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I assume that like Karpathy you used Claude Code Desktop. The harness seems to be more capable than VS Code or terminal. Could you have done it with TUI alone?

No, not that. Increasingly, the Claude Desktop app (and desktop harnesses) seems to be the favored environment over terminal, VS Code, and the like.

It’s quite a feat, what Karpathy built. I know, I know, Claude did it but Karpathy envisioned and guided it. And he did it declaratively, not imperatively.

> A little bit more on my process. I use Claude Code (desktop app for Mac). I use Opus 5.5 on Medium effort as my default. I don't actually do anything resembling traditional engineering anymore (read/write code, run commands in a terminal, or etc.), I only talk to Claude and have it do everything.

This is the lede, y’all.

Globalstar flies highest, with orbits at ~1400 km. Starlink is at ~340-550 km. Per satellite, a higher altitude sees a larger portion and provides greater angular visibility of the Earth's surface at any one time. Globalstar is suited for low-power devices, emergency sat messaging, and IoT, not broadband speed. One reason they made a good fit with the iPhone. Also the valuable spectrum.

Globalstar is a study in corporate survival. It lives on while its 90’s cohort Iridium didn’t make it.

Consider the journey:

2002: Bankruptcy.

2007: Satellite amplifier failures threatened its voice service.

2010–2013: A replacement constellation helped restore capacity.

2022: Apple's iPhone Emergency SOS gave Globalstar a major new purpose.

2024: Apple committed approximately $1.5 billion in investment and infrastructure funding.

Now: This acquisition by Amazon would bring Globalstar's satellite assets and spectrum into Amazon's competition with Starlink, while preserving satellite services for Apple devices.

Iridium has a museum: iridium museum.com

Their World Cup teams are insufferable.

Someone needs to ask Musk how much the Roadster car shell weighed during the flying demo. Then ask for an estimate when they will do a genuine demo with a 2000lb battery.

Airbus > Boeing

Add Tableau to this list. Claude natural language produces better visualizations. The constant which will survive traditional BI is the data warehouse not the presentation layer.

There’s em dashes in that 1978 article.

I wonder how this mission compares in scale to the JAXA Hayabusa comet interceptor done twenty years ago.

The new release of Claude Project (beta) does this.

What is safety versus security?

‘There are no “rogue” AI agents’

https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/there-are-no-rogue-ai-age...

> salty that he did not get recognition; claims RLCD without justification

This salty meta is definitely written by a human.

If Jev is fundamentally trained using RLCD while you’re building on a Qwen model that was trained using RLHF, how can the resulting model be considered Jev-like?

Why is Kahneman’s System 1 or System 2 used as the cited principle behind RLCD? Are decisions really just reduced to two dimensions of thinking fast or thinking slow? Quick, the trolley problem, now! Or maybe, quick, friend of foe?! The military application is where this is going. You have been eliminated by System 1, thanks for playing, I have outsourced responsibility to it in order to think fast.

Hear, hear! An em-dash is a great stylistic device for structuring sentences. It saddens me that the use of it now has become some sort of scarlet letter. I’m hoping the co-opting can be reversed.

This is an opinion where the author is obviously coming from an application developer’s bias. If you’re a data engineer you love the idea of stored procedures. A data engineer is often more comfortable putting logic closer to the data, especially for bulk transformations, set-based processing, ETL/ELT, data quality rules, and involving large volumes of data. Doing this in an application just to process them would be inefficient.

I read the nod to Typesafe Jev. Are you implying use of RLCD or still RLHF?

Can you add olive oil, coffee beans, and firewood?

Beautiful. Now this is how to work with an LLM, not castigate it.

Nice. Thanks!

Great, now I have to redo my scaffold harness. I guess this agent.md awareness is part of the system prompt?

Its a joke. You know they say ADHD types made great hunters thousands of years ago, because they can hyperfocus on that gazelle while constantly keeping their head on a swivel.

It might explain ADHD.

I’m not hearing about Jev’s obvious military application. You can only imagine how it is the best for “friend or foe?” decision-making.

Today’s cars are safer because of the crumple zones. We romanticize the older cars but their rigidity also caused impact force to be absorbed by occupants.