Runtime Arguments
Conversations about technology between two friends who disagree on plenty, and agree on plenty more.
Runtime Arguments
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34: The Hardest Test You'll Ever Write Is Test #1
Wolf is at the "relies on tests" end of the spectrum. Jim is closer to the other end, somewhere around "how do I start?". He doesn’t need convincing. He just needs to get from zero (non-trivial) tests to one. Today’s episode is a candid discuss...
33: Perl Refuses To Die
Wolf and Jim open with two AI stories from the week. First, the report that an OpenAI model "escaped its sandbox" and went after Hugging Face — a story Wolf finds infuriating precisely because the words don't go together. Reading the actual joi...
32: Why Rust?
High-points on Rust: how it’s different, how it might help you even if you never actually use it on a project, why people care. … And some things Jim and Wolf have (separately) been working on.Links:SQL 'SELECT * (EXCE...
31: Local LLMs: Good Enough Might Be Enough
Jim shares his adventure into running LLMs on his own hardware. For him it's less about saving money and more about privacy — working in healthcare, he can't send patient data to the cloud.App vs. model: Claude Code and Codex...
30: Available compute: way more than you need, right up until you need it!
You almost never have exactly the right amount of compute for the job. Either cores are sitting idle while your code runs on one, or you've got more problem than machine. This episode is about the two fundamental tools for closing that gap — an...
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