Stephan Meijer

What I don't get, is why Anthropic pays for/publishes these researches. It doesn't really benefit them, does it?

"As few as 250 documents are enough to backdoor models in our setup. "

HOLY SHIT. Mind blown.

Why is that 'of course'? There is nothing self-evident about that.

Or use Chromium (the opensource thing).

was it an opt-in or opt-out? I really don't remember. I do know I didn't see/notice this message before. Perhaps they made it more visible?

"The U.S. Treasury on Thursday granted waivers for companies to start buying sanctioned Russian oil"

I should really stay off the news. For my own sake.

Justifications for war, in a pic

Sorry, i'm annoyed… perhaps a bit angry. I've switched off the toggles. But still don't trust it now. I'm running user scripts in my banking environment (to download records as json for bookkeeping). They used to log to console. Now…, i just can't.

no rant against you, i need to vent, sorry 😅

Lol, all fine. I was aware of the toggles, but even that's not obvious. I mean; there should've been a toggle "DON'T SEND MY SHIT TO GOOGLE". Is it all of them? One of them?

"Avoid sharing personal information". I mean, it's a fucking dev console. I used this thing to hack all the time.

Please note that Chrome pushed an update, and

YOUR DEV CONSOLE (history) MAY BE READ BY HUMAN REVIEWERS.

Sure, console should never be treated as a secure env, but I still fucking hate this.

Hey @github.com , can you please push my hotfix out manually? It's kinda time sensitive.

github status is getting fucking rediculus.

Cries in Dutch. I feel you. We have a similar issue.

The good thing here; rent increases are capped to the average inflation of the last 3 years + 0.5%. In 2026 that means max +4.1%.

The bad thing; the average asking price for a house, has risen to €518.650 (jan 2026).

HALF A 🤬 MILION EURO

And yet again, it's the US pulling us in a war we didn't ask for.

Thanks for the heads up. I hate that I have to check every account before replying :(

UBI as in the universal basic income? How is that going to solve the shortage of hardware?

Thanks OpenAI. Because you're buying all the fucking hardware humans can produce, my Hetzner bill increases by 30%.

Seriously, this fucking AI bubble can't pop soon enough.

hey @jetbrains.com , i love those gutter icons, but this is a bit much?

Who needs a game console, when they can chat with a bot 🤷‍♂️

I've used git too. While it works fine from my laptop, I often had conflicts when opening the vault on my phone (and conflict resolving on phone sucks!)

I've now configured the Remotely Save to write to S3 (Cloudflare R2) and that works flawless.

Can recommend that setup, would not recommend git.

Re headless version, you can install something like "Remotely Save", to sync your vault to s3, and pull the files on your VPS from there instead. Or do you really want/need to stick to Obsidian Sync?

That last one sounds great, because shortage of staff means increased salaries. But it'd also mean the industrie would've crashed. So not sure how much money there'll be left.

Combine that with the fact that most don't care much about quality, and it's indeed prompt > prompt > ship.

I really start to think that we're fucked either way. Either it's all, unmaintainable LLM mess one day. Or, we get to clean up that mess and have again a huge shortage of experienced devs.

I agree with you, fully. But, if I have to believe what I read on Reddit, that seems to be where we're heading at.

In 2020 we had bootcamp grads that "knew" React but 0 fundamentals. Now we'll get vibe coders that know even less.

But, does that matter? (13 implementations of 1 button)

I mean, if AI is the one to maintain it, not having abstractions (/reuse) could reduce the chance of bugs created on one page, when an other one is being updated. There's a certain benefit to that.

Now imagine the external impact. Dependabot running everywhere in the next few days, spawning ci, running tests, creating PRs, demanding reviews.

But how do you keep the LLMs busy? When I'm running them locally, they need input every 5 minutes. I don't think you're commenting to issues all the time. Right?

Do you have your pipeline documented somewhere? Would love to read a post on this.

Interesting. So I guess you just run a (branch) checkout on the sprite, and the agent, and the agent fetches instructions from the issue? Does it 'get stuck' often? For example due to needing input, but not letting you know trough the issue?

I'm sold. But wtf is a sprite? I only know sprites as being image grids for animations and fancy (rounded) borders. 😂

Back to irc?