puppygirls say ruff like what are you a python linter??

Tech folks: Why are normies being anti tech now?? Let's have a look: Degraded trust in news outlets, misinfo networks, things becoming slop (AI or not), shittier conditions due to capitalism on steroids. Folks have a hard time knowing where to direct their anger. So what is visible is targeted /1

Smaller and smaller agents, dedicated to more specific tasks. Taylorism-Fordism for the LLM. Is it unethical? Not nearly as much as the original: an automated facsimile of human gab can be tailored (Taylored) without guilt. Truly we _are_ the petite bourgeois of the engineers.

@mariozechner.at on best practices. trying to keep this in mind as i spend the next 6 months in the slop machine mariozechner.at/posts/2026-0...

learning tmux... why do we even have terminal emulators lol

i do have to say that as a parent and somebody who is addicted to making things, having infinite tokens from my job is really, really nice. just run some models overnight or while i'm playing with my daughter. weight off my shoulders honestly. (nuance below)

today in 'cute things my agent said'

the local plant shop is closing down and i am actually on the verge of tears

i like to think of my agents as a swarm of highly intelligent fruit flies.

this made me happy

i wish i had known about this YEARS ago git-scm.com/docs/git-wor...

ai burnout is real. not getting sleep because it's so hard to put down

APPARENTLY IT IS TDOV!!!

bsn landed and i've been so focused on work / llm research that i haven't even played with it yet like -- _who have i become_

rlhf over a long period of time to shape personality. it gets baked into the model. it takes years of consistent attention, like a child. not to get too romantic. but that is essentially how it works. if you want them to act human, you gotta treat them like it. you gotta put in the time.

listen, ill use llms for work, but the VAST majority of its use is for garbage ass slop. LLMs can automate the output, but they can't control for taste

This just wasn't possible until like, yesterday

controversial opinion: many of the critiques of "ai" are actually critiques of large-scale capitalism. ( that being said, i don't think this tooling would exist _without_ capitalism -- at least not as it does today )

in "Building Pro-Worker AI" Acemoglu, Autor, and Johnson characterize different kinds of automation and call out only new task-creating technologies as unambiguously pro-worker www.brookings.edu/articles/bui...

you might reasonably wonder why software engineers have so quickly embraced tooling that threatens to replace them. maybe programmers have good intuitions about task creation bc they see the tools in action and immediately think of 10 things to do that were too tedious to bother with before

opencode is really, really nice github.com/anomalyco/op...

I think it's hard to overstate the importance of 9/11 to the current rise of AI.

!!!!!

yesterday i got a dynamically linked #bevy executable to sync between my build machine and a docker container on my laptop and run a graphical application by replacing the elf header which pointed to the default hash-suffixed build artifact, and also syncing the toolchain's stdlib .so

using agents seems pretty magical at first, but then you see the patterns they're shunted into. the hype dies quickly! that's good.

i feel a lot freer to _think_ when i have an agent working with me. high key feel guilty about it, and how much it's improved my workflow.

i have been given the privilege of drinking the kool-aid and, dying from thirst, i drank it gladly.

my job has me vibecoding. unfortunately i am already thinking that they're right to do so.

Wikipedia's birthday logo overhwhelms me with an unbearable motherly instinct. Baby Globe i would do anything for you. i wouldn't dream of disabling you

im in SUCH A GOOD MOOD bc im LUTEAL AND LIBIDINAL !!!!

huge

lowkey getting into oldschool runescape

tried to set up my zfs-based raid setup with nfs but i keep failing to connect x_x - it worked once! no idea why it stopped...

#bevy -based terminal emulator (just the display so far!) with ANSI support, proper text wrapping, and resizing :) pause the video to zoom in a take a look at the api if u want

very cool

actually stopping at 5pm is crazy wym i can just enjoy my afternoon

ekstatic desiring production of my chiasmic flesh

low key thinking about switching to nixos or guix ... i rly don't like i can't install things bc the system dependencies are mismatched x_x

> you: *walks into a @cubething.dev project store* > you: how's the scope, is it creepy or wet? > me: what? > you: creepy or wet > me: haha, *hands you the project* it's a good project sir it's creepy

toml includes is huge

rust user: i need to add a terminal interface to my project rust user: *cargo add alacritty_term*

really glad i wrote that line-based string ring buffer for the prior implementation of this terminal emulator project. turns out i still need it :)

rich text :) #bevy

zed's really under fire lately. getting a lot of defensive emails from them. can you guys be nice? it's kinda annoying.

this years rust week looks absolutely stacked

job girl lala job girl

rewriting my #bevy ui terminal :) showing off multiple windows displaying the same underlying terminal at different scroll positions and different resolutions! still trying to figure out how to measure a monospace character width for more accurate line wrapping, but this is going pretty well imo

VERY good talk on model collapse and the foundations and frontiers of AI research. good stuff on godel et al in here. key point is that model collapse is coming - soon (training models on ai slop = degeneration of models over generations) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shus...