Ryan Dahl

what's interesting for me in the age of AI is big software

software where you're implementing thousands of interfaces. reimplementing swift ui, as we did in dactyl. or reimplementing cloudflare workers, as we did in celld. these are projects that were simply infeasible before due to the scale

you need to be able to hill climb on some metrics to do these projects

it's shocking that software engineering has transitioned to 100% AI written in such a short time.

it's more shocking that somehow we, the SWEs, are all just continuing on as if nothing happened. It writes C++ better than I ever could, but the problem of making sure it works didn't magically disappear. we are just shipping enormously more volume at higher quality.

talking to a coding agent is more like email than irc - because the interactions are few and far between, I often finding myself quoting their most recent text, answering multiple questions. addressing different topics. it's like replying to an email.

It makes me wonder if you could have a coding agent UI that was more like an email client or mailing list kind rather than chat

Only got 40 min through this 1.5 hour (!) talk from Cantrill tonight - great as always

these AI explainer videos are getting really good.

I'd love to see an extra long version of this, 1h+, where you continue up the stack to deliver ChatGPT - diving quickly into and precisely describing every technology involved