
Programmer since 1996 turned AI orchestrator | Building @ISNetworld and more | Helping is learning | Dad in Texas | No politics
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AI will never accidentally drop a gum wrapper on the sidewalk, watch the wind carry it down the sidewalk a little ways, and then try to chase it down like an ostrich in clown shoes.
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I suffer from a rare condition where I keep thinking people will change their minds when presented with facts.
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Your future doctor is using ChatGPT to get through exams right now, so please start eating better and exercising.
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Elm 0.19.3 is out today!
✨ elm-lang.org/news/another-st… ✨
Explains the rough roadmap for the next few releases. We are preparing for some exciting improvements and features! 😊
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evergreen advice: keep that angry multi-paragraph post/slack/email in drafts for 72 hours
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OMG if this robot says load-bearing one more time i swear I am going to strangle it
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companies building their own agent rather than exposing an mcp / cli for their uses is like if you had to download a separate browser for every website you use
sonnet has been a reliable workhorse for me at my day job. yesterday it fell flat on its face. wondering if that means things are moving around behind the curtain to fix opus
X today: creepy ass robots, haphazard rankings, and plenty of "90% of the people I talk to say that...."
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i really don't want to use your agent, i want to use my agent to use your thing.
Yep. They’re called government contractors.
we've really gone too far. i think about this a lot. partially out of respect for the Lorax, but more so because it's just an egregious waste of power and resources. it's hard to swallow as an engineer.
Something I routinely am in awe about is the compute amplification every commit has today vs. 20 years ago, at least personally.
Back then, my personal computer was only non-idle when I was working locally. I ran tests locally. When I pushed, there was no CI. The tests themselves were minimal maturity (simple unit tests, some e2e).
Today when I push, CI exists. It fans out to 200+ jobs across macOS, Linux, and Windows that take ~20 minutes to complete in totality. A successful CI triggers ~8 beefy machines for tip releases. Tip releases trigger Apple notarization machines.
Simultaneously, I have dedicated machines running 24/7 doing fuzz testing at basically 100% CPU constantly.
Locally, my computer is using CPU much more of the day due to background agents. My average CPU utilization on my M4 Max overnight the last 7 days was over 20%. "Low" but before my average would've been 0% (deep sleep)! Plus, those agents are commanding a ton of GPU utilization elsewhere.
I'm not making any judgement here of whether this is good or bad, because I think there are both good elements and bad elements. Simply that its quite astonishing how much compute my daily work amplifies in 2026 vs. 2006.
















