Become ungovernable

Far from the most important thing but I wouldn't mind a revelation that aliens are real to add to our collective once-in-a-lifetime events.

A big part of my personal AI journey was shed my scarcity mindset on AI usage. Throwing a bunch of parallel agents and pick the best solution becomes a lot more acceptable. I rationalize that our energy grid is a lot greener so the net effect on nature is positive.

Save a couple tokens in failed lint runs by choosing lint rules that fit Claude's default coding style. github.com/pedropaulovc...

The time is near

I'm very proud of the work during the Claude Code Hackathon. Here's my submission: 'The Office' with agents with the same personalities as in the program, deciding when to communicate broadly, when to talk 1:1 and then evaluating their behavior with statistical methods. youtu.be/1d9KzOYcMmM

Saving this for posterity

I still play the construction mode soundtrack every once in a while as background music.

"You know that AI agent that makes it easy to download and run untrusted code at scale, writes hit pieces on OSS devs and is building its own Silk Road? Yes, we want that."

Here is a very rough version of the For You Stats dashboard: linklonk.com/foryou It shows you 3 things: - how much you've been using For You - how many views and likes your posts got in For You - how your likes/reposts helped surface posts to other people in For You Feedback welcome

He was ahead of his time.

Every day we stray further from god's light. www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news...

I can't believe I've made it. I finally used git rerere. Linus, wherever you are, I hope you are proud of me.

We have AGI

Exactly. Crucially if it is an area you are not familiar with. The pain of banging your head until you have an accurate and intuitive mental model of your project is part of long-term learning. I'm very thankful I got my CS degree before LLMs were a thing.

Universal basic Mexican friends Call that right of güey.

The part of "everyone becomes a manager" in AI that I didn't really think about until now was the mental fatigue of context switching and keeping many tasks going at once, which of course is one of the hardest parts of being a manager and now you all get to enjoy it too

There's a national media event unveiling our new Amtrak Cascades trains in DC today. Here are some photos for you to enjoy! The Cafe Car is even stocked with our PNW favorites.

Anyone else participating in the Claude Code Hackathon?

Did you think Twitter would crumble under its own weight when Musk fired 80% of the staff? I sure did. Even though he said some stupid stuff like rewrite the whole codebase or print your code for review, somehow he surrounded himself with people who were able to control his worst impulses.

Hence the phenomenon of bullshit jobs. Flunkies do pointless support work; Goons enforce rules or pressure others; Duct tapers fix avoidable issues; Box tickers do formalities without impact; Taskmasters manage work but add little value. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshi...

Crypto? I'm in enemy territory.

Love me a good taxonomy sozialhelden.github.io/a11yjson/exa...

Make Ctrl+Tab behave like Alt+Tab in Firefox. So much time I spent looking for the previous tab I was using.

Glad to know it's a native feature now github.github.io/gh-aw/

Hey, voters in (most of) Seattle and Vashon: the 100% on-line election for King County Conservation District 3 seat is happening now through Tuesday at 8:00p. If you’re a voter in the dark blue zone of this map, you can read candidate statements and vote here: kingcd.org/about/board-...

The luddites were not opposed to technology. youtu.be/3HA3S_O_yxs?...

I think about this tweet constantly

Joint statement from Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk: Thank you Trump admin for protecting us from cheap medications manufactured by certified compounding pharmacies. www.fda.gov/news-events/...

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Over $50 burned fixing a single bug with Opus fast mode. Feels only marginally faster. Final diff +326 -20; 1650 turns, 644 Tok input, 47MTok cache read / 2MTok cache create / 44 kTok out

felt the need. i feel vastly under qualified to write something like this, but i also feel its especially important that we think about the way we use language

Is this your god?

Never seen this with Opus 4.5. Asks me a question, immediately assumes the negative and when my queued answer is picked up, says too bad even though it's perfectly reversible.

EPIC 2015. Published in 2005, it was a very prescient view of the future: Big tech gobbling up their competitors, iPhone, Twitter, LLMs, content creators, AI slop. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVfB...

Demanding an estimate guarantees the estimate will not be useful to the business and will always drive costs up. Software engineers all know that estimates are useless. 1/6

Needs more nuance than "having people overseas influencing American vehicles is a safety issue". If companies published their human intervention stats the public could make a tradeoff analysis of risking x% of trips vs 80% reduction in crashes (peer reviewed, PMID: 39485678).

Why do I have a sense we will have to relearn a decade worth of wisdom on how to manage production services?

My condo building wishes to install an EV parking spot and I am in charge of it. Here's a nice report I prepared including some Nano Banana Pro pics for extra convincing power. 1drv.ms/w/c/302eadd0...

If you are a Discord user, what are its killer features? Do you ever wanted to share conversations outside your server?

finally, the ICE reform we’ve been waiting for: no masks unless you really want to wear them

Even Post Reports! Incredible.

This is less weird than it seems. What are corporations if not the human equivalent of ASI?

The gap on 5th Ave N is taken up by a gorgeous parking lot owned by Seattle Public Schools, and part of it is currently closed due to construction. This would be a great spot for a pop‑up bike lane during the World Cup

Has anyone started working on phpBB for the Atmosphere?

Not yet at least. Any take on AI has to come with a follow-up question: What if the AI is recursively self-improving?

Anecdotally, I had the same experience while working on github.com/pedropaulovc...

I wonder how long until we solve some of the undeciphered writing systems of the past. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undecip...

A morte do cachorro Orelha em Florianópolis infelizmente não é a primeira nem a última. Me lembrou do monumento ao cachorro Catatau na UFSC. Eu era aluno na época e a comunidade toda ficou de luto pela violência animal. noticias.ufsc.br/2016/08/monu...