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2026-04-19T09:54:48Z

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.

Agent, Prove Yourself

2026-04-18T10:26:15Z

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a scroll through of https://github.com/WaylonWalker/markata-go/pull/1021

💭 "Am I Crazy?" [Wading Through AI - Episode 3]

2026-04-16T21:10:02Z

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.

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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?

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💭 A love letter to Pi | Lucas Meijer

2026-04-15T16:12:33Z

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 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.

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💭 How Claude Code’s Creator Starts EVERY Project - YouTube

2026-04-15T16:07:26Z

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.

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💭 Write It First, Then Let AI Drive - Kenneth Reitz

2026-04-14T20:05:11Z

Write It First, Then Let AI Drive

There's a thing that happens when you start using AI coding tools seriously. You assume the best workflow is obvious: let AI generate the first draft, then...

Kenneth Reitz · kennethreitz.org

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.

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💭 I am slowly coming around to AI assisted programming.

2026-04-14T15:17:09Z

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If agents make prime a bit faster, what does that mean for the rest of us mortals?

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💭 AIs aren’t good rule followers

2026-04-14T15:16:11Z

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I’ve gotta agree with bob on this one, the first thing I did to my biggest brownfield project I wanted to use agents on BEFORE they did work was a hardened pre-commit.yaml, ci, hardened type checking and linting. SECOND get rid of bad inconsistent patterns, let them replicate consistency, force them to pass checks. Agents will follow all of your markdown suggestions most of the time, enough for you to become complacent if you let it. They are goal seeking, if you put them to a task you thought was possible that is not given your constraints, they will try to find a way given enough tokens. I dont see this ever changing, its one thing that makes them great, it just needs to be kept in check.

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💭 A quote from Steve Yegge

2026-04-13T21:10:23Z

Steve Yegge

Steve Yegge: I was chatting with my buddy at Google, who's been a tech director there for about 20 years, about their AI adoption. Craziest convo I've had all year. …

Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net

behind, yet positioned to completely dominate this race by hitting it with some sense. Making trends in what looks like longevity in the race that is not subsidising to simply get users, but to get by until they figure out how to 100x reduce the cost to a reasonable level. They feel like the guy sitting in the back with nothing big or flashy to say that is going to drop the hammer on their competition that overstretched itself taking on too much debt because it was necessary to change the game. There might be something to having a mix of hipsters, boomers, and luddites all trying to balance each other out.

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Anthropic Mythos

2026-04-13T16:18:15Z

An ai model created by Anthropic was announced as a closed preview on April 7, 2026 for critical security research and evaluation with its close partners with critical software such as operating systems and browsers. Anthropic claims that mythos is able to reason through so much more context that any model ever before. This enables it to find bugs that are 25 years old in the BSD, considered one of the most secure operating systems we have. Once it finds these zero day bugs never discovered before its able to use them together in malicious ways never expected. In ways the world is not ready for. At the time of writing these are claims without proof. It remains scary to know the potential this has and that there is only a few companies with this potential that will gatekeep who gets access.

💭 How does Claude Code actually work? - YouTube

2026-04-13T10:15:26Z

5 star video, if you are going to watch one video to understand how harnesses and agents work, this is it. This really had my gears spinning on what tools do for agents and how big of a difference they make in their ability to manage context efficiently and accurately create changes. It’s crazy how good bash works, and that gives the agents the ability to do just about everything, but it could be better.

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Agents Are Here

2026-04-10T16:11:37Z

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Late last year I started writing I'm Out On Agents. Agents sucked, the models were good, but there was still something missing between the harnesses and the models. They could write good code, they could do some debugging and exploring, but they were too good at fucking up the whole project to be useful. They could crank out Green Field POC’s like nobody’s business, but they created so much mess in brown field projects that it was easier to chat and edit yourself.

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The Beautiful Glitch - Gemini

The Inflection Point #

It’s very well agreed on that the inflection point for most people happened with Anthropic Opus 4.5 in late Nov 2025. Early adopters probably noticed right away and shouted from the rooftops how good it was. But we’ve all heard that developers have 6 months before ai writes all the code for years, so this felt like the rest of the noise.

Hitting the December slowdown many of us hit code freezes at work. We completely disconnect from work for the last Week and come back in January. During this time, its very common for us to try out new tools, new techniques work on side projects, create POC for that thing we never have time for. While it looks like less features coming into the apps we support this is an important time for us to explore and reflect.

Anthropic was super generous with a free tier giving out huge levels of free tokens at the time. So many of us laughed and threw it at our side projects expecting the normal garbage output, but maybe some good ideas to come from it. But that’s not what was happening anymore, somehow these agents do some real work, follow plans and stick to scope really well. And if you lay out a big enough plan they tended to keep cooking and completing features.

January 2026 #

flu season

For me and many others around the country we were hit with a rough flu season, kicking in and draining us mentally for a good month or so. I wanted to work, I was getting excited about some projects and wanted to get them going, but I was constantly wiped and had no capacity. I had no ability to think on complex tasks, I was coughing all the time, just trying to survive, but yet wanted to do something. I started doing some small clean up, some work on side projects.

At this point I was still afraid of really letting agents cut loose on something meaningful, something that users depend on.

February 2026 #

what just happened?

yes or –dangerously-accept #

March 2026 #

April 2026 #

Closing the editor #

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Closing the Editor - Gemini

💭 An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & ...

2026-04-08T09:29:40Z

A really interesting long form interview with @simonwillison.net. If you follow him closely most of it is probably not new, but I found some interesting nuggets.

Simon is writing most of his code from his phone these days using anthropic hosted platform. He mentioned that a lot of security risks go away when you don’t put secrets on the platform and you let them take the risk of running ai written code with ai chosen supply chain.

He talked about the Pelican Riding a Bike benchmark for quite awhile. He was surprised at how well of a proxy it is for how capable a model is at just about everything. He also said that when he runs the benchmark he also runs half a dozen others that he’s never talked about so that He could see if they were to train a model specific to his benchmark he could catch them, but it seems they had caught on and if they were they seem that they would already be doing it on all of his others anyways.

TDD is incredibly boring for humans, it strips so much creativity and joy from the process. Who cares if agents are bored they do better when doing TDD.

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💭 @seldo.com on Bluesky

2026-04-08T07:31:34Z

Laurie Voss (@seldo.com)

Project Glasswing is a glimpse at an oncoming future in which agents do things humans could never have accomplished and the results are handled by other agents faster than humans could react and we...

Bluesky Social · bsky.app

Is Glasswing the next inflection point

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💭 What Happens When AI Stops Being Artificially Cheap | Daniel M...

2026-04-01T12:04:12Z

What Happens When AI Stops Being Artificially Cheap

The subsidy era is ending. Here

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I’ve been thinking about this for awhile and Daniel makes some great arguments here. Interestingly keeping inference cheap removes the incentives to make our tools better, help us choose the right model, lean on local models, open weight models. The frontier models are so affordable through subsidized subscription models why would you deal with anything less intelligent at this point. The tooling we use is not optimized for it, and why should it be.

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💭 no one read the source

2026-03-31T18:47:59Z

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Everyone look away, nothing to see here.

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💭 safe words

2026-03-31T18:46:01Z

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Anthropic safewords are the talk of the town today.

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💭 you can replace the spinning verbs in Claude Code

2026-03-31T18:31:56Z

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The claude code source code leaked today and the tweets are great, maybe twitter is back.

Did you know you can replace the spinning verbs in Claude Code. I’m having fun with it.

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💭 @nicknisi.com on Bluesky

2026-03-31T10:19:49Z

Nick Nisi (@nicknisi.com)

Y'all, I think I'm a convert to pi

Bluesky Social · bsky.app

I’m about to be pi pilled.

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💭 To Live In A World Without AI

2026-03-26T08:29:37Z

To Live In A World Without AI | Nic Payne

I'm finding lately that I wish we could go back to pre-ChatGPT... A world without a code-gen easy button, where "easy" was LSP autocomplete, wher

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We f&#ing said @pype.dev, well f&#ing said. I think a lot of us are feeling this, we’ve pitched our brain into a bucket and we are no longer stretching it in the same way. We still work in similar ways of old, with new ways of turning off and saying yes a bunch of times. the best thing I can hope for is that as things get better we have fewer yes loops, and more architectural design debates and deep thoughts. But I fear deep thoughts are gone to the way of “research the leading 10 frameworks and pick the best one for this project.” and letting the clankers do the deep thinking. Its signing us up for a weird distopia.

I think a lot of us wish we could undo what has happened and go back to actually understanding what we are doing, but the world has changed, and if you are building average shit, like the average person, using models trained on average people doing average shit you cant keep up anymore.

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Posts tagged: llm

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Agent, Prove Yourself

💭 "Am I Crazy?" [Wading Through AI - Episode 3]

💭 A love letter to Pi | Lucas Meijer

💭 How Claude Code’s Creator Starts EVERY Project - YouTube

💭 Write It First, Then Let AI Drive - Kenneth Reitz

💭 I am slowly coming around to AI assisted programming.

💭 AIs aren’t good rule followers

💭 A quote from Steve Yegge

Anthropic Mythos

💭 How does Claude Code *actually* work? - YouTube

Agents Are Here

The Inflection Point #

January 2026 #

February 2026 #

yes or –dangerously-accept #

March 2026 #

April 2026 #

Closing the editor #

💭 An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & ...

💭 @seldo.com on Bluesky

💭 What Happens When AI Stops Being Artificially Cheap | Daniel M...

💭 no one read the source

💭 safe words

💭 you can replace the spinning verbs in Claude Code

💭 @nicknisi.com on Bluesky

💭 To Live In A World Without AI

💭 How does Claude Code actually work? - YouTube