Constraining Agents for Software Development with Don Demcsak

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at patreon.dotnetrocks.com. Hey, and welcome back to. NET Rocks. I'm
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Carl Franklin.
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And I'm Richard Kaplan.
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Our friend Don XML, I mean, Don Demsack is here.
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Oh, jeez.
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Or is he Don Jason? Are you Don Jason now?
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That's my brother.
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At least he didn't say Don Yammel. God knows. No.
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No.
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This is going to be a good one. This is
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episode 2018. And as we always do at the top
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of the show, let's talk about things that happened that year.
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I get all the depressing ones and Richard gets all
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the happy ones in space and tech.
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Just have to pick carefully.
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Yeah, I guess so. But, you know, these are important events, right?
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Are they?
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School shootings.
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Are they?
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Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
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Oh, yeah.
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Well.
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Brett Kavanaugh, Supreme Court confirmation battle.
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Yeah.
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The 2018 midterm elections when the Democrats took over. The
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Democrats strike back. Did they?
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Okay.
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Well, okay.
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I don't know.
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Trump and Kim Jong-un, still crazy after all these years.
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Nice.
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Still friends.
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I think that was one of the first meetings, wasn't it?
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Yeah, yeah.
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June 12th in Singapore. Jamal Khashoggi, as Trump said, these
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things happen. He was killed and dissolved in a bathtub
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of acid.
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Or something.
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Okay. Okay.
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Or something. That's what we think. California wildfires happens every year,
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but 2018 was particularly bad. The Me Too movement and
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the Larry Nassar scandal. And just to put a little
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fine point on it, hurricanes Florence and Michael.
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Right.
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Those are good ones.
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Catastrophic flooding in the Carolinas.
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Yeah.
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And the Florida panhandle. All right, Richard. That's enough.
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Well, it was also, remember that cave rescue in Thailand? Oh, yeah.
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Those students went in and there was the flash flood.
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That's when that happened.
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That was a good story.
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It was.
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I mean, one of the rescuers lost their lives trying
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to save those kids. Right. But they were successful. Do
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you remember when, I think that's when Elon started going crazy. Yeah.
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Remember he really wanted to be involved in that. It's like,
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you're not actually qualified. I'll build a submersible. It's like, A,
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you don't know how to build a submersible. And B,
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that's not going to work in a cave either. And
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then he got really snarky and started calling people pedophiles
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and things. Yeah. I don't know. It was one of
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those moments because this is the same year that the
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Falcon Heavy flies for the first time and Elon put
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his red Tesla Roadster on top of it as the payload,
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which was pretty cool.
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I thought that was the cool Elon doing that.
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Yeah. But it's interesting to think that's the same year
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he goes nuts on this cave rescue thing so i
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mean things are just getting.
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Weirder and weirder yeah weirdness weirdness abides um also i
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want to mention aretha franklin and anthony bourdain died in
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2018 yeah very sad also paul allen very sad about
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have you there's a new movie like a documentary about anthony.
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There's an anthony bourdain movie coming out imminently yeah so
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it hasn't come out yet I think it's just out
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brand new. Okay.
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Yeah. I want to see that.
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Also George H.W. Bush and John McCain died. Yeah.
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All right, Richard, save us from this misery. So I
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mentioned the Falcon heavy flight, which, yeah, that was pretty cool.
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We ended up doing a geek out about it. I mean,
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it was just an extraordinary rocket strapping three side by side.
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Originally he had planned on doing something called asparagus staging,
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where he was actually going to feed the fuel from
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the wing of boosters into the center so that when
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the outer boosters were empty and separated, the center booster
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would be completely full. Never happened. Instead, they do it
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the simpler way, which is simply to throttle down the
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center booster so it doesn't burn as much fuel. That
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being said, Falcon Heavy, you'd be never real happy with
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it The simple reason that it has a lot of power,
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but it doesn't have a lot of payload space. And
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so there's relatively few cases where it's needed. And he
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was already talking about what we now know is Starship, uh,
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and starting to do prototypes around all of that. Uh,
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we have a lot of cool, uh, satellites up in 2018,
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starting with tests, the transiting exoplanet survey satellite. So this
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was the only, the third of the dedicated finding exoplanet
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satellites that the, the successor of Kepler. Kepler had launched
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back in 2009 and found 2,600 exoplanets. That was Kepler's
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mission was to do deep surveys to see how common
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are planets. And the answer is very common. Most stars
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have planets. TESS as a survey satellite is not designed
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to observe as closely, but to cover much larger tracks
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of the sky. And fast forwarding eight years now, it's
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found over 8,000 potential objects that generally need additional surveying.
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because it is a survey spacecraft. But of those 8,000,
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almost 1,000 have not been confirmed as exoplanets. So if
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you're keeping count, we're up around 6,300 confirmed exoplanets so
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far from all of our different collection methodologies. This is
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not how Star Trek was supposed to work. Remember in
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Star Trek, you had to fly to the solar system
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to see the planets? No, we're going to have a
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map of all of them long before we can get
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to any of them. There's a couple of asteroid missions.
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Hayabusa 2 in June got to Rigu. And in December,
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OSIRIS-REx gets to Bennu, which is cool. We start to
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explore asteroids sort of on a regular basis. In August,
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the Parker Solar Probe, the first time we've ever tried
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to fly a satellite to the sun. to actually do
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measurements of its outer atmosphere. That's a very difficult thing
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to do. You have to go really, really fast to
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do that.
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Remember Richard Pryor's bit, the first man to walk on
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the sun?
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Ooh, ah, ah, ooh, how?
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So to make the solar probe go fast enough to
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get that close to the sun, they launched on a
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Delta IV, which is one of the highest performance rockets
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ever made. It's largely obsolete now and retired and broke
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a bunch of speed records to try and get it
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down there. It'll take a while to actually get close
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enough and actually start to do sampling of the sun.
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Also in August was when on the International Space Station,
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Soyuz MS-09, this is the vehicle that they transport astronauts
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to and from the space station, which at that time,
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because the shuttle is no longer flying and Crew Dragon
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doesn't exist yet, it's still in development, was the only
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way to get to the station. They find a two
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millimeter hole in the orbital module of the Soyuz. And
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there was a lot of controversy about whether it was
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drilled because it was sort of a perfect hole or
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was it just that right hole? you know, penetrator that
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it went through there. Anyway, fixed with a piece of
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cape on tape.
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Could have been mice.
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You know, and because it was the Orbridge module, it
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doesn't have to survive re-entry, so it's not that big
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of a deal. But yeah, it kicked up a lot
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of speculation. And if that wasn't enough, the very next
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Soyuz in October, this is Soyuz MS-10, it was only
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carrying two passengers. Normally, the Soyuz can carry three, but
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occasionally fly with less. In this case, it had Alexei Ovichin, And, uh,
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from Roscosmos and Nick Hague from NASA, they were going
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to be part of the exhibition 57 to the international
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space station. But two minutes after launch, there was a failure.
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And Soyuz is one of the most reliable, most flown
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spacecraft of all time.
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This was one of the very rare failures and it
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was a failure that had never occurred before. There was
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something wrong in the sensor of one of the strap-on boosters.
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There are four strap-on boosters that famously separate from a
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Soyuz and do what they call the Korolev cross. As
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they come flying off. And it didn't happen this time.
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And the one booster hung up. And then when it
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did break away, it struck the central booster core. And
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that ended the going into space. As Nick Hague said,
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as soon as the bouncing around started, I guess we're
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not going to the space station. But at this point,
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they're already 50 kilometers up. And that's too high for
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the escape tower. So it's already been ejected. But there is...
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Mode 2, Ascent Abort, a system that had been tested
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but never used. And this was the first and only
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time it's ever been used.
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So they basically turned it around and re-entered?
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It's more complicated than that because you've got an exploding
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rocket behind you, so you don't want to be near that.
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So instead of abort motors fire and push the Soyuz
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assembly away from the booster, and then you have to
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get into... descent mode because you're carrying the propulsion module
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as well as descent module and the orbital module so
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those each have to be pushed off and then it
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has to switch over to descent mode get the heat
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shield pointed down and actually land because of the angle
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of ascent they only get to about 90 kilometers so
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they spend some time in free fall still going up
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the explosion happened.
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At 50 dude you should make movies This is great.
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It's crazy.
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It's like I'm on the edge of my seat.
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And they're in free fall, and now they have to reorient,
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and they do a ballistic return, which means those poor
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guys pulled about seven Gs as they came back down.
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Worked perfectly. Both astronauts walked away. The crazy part is
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realizing from launch at Balkanur to on the ground about
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200 kilometers downrange in Kazakhstan, 19 minutes.
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Oh, my God.
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Goodness.
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It was fast and it's all automated. Like basically they
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were having trouble keeping up with the control systems working
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through it.
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That's definitely not enough time for a feature film.
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No, it's pretty quick, but I'm sure there's a bit
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of story to go around it. Anyway, it worked flawlessly.
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and they would eventually get to space on a different
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spacecraft because that one weren't no good no more. In November,
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we have the 20th anniversary of the International Space Station
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because the Zarya module went up in 1998. We're also
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fully over into commercial resupply now. So Roscoff's mostly due
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to five deliveries in 2018. But SpaceX does three on
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Cargo Dragon. Orbital ATK does three with Cygnus. And JAXA
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has one HTV delivery. So a total of, what is that, 12.
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And also in November, the InSight lander lands on Mars.
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First thing to have landed on Mars since Perseverance. And
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it's doing measurements of Mars quakes and interior mapping of Mars.
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by looking at reverberations that travel through the planet. And finally,
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in December, China launches the Chang'e 4 relay satellite in
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preparation for their landing, putting a lander and rover down
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on the far side of the moon. They need a
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satellite to be able to communicate with the far side
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of the moon. So that goes up in 2018. The
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big mission will be in 2019. Ready for compute stories?
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Yes.
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And you always think I have to give you all
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the good news. So let's start off in January with
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Meltdown Inspector. Okay.
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Okay.
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So these were discovered potential exploits using a speculative execution
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that exists in both AMD and Intel processors. And there
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was no security around that. So the theory was that
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if you did stuff exactly right, you might be able
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to grab data from another virtual machine that was running through.
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This exploit has never been found in the wild. Even
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attempts to try and utilize it have been largely futile.
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But at the time, they really freaked out. And putting
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security rules in place caused substantial performance penalties. I think
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to talk about literally 20% of available compute disappeared to
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fix spectrum and meltdown.
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Remember that?
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stories in 2018, Google officially removes their don't be evil
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from their code of conduct. I mean, they didn't add
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be evil, but they just took out the don't be.
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effective at doing things like creating ads for individuals where
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the individual didn't realize they're the only ones seeing the ad.
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A very effective strategy for getting a group of English
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people to vote against their best interests and exit the EU.
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Now we have Facebook and nobody cares.
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There you go. Yeah.
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Targeted ad.
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not too heavily. And then in May, the GDPR is enacted.
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It's been in development for a few years. This is
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why you have to keep agreeing to cookies as well
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as a bunch of other things like the right to
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be forgotten and serious fines for not being forthright with breaches.
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we have build 2018, which ships.net core 2.1. But also,
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helping to generate code for testing and things. It's also
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the year they ship ml.net machine learning.net for, for doing
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models that way.
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their own flavor of a Linux operating system for IoT.
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years here, it's like, Microsoft makes their own Linux. I
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love that.
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Later in the year, in October, well, actually it was
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announced in June, but completed in October, Microsoft acquires GitHub
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now a Microsoft employee, becomes the new CEO of GitHub.
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We get Core 2.2 at the end of the year
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in December. Yeah.
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A couple other compute stories.
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This is the year that Elon Musk attempts to take
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over OpenAI from his partners and gets booted out of it.
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Sam Altman on regular basis.
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Because reasons, because I realized all the same, the same
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year that he flies the biggest rocket in history into
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space and puts a sports car into space, which still orbiting,
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you know, between the earth and Mars also, you know,
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call some guy trying to save children in Thailand, a pedophile, uh,
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also tries to hijack the AI company. Yeah. Uh, We're
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coming into the period of excitement as we're going through
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these next few years in quantum computing. And in 2018,
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there was a very important paper published, the NISC paper,
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which means Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum, this paper by John Preskill.
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build these chandelier dipped in liquid helium style computers that
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have about 50 qubits or so forth. And in this paper,
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he talks about it's all going to be about error correction.
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that we're getting out of the lab. These things are
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going to be able to do certain levels of compute,
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but without really fault tolerance in this, you're not going
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to be able to get much done. And that sets
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up Google, who's driving a lot of this stuff with
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their quantum toolkit, aimed at researchers for testing what prototype
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hardware could do, which is funny because next year they'll
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actually produce the second market process. So obviously Google was anticipated.
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And that's what I got.
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All right.
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Well, before we bring Don on, let's talk about Better
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Know Framework. Roll the music.
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Awesome.
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All right, man.
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What do you got? Guess who's back in Better Know Framework?
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I think I know. He's Australian. It's Simon.
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It's Simon.
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So he belongs to our Appfee Next Slack channel. And
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he basically knew that I had done some work into
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looking into serializing link queries and passing them from client
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to server and pretty much gave up. And there was
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a whole smattering of GitHub repos out there of people
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who attempted it. And I tried like 50% of them
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and they all failed. And so he came up with
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this thing called SCRY, S-C-R-Y, or maybe it's SCARY. I
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don't know.
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Or Scree.
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Or Scree?
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Yeah.
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He doesn't have a pronunciation legend, but he says it's
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a type-safe serializable link from a client to a server
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side EF core model. And I had told him, and
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both Mateus Carvalho and I had worked on this before,
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and Mateus came up with something, and I came up
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with something, AVN repository, that basically tells Did the same,
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but I used classes and serialized those classes for filtering
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and basically all aspects of a SQL query, a link query, right?
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A where, an order by, all of that stuff just
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turned into data and passed in.
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And it works.
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But as Simon pointed out, it's not as efficient as
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what he's doing. Yeah. So this is, and he has a,
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there's two links. We're going to give you a link
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to the scary or the scry or scree project. And
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then there's this doc querying MD composing a query at runtime.
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And so he just talks about how to do that,
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how to create projections and computer projection members. It's really cool. And,
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and it works interesting.
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And so, yeah.
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And, and so, yeah. Um, Simon, you win the prize.
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You're awesome.
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You're the first person I know who has actually done this.
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And maybe I just resigned and said, I can't be done.
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And maybe it was done, you know, long before that.
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I don't know.
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But that reminds me of link to rest.
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Oh, link to rest. Well, that sounds exactly like what
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I was doing.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Because it was the inverse.
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Right.
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Where you, well, you created from a link query, you
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could create a query string.
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But you couldn't put it back on the other side
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and turn it into a link query, which is, which
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is what he's doing. And what I wanted to do
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as well, right? Because you've got a form and it's
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got a whole bunch of search parameters. And if your
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data is local, great link query.
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Well, no, so it did it the other way too.
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If it's behind an API.
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Link to REST, it would, it was an ASP.NET. It
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was NBC, ASP.NET. It would, take that query string and
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then turn it into a link.
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Oh, okay. Well, that's great. Link to rest, rest to link. Okay. Well,
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check out scary or scree or scry or whatever it is.
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And ask Simon how to pronounce this thing.
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Cause I don't know.
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I'm sure there's a difference, but yeah.
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I just remember link to rest.
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Well, Richard, who's talking to us today?
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Grabbed a comment off show 1994, the one we did
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with our friend Brady Gaster, talking about Squad. A lot
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of good comments on that show.
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Yeah.
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And this one comes from Paula Pinto, who says, while
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interesting as always, the whole Squad enthusiasm was pretty much
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focused on single developer workflow. Now not having to depend
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on anyone else to do related development tasks. It was
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all about their nicknamed agents without any ethical discussion of
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what tooling like Squad will have in developer teams. I've
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already observed how teams have been downsized. Thank the SaaS
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products for placing the need for backend developers, AI tooling
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doing the work of team members that used to do
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translations or asset creations for CMS platforms. Now we get
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tools like Squad reducing even further the amount of humans
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in the loop, getting celebrated for what a single developer
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could choose while taking into account the repercussions it has
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on those that are deemed no longer needed to be
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kept around as employees.
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Unless you didn't have a team to begin with.
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In a late capitalism-driven society, if $ 5 can do what...
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work of 20 developers thanks to tooling like squad the
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remaining 15 are out of the company like an old
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detroit they will need to find work that isn't yet taken.
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By ai unless you didn't start with a team yeah
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you were always one guy.
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But i also think it's kind of a short-sighted mindset
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too because i'm seeing more nobody team's not getting laid
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out but just working on the other stuff they hadn't
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gotten to like the joke for years was none of
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us would get to the bottom of our to-do list
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And now we're getting through the feature lists and starting
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to get into tech debt. And then other features start
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to appear. It's only the shortest-sighted of companies that would
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work on one thing and not think, what are the
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other things we could do? You've got a group of
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people who are now more powerful. Utilize them.
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You take all those people on the team, give them
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all a unique task, give them their AI tools. And
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set them free. And before you know it, you're through
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all of those things.
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Yeah.
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Technical debt's a big one.
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I also think there is a larger conversation about what
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the shape of teams looks like with these tools going forward. Right.
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We're still in early days.
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I've been running into folks who, in the startup community,
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are saying they don't need developers anymore.
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Yeah. That doesn't seem true.
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Somebody I ran into, he just came back from two
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weeks of a startup incubator, and he was saying, Of
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the 20 or so startups there, none of them had developers.
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Right.
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That's easy to understand.
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Sure. All right, Paulo. Thank you so much for your comment.
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And a copy of Music Code Buy is on its
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way to you. And if you'd like a copy of
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Music Code Buy, write a comment on the website at. netronics. com
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or on the Facebooks. We publish every show there. And
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if you comment there and I read it on the show,
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we'll send you a copy of Music Code Buy.
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Or you could just go to musictocodebuy.net and get it yourself. MP3, WAV,
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and FLAC formats. Go ahead. You know you want it.
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All right, let's bring on Don Demsack. Don is a
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technology leader dedicated to strengthening the tech ecosystem in Central
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Pennsylvania and beyond. His day job is with a major
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technology company's infrastructure group where he helps CIOs and CTOs
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think like COOs. His nights and weekends go to volunteering
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as a board member of the Technology Council of Central
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PA and as an active member of Tech Lancaster. You
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can find his latest ramblings over on Substack. This is
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his fourth trip to. NET Rocks and the first in
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almost 20 years.
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It's been too long.
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Dude, I remember your first episode. It was during the
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Rory years. So it's episode 62. Rory years were 50
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to 100. And he somehow convinced you to come up
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to the studio. And you were there in the studio
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for us, with us.
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Yep. And you remember.
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Richard Roy used to do the Google weirdos thing.
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Right.
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So just for people who don't remember, he would look,
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he had a blog, popular blog, neopolian.com. And it was
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hysterical and very, very surreal. And he took it down
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because he, he wanted to be taken more seriously as
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a developer and everybody just wanted comic relief, but he
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was very funny. Anyway, he would look at the logs and,
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of what people typed into Google and then landed themselves
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on his blog, right? He could tell that it came
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from Google and the string is in the log, right?
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The URL.
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And so he would read these and they were just crazy,
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what people were looking for. But one of them, and
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I remember this specifically, Don, tell Don XML to come
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home and take out the garbage.
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You just made my wife's week. That is exactly. Make
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sure Carl brings that up.
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Oh, well, how could we not?
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I mean, it's crazy.
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But yeah, you used to be Don XML. And then
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I think by your third episode, which was 271, it
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was Don Demsack on Link to XML.
507
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Yeah. And who did the session before Mike? Do you remember?
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Uh, two 70 to 70.
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Let's see. I got the list right here.
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It's funny. It's all online. That's weird.
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Yes, it is. I can tell you.
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No, I got it right here. It was Eric Meyer,
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Eric Meyer.
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Oh, why the Eric Meyer on link on link? Yeah.
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The guy who helped create it.
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Something he knows a little thing about.
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Yeah.
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Just a little. Um, if you haven't, he, or, uh,
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been paying attention to him, uh, He recently has a
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video up on YouTube of a presentation.
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AI.
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Engineering, around how AI agents got teeth once we allowed
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them to do more than just chat when he gave
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them access to tools. And he throws out a whole
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theory of how we can lock down AI agents by
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making them do... mathematical proofs that the stuff that they're
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doing won't negatively impact something. It is an awesome video.
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Yeah, we need more of that. Absolutely.
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100%.
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I saw an article that you wrote on LinkedIn, which
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was also on your sub stack. Everything that I've seen
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from you has been thought-provoking, but this was about the
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new MCP 2.0 and how you can't make a stateful
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MCP server anymore if you're using 2.0. And so, yeah,
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we talked about that. I talked about that with Rocky
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on Code with AI. And Richard found your substack and
537
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found some good stuff that you're thinking of and talking about.
538
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And here you are.
539
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Yeah, it ties right back to what Eric is talking about.
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It was funny because I've been working on this for
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a bit. But this whole idea of how do we
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govern these agents better?
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Right. Sure.
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Everybody. Now, for the last two years, people have been
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really complaining about governance. But the big thing everybody now
546
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is complaining about is tokenomics.
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Tokenomics.
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That's the big thing that everybody is looking because now
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there's a cost per token.
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Right.
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00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:46.710
Well, those two things are kind of related. about two
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years ago, just over two years ago, through my day job,
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I got to see a demo of some agentic AI.
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And the demo that they created was really thought-provoking because
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it didn't just show what the agents were working on,
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but it actually, at the bottom of it, showed the
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conversations the agents were actually having with each other. And
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I was like, wow, that looks like a Teams or
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a Slack conversation. But I'd never thought of agentic AI
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in that way. We're software developers. We think about APIs,
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application programming interfaces. Now there's this whole idea of a
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natural language interface.
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Or semi-natural, like The way those tools talk to each
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other is not that normal, but I get what you're saying.
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It is English of a sort.
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And that, that was the thing that jumped out at
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me was it was too generic in a team's chat.
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You expect a lot of three letter acronyms and very
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specific words. for each of the roles that are there.
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Think about chat between a DBA, a front end developer
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and a middle and a mid tier developer, all the conversations,
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all the acronyms that they wind up using.
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Yeah.
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That was lacking.
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It speaks to a lack of common context between the agents.
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And that's where my head was going was how do I, that,
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that seems to be missing. Um, and as you guys know,
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and you've got, you guys had a bunch of over
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the years, especially recently, domain-driven design type folks. I was like,
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there's no ubiquitous language.
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Right.
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What if we made these agents speak the ubiquitous language
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of the domain that they're in charge of?
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Right.
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That would be super cool.
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And really what you're doing is bracketing their context, right?
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That they need to use the correct language.
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Correct. And by doing that, there's side effects, lots of
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good side effects. If you can constrain them or control
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their language, I'm calling it a controlled natural language. Um,
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then they can only do what they can express.
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Yeah.
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And it's another kind of constraint.
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Think about the open AI hacking of hugging face.
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Right.
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Where it had access via MCP to a tool. figured
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out how to do something that wasn't desired by that tool.
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But if we had a natural, a constrained or controlled
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natural language in front of that, then they wouldn't be
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able to ask the things that they shouldn't be able
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to do.
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Yeah.
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So that's, and so the term, these are patterns that I,
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I'm using for this is instead of bounded context, domain-driven design,
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how about bounded agency? So how do we build walls
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around what the domain that that particular agent can do,
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not via just security, but actually ways to express it?
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If they don't have the language to express it, they
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can't do it.
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Right.
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So if you're adding another layer... Doesn't, uh, doesn't that
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affect your tokenomics?
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That's the other side is now you can actually decrease the, um, the,
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the verbiage that's going across. Um, and one of the
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major challenges with a natural language as us as humans
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is there's a lots of different ways to say the
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exact same thing, which leads to ambiguity. Right. And there's, and,
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By constraining it or controlling that language, you actually reduce
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the actual word count, which you're going to reduce the tokens.
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But then you're also decreasing your ambiguity, too, because you
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can only say it a certain way.
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Well, aren't you using tokens for that intermediate layer that
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does the translation?
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So originally, that's where I was thinking. But then I
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take it one step further.
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If I.
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can control the language, and so I can control the syntax.
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And this goes back to stuff that you guys know
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me from, XML. What did I do with XML? I
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created domain-specific languages. What did you do with JSON? Create
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domain-specific languages. What do we do with Fluent APIs and LINQ?
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We created the Fluent APIs and other languages within code. Well,
633
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with all the stuff that's been going on with chat
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GPT and natural language processing and stuff that we were
635
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doing with, with link back in the day. What if
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I could put a intent compiler in front of the
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tool that then parses that text because it's a constrained
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natural language. And instead of feeding everything to the model,
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what if I if I knew what words mapped to
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specific functions, I could actually call those functions instead of
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having to pass it through to the agent who would
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eventually pass it through to an MCP server somewhere to
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actually call the tool. So now I've actually reduced, dramatically
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reduced how much is actually going to the models because
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I'm pulling some pieces of that.
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From this static glossary kind of thing. But, And I
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imagine that the best of both worlds would be if
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the word doesn't exist in the glossary and it can't
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express it in a more concise way, then it would
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go out and get definitions for those words and add
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them to the domain.
652
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So you, you, you really want to control that language
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so that you're controlling what it can do.
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Right.
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So you would prefer, uh, to keep to, uh, to
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programmatically add the new languages. Don't let it do it
657
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on its own.
658
00:33:20.549 --> 00:33:22.410
Well, at least it could make you a list.
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A list of it.
660
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Yeah, a list of things that it didn't understand or whatever.
661
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Correct. And you can publish that language. And that's one
662
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of the things that models are great at, converting from
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one language to another language.
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Right.
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So if you have a way to declare that controlled
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natural language, it can convert it automatically.
667
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Yeah, that's right. I could see repos for all sorts
668
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of vertical industries, uh, DSLs in used in that way to,
669
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to rein in your LLMs and your tokenomics.
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I make it a heck of a lot easier for that.
671
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And so, um, so I actually built, uh, uh, uh,
672
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I built a couple of different things based on that,
673
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but I actually have a, uh, MVP that you can
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go pull down from GitHub. It's called Limelight X. Well,
675
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Rush is out this year, right?
676
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Doing the tour.
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So Rush fan had to pull that in. So Limelight X.
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And so you go there, you can actually go see
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how to do this. So you can give it the
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natural language, the constrained natural language. give it a text
681
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and it will actually give you the intermediate steps so
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you can visualize it. So how do you parse that
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apart to an AST? How do you take that AST
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and optimize it? Then you take that AST and turn
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it into intermediate result, which then gets put into an
686
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expression tree a la link. How do you do that?
687
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Because what I've found is, Most people doing AI engineering,
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AI agents, they don't come from our comp sci background. Right.
689
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They come from the dynamic language.
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Side of the house.
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They're Python and JavaScript type script. So parsing and compiler
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theory type stuff is not something that sits in their domain.
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While you can do some of that stuff with those languages,
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you don't typically do it. So they're not thinking that way.
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So how do I get best of both worlds? That's
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part of the challenge.
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Before we go any further, I think we should take
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a little break. You think so, Richard?
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Sure, let's do it.
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All right, we'll be right back after these very important messages. Hey,
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Carl here. You probably know text control is a powerful
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And we're back. It's.
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I'm Richard Campbell. That's Carl Franklin.
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Hey.
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Talking to our friend Don Demsack a bit about, well,
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you just brought up Limelight X as a way to
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sort of create a natural language-like set of instructions, which,
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I mean, in some ways reminds me of the way
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we write specs anyway. Software development is somewhat language. I mean,
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you have the programming language is a constraint. But if
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you also notice, the average product manager speaks in a
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somewhat constrained language. They're trying to communicate with developers, and
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developers speak a weird form of English.
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Dilbert proved that.
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They're really trying to just be very clear on what
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the intent is, and I think it serves the LLMs
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pretty well to stick with that same kind of language barrier.
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100%.
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And then domain-driven design never took off.
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Yeah.
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We all know it works, but one of the side
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effects of implementing it is you needed to have a
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subject matter expert who can pull that the main logic
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out of that, those communications that was very specialized.
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Yeah.
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Well, nowadays with coding assistance and the spec driven development world,
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we are starting to put that context into text documents
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that obviously we could use models to start pulling out
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that domain-specific language from the specifications.
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I would even go one step further and say we're
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heading towards, if we're not there already, just not thinking
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of it, conversation-based development. In this last episode that I
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did with Rocky Latka, he talked about how he and
744
00:38:28.829 --> 00:38:32.250
three other guys sat down to design a system He
745
00:38:32.289 --> 00:38:36.250
whipped out his Android phone, started recording. It made a transcript.
746
00:38:36.690 --> 00:38:39.769
He uploaded that transcript to Claude and said, build me
747
00:38:39.809 --> 00:38:43.920
a spec based on this conversation. Whoa. I mean, talk
748
00:38:43.960 --> 00:38:46.739
about layers, right?
749
00:38:46.860 --> 00:38:48.760
Using the tool as the preprocessor.
750
00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:49.400
Yeah.
751
00:38:50.820 --> 00:38:56.940
It's an interesting space that we're in because that's been
752
00:38:57.000 --> 00:39:00.909
the art of being a developer is has been really
753
00:39:00.989 --> 00:39:06.880
taking these vague requirements and then converting it into code.
754
00:39:07.340 --> 00:39:10.820
What was my favorite, what's the number one thing whenever
755
00:39:10.920 --> 00:39:14.940
I would build something, the business person would typically turn
756
00:39:14.960 --> 00:39:16.760
around and say, I know that's what I asked for,
757
00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:17.920
but that's not what I wanted.
758
00:39:18.340 --> 00:39:18.840
Yeah, right.
759
00:39:20.110 --> 00:39:24.289
Because humans are really, really, really bad at giving requirements. Weird.
760
00:39:24.329 --> 00:39:26.789
Yeah. And in some ways, like you want the domain
761
00:39:26.849 --> 00:39:29.949
expert because they know the space, but they often skip over.
762
00:39:30.179 --> 00:39:32.699
essential parts because they're so knowledgeable in the space. They
763
00:39:32.719 --> 00:39:35.059
don't even realize what they know.
764
00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:35.519
Yeah.
765
00:39:35.659 --> 00:39:35.820
Yeah.
766
00:39:35.980 --> 00:39:39.380
And that's, I mean, because Rocky's been around, he knows
767
00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:43.440
what he needs to put into that. And so how
768
00:39:43.460 --> 00:39:48.570
do you teach that to these new wave of, uh,
769
00:39:50.329 --> 00:39:55.829
coding engineers that are using coding assistants to do that. Well,
770
00:39:57.170 --> 00:40:01.949
we could teach them better requirement skills. And that's one
771
00:40:01.989 --> 00:40:03.989
of the things I started doing a couple of years
772
00:40:04.050 --> 00:40:09.909
ago in prompt engineering was a big rage two years ago.
773
00:40:09.929 --> 00:40:13.289
And now it's context engineering. But when I explain it
774
00:40:14.190 --> 00:40:16.610
to the average person, what a prompt is, I tell
775
00:40:16.630 --> 00:40:21.110
them it's a requirement. Think of it as giving it
776
00:40:21.150 --> 00:40:22.570
a requirement to another human.
777
00:40:22.710 --> 00:40:22.909
Right.
778
00:40:22.969 --> 00:40:26.050
Got to put in all that extra context. And then
779
00:40:26.150 --> 00:40:30.409
because of my agile background, I like to use given
780
00:40:30.449 --> 00:40:34.880
when then, so that as measured by. And then I
781
00:40:34.920 --> 00:40:38.739
would teach people to write their prompts in that structured
782
00:40:38.820 --> 00:40:42.559
form and they get better results out of the engine
783
00:40:42.719 --> 00:40:45.579
because you're giving it all the context that you would need.
784
00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:47.420
Yeah. That's brilliant.
785
00:40:47.559 --> 00:40:50.949
And so that's, And so that's the same problem that
786
00:40:51.250 --> 00:40:58.000
I'm running into with the spec-driven development is while they
787
00:40:58.039 --> 00:41:03.079
have great structure for the documents, how do you build
788
00:41:03.119 --> 00:41:05.559
the tests? Right. What you really kind of need to
789
00:41:05.619 --> 00:41:10.510
be able to do is create, given when then type scenarios,
790
00:41:11.030 --> 00:41:17.409
do more behavior-driven development. So testing for behavior that's expected
791
00:41:17.510 --> 00:41:20.889
or not expected. rather than writing generic tests.
792
00:41:20.949 --> 00:41:24.329
You're right. Domain-driven development is great at defining what we'd
793
00:41:24.449 --> 00:41:28.539
like it to do, but behavior-driven development is much better
794
00:41:28.659 --> 00:41:31.219
at defining what it actually does and if that's what
795
00:41:31.260 --> 00:41:32.059
we really wanted to do.
796
00:41:32.199 --> 00:41:37.199
And then if you could take that, those behavior-driven tests,
797
00:41:37.880 --> 00:41:43.250
now you can also use that to drive the controlled
798
00:41:43.289 --> 00:41:46.769
natural language because you're expressing the behaviors that you're looking for.
799
00:41:47.329 --> 00:41:47.650
And so.
800
00:41:48.800 --> 00:41:54.360
Besides Limelight X, I have a project called VectorRen, V-E-C-T-O-R,
801
00:41:55.400 --> 00:42:01.460
my SVG days, Ren, R-E-N, so two R's. And it
802
00:42:01.590 --> 00:42:06.929
was built with that in mind to show developers how
803
00:42:06.989 --> 00:42:12.250
to build an SVG game, a web-based with JavaScript, with
804
00:42:12.449 --> 00:42:16.469
generic JavaScript, no framework. And so what was the, you
805
00:42:16.489 --> 00:42:19.440
guys remember, what the big game was when we were
806
00:42:19.460 --> 00:42:22.099
trying to do demo SVG back in the day, it
807
00:42:22.119 --> 00:42:23.599
was asteroids. Right.
808
00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:25.590
Oh yeah. So that's right.
809
00:42:25.829 --> 00:42:31.050
There is in half an hour using this methodology, I
810
00:42:31.090 --> 00:42:34.130
describe what the game should do and given one then,
811
00:42:34.150 --> 00:42:40.000
and it generated a simple implementation of asteroids. And you
812
00:42:40.039 --> 00:42:44.239
can go to vector ren.org or go to vector ren, uh,
813
00:42:44.500 --> 00:42:46.989
the GitHub page, uh, out there and you can pull
814
00:42:47.030 --> 00:42:49.949
it down. And it's a very simple way to learn
815
00:42:49.989 --> 00:42:53.909
JavaScript from this point of view, without any of the frameworks,
816
00:42:55.030 --> 00:42:58.800
something simple that, that, that people can actually leverage, uh,
817
00:42:58.940 --> 00:43:03.880
because we have this generation of developers who don't have
818
00:43:03.920 --> 00:43:05.599
the traditional comp side background.
819
00:43:05.619 --> 00:43:05.780
Right.
820
00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:06.179
Yeah.
821
00:43:06.460 --> 00:43:10.159
I'm just thinking about, we're revising this. We've been playing
822
00:43:10.179 --> 00:43:12.510
with what the software development life cycle with these tools
823
00:43:12.570 --> 00:43:16.550
is supposed to look like. And, and I'll, I think
824
00:43:16.570 --> 00:43:19.269
there's a lot more energy put into the context up
825
00:43:19.349 --> 00:43:22.929
front just because the tools will generate lots and lots
826
00:43:22.969 --> 00:43:24.809
of code. It's just most of it is not that
827
00:43:24.849 --> 00:43:27.380
good if you haven't really done a good job of
828
00:43:27.510 --> 00:43:28.820
setting up these constraints.
829
00:43:30.019 --> 00:43:33.500
I've been doing a lot of stuff with AI here
830
00:43:33.519 --> 00:43:37.280
in Central Pennsylvania. One of the interesting feedback I'm getting
831
00:43:37.340 --> 00:43:41.539
from non-traditional developers is we don't care.
832
00:43:42.539 --> 00:43:43.619
Yeah.
833
00:43:44.139 --> 00:43:45.920
It gets the job done, and that's all.
834
00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:46.219
I care about.
835
00:43:46.239 --> 00:43:47.699
You're going to care.
836
00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:54.239
I hit up one of the folks I was talking about.
837
00:43:54.280 --> 00:43:59.690
I was talking about, hey, you're just creating dynamic scripts.
838
00:43:59.710 --> 00:44:06.670
This feels a lot like what JavaScript felt like before jQuery,
839
00:44:06.730 --> 00:44:10.949
before we got V8, before we got TypeScript. We're sending around.
840
00:44:10.969 --> 00:44:13.900
Yeah, before we put constraints around for reliability.
841
00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:20.179
And consistency. So, and I was like, you know, from
842
00:44:20.219 --> 00:44:25.570
a tokenomics point of view, every time you send that text,
843
00:44:26.250 --> 00:44:28.550
you're getting charged for it. Yeah. And so there's a
844
00:44:28.610 --> 00:44:31.860
cost because I don't care. It's cheaper for me to
845
00:44:31.929 --> 00:44:34.409
do that than to spend the time to actually write
846
00:44:35.429 --> 00:44:36.250
the compiled code.
847
00:44:36.269 --> 00:44:39.550
For now, anyway, the costs are going up. But often
848
00:44:39.630 --> 00:44:42.050
the folks don't care because they don't know the consequences.
849
00:44:42.329 --> 00:44:44.030
They don't know good engineering principles.
850
00:44:44.469 --> 00:44:47.090
Yeah, they don't know how the software will bite them later.
851
00:44:47.369 --> 00:44:48.670
It's generally what works right now.
852
00:44:48.769 --> 00:44:50.809
And what I'm seeing is a lot of the vibe
853
00:44:50.869 --> 00:44:54.070
coders realizing that they can only go so far of
854
00:44:54.130 --> 00:44:56.730
vibe coding, and then they start going to coding assistants,
855
00:44:57.670 --> 00:45:00.570
but then they don't know how to create these good
856
00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:03.719
engineering principles. And so I think there's a big market
857
00:45:03.860 --> 00:45:04.460
for that.
858
00:45:04.860 --> 00:45:07.219
So the AKA they're starting to care.
859
00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:11.670
And it makes me sad because as a VB guy,
860
00:45:12.190 --> 00:45:14.670
old school VB guy, isn't that what the C plus
861
00:45:14.710 --> 00:45:16.469
plus people complained about us about?
862
00:45:17.150 --> 00:45:17.409
Yep.
863
00:45:17.449 --> 00:45:18.800
Yeah, we weren't real developers.
864
00:45:19.400 --> 00:45:22.480
Well, Yeah, and again, the argument was, is the software
865
00:45:22.530 --> 00:45:24.989
quality sufficient? And let's face it, we built a lot
866
00:45:25.010 --> 00:45:27.469
of bad quality software, and then we learned, hey, software
867
00:45:27.510 --> 00:45:30.429
quality matters. And you could do it with VB, you
868
00:45:30.449 --> 00:45:32.210
just had to follow some good practices.
869
00:45:32.349 --> 00:45:35.969
I think a lot of that nose turning down at
870
00:45:36.409 --> 00:45:40.599
VB developers was a byproduct of what happened between C
871
00:45:41.440 --> 00:45:46.800
developers and basic developers in the very early days of programming.
872
00:45:48.179 --> 00:45:52.500
Basic with go-tos was looked at as horrible. I was
873
00:45:52.599 --> 00:45:57.380
using Visual Basic and then attending a community college and
874
00:45:57.420 --> 00:46:00.920
the computer science lady, I told her that I was
875
00:46:01.239 --> 00:46:03.480
using Visual Basic. She goes, oh, basic. Oh, you can't
876
00:46:03.519 --> 00:46:04.119
say basic.
877
00:46:04.530 --> 00:46:05.849
No go-tos, no go-tos.
878
00:46:05.909 --> 00:46:09.030
I'm like, no, it's completely changed now. You know, it's
879
00:46:09.110 --> 00:46:11.590
come into its own and they still just, you know,
880
00:46:12.210 --> 00:46:14.929
you get an idea in your mind and it's hard
881
00:46:14.969 --> 00:46:15.349
to shake.
882
00:46:15.630 --> 00:46:18.519
And I don't want to be that Get off my
883
00:46:18.579 --> 00:46:20.659
lawn guy. Yeah, right. And I don't want to be
884
00:46:21.300 --> 00:46:21.900
that old guy.
885
00:46:21.920 --> 00:46:22.300
Nobody does.
886
00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:26.920
I've got the gray hair, fine. But I don't want
887
00:46:26.940 --> 00:46:31.920
to be that guy. Same thing with coding assistants. What
888
00:46:31.940 --> 00:46:34.489
I've been talking about to a lot of folks is
889
00:46:34.860 --> 00:46:39.909
coding assistants is the new IDE. I remember back when
890
00:46:40.030 --> 00:46:43.170
we were talking, you know, Vim was it. You didn't
891
00:46:43.329 --> 00:46:44.030
use Studio.
892
00:46:44.489 --> 00:46:44.730
Right.
893
00:46:44.929 --> 00:46:48.489
IntelliSense. Coding is novel. You had to know it and
894
00:46:48.530 --> 00:46:51.530
remember it in your head and use a text editor.
895
00:46:51.989 --> 00:46:53.769
Real developers use text editors.
896
00:46:54.090 --> 00:46:56.010
I think it took Don Box a long time to
897
00:46:56.050 --> 00:46:58.030
come to grips with the fact that people are going
898
00:46:58.050 --> 00:47:00.500
to use IDEs, not them.
899
00:47:01.599 --> 00:47:03.920
It would be interesting to get his opinion on coding.
900
00:47:03.940 --> 00:47:09.820
You see those positions all over the place. I think
901
00:47:09.840 --> 00:47:11.400
you're making a mistake as soon as you're bound to
902
00:47:11.440 --> 00:47:14.159
a tool. In the end, the goal was to deliver
903
00:47:14.199 --> 00:47:15.059
value to customers.
904
00:47:15.869 --> 00:47:19.469
And then there's this whole, and this ties into Run
905
00:47:19.510 --> 00:47:23.769
As Radio, then there's this whole angle from the IT
906
00:47:23.829 --> 00:47:28.909
admin side of the house where IT admins were doing automation,
907
00:47:28.969 --> 00:47:32.510
but they were doing it via a GUI tool because
908
00:47:33.230 --> 00:47:34.909
IT admins didn't write code.
909
00:47:35.409 --> 00:47:35.610
Right.
910
00:47:35.750 --> 00:47:37.369
That was for the developer world.
911
00:47:37.610 --> 00:47:38.190
Right.
912
00:47:38.710 --> 00:47:40.969
In my day job, what I'm starting to see is
913
00:47:41.190 --> 00:47:46.230
more and more IT admins admins leveraging coding assistance to
914
00:47:46.409 --> 00:47:51.170
actually create better code than they could ever written because
915
00:47:51.449 --> 00:47:54.409
all they ever wrote scripts. This is much better code
916
00:47:55.739 --> 00:47:58.400
and it's making their lives a heck of a lot easier.
917
00:47:58.679 --> 00:48:02.519
So that's just, I mean, that's an unintended consequence, but
918
00:48:02.760 --> 00:48:06.260
it's helping, especially in these days when so many companies,
919
00:48:06.380 --> 00:48:10.760
so many on-prem companies who are using VMware and now
920
00:48:11.010 --> 00:48:13.230
they're kind of A little bit of a backlash. They're
921
00:48:13.269 --> 00:48:16.449
all trying to move off, and now they're more open
922
00:48:16.510 --> 00:48:19.269
to how do I do this automation rather than using
923
00:48:19.329 --> 00:48:19.690
a tool.
924
00:48:20.269 --> 00:48:22.909
One quick correction. I think I misspoke. When I was
925
00:48:23.090 --> 00:48:26.670
in a community college, it wasn't VB. It was Quick Basic.
926
00:48:27.150 --> 00:48:31.570
Quick Basic. Quick Basic was compiled, and it was structured,
927
00:48:31.659 --> 00:48:35.480
and it was great back then. And this computer science
928
00:48:35.539 --> 00:48:36.780
person was like, no go-tos.
929
00:48:37.699 --> 00:48:38.019
Don't say it.
930
00:48:39.579 --> 00:48:41.460
Well, and it's the thing, there's nothing wrong with the language.
931
00:48:41.519 --> 00:48:43.320
It just had a construct that was a problem. Hey,
932
00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:46.369
remember option explicit? Like we did learn.
933
00:48:46.989 --> 00:48:47.349
Sure.
934
00:48:48.849 --> 00:48:50.050
On error, resume next.
935
00:48:50.510 --> 00:48:51.809
Yeah.
936
00:48:53.190 --> 00:48:54.190
I don't have any bugs.
937
00:48:55.030 --> 00:48:55.449
What?
938
00:48:55.969 --> 00:48:56.250
Yeah.
939
00:48:56.269 --> 00:48:58.429
So one of the things that I've been starting to
940
00:48:58.550 --> 00:49:02.579
work with is how do I start creating skills to
941
00:49:02.619 --> 00:49:07.420
be able to help teach these non-developers these good habits?
942
00:49:07.460 --> 00:49:10.219
So like one of the things, That's in a beta
943
00:49:10.260 --> 00:49:15.869
right now is a requirements interrogator skill. So help the
944
00:49:15.969 --> 00:49:20.099
average person create that given when then brief so that
945
00:49:20.139 --> 00:49:24.500
they get better requirements when they're trying to build something.
946
00:49:24.760 --> 00:49:25.960
Yeah, you have to wonder if we're not going to
947
00:49:26.039 --> 00:49:28.570
end up with more opinionated agents that are like, I
948
00:49:29.010 --> 00:49:32.389
can't start building this until I have these broader requirements
949
00:49:32.429 --> 00:49:35.389
settled around those kinds of constraints that are going to
950
00:49:35.409 --> 00:49:39.280
matter for security and architecture and reliability and scalability. all
951
00:49:39.300 --> 00:49:42.099
of the abilities that everyone doesn't care about until they
952
00:49:42.139 --> 00:49:42.860
care about them.
953
00:49:43.260 --> 00:49:43.440
Yeah.
954
00:49:44.139 --> 00:49:46.300
One of them I'm playing with right now is, is
955
00:49:46.440 --> 00:49:49.679
creating a skill to create architectural decision records.
956
00:49:50.199 --> 00:49:50.400
Right.
957
00:49:50.699 --> 00:49:54.519
We've never, I mean, we all always wanted to have them,
958
00:49:55.159 --> 00:49:58.739
but now if I'm using a coding assistant, that helps
959
00:49:58.820 --> 00:50:02.019
make my coding system better. It tells the architecture and
960
00:50:02.059 --> 00:50:04.579
the reasons why we picked certain things.
961
00:50:05.909 --> 00:50:06.110
Yeah.
962
00:50:07.409 --> 00:50:07.550
Yeah.
963
00:50:07.949 --> 00:50:10.730
There's lots to all of that. I mean, again, I
964
00:50:10.750 --> 00:50:12.889
feel like we're just groping around right now trying to
965
00:50:12.929 --> 00:50:13.429
figure out.
966
00:50:13.650 --> 00:50:14.909
It's early days.
967
00:50:15.590 --> 00:50:19.010
What are the, yeah, the tools are shifting. Just remember,
968
00:50:19.030 --> 00:50:21.210
we were trying to develop on. NET in the early
969
00:50:21.250 --> 00:50:24.889
days where every time they got a build out, the
970
00:50:25.110 --> 00:50:28.300
editor changed, the framework had changed, and the language had changed.
971
00:50:28.960 --> 00:50:32.500
Everything you're doing, incorrect. Yeah.
972
00:50:32.579 --> 00:50:34.519
I was part of that early days. I don't even
973
00:50:34.579 --> 00:50:36.780
remember if I ever mentioned it to you guys, but
974
00:50:36.940 --> 00:50:44.500
the framework The client that I had back in 99, 2000,
975
00:50:44.500 --> 00:50:51.429
their president was on the board for Microsoft, and I
976
00:50:51.469 --> 00:50:54.670
was building dashboards for him, and I got introduced to
977
00:50:54.710 --> 00:50:55.809
Project Cool.
978
00:50:55.530 --> 00:50:57.969
Before it was announced. Before it became C Sharp?
979
00:50:57.989 --> 00:50:59.269
Yeah, before 2000, the announcement at PDC 2000.
980
00:50:59.250 --> 00:50:59.369
Yeah.
981
00:51:04.820 --> 00:51:06.179
I think it was actually TechEd, but yeah.
982
00:51:06.219 --> 00:51:06.539
TechEd.
983
00:51:06.719 --> 00:51:08.519
Yeah, it was TechEd. That's where I'm at.
984
00:51:08.739 --> 00:51:12.219
But yeah, but I'm also thinking about the craziness that was.
985
00:51:12.420 --> 00:51:18.179
NET Core in, you know, 2018 or 2016. Because it
986
00:51:18.199 --> 00:51:20.010
took them 18 months to get that first version built
987
00:51:20.050 --> 00:51:22.530
and there were so many previews. And every time you
988
00:51:22.550 --> 00:51:25.010
got a preview, everything shuffled on you. And it just
989
00:51:25.030 --> 00:51:28.590
seems an awful lot like trying to work with Anthropica
990
00:51:28.610 --> 00:51:30.730
or OpenAI or any of these tools right now, where
991
00:51:30.829 --> 00:51:33.500
every time you get A new build, new harness, like
992
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there's so many different components that presuming it works the
993
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same way is crazy. It changes. It changes a lot.
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And just like with. NET Core, Richard, I think that
995
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there's still a lot of people not dipping their toes
996
00:51:47.250 --> 00:51:51.170
into AI developer-wise for the very same reason.
997
00:51:52.050 --> 00:51:56.110
So have you guys had anybody on for Microsoft Foundry Local?
998
00:51:56.469 --> 00:51:56.840
Not yet.
999
00:51:57.050 --> 00:51:58.519
Not yet. No, it's on my radar.
1000
00:51:59.199 --> 00:52:02.519
I've been intimate with that. So that's part of what
1001
00:52:02.820 --> 00:52:07.639
the bounded context. Part of what I realized is to
1002
00:52:07.960 --> 00:52:12.010
use these smaller models, you had to be very prescriptive
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in the prompts that you were giving.
1004
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Right, right.
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00:52:14.030 --> 00:52:16.349
And when I started writing the code, I didn't want
1006
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to put that code as text into my program. I
1007
00:52:22.110 --> 00:52:24.829
wanted to pull it out. And so I created a
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00:52:25.880 --> 00:52:30.719
YAML language that did essentially prompt as a function so
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that you could import it in and create it. And
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00:52:33.219 --> 00:52:37.619
there's a couple different prompt as a function frameworks out there.
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00:52:39.239 --> 00:52:50.130
BAML is one and DPSY, another where it makes it
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00:52:50.269 --> 00:52:54.360
easy to put prompts into your programming languages. The Dipsy
1013
00:52:54.400 --> 00:53:01.969
is Python only. BAML is TypeScript and Python. And so
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00:53:02.710 --> 00:53:05.289
I built a framework to be able to do that
1015
00:53:05.849 --> 00:53:07.969
because I was trying to run local models. I was
1016
00:53:08.070 --> 00:53:11.780
running local models on what I'm using now, Copilot Plus PC.
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00:53:13.699 --> 00:53:17.159
The Copilot Plus PCs were supposed to be the place
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00:53:17.199 --> 00:53:19.400
to be able to run these models. It's just not.
1019
00:53:20.010 --> 00:53:21.829
Not as good as it could have been.
1020
00:53:21.849 --> 00:53:26.030
At 40 tops, that's not a lot. Meantime, I'm looking
1021
00:53:26.070 --> 00:53:29.940
at my RTX 5080 at 1,500 tops and saying, why
1022
00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:32.239
aren't I a co-pilot PC?
1023
00:53:32.420 --> 00:53:36.019
So I am super excited for the new RTX Spark laptops.
1024
00:53:36.519 --> 00:53:38.480
I'll be the first to go buy one of them
1025
00:53:38.980 --> 00:53:39.760
when they come out.
1026
00:53:40.360 --> 00:53:42.760
They're actually going to be a laptop, because right now
1027
00:53:42.800 --> 00:53:44.050
it's a NUC.
1028
00:53:44.679 --> 00:53:48.219
Well, the big difference is the DGX Spark, Right. That's
1029
00:53:48.239 --> 00:53:51.820
the one you're thinking is the RTX Spark. Two separate things.
1030
00:53:52.239 --> 00:53:54.840
The DGX is Linux.
1031
00:53:55.219 --> 00:53:55.440
Right.
1032
00:53:55.480 --> 00:53:59.210
The RTX laptop, which is, that was, it was a nook.
1033
00:53:59.969 --> 00:54:03.650
The RTX is a laptop. It is going to run
1034
00:54:03.690 --> 00:54:04.989
Windows on ARM.
1035
00:54:05.329 --> 00:54:05.530
Right.
1036
00:54:05.590 --> 00:54:07.570
So it's, you could think of it as the Uber
1037
00:54:07.989 --> 00:54:09.090
Co-Pilot Plus piece.
1038
00:54:09.429 --> 00:54:12.150
Possibly, yeah. It'll be interesting. It's one of the things
1039
00:54:12.210 --> 00:54:14.230
I've seen over and over again with the DGX Spark,
1040
00:54:14.250 --> 00:54:17.269
but folks are actually using it is, You end up
1041
00:54:17.309 --> 00:54:22.750
running NVIDIA's models because they're so much better optimized for
1042
00:54:22.849 --> 00:54:27.219
their hardware that you just get vastly better responses or results.
1043
00:54:28.099 --> 00:54:32.559
So it's not a universal anything. Where is our ODBC
1044
00:54:34.360 --> 00:54:37.260
so that you really have some equanimity across all of
1045
00:54:37.340 --> 00:54:40.269
these different products? and can really see what all the
1046
00:54:40.389 --> 00:54:42.690
different hardware solutions can be there. I hate that we're
1047
00:54:42.710 --> 00:54:45.519
building dedicated to hardware solutions, but I get it.
1048
00:54:45.699 --> 00:54:49.679
Part of why I created that prompt as a function
1049
00:54:50.059 --> 00:54:53.440
to make it portable, to describe what's the model, what's the,
1050
00:54:54.380 --> 00:54:58.559
am I using VLR? Am I using Foundry Local? What's
1051
00:54:58.599 --> 00:55:01.820
the model? So I can abstract that away so you
1052
00:55:01.840 --> 00:55:03.619
don't have to worry about it and be able to
1053
00:55:03.989 --> 00:55:05.949
switch it in and out. And so I've got a
1054
00:55:06.170 --> 00:55:10.679
framework for that and I'm, I hit my limit with
1055
00:55:10.699 --> 00:55:13.579
the Copilot Plus PC and I'm waiting for these new
1056
00:55:13.679 --> 00:55:17.099
ones to come out. But that's a whole different conversation
1057
00:55:17.119 --> 00:55:20.139
because there's so many people, so many clients and customers
1058
00:55:20.179 --> 00:55:22.610
I talk to that can't use public models.
1059
00:55:22.690 --> 00:55:23.190
Right, right.
1060
00:55:23.389 --> 00:55:25.250
There's whole classes of work that are just not an
1061
00:55:25.349 --> 00:55:27.570
option to be going, leaving your machine in any way.
1062
00:55:28.110 --> 00:55:31.969
Combined with tokens are only getting more expensive and all
1063
00:55:31.989 --> 00:55:36.230
you can eat is disappearing and The methodologies we've been
1064
00:55:36.369 --> 00:55:39.269
using with the sort of adversarial agent model are just
1065
00:55:39.489 --> 00:55:40.389
mo tokens.
1066
00:55:40.809 --> 00:55:45.869
And smaller models hallucinate less. Right.
1067
00:55:45.989 --> 00:55:47.809
They are more bound.
1068
00:55:47.989 --> 00:55:51.469
And then you bound it by a language, a constrained language,
1069
00:55:51.530 --> 00:55:54.909
a controlled language, and you can reduce it even worse.
1070
00:55:55.090 --> 00:55:59.860
That's kind of where I'm going with this. Still early days.
1071
00:56:00.809 --> 00:56:03.789
I do a lot of Foundry local type stuff, running
1072
00:56:03.929 --> 00:56:09.489
to issues, report bugs. There's a whole Viber community. Folks
1073
00:56:09.510 --> 00:56:12.909
who are interested in getting into dipping their toe in
1074
00:56:12.989 --> 00:56:17.469
how do I inject AI LLMs, highly recommend checking it out.
1075
00:56:17.840 --> 00:56:21.079
It's an easy install. And there's a command line tool
1076
00:56:21.119 --> 00:56:23.000
that you can use just to get started to have
1077
00:56:23.019 --> 00:56:25.989
a chat. Have some fun. And then they've got some
1078
00:56:26.030 --> 00:56:28.860
great SDKs, whatever language you want to use from.
1079
00:56:29.030 --> 00:56:29.840
NET to Rust.
1080
00:56:30.719 --> 00:56:31.340
It's out there.
1081
00:56:31.590 --> 00:56:32.690
I highly recommend it.
1082
00:56:32.920 --> 00:56:34.179
This is good stuff, Don.
1083
00:56:34.679 --> 00:56:35.059
Excellent.
1084
00:56:35.139 --> 00:56:36.460
And it got me thinking.
1085
00:56:36.519 --> 00:56:40.599
Yeah, definitely got us thinking. Where can we find you
1086
00:56:40.719 --> 00:56:42.059
online besides your Substack?
1087
00:56:42.860 --> 00:56:49.719
My Substack and LinkedIn. I do both. LinkedIn, it's marketing
1088
00:56:50.059 --> 00:56:54.949
hell right now. People are all complaining. Um, it's not
1089
00:56:54.989 --> 00:56:59.230
where the developers are. Right. And Substack, I tried Reddit.
1090
00:56:59.769 --> 00:57:06.510
I tried, uh, various Discord servers. Um, my local Lancaster
1091
00:57:06.550 --> 00:57:09.670
folks have a great Slack team. So I'm there, Tech Lancaster.
1092
00:57:10.369 --> 00:57:15.360
Those folks are awesome. But Substack feels like the blogging
1093
00:57:15.420 --> 00:57:18.880
from the old days. It's, it's, it's a good community there.
1094
00:57:18.940 --> 00:57:21.199
So in the Lancaster area, do you find that there
1095
00:57:21.239 --> 00:57:22.559
are many Amish developers there?
1096
00:57:23.539 --> 00:57:26.260
There are some that you'd be surprised.
1097
00:57:26.480 --> 00:57:26.820
Wow.
1098
00:57:26.840 --> 00:57:30.739
You'd be surprised. And I wrote up a whole article on,
1099
00:57:31.219 --> 00:57:34.760
because I'm new to the area, Lancaster feels to me
1100
00:57:34.960 --> 00:57:40.889
like Portland, Oregon 20 years ago. They like that weird,
1101
00:57:41.389 --> 00:57:42.829
let's be weird attitude.
1102
00:57:42.849 --> 00:57:43.389
Right.
1103
00:57:43.489 --> 00:57:47.170
They like the back to nature, had the farming, all
1104
00:57:47.210 --> 00:57:48.130
that sort of stuff.
1105
00:57:48.530 --> 00:57:48.710
Yeah.
1106
00:57:48.730 --> 00:57:49.030
But.
1107
00:57:49.360 --> 00:57:52.679
They also like the tech side and there's two massive
1108
00:57:52.719 --> 00:57:56.179
data centers coming in. Coral Reeve is the big AI
1109
00:57:56.920 --> 00:57:59.519
company is putting a big data center and Google's putting
1110
00:57:59.579 --> 00:58:01.739
a big data center in there. So there's a lot
1111
00:58:01.820 --> 00:58:07.239
of innovation going on in that Amish community. It's an
1112
00:58:07.300 --> 00:58:08.510
interesting time.
1113
00:58:08.889 --> 00:58:09.250
Yeah.
1114
00:58:09.349 --> 00:58:12.070
Most people don't think of it that way, but land
1115
00:58:12.130 --> 00:58:14.269
is a heck of a lot cheaper. They can't build
1116
00:58:14.329 --> 00:58:18.159
any more data centers in, um, Northern Virginia. So they're
1117
00:58:18.199 --> 00:58:21.460
moving north into central PA and south into Richmond.
1118
00:58:21.679 --> 00:58:22.099
Okay.
1119
00:58:23.039 --> 00:58:25.590
Well, you have to keep us apprised. And when you
1120
00:58:25.909 --> 00:58:31.449
trade your first AI training for a shoe fly pie,
1121
00:58:31.510 --> 00:58:38.349
let me know. All right, Don, thanks very much.
1122
00:58:38.409 --> 00:58:39.650
Good to catch up with you again.
1123
00:58:39.949 --> 00:58:41.530
Good to catch up. And let's not make it in
1124
00:58:41.550 --> 00:58:42.309
another 20 years.
1125
00:58:42.530 --> 00:58:46.750
Definitely. And we'll talk to you, dear listener, next time on.
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