“The age of the idea guys has begun.”
Justin & Gigi vibe about Zig.
Articles mentioned:

LLMs as a tool for thought by Amelia Wattenberger
Micropayments and Mental Transaction Costs by Nick Szabo
How our interfaces have lost their senses by Amelia Wattenberger

Talks mentioned:

The Art of Bitcoin Rhetoric by Bitstein

Books mentioned:

Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal

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

 

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