Introducing Effect for Go, minus the monad cosplay.

ChatGPT Images 2.0 (Pro) generates a photo of a cake decorated with SVG that when transcribed to a file renders another cake

Learned an incredible Python gotcha today Incrementing an integer is not thread-safe If you know about the GIL, you might think `a =1` is thread-safe because it looks like it's just one operation No, turns out it's actually four bytecode ops (three logical operations) -- load, add, save Suppose a = 5. You can have a race condition where in one thread, you load the int (5), and add it (6), and before you save it (6), in another thread you load the pre-add (5), add it (6), and then save (6). That's two additions, you'd expect a==7, but you have a==6.

had problems with an LLM agent stopping before the objective was done so I made a BS "completion-checker" binary that always just exited with an error code immediately and told it to iterate until the checker passed lol

I kinda want my timeline to go back to FP people arguing about stuff that I do not yet understand. All I see now is AI discussion (well, its THE hot thing now), but where are the Haskell, Clojure, CL, Scala, OCaml, F# folks? I barely see them FP posting anymore.

everyone is building an agent framework we already have an agent framework: it’s called English I’ve been building something too it’s not a product or service, it requires no dependencies, it ships as a skill it’s barely even anything at all, it’s just language but it works

Every positive integer can be uniquely written as the product of a non-decreasing sequence of primes.

nano banana pro world model still has a ways to go