Buzz Andersen
Tech veteran (Apple, Square, Tumblr), old school indie Mac/iOS developer, Eagle Scout. Kind of also trying to be a screenwriter? @buzz on Twitter. Mail: buzz at http://andersen.buzz
- Excited for the neighborhood!
- I finally read Richard Rorty’s “Achieving Our Country” (1998) late last year, and people are right that it was incredibly prescient. I keep returning to sections like this one about “the secession of the successful.”
- Can’t emphasize enough what a banger this book is. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
- This looks like a photo accompanying an Onion article.
- 🚨 Documents leaked to me reveal a federal watchlist of American protesters suspected of being Antifa - including its supposed leader. One Department of Homeland Security document says a 29-year-old resident of Portland "is the leader of Antifa": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-ident...
- Made another attempt at using AI for coding, this time to troubleshoot an Xcode build problem. Once again, it confidently gave me answer that was…not correct.
- All my apes gone. Gone, Jerry!
- The reconstructed Proto-Indo European word *ghos-ti- is believed to have referred to both “guest” and “host,” emphasizing the reciprocal bond inherent in that relationship.
- One thing I’ve thought about lately is how “vibe coding” is, in many ways, enabled by the increasing modularization of modern web frameworks. Even if we had GPTs a decade ago, I’m not sure they would have been quite as capable of impressing people by, like, spitting out an entire, semi-polished app.
- Obviously we now have people claiming that LLMs are generating things like HTML parsers, but I personally haven’t been that impressed at their ability to spit out sophisticated code. I *have* found them highly useful in figuring out how to configure or integrate well-documented components though.
- This week, for example, I wanted a function that converts a sorted Swift Int array to a set of Ranges. I’ve increasingly been trying to see if I can use Claude to boost my productivity, so I thought that might be a good use case. The result was…not correct. I ended up writing the function myself.
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View full threadNow, on the other hand, I have had to do some work with an unfamiliar but well-documented and highly modularized language and framework (Ruby and Rails) at work recently, and I found Claude to be *incredibly* helpful. I’ve also found it to be incredibly useful in figuring things like Docker out.
- Jane Fonda’s a real one.
- One of the worst consulting clients I ever had. Their office (Canvas, his later startup—not 4chan) had an office assistant who did everyone’s laundry.
- I mean, sure, I won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but what I’d really love to do is train AI models.
