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It is actually pretty easy to keep alive URLs if there is a will to do so. Just have tests in place so you can't mess them up accidentally. And convert things that are not changing…

Cars that are idle 95% of the time are replaced less than once in a decade. Cabs are replaced something like 3x more often than privately owned cars. And when they run 24/7 because…

Because a single autonomous vehicle operating in a shared fleet can replace multiple privately owned cars, the widespread adoption of this technology can’t help but reduce new-car …

Wouldn't a "toxic waste tax" be better than all these individual regulations? Have a sales tax on each product that corresponds to the toxicity of its components. Exempt recycled m…

From the SOTA model providers, I only use OpenAI and Google. And between gpt-5.5 and gemini-3.1-pro-preview, gpt-5.5 is currently leading.

Agreed that it is not linear. I wrote my own agent, and it sends data to LLMs in this order: "General Prompts (How to write good code)" + "The Code" + "The Feature Request". This m…

It is the other way round. In an interactive session, adding "Fine, but make the button red" after the model generated a first solution more than doubles the tokens used. As the mo…

Considerations about what goes on in agents internally will probably not be part of software development for long. Personally, I already see LLMs and agents as blackboxes. I give e…

In my current workflow, yes, I read all code. In fact, I usually let multiple LLMs implement the same feature, and then I compare them. I even run my own arena in which I calculate…

How would you detect the presence of bugs in this scenario? I would ask AI. "Did the last commit introduce any bugs or unintended consequences?". In fact I already use this prompt …

It would tell me about the changes like a human would. "It changed the plot function so it takes another parameter called linewidth. It also added an input field in the stylecontro…

you will be surrounded by an ecosystem of devices, none of which stand alone, but are more like portals to interact with your agents I would be really happy with my phone + headpho…

I wrote my own tooling around the raw LLMs: I can tick files in Vim, those get concatenated into a prompt. Along with a feature request. Plus an instructions file that tells the LL…

Makes me wonder how many bytes the shortest possible Mandelbrot implementation would need.

You can’t import or require() a module that only exists in memory. You can convert it into a data url and import that, can't you?

However you look at it, sitting at home doing nothing is not the right approach for engineers to get their company back on track. If there is no money to pay them, they should get …

Why can't that "dedicated development environment" be a cloud VM with a web interface, a GitHub codespace for example? You could put the example code on the filesystem of that VM t…

But does the agent have access to a whole computer to write those tools? Couldn't it write them in a web based dev environment?

how would claude code work from a browser environment? If you want an agent (like OpenClaw) to write software, why have it use another agent (Claude Code) in the first place? Why n…

I wonder if we really need agents to have control of a full computer. Maybe a browser plugin that lets the agent use websites is enough? What would be a task that an agent cannot d…

German chancellor Friedrich Merz ... lashed out at German workers to “simply do a little more,” Germany literally pays people to do nothing. A friend of mine, an engineer who works…

What basic office tasks are that? The last time I was excited about the performance of local computers was in the 90s I think. Modern laptops are so insanely fast. Not sure if they…

The one thing that interests me most when it comes to laptops these days is weight. So I jumped right into the tech specs section and looked it up. Since this is the "Air" laptop o…