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A walking dialog on what the right trade-off balance might be. Est. 882,690. Inspired by Sovereign Engineering https://njump.me/sovereignengineering.io Nostr: https://njump.me/nosolutions@sovereignengineering.io Feed: https://sovereignengineering.io/dialogues.xml
@derGigi & @pablof7z discourses:

“The age of the idea guys has begun.”

In this dialogue:
Justin & Gigi vibe about Zig.
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In this dialogue:
  • nak 
  • Files
  • SyncThing (and how it BitTorrent Sync became Resilio Sync) 
  • Convention over configuration 
  • Changes & speciation 
  • File systems as sources of truth 
  • Vibe-coding shower thoughts 
  • Inspiration and The Muse 
  • Justin's LLM setup 
  • Tony's setup (o1-pro as the architect) 
  • Being okay with paying for LLMs 
  • Anthropomorphising LLMs
  • Dialog, rubber-duck debugging, and the process of thinking 
  • Being nice and mean to LLMs
  • Battlebots & Gladiators
  • Hedging your bets by being nice to Skynet
  • Pascal's Wager for AI
  • Thinking models vs non-thinking faster models
  • Sandwich-style LLM prompting, again (waterfall stuff, HLDD / LLDD
  • Cursor rules & Paul's Prompt Buddy 
  • Giving lots of context vs giving specific context 
  • The benefit of LLMs figuring out obscure bugs in minutes (instead of days) 
  • The phase change of fast iteration and vibe coding 
  • Idea level vs coding level 
  • High-level vs low-level languages 
  • Gigi's "vibeline" 
  • Peterson's Logos vs Vervaeke's Dia-Logos 
  • Entering into a conversation with technology 
  • Introducing MCPs into your workflow
  • How does Claude think? 
  • How does it create a rhyme?
  • How does thinking work? 
  • And how does it relate to dialogue?
  • Gzuuus' DVMCP & using nostr as an AI substrate
  • Language Server Protocols (LSPs)
  • VAAS: Vibe-coding as a service
  • Open models vs proprietary models
  • What Cursor got right
  • What ChatGPT got right 
  • What Google got right
  • Tight integration of tools & remaining in a flow state
  • LLMs as conversational partners
  • The cost of context switching 
  • Conversational flow & how to stay in it 
  • Prompts VS diary entries 
  • Solving technical vs philosophical models 
  • Buying GPUs & training your own models 
  • Training LLMs to understand Zig 
  • Preventing entryism by writing no documentation 
  • Thin layers & alignment layers 
  • Working in public & thinking in public 
  • Building a therapist / diary / notes / idea / task system
  • "The age of the idea guys has begun."
  • Daemons and spirits 
  • Monological VS dialogical thinking 
  • Yes-men and disagreeable LLMs 
  • Energy cost vs human cost 
  • Paying by the meter vs paying a subscription 
  • The equivalence of storage and compute 
  • Thinking needs memory, and memory is about the future 
  • Nostr+ecash as the perfect AI+human substrate 
  • Real cost, real consequence, and Human Action 
  • The cost of words & speaking 
  • Costly signals and free markets 
  • From shitcoin tokens to LLM tokens to ecash tokens 
  • Being too close to the metal & not seeing the forest for the trees 
  • Power users vs engineers 
  • Participatory knowing and actually using the tools 
  • Nostr as the germination ground for ecash 
  • What is Sovereign Engineering? 
  • LLVM and the other side of the bell-curve 
  • How nostr gives you users, discovery, mircopayments, a backend, and many other things for free 
  • Echo chambers & virality 
  • Authenticity & Realness 
  • Growing on the edges, catering to the fringe 
  • You don't own your iPhone 
  • GrapheneOS 
  • WebRTC and other monolithic "open" standards 
  • Optimizing for the wrong thing 
  • Building a nostr phone & Gigi's dream flow 
  • Using nostr to sync dotfile setups and other things 
  • "There are no solutions, only trade-offs" 
  • Cross-platform development 
  • Native vs non-native implementations
  • Vitor's point on what we mean by native 
  • Does your custom UI framework work for blind people? 
  • Ladybird browser & how to build a browser from scratch 
  • TempleOS 
  • Form follows function & 90's interfaces 
  • Lamentations on the state of modern browsers 
  • Complexity & the downfall of the Legacy Web 
  • Nostr as the "new internet" 
  • Talks by Ladybird developer Andreas Kling
  • Will's attempt of building it from scratch with Notedeck & nostr-db
  • Justin's attempt with rust-multiplatform 
  • "If it doesn't have a rust implementation, you shouldn't use it."
  • Native in terms of speed vs native in terms of UI/UX 
  • Engineer the logic, vibe-code the UI 
  • From Excalidraw to app in minutes 
  • What can you one-shot? 
  • What do you need to care about? 
  • Pablo's NDK snippets 
  • 7GUIs and GUI benchmarks for LLMs
  • "Now we're purpose-building tools to make it easier for LLMs" 
  • "Certain tools really make your problems go away."
  • Macros and meta-programming 
  • Zig's comptime 
  • UNIX tools and pipes 
  • Simple tools & composability
  • Nostr tools for iOS & sharing developer signing keys 
  • Building 10 apps as one guy 
  • Simplicity in a community context 
  • Most people are on phones 
  • Most people don't install PWAs 
  • Zapstore & building our own distribution channels
  • Web-of-trust and pushing builds quickly 
  • Improving homebrew by 10x 
  • (Micro)payments for package managers 
  • Guix and bitcoin-core 
  • Nix vs Guix 
  • Reproducible builds & web-of-trust 
  • Keet vs "calling an npub" 
  • Getting into someone's notifications 
  • Removing the character limit was a mistake

NO Solutions, only TRade-offs

#06 - The Winds of AI #929992 #05 - Prompt & Pray #917496 #04 - Ecash Fixes 402 #912976 #03 - Data Ownership is a Lie #912965 #02 - There is No Global #889415 #01 - Start Ugly #889405 #00 - Test Recording / Teaser #889398
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