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Will Bond

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AI dev experience engineer @uber, previously at @sublimehq. Author of @package_control, occasional designer. Proud husband and father.
Plymouth, NH
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    Will Bond
    @wbond
    Aug 8
    Security Researcher 1: there is a vulnerability in some package you ported to Python 3 over 10 years ago and hasn’t been touched in years Me: sorry, I don’t support it any more, your company can sign a maintenance contract if you want SR1: You should jump through these hoops
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    Will Bond
    @wbond
    Jul 27
    Caring about low level details such as these is a big part of the latency and performance differences users experience with tools like Sublime Text vs VS Code. Minimizing allocations, using memory arenas, being smart about memory lifetime, struct packing, (C++) move semantics,
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    Mitchell Hashimoto
    Superlogical
    @mitchellh
    Jul 27
    If you're interested in "how" or "why": the major culprit is that each row in Alacritty has 32 bytes of metadata and each cell is 24 bytes. In Ghostty, every row and cell is represented by exactly 8 byte each. How do we do this? The first major culprit is styles. Alacritty
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    Will Bond
    @wbond
    Jul 16
    You should be using LLMs to write more deterministic development scripts and helpers, and then have the LLMs make them faster. Skills are the crappy, slow, expensive version of this.
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    Will Bond
    @wbond
    Jul 14
    People keep saying don’t review the code, review the architecture. This then begs the question, how do you review the architecture? Re: point 2, I have found LLMs are probably passable at local implementation, but without consistent review and nudging, devolve into mediocre