David Ackerman

sad to hear the news about patrick stewart, for sure. but how is he 47 in this picture (if you're in your 40s you'll understand)

Thanks for managing my codex for me, Claude

I don't know why the codex remote control ability is so bad. Claude is just way smoother in this regard

rewatched this video and it reminded me just how horribly overengineered a lot of systems were before AI Even with the risk of "AI slop", it's still harder to get away with this level of BS now youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKo…

I don't understand what I got wrong here. I can't ask him because I'm now blocked

crazy how quickly you can replace a product now. like, i could sign up for one of those "unsubscribe me from emails" products, or i could send a single prompt to claude and have it find literally 528 subscriptions in my inbox

I wanted to consume Ben's thoughts in a more structured way, so I made a site with the transcription and summaries where you can play any snippets of audio you want to get his actual words goertzel-thoughts-sep152026.…

switching your OS is so much easier now! I'm setting up Omarchy and i've mounted my old NixOS drive and pointed claude at it. it presented me with a detailed migration plan so i can easily keep whatever i want and ditch the rest.

in 2026 this video goes so hard - no vibe coding - no cursor tab completion - no dot auto-complete - no syntax highlighting - using Visual C++ 6 because he hasn't changed his setup since Y2K youtube.com/watch?v=nQrzB5P5…

another candidate for the mental model that is in my head

the IQ/think quadrants with gpt are interesting gpt-5.3-codex-spark low: low IQ, yolo it gpt-5.3-codex-spark xhigh: low IQ, think really hard gpt-5.4 low: high IQ, yolo it gpt-5.4 xhigh: high IQ, think really hard

Told my agent to notify me after every commit it makes while I go shower

Not many people know that Tim & Eric were some of the earliest prophets of 2026 agentic coding youtu.be/a8K6QUPmv8Q

i like physical books better but i'll take PDF over nothing anyday!