I admire hobbyists who build their own kernels, but the size of modern systems is intimidating. Even something like a Bluetooth stack is bigger than historic kernels, and tends to require multiple people.
I think it's just the cost of compatibility? Tech collaboration is hard.
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After further playing with my LLM project, I'm surprised how hard it is to tune with system prompts.
My agent kept saying "obviously" even though my prompt said "helpful, professional". Eventually I found that a "courteous" prompt gets "of course" which is better but not ideal.
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Date of birth pickers are a surprisingly nuanced UI problem.
What do you pick as the initial value? How do you allow users to easily move by large amounts (years) as well as small amounts (the exact day)?
Defaulting to today and even allowing future dates is funny though.
