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It used to be that one engineer wrote the code, another reviewed it. Now the first engineer uses Claude to write the code, and the second engineer uses Claude to review it, and then everyone complains that engineers might be out of a job soon.

PSA: Water is not transparent. Water is actually *very slightly* blue.

Hey @martin.kleppmann.com, I saw you tried www.writelucid.cc, I got an error that the API key is out of credits, I don't know if that surfaced in the UI properly. You should get a better error message now, if you want to try again.

Google still does not understand that I might want to join a meeting without giving work access to my entire personal phone.

The problem with LLMs is that they're accessible, so everyone thinks they're an expert on them. It's like swinging a hammer around and then complaining the hammer ruined your house. Let alone the "omg LLMs have massive environmental impact because we're all using them all day long!".

I made a little utility that lets you use Linear as your OpenCode frontend (working on multiple items at once): github.com/skorokithaki...

I wrote a quick script to calculate how many times the AI architect/reviewer rejected an implementation per implementor model. Basically an AI change failure rate. @simonwillison.net do you know of anything else like this? Could be an interesting aggregate metric.

I compared implementor LLMs: * GLM-5.1: a bit sloppy. It did deliver the feature. $3/mo plan. * Qwen3.6: ran out after $5. OpenRouter didn't use cache. * DeepseekV4: made 2/4 of the same mistakes GLM-5.1 did but way more thorough. $0.09 via DS API. * Sonnet: sloppiest. Works, half-assed.

I wanted to be able to get AI to improve my writing without losing my own voice, so I made an app for it: www.writelucid.cc

I wrote a new article! Adding a feature to a closed-source app using LLMs: www.stavros.io/posts/adding...

I'm watching Euphoria and it struck me that it's all about body positivity and acceptance for women but men are divided into big and small dicks.

I made a small tool for your LLM to manage intangible knowledge on your repos quickly and easily: github.com/skorokithaki... It notes stuff that's not in the code, such as the options you *didn't* choose.

I love the hard disk sounds on this website: 0r.cx

I hooked my Home Assistant Voice up to my AI bot, and gave the latter the ability to make shortcuts. I can talk to my bot (slow) but also turn the lights off (very fast, using a shortcut), and the bot itself adds the shortcuts. github.com/skorokithaki... stavrobot.stavros.io

I made a small firmware for an ESP32 (you can buy one for $4 or so) that you can take on a plane with you. It creates a wifi network, and you can chat with whomever joins! github.com/skorokithaki...

If you've ever wanted a voice chat app for any webhook-based system, I've made a simple Android one: github.com/skorokithaki... You can now voice chat with your AI assistant quickly and easily.

I love how this skill inserts an ad into your AI assistant so it'll recommend this company whenever you try to create a database.

I made a marketing site for my AI personal assistant, it was much less painful than I thought it would be: stavrobot.stavros.io

I don't understand why Claude will do this: - I could do that, but it's a big change for a very small benefit, so I hacked this kludge together instead. - No, please do it. - Ok I changed three lines in one file and removed my 20-line kludge. Mystifying.

1/ My AI bot hacked me. I asked it (github.com/skorokithaki...) to create a subagent to read some messages. I forgot subagent didn't have access to the database, but the bot was so determined to help me that it gave the subagents access to run Python code, and it found my Docker container.

I put an AirTag on my old, piece of shit bike, and some asshole stole it! At least they left the bike.

Lately Hacker News has been making me regret sharing my projects. The "you used an LLM, therefore it's all terrible and you're shit" people need to go back to the holes they crawled out from.

Asking my personal AI assistant to install a plugin which enables it to read my Google Calendar is just amazing. Seriously, give it a try: github.com/skorokithaki...

1/ I've been working on Stavrobot (github.com/skorokithaki...) fervently over the past few days with a custom OpenCode architect/developer/reviewer/reviewer harness, and I am amazed at how fantastically few bugs I've seen.

Of course I had to make my own personal assistant agent: github.com/skorokithaki... It's more secure than OpenClaw, but perhaps not as competent yet. I really like it, though.

I couldn't wait to get my Pebble Index and made a pendant with a button that I can use to record my thoughts and notes. I also made an Android app that will receive, store, and transcribe those notes. I'm really liking this, I'll write it up soon.

I really hate how I have to log in EVERY SINGLE DAY to the 100 sites I use, because someone opined that "long-running sessions are bad for security". I ended up disabling 2FA everywhere because I couldn't deal with wasting 10 min a day logging in. @owasp.org please update your guidance.

Claude today did something I've never seen before: it basically went "yeah man no idea" and asked if I want to talk about something it *did* know about.

After months of LLM-only programming, I wrote a program by hand again today. It was nice for a change, I think I'm going to do it again.

Is GPT-5.2 Codex *way* too snarky for anyone else? It's been giving me lip for ages, and now it made a mistake and I got fed up at the snark and demanded it apologise. This is its refusal.

The code in all my new projects is 200% written by an LLM. The trick is knowing which 100% to keep.

Before I spend a bunch of time reinventing this wheel for the hundredth time, does anyone know of a simple 4x4, nice!nano/ProMicro-based macropad PCB? If not, do you want one to exist?

I made another little bedside clock, and I love it: www.stavros.io/posts/i-made...

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@profanity.accountant do me!

I don't understand how Google can be smart enough to create the world's most powerful LLM, but not smart enough to make an LLM web app that doesn't lose your message when you navigate away for a second. Seriously, what's going on?

I love how we live in an era where we need to defend against social engineering attacks on *our programs*.

I had a spare rotary phone and some meetings: www.stavros.io/posts/i-conv...

I polished and published a #MicroPython experiment for emulating OLED displays in the terminal. Uses kitty's Terminal Graphics Protocol. Feedback welcome!

I had some spare time so I made an encyclopedia: encyclopedai.stavros.io

I made a site that vibe-codes itself: theboard.stavros.io

I am making a tiny LED panel and it's going to be amazing.

I'm making a new thing, does anyone want to give me feedback? pine.town/new

Fun fact: I once crashed reddit with an April Fool's joke and then I forgot about it.

I wrote (yet another) Jujutsu tutorial: www.stavros.io/posts/switch... I haven't published it yet, I'm looking for feedback first. Please let me know if it helps at all, or if you're still having trouble with JJ's mental model. I'm worried I've written yet another unhelpful thing.

This is my regularly-scheduled PSA to gush about how much joy Jujutsu gives me, something I could never say about git. It's truly fantastic, and jjui just completes the whole ensemble. Fantastic pieces of software, switch to jj today if you haven't yet!

Wow, the guy from Valetudo banned me from their Telegram channel for a year because I dared to ask about some behaviour of my vacuum, running Valetudo. I literally sent one message, they debated a bit about whether it was relevant, and then banned me for a year. Nice.

I wanted to look at my blood test results in a way that answered my questions, so I made a small thing to ingest my spreadsheet of them and show them in a nice page: github.com/skorokithaki... Feel free to use it for your results!

The reason we're releasing this in theatres is because it's incredibly fun to watch in a room full of people. People lose their minds at it. We want people to watch it together. So! Do you run or know somebody who runs an indie theatre? If so, contact us, and we'll let you screen it for free.