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I have several techniques queued up that attempt to counter it. The distinction in Agents.md is definitely part of it. Not sure if they will work yet.

I am using lean as part of the prd.md description handed to a coding agent. The definitions in lean compile and mean exactly what I want them to say. The implementation i want to b…

Amusing this downgraded when it points directly to the word used for the phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights I seem to recall an intel i960 was used to drive le…

Ada Palmer has a great blog post on why Stocism is so appealing to rich folks. Her writing is always excellent. https://www.exurbe.com/stoicisms-appeal-to-the-rich-and-powe...

Wife’s comment: “Cherries? It needs to be an apple.”

This gets those cases right. https://github.com/KnowSeams/KnowSeams (On a beefy machine) It gets 1 TB/s throughput including all IO and position mapping back to original text locat…

My grandmother loved clippy. Melinda French Gates back when she was Melinda French had a part in Clippy. “Melinda French (then the fiancée of Bill Gates) was the project manager of…

The larger project is to allow analyzing stories for developmental editing. Back in June and August i wrote some llm assisted blog posts about a few of the experiments. They are he…

Also matryoshka and the ability to guide matches by using prefix instructions on the query. I have ~50 million sentences from english project gutenberg novels embedded with this.

The summer before i took 6.001 i read “The little LISPer”. It is a good intro. This is the version i read: https://www.abebooks.com/9780023397639/Little-LISPer-Third-E...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer

Here is a (3 month old) repo where i did something like that and all the tasks are checked into the linear git history — https://github.com/KnowSeams/KnowSeams

Having the llm write the spec/workunit from a conversation works well. Exploring a problem space with a (good) coding agent is fantastic. However for complex projects IMO one must …

I do like the oddish (half cli / half tui) form factor of these ‘CLI’ coding agents. But i pretty much always pair with vscode for diff viewing.

It is not llm specific. A large swathe of it isn’t that much Microsoft specific either. And it is a developer feature hidden from end users. e.g. - In your ollama example, does the…

The content is good. I’m glad i ignored a similar negative reaction to the reverse engineering framing.

Those are Jaz’s daily unique action counts (flows) from the Bluesky firehose; they’re anchored to the Nov ’24 spike, so the ‘decline’ is post-surge reversion. Meanwhile the user st…

I zoomed out. It looks like this: "Usage has absolutely declined from peak switching periods where inevitibly some users won't stick around, but that's to be expected" That just is…

Personas are a great tool. IMO - By the time you arrived these had transformed into bad shorthand. (I say this having been in Devdiv through those years.) Elvis is not a persona - …

Was trying to remember a counter example on good hires and wasted money. Alex St. John Microsoft Windows 95 era, created directX annnnd also built an alien spaceship. I dimly recal…

AFAICT, the RTX 4090 I bought in 2023 has actually appreciated rather than depreciated.

Nah it was a hobby project because I was laid off for a bit. Rust's RegEx was perfect because it doesn't allow anything that isn't a DFA. Yes-ish, the LLM facilitated designing the…

I think this is true -- especially for new code. I did this not knowing any rust: https://github.com/KnowSeams/KnowSeams and rust felt like a very easy to use a scripting language.…

I made this to try out Claude code. I have the $17/mo thing, and i don’t know rust. (I do know plenty of other languages.) Rust felt like a scripting language when used this way. I…