This has been an industry wide problem at silicon valley for years now. For all their talks of changing the world, what we've gotten the last decade has been taxi and hotel apps. Nothing truly revolutionizing.

Better start now! It’s incredible and unbelievable how productive it is. In my opinion it still takes someone with a staff level of engineering experience to guide it through the hard stuff, but it does in a day with just me what multiple product teams would take months to do, and better.

I’m building a non-trivial platform as a solo project/business and have been working on it since about January. I’ve gotten more done in two nights than I did in 3 months.

I’m sure there are tons of arguments and great points against what I just said, but it’s my current reality and I still can’t believe it. I shelled out the $100/mo after one night of blowing through the $20 credits I used as a trial.

It does struggle with design and front end. But don’t we all.

> Deterministic simulation. Another lightweight method widely used at AWS is deterministic simulation testing, in which a distributed system is executed on a single-threaded simulator with control over all sources of randomness, such as thread scheduling, timing, and message delivery order. Tests are then written for particular failure or success scenarios, such as the failure of a participant at a particular stage in a distributed protocol. The nondeterminism in the system is controlled by the test framework, allowing developers to specify orderings they believe are interesting (such as ones that have caused bugs in the past). The scheduler in the testing framework can also be extended for fuzzing of orderings or exploring all possible orderings to be tested.

Any good open source libraries that do this that are language agnostic? Seems doable - spin up a container with some tools within it. Said tools require some middleware to know when a test is going to be run, when test is run, tools basically make certain things, networking, storage, etc "determinstic" in the context of the test run.

This is more-or-less what antithesis does, but haven't seen anything open source yet.

You of course, could write your tests well, such that you can stub out I/O, but that's work and not everyone will write their tests well anyway (you should do this anyway, but it's nicer imo if this determinism is on a layer higher than the application).

as a slight sidebar - I'm not really bullish on AI, but I think testing is one of the things where AI will hopefully shine, because the feedback loop during prompting can be driven by your actual application requirements, such that the test implementation (driven by AI), requirements (driven by you as the prompt) and "world" (driven by the actual code being tested) can hopefully help drive all three to some theoretical ideal. if AI gives us anything, I'm hoping it can make software a more rigorous discipline by making formal verification more doable.

Just don't flaunt your crypto, and don't have any visible crypto apps or widgets on your phone either. Whether you are rich or poor, don't look particularly rich. Also, if you hold an ETF like IBIT, that's traditional.

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it's an annoying usage because you never know whether it means "sth new appeared" or "sth old stopped being available"

I think you are conflating the Closure Library with the Closure Compiler. They are related but not identical. The Compiler, I think, is what makes it difficult to use externs; its “advanced optimizations” can and often does break libraries that weren’t written with the Compiler’s quirks in mind. But advanced optimizations is an option; if you don’t need aggressive minification, function body inlining, etc. you can opt out.

Shadow CLJS has made working with external libraries quite easy and IIRC it lets you set the compilation options for your libraries declaratively.