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> The implications are clear: focus on the human-skills part of the job. The implications are not clear. They are not clear for the security people, for the SWE people, for anybody…

Great writeup. The excessive function thing has always driven me crazy; I guard against this explicitly in Claude.md. I have found that models are generally poor at managing refact…

> This is where OpenAI has an advantage over Anthropic. While its models are trailing Anthropic's in recent months, its investments in product, consumer experience, site publishing…

This one observation changes everything.

PSA this is satire ;) (if you have to say it, that’s how you know it’s good)

The term that I saw once, and now constantly land back on, is “meaning shaped” At a quick glance, it looks like a thing that should contain meaning and substance. At any closer ins…

“Honestly” / “the honest answer is” are huge LLM tells. Spend enough time arguing with Claude and hearing that combination of words starts making you wince / twitch uncontrollably.…

100% agree. Took me ages of working with the agents to circle back around this, which was the best way to get work done before AI automation anyways.

Openclaw allows you to effectively “shell out” to another harness for your model calls, while still using Pi as your main agentic harness. This is the claude -p workflow. Tools and…

If it's a big one and it's near you, you'd move away from the windows and heavy things that can fall, I suppose? For me I always just turn on iPhone screen recording and marvel at …

Felt it all the way in Tokyo! There is this amazing app called NERV that, whenever there is a large earthquake anywhere in Japan, sends you an early warning push notification and a…

Yes, every day. Similar to other users here, giving it access to an Obsidian vault has been the key for me. And I wouldn't discount how much the chat interface matters - Telegram i…

Some creative workflows genuinely benefit from the tablet form factor. I often do serious photo editing on the iPad because I have access to Apple Pencil, and, somehow, holding the…

What an amazing feeling to see my flash animations I made when I was 13 on this site. Great project! What a unique era that time on the internet was. Can hardly imagine what my lif…

Thank you! Almost all of my customers so far have been directly from the central Anki plugin directory. I made sure to use lots of SEO friendly terms / buzzwords in the title so th…

Making almost exactly $500/mo on an Anki extension that embeds AI / text to speech / image gen deeply into the app, allowing you to generate example sentences, audio, explanations,…

I do this, but it’s an Apple Notes file with a quick open shortcut mapped to the action button (side button) on my iPhone. I finally figured this setup this year. It had changed my…

How is doomscrolling profitable for Apple? Frankly I think it’s the opposite - Apple is one of the only BigCo without an advertising based biz model. Unlike say Meta, Apple didn’t …

You’re decreasing coupling at the cost of introducing more entities, and a different sort of complexity, into your system. Sometimes it’s absolutely worth it. Sometimes not.

I can’t explain why but “He’s assigning 128 to a string called Q” made me absolutely lose it.

This is good to know. I’ll probably play around with it sometime in the future. BTW, appreciate your many great write-ups - they’ve been invaluable for keeping up to date in this s…

Such a useful walkthrough. It looks like Mitchell is using an agentic framework called Amp (I’d never heard of it) - does anybody else here use it or tried it? Curious how it stack…

Shameless plug for anybody who has been through the hell that is Anki card creation for language learning - I built an LLM powered extension for Anki that allows you to wire up fie…

> Another visitor was spending a leisurely week in Morioka alone before heading to Fukuoka for a few months. Oh hey, that was me! Small (internet) world, huh :)

> Do a bunch of other things Curious about this! Currently trying to figure out a good 0.3mg melatonin dosing regimine for myself.