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Bob Ippolito
@etrepum
@missionbit board member. Former founder/CTO of Mochi Media and Fig. Sometimes enjoys writing code. he/him mastodon.social/@etrepum & bob.ippoli.to bsky
- Fable can be great I guess, but it feels like a less intelligent model because it's so slow. Most of the time it's still writing incorrect code, but with a much slower review loop. If the tokens weren't subsidized I probably wouldn't bother with it.
- Is there some janky AI coding assistant offering free tokens right now? I’ve seen some garbage PRs recently that are clearly not from a recent Claude or Codex
- If you’ve been programming for 20 years without using recursion you are doing it without realizing it, you’re working with some weird environment where explicit recursion is just not a technique that makes sense to use, or you have done the same two years of programming ten timesHow often do you *actually* use recursion in your programs? I'm not sure if I'm the only one here, but I'm going to put it out in the open: I've been programming for 20+ years, and while I understand recursion… I never use it. Ever. Seriously 🙂 I feel like there's a huge
- Monads are definitely NOT burritos.Agents are definitely NOT workflows.
