I’m regularly surprised that folks don’t realize the core models are stateless. The model gets the whole context every turn and re-evaluates the whole thing. Yes, even when coding. The models don’t remember shit. The harness (app on top) gives them memory with each turn.

Morning reading:

while working on chores over the weekend I did a lot of podcast listening. in particular I was curious about what the original agile manifesto guys were saying about agentic coding. I'm still synthesizing, but lots to think about.

Business user: did your team finish the web app to allow us to launch? Me: better than that! We created an agentic factory that easily produces web apps of this type with only a few dozen simple yaml files! Biz user: ok. I guess. But you created my thing? Me: did I mention it’s agentic? And yaml?

Metric? Never heard of her.

Mitch was very concerned with his legacy. Becoming a vegetable pawn in other men’s power grab is very apt. Even in death he’s just a pawn for others to manipulate to enriched themselves and consolidate power. May your memory serve as a warning to others, Mitch.

My opponent's reasoning reminds me of the heathen, who, being asked on what the world stood, replied, "On a narcissist." But on what does the narcissist stand? "On another narcissist." With Trump, too, there are narcissist all the way down. (Vehement and vociferous applause.)

folks are asking aloud "why are LLMs coding in human languages at all, why not directly in machine code?" This misses a huge understanding of what high level languages are. Think about how many token are needed to sort a data frame in pandas. Now imagine replicating that in assembly. 1/2

I guarantee if you go to TBT El Gallo on game day, you'll get the best Mexican street food in Virginia and it's very unlikely that you'll get your heart ripped out. Even if you're English. www.tbtelgallo.com

Reading up on opinionated app frameworks that are “ai native”. Wasp is really interesting wasp.sh It’s cheaper and faster to build because fewer decisions have to be made.

Fun fact: French drains weren’t designed in France. 🇫🇷 the were designed by a dude whose last name was “French”. And I guarantee he was smart enough to not build one in the swamp when it’s 100F. I am less encumbered by such good judgment.

Wooohoo. Most of y’all have more than the average number of fingers right now. Tomorrow morning a few will be below average. #facts Happy birthday to this messy ass experiment that I love!

improve your tech career with this one crazy trick: user empathy

y'all read anything insightful about how we change software development methodologies in light of really useful LLMs? it feels like the bottleneck moved from "pounding out code" to "figuring out what problem to solve". I think devs should be at the keyboard less and sit with users more.

controversial hot take that I haven't written about but am tempted: in the mechanical world we have "engineers" and "techs". Engineers design and prototype but techs keep it running, do repairs, maybe replace components. Eng is higher status and typically higher pay. We have the same in software dev

lots of posts about the United States Mutant Ninja Turtles on the feed today, love to see that turtle pride

I wish we collectively gave a shit.

In an unprecedented act of dissent, active-duty USAF Major Jason Watson was arrested on the Capitol steps after calling for the impeachment & removal of Donald Trump. Risking his career to uphold his constitutional oath, his arrest marks a historic moment. ✊🏻✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾✊🏽

90s cosplay prop…

"this framework should have been a Claude skill" is the new "this meeting should have been an email"

After being a member of a Virginia Wildlife social media group, I’ve learned a ton: 1. That fucked up el Chupacabra looking thing is always a fox with mange. 2. Turtles are laying eggs like mad right now. Raccoons are digging them up almost (but not quite) as fast.

<voice on phone> 911 please state your emergency Me: I’d like to report a chart crime.

Why did I see this on Facebook? This is clearly Bluesky content.

This must be the “activist judges” I’ve been hearing about for the last 10 years.

Morning after a big rain. It looks and feels tropical in the Chesapeake Bay watershed this morning.

Nerds, meet our hero!

Sunday project is assembling my new Chinesium saw mill to make fire pit benches. Having done one without the kit, this was worth $120 just for the safety alone. But it was also easier and a more even outcome. I used this kit plus a ripping chain: amzn.to/3SuwFBS

These false dichotomies are weird. There’s lots of issues with high power consumption data centers, but draining lakes ain’t one of them. This is just bumper sticker politics, not logic.

75,000 people are expected to attend the Colonial Williamsburg July 4th fireworks 😳. Billysburg only has a pop of 15k. Yeah, imma not go to that.

<stirring Metamucil and sighing>

working with an accountant to use an LLM to create an improved straight through workflow for accounting. I had two big lessons learned: 1. We're still programming. Just without syntax learning. But I helped him refactor a large prompt into 5 different LLM skills. It felt like teaching programming

Academics on here are enjoying this satire piece on LLMs and academic job interviews; it's frightening to see this is already happening out there in the real world! bsky.app/profile/mich...

Interviewing pro tip: even if you have wired the LLM in using voice to text and have it listening to the call, I can still tell if you are reading off the screen when you talk to me. jfc, kids.

BBC article about Brian Ripley of the #RStats Core team given this week's excellent news concerning 2026 Rousseeuw Price for Statistics recognition for him and the core team. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Broke: from the windows to the walls Woke: from the teat to the street

I've been looking at what Snowflake is doing with their CoWork tool and it's driving me crazy because their material shows me all this non-data related stuff that can be done with their tool. Why do vendors do this? you're a data platform, show me how your tool helps with data tasks.

Oregon, it is time. You know what must be done

Nod nod. Wink wink. Say no more. Say no more.

UVA out here playing Tech Word Bingo in their adverts. I’d prefer Quantum Pixel Docker or how about Tesla Neural Stack or maybe Kubernetes Signal Forge

I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.

I for real thought there was blood on this log. Turns out it was some kind of fungus. I like it.

Well that’s pretty glassy.

L to R: Chris Richards: biracial kid from Alabama who speaks about black history and has tattoos of MLK, Ali, and Obama Sergiño Dest: Dutch-Surinamese, emigrated to Brooklyn as a kid, naturalized Fola Balogun: born in Brooklyn to vacationing parents, raised in UK but CHOOSES to play for USA

One rustic bench for the fire pit complete. Yeah that was harder than expected. I’m reconsidering how many benches we need. One suddenly seems ample.

But I like this very much.

I don’t like the part where my government makes blood and soil references with a wink.

Wednesday’s moment of zen: two fawns and a momma deer. Not twins, another doe is just out of frame.

Yeah I know that AI generated music sucks and all that, but where else can you get a little ditty about ASD love? soundcloud.com/jdlong/same-...

Da fuq is this malarkey?

Me to my class of undergrads when I explained why post-Cold War Latin America is like that circa 2021.