Sidebar ━━━━━━━ Homepage sidebar content -- included by home.html via include_post. Slash Pages ─────────── /carry/ /verify/ /top4/ /yep/ /nope/ /ai/ /wants/ /tinyapps/ /analytics/ /now/ /start/ /colophon/ /markata/ /feeds/ /thoughts/ /about/ Latest Thoughts </thoughts/> ──────────────────────────── 💭 "Am I Crazy?" [Wading Through AI - Episode 3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp1EmFRDquAwww.youtube.com <http://www.youtube.com> Casey had an interesting point here. I think demitri came back with some sense of sanity that its just not how corporations look at employee cost, but I still thought it was a head scratcher. Roughly translated not quoted If the sellers of ai are telling you that your developers are going to be 10x productive, why are they only spending half their salary in tokens? Why not 9x? April 16, 2026 llm </tags/llm/> ai </tags/ai/> thought </tags/thought/> 💭 A love letter to Pi | Lucas Meijer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdbXNWkpPMYwww.youtube.com <http://www.youtube.com> I hate how he called out terminal user interfaces as shit… then proved web interfaces to be superior. Damn him. I love working from my terminal, but having ai prove itself through html </html/> reports including video, image, metrics, charts, and text is goated. Rethinking yourself has the bottleneck not the orchestrator feels real. Validating the work is hard, theres a shift right now and everyone is trying to figure it out. Lucas’s technique is a little bit of be lazy and tell it to prove itself to you, so as you juggle your 15 agents you have a nice report to read. April 15, 2026 ai </tags/ai/> llm </tags/llm/> agents </tags/agents/> thought </tags/thought/> 💭 How Claude Code’s Creator Starts EVERY Project - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWrsLqnB6vAwww.youtube.com <http://www.youtube.com> This is a really good guide, with quite a few good nuggets. I need to try deleting my AGENTS.md and rebuilding it from scratch more often. I liked how he talked about having agents prove their work and tell them up front how they will be judged. What I didn’t care for so much was the feeling that a lot of the rules go in markdown, thats not a rule, thats a suggestion. Rules should be deterministic. They should be tests and linters that ensure they are followed. Suggestions are good, but dont trust the agents to always follow them. And don’t trust that they wont change your rules, keep them honest. April 15, 2026 llm </tags/llm/> ai </tags/ai/> agents </tags/agents/> thought </tags/thought/> 💭 POV: Growing up as a Millennial be like 🤣 AC:@mikemancusi #mil... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qH3KH-q_tGEwww.youtube.com <http://www.youtube.com> Feeling this today, feels like everything continues to get worse. Trying to be more positive, and its hard. April 15, 2026 random </tags/random/> thought </tags/thought/> 💭 Write It First, Then Let AI Drive - Kenneth Reitz kennethreitz.org <https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-04-12-write_it_first_then_let_ai_drive> Interesting take by Kenneth Reitz. Not quite sure how I feel about it anymore. It kinda hurts, but I’m not sure if code aesthetics matter as much as the product anymore. I cared when I was the one editing, but at this point I’m not doing a lot of edits by hand. Do these aesthetics affect the final products that users use, Not sure. AI makes me sad. April 14, 2026 llm </tags/llm/> ai </tags/ai/> thought </tags/thought/> See all thoughts → </thoughts/> Recent Pings </pings/> ────────────────────── ### Ping 54 </ping-54/> I'm regressing back to boomer ai for more plan mode style prompting at home... It does a decent job at ingesting a repo and coming up with plans before I start spending precious tokens. April 19, 2026 View </ping-54/> ### Tokens Just don't go as far as they used to </ping-53/> Not sure if this is simply the flavor of the month, or a shift in gpt5.4 being super subsidized on release and now that we have gpt5.4-mini-fast out they have shifted, but I'm burning through half of my $20 gippity sub in a day with hobby level use. Second week in a row its burning so fast. April 18, 2026 View </ping-53/> ### Ping 52 </ping-52/> Is it just me or are the agents not behaving today? April 17, 2026 View </ping-52/> ### Ping 50 A </ping-50-a/> I wrote code by hand today... I was out of tokens April 15, 2026 View </ping-50-a/> ### Prove Yourself Agent </ping-50/> Ask your agents to prove their work. Include it in the initial prompt, not later. April 14, 2026 View </ping-50/> See all pings → </pings/>