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JavaScript Infrastructure & Tooling at Bloomberg. TC39 Delegate. London.

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Totally, but even the books are still more likely to only be in the initial training. And not play a significant part when it's tuned. The base model and books teach it how things work, but the tuning is what gives it tone.

02.08.2025 11:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It only trains on the internet for the base model. It's then trained on custom examples, that humans have been paid to write to tune it towards behaving in a particular way.
Models only trained on the raw internet are too prone to being rude and other undesirable outputs.

02.08.2025 09:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What a LLM learns during fine tuning is much stronger than what's in the user prompt.
The reason it's ignoring the request to use fewer emojis is likely that the training data is just too biased to using emoji, and not enough examples of following the request not to use them.

02.08.2025 01:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've found chatting with LLMs very useful. But have had to turn off inline suggestions. Too much time spent reading the suggestion, only to reject it because it's not what I'm trying to do.
If I've only typed two characters, that is not enough to read my mind.

31.07.2025 09:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've really enjoyed the Computerphile vids so far!
Maybe a compiler series? ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

29.07.2025 16:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
How to make thenables Safer? How to make thenables Safer? Matthew Gaudet, Mozilla

docs.google.com/presentation...

This is only one of the ideas. And possibly the least likely to be web compatible (is my guess)

25.07.2025 21:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Exactly, the proposal is to also make the Reflect.get("then") also async.
( is my understanding)

25.07.2025 13:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@rich-harris.dev btw this behaviour, is being discussed at TC39 plenary next week.
The proposal is that user-land "then" properties will no longer be executed synchronously (as I understand it)

25.07.2025 11:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think that's the compressed size

24.07.2025 18:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

next test: "I'm coming with snacks I found"

21.07.2025 19:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

I had a date with a dinosaur!

18.07.2025 20:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My grandparents would always answer the phone by saying their own number. Many years after human operators had been removed from the switches.

15.07.2025 18:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"#summary

perfection is the energy of done ๐Ÿ˜‰ "

14.07.2025 19:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One snag with remove on save: temporarily commenting out code to check something and then un-commenting later.

Might have gotten better but this put me off.

11.07.2025 11:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am hoping we can write some custom rules without compiling to native or sacrificing too much perf. Maybe these will have to be expressed declaratively like ast-grep.

10.07.2025 20:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh dear, double parked by looks of it ๐Ÿ˜›
Have a good one!

08.07.2025 21:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Expandable hovers ๐Ÿ˜
Know these have been in the works for a while and I'm so excited to try them out.

devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a...

08.07.2025 21:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The phase "<verb> like you've never <past(verb)> before" hits me the wrong way.

08.07.2025 17:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

> "now the bar() function is being called directly, with no object property access"

To be fair this also happens if the caller imports the function by name.
I wouldn't want to see any function declaration assume its `this` is a module namespace.

07.07.2025 07:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I keep going back and forth on if a good film would be easier or harder than a good book.

When a book is adapted for screen lots is cut out.
But a book can just describe something, a video needs to look believable.

06.07.2025 20:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Capturing for posterity:
I asked ChatGPT "When do you think there will be a best selling novel written entirely by AI?"

A: "You might see a fully AI-authored book in the Amazon Top 100 by the late 2020s, and a New York Times best-seller by early 2030s."

06.07.2025 20:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

the trickery of array imposters

05.07.2025 09:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Also

(function(a, b = 1){}).length

Which is why auto currying utilities and default args should be combined with caution

02.07.2025 20:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have some vague memory of Chrome adding a way to "not stop on this line" to their devtools.
Maybe wishful thinking

01.07.2025 18:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Why Thorium is About to Change the World
YouTube video by Undecided with Matt Ferrell Why Thorium is About to Change the World

And there's been some more thorium progress youtu.be/bz4aTO6M4Ho

29.06.2025 19:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I would enjoy pub quizzes a lot more if there was a JS round!

27.06.2025 21:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It depends on strict mode

27.06.2025 09:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it is when I'm trying to write some c++ for the first time in ~7 years.
I need my bot buddy to hold my hand while I find the strength to read these templating errors
๐Ÿซ 

22.06.2025 16:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

First trip to NY!
80/20% nervous/excited.

Watch films or try and code without a copilot on the flight?

22.06.2025 15:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you! ๐Ÿคฉ

18.06.2025 15:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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