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We seem to have come around to a new magical age.

> the guy > he Your gender biases are showing!

And that, furthermore, the new labs and the old labs still both remain incentivized by the regulatory environment to chase the wrong targets. The new lab might just iterate towards…

"Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs" - Dijkstra

I think about this a lot. From the POV of a medieval peasant, we likely reached the singularity a long time ago.

`command_a | vim - -c "file /dev/stdout" | command_b` or, assuming vim is your $EDITOR, you can use vipe: `command_a | vipe | command_b`

Languages are always evolving, because the needs they serve are always evolving. Stasis is death. > I have been using ruby since 2005 or so. Static types were never relevant or nee…

No, it's just a tool someone posted that's written in Ruby, with a strong signal that the authors are LLM proponents. It could have been a todo list and I'd still have the same que…

I didn't misunderstand what this library is about. I assume the authors are using LLM's to help author their code in general, even meta-frameworks like this.

Why would anyone still build in dynamically typed languages in 2026? Why relinquish the crystal clear signals that static typing is able to provide to the LLM?

That's my favorite algorithm of all time

But orangutans are where the protein's at!

Another strong contender for humanity's epitaph

Water Mafia

In a shocking twist, it turns out that Mootools is the agents' preferred framework

> Convenience is our Achilles heel More generically, our species' Achilles heel is our inability to factor in the long-term cost of negative externalities when evaluating processes…

Counterargument. The author is primarily looking at AI trend lines. Let's say our industry continues moving along alternate, equally compelling, trend lines: increasing global vola…

> Right now there are companies which hire software devs or data scientists to just solve a bunch of random problems so that they can generate training data for an LLM model. Sound…

I feel like there's a brute-force analogy to be drawn with the "Bitter Lesson" that we saw in AI development.

> Which begs questions about whether closed source will provide any protection (it doesn't appear so, given how able AI tools already are at disassembly?) Disassembly implies that …