i'm at the civil war i'm at the great depression i'm at the combination civil war great depression

Trying to learn how to write code by looking at source file contents is like trying to learn how to ride a bike by looking at photos of cyclists crossing a finish line. Your shell, debugger, IDE etc, all handle time-ordered events that explain things that can't be inferred from your commits alone.

Many (most?) major headaches in software engineering are a function of code change velocity. Prod outages, merge conflicts, code review latency, team communication and coordination problems etc - these only get worse, if you turn up the commit rate without making other changes to how you work.

if the democrats wanted to save america they'd be working on Project 42069

github actions pricing is the printer ink of compute

Edit as you review. sketch.dev/blog/right-h...

#hugops implies the existence of #drugops

The Sketch blog has become the one thing you need to read—along with @simonwillison.net—to keep the pulse of LLM-assisted development. Senior engineers putting in the work and giving no-bullshit perspectives. Read this one by @crawshaw.io through. Not skim or half. Especially if you are a skeptic.

Some recent experiences programming with agents. crawshaw.io/blog/program...

Fig 1: sync.Mutex usage, after you try to get the AI to modify some code that mentions concurrency

sketch.dev is great, it's banging away writing tests for me as I type this and so far they've been high quality and worth the $1 USD in Anthropic API credits I've paid for. I think specifically the quality for Go projects above Claude is minimal but just enough that I trust sketch more.

If you are interested in an easy recipe for a merge queue, sans code review, this is my favorite so far: sketch.dev/blog/lightwe...

hypothesis: naive adoption of coding assistants can lead very small teams through initial short-term gains in IC productivity, but long term into situations where they get bogged down by communication and coordination problems we normally only associate with much larger traditional teams

So is there like some kind of vibe-sre that's gonna be on the hook to vibe-support all these vibe-coded apps? I wonder what their VLIs, VLOs and VLAs are.

vapecoding is when the bill for your vibecoding session comes out to exactly $4.20

Chuck Schumer is a call to action not a name

Everything happens too much. Nothing never happens enough.

New sketch.dev feature: public sketches are go get'table.

will he put the private health insurance industry into the wood chipper too or no

[Youth Pastor voice] ...you know who's *really* into CrossFit?

In retrospect, I probably should’ve written about Trump’s secret plan to send journalist to the camps instead of holding it back for my book

"If we're being honest, all we really want from AI is two things that are desperately dark: We either want a friend, or we want a slave."

I have been getting some distinct Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment vibes. Did Canada recently build any large south-facing fans near the border?

Underrated skill: detecting the mismatch early, and making adjustments (or bailing altogether) once you realize that you're attempting to logic someone out of a position that they've emotioned themselves into.

If a Democrat fired 100 FAA employees and put a freeze on hiring air traffic controllers 8 days before an airport plane crash, there would be a right-wing and media frenzy for weeks.

We set up a sketch blog to talk about our research into writing programs with LLMs. Our latest project is a merge conflict resolver.

MDMMA

I wonder if High Flyer took short positions in NVDA, ASML, META etc prior to DeepSeek releasing V3

New thing I helped make: Have AI resolve your merge/rebase conflicts. Still pretty new/raw/unpolished/buggy, but: merde.ai

"Hell yeah, I'm super into it! ... wait, no I thought you were talking about 'Boredom, Depression, Sadness and Malaise'"

Some days, I completely forget that I have a pierced nose. Other days, it seems like that understated bit of metal protruding from my schnoz is the only thing keeping my glasses from sliding all the way off my face.

Getting UI right is challenging, so we are experimenting with as little UI as possible while we build features.

“While you are still legally entitled to a trial by jury of your peers, that process can be very slow and expensive. Consider the new, much faster and cheaper option: Trial by Jury of Language Models, Trained on Data Synthesized From a Random Sample of Your Peers. Given your available funds, we re…”

Oh... www.axios.com/2025/01/13/w...

chars rune everything around me

Some rough notes on how I program with LLMs and on how tooling can make it better. crawshaw.io/blog/program...

I have been hacking on LLMs with a couple of friends. In recent weeks we whipped up sketch.dev as an alternative Go playground. Much to build still (and write about), but it is at a point I can use it when building it.

A video game like RAMPAGE but instead of playing a giant lizard out to destroy buildings, you're a cat and your objective is destroy progressively taller and more elaborately decorated Christmas trees.

"Hallucination" in AI is deft marketing. Those are just unexpected results, amusing defects, *bugs*. "Hallucination" implies the existence of a consciousness somewhere, experiencing something. A pile of matrix math ops is not conscious, can't experience things, can't "hallucinate". Those are bugs.

Since OpenAI announced the 12 days of shipmas, San Francisco has had an earthquake, a tsunami warning, and a tornado warning