A developer used AI to translate her code. The master asked, "Does it compile?" "It compiles." "Do the tests pass?" "All of them." "Then what troubles you?" The developer said, "I no longer know which parts I understand." The master replied, "Did you understand them before?" ...

docker is a name with too much whimsy for a project so full of malice and hatred

it’s true literally right now: i would flatly not hire anyone who categorically refused to engage with these tools. that doesn’t mean you need to be a tokenmaxxing psycho, but sneering talk about “sparkling autocomplete” means you stopped paying attention

Are they going to make a baby in 1 month?

“limiting the ability for casinos and sportsbooks to kick out "sharks" who can beat the house” is such an obvious political winner. I can imagine the ad already: “We legalized gambling; now it’s time to legalize winning”

Pasting secure api tokens into claude just to stress her out

> my fable no > my strait is closed > my pool is slime > nixos time

Europe should make wintertime heating illegal next

so what makes polytoken different from anything else? everyone's hyping it up but it just looks like a normal claude clode clone?

"if you introduce a tertiary character, you must either justify their usage or consolidate them with other tertiary characters" - most books on narrative craft

This is the most gemini behavior ever

Great idea. We’ll have computers figure out your taxes, send you the bill, and if you want to dispute it - too bad, they’re all sweating away in the desert

Software folks find this attitude abhorrent because the culture in software for decades has been about freely sharing information, which is why it has been one of the more reliable venues of class mobility in the US. It sure as shit was for me.

Stuffing a bat shelter inside my backyard datacenter so the HOA can’t say no to

mantra

I had strong priors against LLMs for medicine. There are a lot of doctors in my family and I grew up viewing doctors as careful, skilled professionals. I had plenty of bad medical experiences, but I thought it would be hard to do better. Then an LLM found a cure for my 2 decade chronic condition...

suburban sprawl is so sad. wasting so much space we could use for data centers.

What kind of math textbook does a bourba/kiki write

Hell yeah we got Odrzywolek-style addition and subtraction implemented in i++

Few people know that continuous scroll is the main reason why excel is so addictive…

with the combined might and brainpower of our united hemisphere we could easily pay china to do it

every crank paper on vixra can (and should) be turned into a lemon demon-style conspiracy song

oh my god the potential former child soldier on podcasts talking about how it's the only way to become a true alpha this grift would totally work

Coworker who has used $25 of tokens over past 90 days and mentioned reading "If anyone builds it" once: I know what you are

Unironically they should do LLM tasting competitions where you get a bunch of AI responses and try to judge which company + vintage it came from. I suspect some people would be quite good at this

Oh ffs someone gifted it back. They should just add a “nuke my streak” button and I’d be back to using it already

New groundbreaking research about AI just dropped

“Including foreign national anthropic employees” is crazy, since many/most of those have had access to unrestricted mythos the whole time!

"normalization of deviants" is this anything?

mantra

I'm absolutely right!

Lol no thanks. (after intentionally skipping 6 of 7 days to try and break the streak) from all the extra bonus emergency freezes they give

trump safari stories are "hick orientalism"

trillion dollar ai startup idea

They should add “coauthored by eslint” in my commits actually.

Yeah i write all my code in a dependently typed language: typescript

open borders are not enough. we need free teleportation for me and all my furniture

Type theorists will be like, oh, implementing the most widely used operating system in C? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, writing all prod software in a dependently typed language" and then not write any usable software at all.

My latest language, i++, is online at saxxie.tngl.io/i_plus_plus/ ! It contains 2 constructs: functions (via iota combinator) and numbers, which are also fucntions, and compose via Odrzywolek EML's! Standard libary still needs some work but I'm claiming this as the #1 worst numerical PL :)

“What else is like this?”

how they must have felt calling dependent functions "products"

The ugh field around doing things is gone, but now there's sometimes an ugh field around deciding exactly what to do.

Taught my wife to vibecode yesterday (shes a scientist); she instantly gets it - voice prompting all sorts of cazy analyses in an ipynb. Only difficult thing was motivating why git matters - “why would I care about the history, I can delete all the code as soon as it’s published anyway” 😭

Synthesis: building AGI is not an engineering problem, but rather humanities research

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Idea: heist film where they steal the cloudflare lamps in order to hack a bank or something

The trick is, when among mathematicians, to say you are a physicist so that they forgive you for not knowing very much math. Then, when among physicists, say you are a mathematician so that they forgive you for not knowing very much physics. In especially dire cases I might say I am a philosopher.

Deepseek is kinda good at PL design 🫡