Meetups/Infra/2025-04-07

(Preamble:

   = Meetup - Infra =
   https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Meetups/Infra
   https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Meetups/Infra/2024-..-.. )

2025-04-07 m Meetups/Infra

(TODO summary)

Introductions

• [name] - [background]. [goals for meetup, or interests to explore]
• Robert - startup enthusiast
• Greg - has a job now, interested in computer infrastructure writ large
• Milan - first time here, background in infra/devops, crypto tech startup
• Evan - figuring out what's next
• Loren - running the meetup for 1 3/4 years
• Wolf - running lots of my own stuff for a long time, main personal project: writing a search engine, most recently: use IPv6 split routing for VPN / TLS-cert-issuance
• Jake - do backend engineering for work, gaming dev on the side
• Omelia - didn't come for this specifically, absorbing ambient knowledge, write C++ for games
• Robert - startup enthusiast, looking for work, cloud engineer
• Doug - give stanford MBA coders a bad name, amazing vibe coding
• TJ

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Lesson or Demo

• what's still hard with ai tools?

giving them enough context to make a good decision

docker!

• claude couldn't figure out -- access to assets and static file, mount volumes in
• matomo (self-hosted google analytics)
• if you're outside the distribution, it'll try to push you toward it.

When will it take over dev ops?

• not yet
• claude code comparable? -- not encouraging. Too many mistakes, concerns.

not for devops

also, not for codebase, becomes llm sludge quickly

(by excitement) -- what has been most productivity enhancing Robert

repl.it agent -- not quite zero shot
qr code -- phone contorller -- phone to browser websocket rpc -- load emulator on browser 

https://qr-joysticker-r33drichards.replit.app/

with repl.it, can downlaod source, use in e.g. cursor, yourself, not locked in, in classic way.

Evan -- repl.it found helpful

nice to 

nice if you have an idea. you can stand up an idea, to show someone just before a call
liked cursor.

https://pure.md -- web parsed to md for llm
https://crawlspace.dev -- 

Agents question -- how bullish / bearish

11x -- uk co -- monthly ARR booked, with 30 day cancel, claimed (annual) ARR at $100M

would love to have autonomous grocery shop.

agents -- no
agents -- helped a lot by scaffolding
agentically generated: story games, idle clickers

agents working on tasks that can soft-fail

wolf example -- integration, takes months -- pdf, ledger.

PO box -- 

happy with / omelia -- wanted to drop points, vectors into a canvas. Prompted as such, worked well. One-shot, supervised ETL. Marchiing cubes algorithm example too.

loren: an experience, earlier on, with ... me using 3.5 to work myself up to writing it.

doug: ...

evan: git commits -- summary writing

facebook metrics (gaming) -- should rebase, optimal commit size. And LOC.

git rebase --exec  # pick, run cmd.  do tests, ensure working at each

cursor, windsurf, ...similar do autmoated commit between interactions

jujitsu -- does this

separate notion of change id vs commit.  changes can accumulate, commits can be constructed a bit later.
https://steveklabnik.github.io/jujutsu-tutorial/
https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj

greg -- llm success story, marginal. dioxus - rust library, make a thing that can display pdfs, sync position in doc, across desktop, web?, mobile.

https://dioxuslabs.com/learn/0.6/#
impressions from claude code -- ? properly/fully stuffing library into context?

claude code -- creating InDesign document,

next frontier for these tools: blender, CAD

buddy with startup, making foundation model creating all these things. Makes 3d models you can use. 

human in the loop, or human later

example of a human moving pixels in a doc
https://gwern.net/tool-ai

Robert example, copilot, useful -- 

success with tools? problems amenable to success with tools?

mcp servers -- - https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction

https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers

proof of mcp

claude code -- compaction

1. it's all just a stream of tokens
2. but there's tool use -- and tool use stuffs (the relevant) tokens into context on demand
3. 

https://github.com/r33drichards/mcp-js

question -- about connecting, temporarily, arbitrarily -- behind-NAT servers, private database access to LLMs. NAT hole punching.

upload -- from computer. shuttle data home. private enc'd.

What lossy problems can you attempt?

fear and trembling by kierkegaard

outro infra question -- what might you work on in the next week?

• seeking secure computation people
• catch up with meetups -- hard to gather details -- meetups cli scarper, Milan
• contravening Ad*be terms of service and building an api
• greg - playing with tailscale
• add persistence to js mcp server. deno runtime in rust
• inkling of a lookup for, noisebridge --- wiki crypto meetup out of date
• omelia - graphics project --
• jake -- chess project, bit board, https://www.chessprogramming.org/Magic_Bitboards
• wolf -- aider?! try it out.

• https://cp4space.hatsya.com/2021/01/08/the-neural-network-of-the-stockfish-chess-engine/

infra chat?

• AI coding tools:

- https://aider.chat/ - claude code