4 months ago

I can believe that your abstract thoughts in latent space are diffusing/forming progressively when you are thinking.

But I can't believe the actual literal words are diffusing when you're thinking.

When being asked: "How are you today", there is no way that your thoughts are literally like "Alpha zulu banana" => "I banana coco" => "I banana good" => "I am good". The diffusion does not happen at the output token layer, it happens much earlier at a higher level of abstraction.

crubier commented on BERT is just a single text diffusion step nathan.rs/posts/roberta-d... · Posted by u/nathan-barry

NoMoreNicksLeft · 4 months ago

>You 100% do pronounce or write words one at a time sequentially.

It's statements like these that make me wonder if I am the same species as everyone else. Quite often, I've picked adjectives and idioms first, and then fill in around them to form sentences. Often because there is some pun or wordplay, or just something that has a nice ring to it, and I want to lead my words in that direction. If you're only choosing them one at a time and sequentially, have you ever considered that you might just be a dimwit?

It's not like you don't see this happening all around you in others. Sure you can't read minds, but have you never once watched someone copyedit something they've written, where they move phrases and sentences around, where they switch out words for synonyms, and so on? There are at least dozens of fictional scenes in popular media, you must have seen one. You have to have noticed hints at some point in your life that this occurs. Please. Just tell me that you spoke hastily to score internet argument points, and that you don't believe this thing you've said.

crubier · 4 months ago

Are you able to pronounce multiple words in superposition at the same time? Are you able to write multiple words in superposition? Can you read the following sentence: "HWeolrllod!"

Clearly communication is sequential.

LLMs are not more sequential than your vocal chords or your hand writing. They also plan ahead before writing.