Sam Tobin-Hochstadt

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Show threadSam Tobin-Hochstadt1d ago
@ccshan @wilbowma I don't think you should take what I care about as a guide to how to interpret the ACM guidelines. And anyway I think how you interact with other people is a different category of rules compared to how you produce the work.
Show threadSam Tobin-HochstadtMar 10
@wilbowma This is the best assessment I've read of how much Claude Code uses: https://www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01-20-cc-impact/
Electricity use of AI coding agents | Simon P. Couch

Most of the discourse about the environmental impact of LLM use focuses on a ‘median query.’ What about a Claude Code session?

Simon P. Couch
Show threadSam Tobin-HochstadtMar 10

@lindsey As someone who is having a lot of (too much) fun writing programs with LLMs, the thing I really enjoy is the feeling of creation, the same way when I wrote a little game on my TI-86 and got to play it. But it's been interesting understanding that about my own motivation.

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Show threadSam Tobin-HochstadtFeb 2
@jonmsterling This is a terrible take, my bike did not change in some drastic way when I added a motor to it, and riding a bike with my kids on it in traffic is not somehow safer because it has a motor.
Show threadSam Tobin-HochstadtFeb 2
@sayrer my experience supervising grad students is quite helpful for it.
Show threadSam Tobin-HochstadtJan 27
@pervognsen Interesting that this seems to be completely independent from this other recent history: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/algdt-history/
A Very Early History of Algebraic Data Types

Been quiet around here! I’ve been putting almost all of my writing time into Logic for Programmers and my whole brain is book-shaped. Trust me, you do not want to read my 2000-word rant on Sphinx post-build LaTeX customization. But I spent the past week in a historical rabbit hole and had to share what I found. It started with Algebraic [Data] Types are not Scary, Actually. The post covers AlgDTs1 in more detail, but a quick overview is:

Hillel Wayne
Show threadSam Tobin-HochstadtJan 22
@arjun @wingo @shriramk I think the set of things where models can do it as accurately and as efficiently themselves as with a program will continue to be pretty small -- the same thing is true for humans!
Sam Tobin-HochstadtJan 15
HarrisonGrodinJan 15
Fantastic news!
Show threadSam Tobin-HochstadtJan 14
@wilbowma @[email protected] @regehr @va2lam We had the cover article maybe 7 years ago and I still have it prominently in my office.
Show threadSam Tobin-HochstadtJan 12
@squeed they had a lot of fun. Leo got them a bit older than your kids but I think they would definitely enjoy them.