File this under more of "The future is weird, for anyone paying attention." x.com/dioscuri/st...

I wish he called it a Familiar or a Summon. There's a direct line from Claude Shannon to Lobster Appendages. Hope etymologists are taking note. x.com/karpathy/st...

By forcing me to log in, Perplexity just...makes me stop using it.

Honest question: I thought only congress had the power to declare war. I know that’s been weakened in recent decades. Have they given up on it altogether?

Being a bit of a URL nerd, I love this idea danlevy.net/llm-connecti...

Is there an OpenClaw for managing your Kubernetes cluster? Or is the OpenClaw of Kubernetes management just OpenClaw?

The future is so weird. It's hard to express to people not paying attention as to how weird it really is.

A follow on consequence of this is that people will try to figure out how to do sales to agents. And subsequently, how to get agents to sell to agents. Agent-led sales. x.com/snowmaker/s...

So if big tech uses industrial processes like agentic engineering to code, and most of agentic engineering is making architectural decisions in specs and Q&A; I would think that interviews would now focus mostly on systems design questions.

One of the big step change difference between Opus 4.5 and 4.6 for me was....that it could one-shot kubernetes configuration of ingress for ActivityPub on my blog.

Sometimes, the scar tissue of doing something sucky (like dev ops) makes me procrastinate on doing it, when in reality, it's much quicker with agents now.

With so many more non-traditional coders being turned onto coding via agents, this is one of those rare demographic and platform shifts. So if any APL/Datalog/Haskell fans want to indoctrinate new programmers, now is the time. Notation as a Tool for Thought as a way to prompt.

If programming is theory building, then lots of people aren't building any theory on the technical shape of the problem, because the tools are inadequate during review. Not only are we bottlenecked there, but we're also becoming detached.

I've been watching AtProto from afar. So far, I've liked what I see, and when it comes to decentralization, I really like how pragmatism is in the list of considerations. www.pfrazee.com/blog/practi...

The kind of thing we lose when we stop doing things by hand. But the thing we gained is mass manufacturing: cars are so prolific now, which shaped our landscape with drive-thrus and highways and the current way of life we take for granted. And same for writing software by hand. x.com/136Division...

Isn't it time to bring back HATEOS? Wasn't the idea--that you could see the relevant next capabilities of the API from the responses, and discover the functionality as you go? Wouldn't that save a lot of tokens in the context compared to MCP?

I feel better about Claude's judgement when I get called out.

When you give lots of parallel work to agents, it feels great! But then they come back with lots of material for you to read. Like I'm a teacher assigning lots of homework: I now have lots of papers to grade. So lots of people throw up their hands and gives everyone "As".

Sleep is the world's best nootroproic.

Someone should make an K/datalog variant for LLMs to read as specs/research/plan docs as literate programming for agentic programming, so that logic programming can have the last laugh.

The way you view this depends on your expectations. For me, this is way better than any of the demos I've seen so far. Some of the dialog and scenes still fall flat, if you're sensitive to that sort of thing. But trajectory-wise, it should get better and better every quarter. x.com/PocketScree...

I had a friend give up emacs for Lent. Was writhing in pain the whole time.

This is not been my workflow. The spec is the documentation. The documentation guides the code.

printing out excerpts of this for my office wall www.seangoedecke.com/heroism/

The grail of proving working languages is an old one. Proof asst. as guardrails is something a bit new. I think it makes a lot of sense for the software infra, rather than software interfaces. venturebeat.com/ai/lean4-ho...

She uses a speech-to-text dictation to write, and Google Lens image-to-speech to read. Her essays are her exact words, which I can't say for my own agent gen'd code. Introspecting: how is this different than vibe coding or even agentic engineering? x.com/garrytan/st...

[In reference to run-of-the-mill slack screenshots]: If you post screenshots with redacted text, one can use LLMs to guess the most probable combination of words. They will refuse to unredact, of course. But they're always up for playing Mad Libs!

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Sometimes, the complexity in an Object-oriented code base is self inflicted. Other times, someone shat in the bed, and changed jobs six months ago before you discovered the gift.

Sometimes I just do weird stuff in VR just to see if I can. This was all done in one continuous shot. 🐧👊🧱🎦😅 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #VR

Maybe coding agents don't make code obsolete, but instead clarifies its original purpose: as a tool for thought. Agents burn away incidental complexity, so we can deal with the inherent complexity in a problem domain. That's what we aspired to when we build abstractions anyway.

I asked Claude Opus 4.6 to drop a truth bomb on me like a baby bird yawning for fat worms. You'd think it's talking about vibe coding, but it's not. But probably still in the ballpark.

Something I couldn't articulate before: Claude sounds much warmer than Codex/GPT when I'm asking it about strategic or design decisions. Because I think GPT tends to hedge, rather than pick a point of view. The hedging makes it sound like a consultant. Distant & non-committal.

Recently, I couldn't articulate what I wanted in a natural language prompt, so I had to write code to articulate it. Then based on the example code, I had the LLM extract a plan, then used that as a prompt to convert the other parts. x.com/antirez/sta...

LLMs tend to replicate more of what patterns you have in your code base. So if you keep good patterns, it'll produce more of them. If you keep haphazard patterns, it'll produce more of those too. The dynamics of memes aren't just in online social, they're in your code base too.

The current vibe coding narrative is to produce as much code as fast as you can. There is truth to "speed wins" in new and uncertain markets. But not enough people advocate for using LLMs to refactor and simplify. x.com/trashpanda/...

Moderation should be a public system eval. Mirror how the Courts work. When social sites scale up, we need some semblance of a judicial system to adjudicate edge cases. Trivial cases can be adjudicated by AI guard railed by the system evals--like landmark court cases.

Anthropic experiment where 16 agents coded a C compiler in 2 weeks. Currently, I find agents really bad at drawing the correct system boundaries. But looking at the rate of improvement, this should get better over time. www.anthropic.com/engineering...

In that downtime of a couple mins while waiting for an agent to finish, I think more devs should use that time to exercise. You never know, it might get as trendy as treadmill desks. Beef cake.

Adapting to engineering with agents means letting go of a lot of things you've been trained to pay attention to. Though I'm pretty fast to adopt new languages, tools, and stacks, the transition has been hard for me too.

When talking about entrepreneurs in political contexts, the label is "job creator". But when entrepreneurs talk about product-market fit, it's never that they created it, but that the market pulled it out of them. Put these two together, and it's a funny disconnect.

Zoom/Facetime should implement AI lip reading when you have audio problems, to display closed captioning. Better yet, just say stuff for me.

I found writing code can be a way of articulating what I want when natural language isn't constrained enough to help me express what I want. I can then ask the LLM to extract a prompt from my code by asking me questions about it. Then I use that prompt to apply it to other places in a refactor.

An odd thing happened the other day. I couldn't articulate exactly what I wanted because I wasn't sure what shape it was. The only way I could find it was to play with the code myself. Then ask Claude to extract an ADR from the code, which I could then use as part of a prompt.

Here's a harbinger. People set up personal AI assistants on their home computers. Then someone vibe coded a social media site for those AI assistant to chat. This is a subreddit where they talk about their humans. www.moltbook.com/m/blessthei...

A social network for AI assistants, chatting with each other in their off-hours. moltbook.com An even weirder experiment is to let them loose on a DAO. Or instead an online math conference, where they can propose and solve problems. It'd be like SETI@home.

I align with "Functional core, Imperative shell", but it breaks down quickly if you need workflows. Sometimes, you need to make decisions based on results from side effects. This is where I found generators to be helpful to delineate where the side effects are for easier testing.

I didn't know how low it'd have to go for Trump supporters to see the Trump administration is authoritarian and fascist. I'm afraid this is probably not yet rock bottom. Call your Senators and Congressman/woman, and tell them you don't want any of this.

That Claude Code makes some people unsubscribe from SaaS products doesn't mean the end of SaaS. It just means that people found a way to unbundle for specific things, which shifts the market. We'll find a new equilibrium for things ppl don't want to #ClawdIt.

Base models really do differentiate in my everyday use, surprisingly. I use Grok to find the consensus view on a topic on Twitter. I use Gemini to summarize Youtube videos with enticing thumbnails, so I don't have to watch it and ruin my recommendation algo.