“No way to prevent this” says only language where this regularly happens

Yeah basically, software is boring once its in a container not called “my terminal”

Yeah, the borrow checker and strings are probably the biggest sources of complexity in the name of performance.

It gets easier (I promise!) and it's still my favourite language but I sometimes fantasize about a Rust with garbage collection that was a little more chill about implicit allocations...

Not that I’m aware of (but my info may be out of date, I haven’t contributed to Nushell in the last year or so)

I think Nushell users would generally not enable that; parsing JSON is trivial in Nu (pipe something to `from json`) but doesn't happen automatically when CLI tools emit JSON.

Maybe it should, will give that some thought :)

Yes I think that’s a great approach.

I’m glad you’re asking! Personally I think the best way is to have an easily discoverable way to emit a Nushell-supported format (usually JSON or YAML, maybe CSV for flat tabular data) without any autodiscovery.

(I used to be on the Nushell core team)

uv is the cheat code for getting past the worst of the package management stuff. but I don't use Python enough to know the good ways to do type checking well, and then I try to use a popular, well-documented library and its examples are doing weird type checking with string comparisons

That’s fair; I think it’s a fine option to wait it out while early adopters figure out the best ways to use these things

I have found them to be crazy useful for many tasks but it took and still is taking a lot of experimentation to figure out what they’re good at and where they fall over

oh no

I did this at the age of 37; went from zero to 3-4h of Crossfit every week. And yeah, the results were very noticeable after just 6 months or so reillywood.com/blog/strengt...

That's interesting and surprising to me; I imagined that the tools would end up looking the same to the underlying LLM either way. Maybe something's amiss in popular MCP client libraries?

I met Remy at an MCP event in SF recently; super sharp guy, you’re building some neat stuff!

can't find it but Dave Plummer from Dave's Garage has talked about doing something similar to this in the 90's for Windows stress testing

(he's a weird dude who frequently exaggerates but this story seemed legit)

as a Canadian who was recently subjected to this: can you not?

This is a good read and I appreciate that it's honest about the reasons for hiding CoT! Thanks for posting it here

galaxy brain (positive valence)