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Idk.

I saw this come out because my boss linked it as a faster chart lib. It is ai slop but people loved it. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46706528]

I knew i could do better so i made a version that is about 15kb and solves a fundamental issue with web gl context limits while being significantly faster.

AI helped do alot of code esp around the compute shaders. However, i had the idea of how to solve the context limits. I also pushed past several perf bottlenecks that were from my fundamental lack of webgpu knowledge and in the process deepened my understanding of it. Pushing the bundle size down also stretched my understanding of js build ecosystems and why web workers still are not more common (special bundler setting for workers breaks often)

Btw my version is on npm/github as chartai. You tell me if that is ai slop. I dont think it is but i could be wrong


I have met armies of julius at all levels. Id say 80% of people are julius and if u dont think so then i have some news for you.

It is always like this. Your ability to socialize will bring you further than any other skillset. The Kennedys for example manufactured their status by socializing. Industry is no different.


> The Kennedys for example manufactured their status by socializing.

And generational wealth and serious political power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Fitzgerald

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy_Sr.


Read some of the father’s quotes. He literally sent his kids out to marry into richer and more powerful families.

Humans are social animals and good social skills is a major benefit almost everywhere, including at work. This does not make most people juliuses.

Hi julius! I kid and dont speak as if i am not a julius. Most people are in it for money for a house car family etc. they dont care about the job in so much as means to an end. That is julius but he took it further

that is not what makes a julius though. there are lots of good, competent workers who don't really give a damn about the job, and are just in it for the money, but they know their stuff and are genuinely working and delivering value for the money they are given while they are on the clock. what a julius dials up to eleven is the oft-heard dictum "fake it till you make it", only they are so good at faking it that it becomes their entire thing, not just a way to stay under the radar while they learn the job.

The question is how does one become julius

Incompetence + luck + social skills.

80% of people you meet are communicating to your customers that the server doesn't have an IP address for security reasons?

80% of the people are saying that this is highly complex software. We should not expect to serve more than 4 requests per second without a full kubernetes cluster backed by 27 pods, a cloud spanner database, and 200k lines of code.

I present, our contact form.


Julius is a metaphor for a specific type of person who is ignorant and useless but has mastered the way to appear otherwise.

If you think this was about IP addresses, well ...


And yet this thread is completely full of Frank Grimes.

> Id say 80% of people are julius and if u dont think so then i have some news for you.

> Industry is no different.

Based on these comments, maybe some self-reflection is in order, as it seems from the 80% comment that what you mean is that 80% of people are able to adequately communicate.


Have i been the julius this while time? What a twist.

That number feels off by a lot to me. I think i can say i'm quite good at socializing, quite above average when comparing to people I meet and work with. I'd rate my engineering skills about average level and i have a firm dislike of fraud and of people acting to be better/smarter/faster than they really are. In my career I've come across managers of the julius type, as well of the narcissistic type, even a sociopath. I would estimate 10 to 20 percent of people are of the Julius type.

It was a subtle ref to the 80/20 rule in that most people likely oscillate between the julius and the useful. Some of that 80% are full time julius for sure.

Because ai doesnt work like this “make me money” or “make stardew valley in space”. The hard part is the painful exploration and necessary taste to produce something useful. The number of these kind of people did not increase with ai.

Eg, ai is a big multiplier but that doesnt mean it will translate to “more” in the way people think.


It doesn’t need to be useful or a good game to launch on steam. Surely if it was a “big multiplier” 5-10x, it would be noticeably impacting steam launches.

Now if it’s something closer to 20%, we’re seeing exactly what you’d expect.


First time hearing about this project and it feels mature. However, the landing page example of the app on web is…messy and noisy to the point i am totally lost.

This is not the case for slack or discord. I think having an awesome clean first impression would do wonders to sell what younare doing.


Can you give more specific feedback -- what specifically are you looking at, and what specifically do you think contributes to it being noisy?

Well for me it's the animations, and it doesn't seem like prefers-reduced-motion is handled anywhere. I go to some great lengths to try to eliminate animations with custom js/css, and things are still moving and changing. The logos are probably most immediately noticeable.

We know teens love endless feeds but we know endless feeds is bad for them so we give them endless feeds…

To be clear social media is not as clear cut bad as the endless news/for you feeds which are designed to keep you scrolling vs seeing what friends are doing

Implementing just enough to conform to a language is not as difficult as it seems. Making it fast is hard.

At the day job there was a problem with performance loading data in an app.

7 months later waffling on it on and off with and without ai I finally cracked it.

Author is not wrong though, the number of times i hit this isnt as often since ai. I do miss the feeling though


My back breaks in cringe anytime i see an ai ghibli picture. It is an instant negative for me.


When I saw the Italian PM post this it made me think about hara-kiri:

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/i...


I guess dune should be totally different given how distractingly wrong it is…


What is art? An experience expressed through a medium. The number of viewers isnt a qualification.


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