raulk
@raulvk
i like distributed systems, Wasm, agents & engineering // founder @0xff_lab // building
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kinda wild that the French want to tax photons
but it’s France. so honestly, it checks ✔️
🔴 🇫🇷 ALERTE INFO - DU JAMAIS VU: UNE TAXE SUR CHAQUE GIGAOCTET INTERNET VOTÉE À L’ASSEMBLÉE
Les députés ont adopté un amendement prévoyant de taxer les producteurs de données numériques à hauteur de 5,5 centimes par Go transmis.
💰 Objectif affiché : jusqu’à 10 milliards d’euros par an.
Netflix, YouTube, cloud, jeux dématérialisés… les grands services numériques pourraient être concernés, avec un risque de répercussion sur les prix pour les consommateurs.
📌 Source : Assemblée nationale
#France# #Budget2027#
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tip: "when designing UI, never use middledot. the middledot is a lazy attempt to represent with text something that belongs in a dedicated UI element or affordance."
great post! major overlap with my personal system. two ideas im exploring actively:
- project and task-specific evolutive harnesses: less markdown, more programmatic behavior
- banishing the chat to a debug/inspector panel, and novel UI surfaces that go along with that
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I never iterated this fast on any software ever, read how @pidotdev and pi-durable enable this:
my take: these are two different layers. the workspace is what the agent _sees_, the sandbox is where it _runs_.
i expect the virtualization/infra layer to get thinner and thinner, just like we saw with ordinary compute: machine > VM > containers > microVM > unikernels.
my prediction:
- we'll see a new class of agentic hypervisors
- the sandbox will merge with the harness
- that combined unit will run on top of the hypervisor
- harnesses will be generated on-the-fly per task
- so instead of giving an agent bash and instructions to call cargo with it, you give the agent build, check, test, etc. syscalls/tools that do the project-specific thing behind the scenes
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seems obvious to everyone around me that sandboxes are on their way out. we hear too many stories about reliability, capacity, broken sandboxes that need manual intervention -- plus they are way too expensive for what they provide.
the future for agents? workspaces.
your agent doesn't need a computer. it needs a place to store it's context, and the *tools* to manipulate that context each turn.
we're in the very early stages of the AI era. the simplest version of this pattern is just handing each agent a time-multiplexed VM, since that's the only thing that we have at hand right now.
over the next 12 months, you're going to see a rapid shift away from this model and towards what i call the "magic compute box".
rather than giving an agent a VM, you give it a set of tools (could be "bash", "python", "js", "read_file", "write_file") -- and you send those commands to a magic service in the cloud that manages to run them for you -- using the cheapest technology available (just-bash, wasm, or even Linux if really required) for each command invcation.
your agent doesn't want a computer that it can set a desktop background for, it wants a place where it can fire off an unlimited number of tool calls and have it update the context correctly.
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These times will be remembered as “the great exfiltration ruse”
I bought a Fable dataset from one of the top Chinese LLM routers yesterday.
With just 6TB data, I can take over 7 Chinese/CIS gov entities & 19 top Chinese firms like Xiaomi, Huawei, NIO, Minimax using SSH keys, VPN configs, Aliyun keys, GitLab tokens sent to the router.
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the use of first-person singular is hilarious
Announcing tsc-rs (aka ts-rust), my complete rewrite of the Typescript compiler, type checker, and LSP, all in Rust.
This is a project I've had agents working on for 5 months now. I burned ~$400k of Codex tokens and got nowhere. Burned ~$20k of Opus and got there in 2 weeks.
I have not read a single line of the code.
tsc-rs is an open source drop-in replacement for tsc, and it's available now.
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bread bad
mill issue
fish dead
gill issue
Piloting novel ways to make sense of code.
Press ⌘ to activate Xray mode and reveal structures and relationships for rapid grokking.
Coming soon to Spinal ↓
Theory: LLMs that lean towards test-driven development (TDD) are major slop factories. Astra, I’m looking at you 👀
It goes like this:
1. Say a new feature F requires a minor refactor to land cleanly
2. The model first writes a failing test against the current code to validate F doesn’t exist yet
3. The test should flip green after F is implemented correctly
4. But the problem is this: the model just created more code that depends on the old shape, so its incentive to keep it became stronger
5. It marches on and implements F on top of the old interfaces, bending over backwards in ways that a human engineer would not
And that is, my friends, one out of 1000 ways that slop is summoned into planet Earth
Model = 💪😏 // You = 😭🤬
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i never again want to think about the anatomy of an emoji
get this thought off my mind now, Google
En un chat, terminar una frase con un punto a veces se siente como una declaración de guerra. 😅
Para darle más calidez y expresividad a la pantalla, los emojis planos evolucionan a 3D con Noto 3D:
✨ Expresividad en 360°: Diseñados con más dimensión, textura y personalidad para tus conversaciones.
🎨 Detrás del diseño: Conoce los retos creativos para transformar íconos 2D en personajes tridimensionales completos.
👀 Spoiler: Sí, pensamos absolutamente en cada ángulo (incluso en los que no te esperabas). 🍑
Descubre el proceso de diseño detrás de esta evolución:
➡️
Para español: En Chrome > Clic derecho > Traducir.
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context switch is a feature now? are we kidding?
the best login UX is by far the
enter your email
get emailed a code
enter the code
we run a code intelligence pipeline in the background
it learns how the codebase is organized, tracks changes live (turn by turn within agent sessions), and forms a live map you can explore, query, watch, etc.
you’ll also be able to run concrete drill-downs and investigations
stay tuned! super hyped to launch this. we’re sweating the details to craft the tools we, ourselves, are missing to keep up with this crazy new world we’re all in
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we run a code intelligence pipeline in the background
it learns how the codebase is organized, tracks changes live (turn by turn within agent sessions), and forms a live map you can explore, query, watch, etc.
you’ll also be able to run concrete drill-downs and investigations
stay tuned! super hyped to launch this. we’re sweating the details to craft the tools we, ourselves, are missing to keep up with this crazy new world we’re all in
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i have to confess: this is my first time launching a user-facing product
and it's so satisfying to see all the waitlist registrations trickle in!
people trusting you with their email addresses on the internet to be first to try your product? wtf! so humbling
i've been on the other side 1000x as a user, but never experienced the product launch adrenaline so directly
thank you folks! (yeah, i spent too many years in deep systems and backend engineering, bear with me)
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Code is cheap now. Understanding isn't.
Introducing Spinal: a low-latency, predictive surface to grok and keep up with any codebase. From weekend hacks to mature behemoths.
Linux kernel, 1.48M commits: first search results in <20 ms.
Waitlist:
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Code is cheap now. Understanding isn't.
Introducing Spinal: a low-latency, predictive surface to grok and keep up with any codebase. From weekend hacks to mature behemoths.
Linux kernel, 1.48M commits: first search results in <20 ms.
Waitlist:
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funny how a Dot can symbolize so many things, including the end of OpenAI’s aura
this happens today, every day. it’s called “France”
Wait, before email existed… did people just leave work and nobody could contact them until the next day?
people will run their codebase through 100 tools (Jev, LLMs, harnesses, skills, etc.) 100 times, before they run it through their own eyes just once
some companies treat infrastructure like a temple. others, like a dumpster
on the market for a cloud server: Ryzen 9900x, 64GiB DDR5, 1Tb NVMe
recs? is lowendtalk the best place to look these days?
someone had to mention @Hetzner_Online to get your attention, huh?
i’ve DM’ed all details. your colleague Duarte requested an “urgent escalation” yesterday, which remained pending til Monday working hours.
well, a full workday has passed and still no news.
btw, your live chat kept me waiting today for 5 minutes and then told me the session expired and to try again later, lol.
pure comedy.
I guess today is National Croissant Day?
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someone had to mention @Hetzner_Online to get your attention, huh?
i’ve DM’ed all details. your colleague Duarte requested an “urgent escalation” yesterday, which remained pending til Monday working hours.
well, a full workday has passed and still no news.
btw, your live chat kept me waiting today for 5 minutes and then told me the session expired and to try again later, lol.
pure comedy.
I guess today is National Croissant Day?
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