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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
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    Bob Ippolito
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    Jan 19, 2018
    It’s been years since I’ve seen a CD-ROM drive in the wild
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    Bob Ippolito
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    Aug 24
    Sending an agent to create open source PRs without a human in the loop responding to review comments feels like such a weird and anti-social thing to do. I kinda wish there was something worthwhile for me to spend their tokens on
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    Bob Ippolito
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    Jul 4
    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.
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    Bob Ippolito
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    Jun 7
    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
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    Bob Ippolito
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    Nov 1, 2025
    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 times
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    Oct 31, 2025
    How 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
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