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My biggest token sink so far has been something very much like this, but I'm still not sure whether it's a good idea. But it has been a lot of fun.

This is bad advice in 2026 for most people who would read it, since it advises taking a terrible security posture (give the agent access to everything,) in exchange for a relativel…

(In general, I think we don't do enough to emphasize best practices in the era of AI, but...) What Kent completely ignores here, as far a I can tell, is that there is significant v…

This is my concern as well. If critical open source packages become dependent on these corporations for "secure" releases, does that enable them to force ID verification into packa…

They default it to talking to a free version of their model (which is incredibly cheap if you decide you like it.) But it seems trivially easy to run it against local models. Their…

Interesting. I've been using their models quite a bit, through Claude Code, might try switching to this. I also built a couple of harnesses, I wonder if I could swap this for Claud…

Because this isn't the first collection they've stolen from someone, presumably. It's a lot easier to become a really successful company if you can keep your inventory costs down. …

So we have this, and the Google employee polymarket trading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302822 I'm totally not surprised, except that Trump's admin is actually catching…

Firm, but partial, disagreement. People, especially in remote jobs, benefit from being organized into groups intentionally, with distinct rituals that enable them to operate effect…

For whatever reason, I get very few push notifications on my phone. Compared to my days at Blackberry, it's probably 10% as frequent that I get interrupted by my phone. So good for…

That's not generally true in the US over the last 40 years, where the gains from productivity increases have been accumulated almost entirely by the top classes. Yes, lower classes…

I was using Gemini and Claude quite a bit over the last year, mostly with pro or opus for planning and flash or sonnet for implementation. MiMo is the best one I've used so far, bu…

I think this does a very good job of describing the real gaps agents are hitting in practical usage, along with a fairly compelling rationale for why those gaps aren't likely to di…

Yeah, I think they did switch the unit type.

I worked part time with MiMo 2.5-pro over the last month, and barely managed to use 500 Million of the 700 Million tokens I had allocated. My plan was just upgraded to 38 BILLION t…

Oh, I don't want mean for myself, I mean as an experiment at the other end of the four-day work week spectrum. Though for myself, I like having time to think about ideas in between…

It's a little bit snark, but I do think it would be an interesting experiment. Wish I had lots of money to try it out.

Four-day work weeks are for cowards. Take all that AI productivity and found a one-day work week company. One day of focused collaboration each week, let bots and brains chew on st…

Yes. I tried a couple of weeks with non-Pro, and it was pretty good, but I had too many spare tokens, so I switched back to Pro. :)

I've gone through ~600m tokens in Xiaomi Mimo though Claude, and it's been the most effective use of an agent I've had yet. It's very capable, but generally not ambitious, picking …

Made kagi.com my default new tab (which requires a chrome extension) and duckduckgo my default search.

It's totally plausible, just pointless for most of us to spend any time thinking about. If someone with $200,000 wants me specifically dead, I'm going to die, one way or another. T…

Uh, so it says this dates from Nov 2025. Nov 2025 was also when most of us learned about the acting Chief Security Officer at DHS, whose name AND photo seem exactly like the callin…

If anyone visited my blog I could say they were inspired by me: :) https://writing.unified-designs.com/ai-coding-fomo.html

Maybe I missed it in the article, but it's less: "AI uses more water than other things" and more: "AI's water usage is being approved without proper planning, because of the arguab…