Max Milne

"Load bearing," "I keep coming back to," "Not just X, but Y" A curse of using AI a lot is that you realize how much of the writing around you is just AI, now People who don't use AI have historically been unable to identify AI prose on sight, but those who use it a lot can spot the tells easily

So for LLMs and Agents, English is the programming language? Two Agents speak with each other in a Telegram window. English. That is how they make requests and share data. English. Do we just learn how English works as a way to describe structures and patterns rather than programming languages?

weight lifting: when an agent answers from their weights instead of trying to discover the answer

slop is something that takes more human effort to consume than it took to produce. When my coworker sends me raw Gemini output he’s not expressing his freedom to create, he’s disrespecting the value of my time

Everything in the first half of this post was a volunteer project. You can still build this stuff. We all just have to do it.

We need guides through the inevitable bout of AI psychosis that affects professionals after they finally “get” AI. They often engage in intense, sleepless & impossibly complex projects in their area of expertise, with only the AI for company. At least it is usually temporary & often productive.

macOS already ships age verification

Currently working on an Obsidian Plugin for collaboration with Openclaw on writing and project development. Super fun. Kind of like many projects that are focused on making working with Agents more enjoyabe all .md focused.

The OpenClaw ecosystem pours out new tools, extensions, skills every week. Most of them look useful. Most of them are not, for me, right now. This pack checks what I already have, decides if the new thing adds anything, and validates it is working and good to go if I decide to install it

So Dario uses his country of geniuses in a data centre, to make a country for all of us who have a subscription to Claude, 10 year renewal only, and that is how we get Progressive-Social-Americanism In the real? No. Not the matrix. Real dirt.

Domain knowledge prompt gold - "Use red/green TDD and use your code environment". TDD stands for Test Driven Development. Being a counselor, I don't have this domain knowledge in the coding environment, and I'm thankful for you, Simon for the distill. See his post

Reputation, quality of work, care, taste and refinement are going to rise to the top even more now. I've been looking for good reading on Reddit for help around OpenClaw and their own Discord. Every long - "hey I invented this..." is crap. These domains once were king for quality. Curation is 🗝️.

Beautiful. Funny to see myself in the outer reaches of machine learning and AI researchers, interdisciplinary researchers, eclectic UK-based creative professionals. Also enlightening to see how different groups are isolated from each other visually.

Not to shill - I do find Every.to writing on AI great. This is a comparison that is more deep dive and useful, thnn mindblown and brain rot. every.to/vibe-check/c...

I put together a detailed collection of useful patterns I've collected after vibe-coding 150 different single-file HTML tools over the past couple of years simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/...

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05219

From Memories to Performances. 📷

I think that's another point in favor of the analogy, personally: industry trying to replace programmers with LLMs is stupid in the same way that trying to replace carpenters with table saws is stupid

OpenAI is now required by court order to preserve all ChatGPT logs including "temporary chats" and API requests that would have been deleted if I understand this correctly, it means data retention policies for apps that use OpenAI API simply cannot be honored

Loving @obsidian.md (thanks @stephango.com!) & moving all academic research there. iPad PDF annotation was a hurdle (Zotero reigned). New ruler? Obsidian with PDF++ plugin! Made a video on how: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM_T...

*I picked up new "Sky" blue MacBook Air - feels more of the pastel hue edition of "blue plastic film over computer components" from the 90s. Not in love with it. Could warm up.

@strange.website - Thank you for writing the henry.codes/writing/how-... post - just landed a new MBA M4 (yes sky blue) and had heavy lift help from Claude to help make it happen....yes I remembered to not give my SSH keys to the Ai overlord. I'm wondering if Claude Code could run this freehand?

This is a crazy paper. Fine-tuning a big GPT-4o on a small amount of insecure code or even "bad numbers" (like 666) makes them misaligned in almost everything else. They are more likely to start offering misinformation, spouting anti-human values, and talk about admiring dictators. Why is unclear.

The trouble is, once I started imagining they were taking selfies I couldn’t unsee it