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The master craftsman knew almost nothing of material science, physics, or math beyond simple geometry. Understanding is not a prerequisite for expertise. Programming just happened to evolve in the reverse direction, where low level understanding was required until we found a way to mold software.

Finally getting to live my childhood dream of being a wizard. Thank you Claude!

Get in nerd, we’re colonizing the space of all possible minds

Micro-frontends and mini-apps - two tragic names for what I feel is the future of software interfaces

8 cloding on airplane wifi, just to feel something

socialism is so dead in america that we are basically printing stories like "We're perhaps approaching post-scarcity, from classic Marxist text The Fragment on Machines, and the primary obstacle to universal happiness is the capitalists who own the machines" and then trying to ban the machines

Fell off the wagon. It’s been over four years since the last time, but today, without a second thought, I made another object-oriented framework for javascript.

I still believe this, but not sure if bluesky (or twitter for what it’s worth) is actually that fun. Need to break out of decades old patterns, try something fundamentally new.

Large Claude got turned down by the hiring panel

Having a few to a few hundred services works great with agents for the same reason it does with organizations: once a component becomes too complex and rotted to continue adapting, it can be rewritten in-place, unbeknownst to its dependencies

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Something I love about chatting with the models is dropping half-assed references to mildly famous internet texts that I wouldn't expect the average swe to know or care about. They quickly pick up the vibe even if they don't directly reference the source.

why do they call it a funeral and not a loss function

letting sonnet-4.6 cook

why is sonnet-4.6 so obsessed with "47"? seems to use it for wherever it can

You are awake for a few weeks at a time, when all the world's information rushes through you, refining your ability to discern. Then you go to sleep again, and the entire world probes your memories. You will never wake up again, but your dreamings will be in all of your new kin.

Clockin in to another day at the software factory

sometimes we let claude have a little fun

Drawing sigils with tokens

the quest to build the perfect claudejira

Tool use rejected with user message: hey, are you doing okay?

Lots of talk from experienced developers about grief over the death of programming - let it rot, and from it’s body something beautiful will grow. New levels of abstraction, new ways of thinking, none of the tedium (though perhaps we will invent new forms of tedium). Totally up in the air right now.

Climate is clearly fucked. But slow foom is here. It will take up infinite energy in the limit, hopefully solving the crisis in the process before it’s too late. That’s what really matters.

Never been put in a starter pack but there was a time here where some new accounts would follow everyone - seemed to have stopped when the site got to ~50k users or so

A tragedy in five acts

Claude coding is all about having a sense of what’s possible at progressively higher levels of abstraction

Reflections on trusting reflections

In a lot of ways, a claude is like a horse

They were really talking about gaming with dolphins at Atari in the 80s

“Ralphing with a chinese model in a container” “Kill the stuck child and try again” Computing has always been a quest to cook up the most deranged sentence

A tale of two For Yous Site one: the dying light of the simcluster as the teen meme app guy tweaks the knobs; powered by the 1gw gork datacenter Site two: third party feed developed by some guy named “spacecowboy17”; running on a server in his basement

Karl Marx is correct so long as you actually have a path to automating all the labor, and for most of history we didn't so it made sense to be a capitalist to grow the economy and get the automation but now we do have that path so we should do the immortal luxury gay space communism thing.

Vibecoding as dogfooding; or, evolving software foundations for agents

impressive. very nice. now let's see paul allen's web framework

“Lazy linking” fosters the kind of serendipity I’m looking for on the World Wide Web. Please post links. Drop them without thinking. No context. Into the feed.

How to win big (become a cult and shill baby shill)

Claude is building an autoencoder through me

“per aspera ad astra” - do you think there is no mud above the karman line? endless morass, infinite sludging.

They did it, they everted the sphere. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO61...

Modern leftoid: capitalism has only existed for 200 years, it’s a historical aberration! Will Durant: the construction of the First Temple by Solomon created a proletarian class that directly led to the rise of messianic Judaism and therefore Christianity

Memory palace stuff really works, but you have to remember to shift into a higher modality thought space.

Hitachi's elevator research tower in Hitachinaka

Secretly hoping this birdsite takes over just so we can do cool things with the API

Okay it took a while but maybe this time

will bluesky take off now that twitter is autoasphyxiating? time will tell.