Steve Krouse
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Steve Krouse
@stevekrouse
- wrong, wrong, wrong it's not desire or motivation or willpower, but positive CONTEXTS that are scarce when you're in france you speak french, when you're in cambridge you go to class, when you're at a hackathon you code. we need to scale the right kinds of contexts to inculcateInformation is abundant, it's desire that's scarce.
- Introducing CerebrasCoder! An open-source app that generates websites with Llama3.3-70b from @cerebras as fast as you can type. 100% free and open-source. cerebrascoder.com
00:00 - Vibe code is legacy code @karpathy coined vibe coding as a kind of AI-assisted coding where you "forget that the code even exists" We already have a phrase for code that nobody understands: legacy code Legacy code is universally despised, and for good reason. But why? You have
- something fast is coming tomorrow (this video is at 1x speed)
00:00 - Key features to steal from spreadsheets: ☑️ show data, no hidden state ☑️ no control flow (only expressions, no statements) ☑️ one mode (no "running" or "stopping") ☑️ errors isolated (to buggy cells; clean cells unaffected)
- *gets up on soap box* With the announcement of this new "code mode" from Anthropic and Cloudflare, I've gotta rant about LLMs, MCP, and tool-calling for a second Let's all remember where this started LLMs were bad at writing JSON So OpenAI asked us to write good JSON schemas
- Val Town is where you write the first line of code that becomes your next side project, internal tool, or startup We raised $5.5m from Accel + awesome angels to grow our team & build your favorite place to code in the cloud
- I'm excited to share The Whole Code Catalog: my reviews of two-dozen programming-ish tools to inspire the creators of tomorrow's programming languages and computational mediums futureofcoding.org/catalog/
- Well that was fast. On second thought, Zaplib doesn't seem to work as a startup 🥲 @JanPaul123 and I are hacking on other ideas now. Zaplib post-mortem: zaplib.com/docs/blog_post…⚡️ some professional news ⚡️ I've started a new company with @janpaul123 We make web apps fast: zaplib.com
- MCP is mostly nonsense, but there are good effects: 1. Tricks management to green-light engineering efforts on APIs and OAuth DCR (Dynamic Client Registration) 2. Tricks LLM clients to integrate with everyone, ie an open-ecosystem, not walled gardens 3. (Just discovered this
- What if Lovable, bolt, v0 were built in themselves? The new Townie is 100% open-source and is itself built on Val Town. (It can edit itself!) It's not for one-shot demos, but for building complex full-stack projects Code, prompt, branch, pull request Already always deployed
00:00 - wake up babe a new bret victor talk just dropped
- If you haven't met, I'd like to introduce you to Townie You can generate apps in seconds – with a backend & sqlite database – and it's already deployed
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