Steve Faulkner
@southpolesteve
working on workers who work on workers @cloudflare / South Pole visitor
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I have a ChatGPT thread where I send screenshots of grocery receipts and have AI compare prices across stores and delivery services. Which store is cheaper? How much extra am I paying for delivery? Is going in person actually worth it? I find this stuff interesting but the differences are not enough to reorganize my life around. Except one. Yogurt.
My kids love yogurt and the ones they eat are 40% cheaper at Costco. The yogurt-nomics alone are enough to justify shopping mostly at Costco even with delivery.
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We rewrote an internal thing from Zig to JavaScript and it got faster and more reliable. The obvious conclusion is that language doesn’t matter. Rewriting does. You should be rewriting everything all the time.
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I've seen people describe Jev as an "AI if statement". But what if it actually WAS an if statement?
Introducing Probably: a programming language powered by Jev:
Jev baked into the language. “feels” asks a question. “match” routes between descriptions. “while” keeps going until something stops feeling true.
This is obviously a toy, but it's fun to think about what something like Jev unlocks. Jev makes the decisions, an LLM does the writing, and a little program ties it together.
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@dillon_mulroy It’s only slop if it comes from the senior management region of the org chart. Otherwise it’s just sparkling code.
oops, I did it again. I slopforked Vinext (itself a slopfork of Next.js) into Nextane: the Next.js Pages Router rebuilt entirely on @octanejs
Vinext = Next.js without Turbopack
Nextane = Vinext without React
Biggest win is initial client JS:
Next.js: 109.9 KiB gzip
Vinext: 77.8 KiB gzip
Nextane: 41.0 KiB gzip
Not exactly shocking given Octane’s pitch is compiled React, but still fun!
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The new beta Claude Code model switcher
