Matt Robold (rumdood)

I didn't buy any today but did take note of the prices and in Orange, CA it was $5.40-$5.60 for 87 everywhere I looked

On March 8, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Six male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear UNCLASSIFIED

We’re still murdering people in “drug boats” even as we start a new war in Iran. Six people today.

Came to say the same thing. I can read dense sci fi, but Herbert is unreadable for me. I've tried to read Dune 3 different times - decades apart - and it's just a flat "no" from me.

I have colleagues that will run multiple agents for multiple projects simultaneously and, frankly, >I< struggle with the context of what each set of agents is doing when they return for my input/direction.

a cartoon character from futurama says " i 'm old leave me alone " ALT: a cartoon character from futurama says " i 'm old leave me alone "

OMG it was probably closer to 20 years ago than 10.

I have no idea. I was just trying to think about when I saw that and it was probably over a decade ago at a .NET conference in Vegas.

You'll never verify the coffee cup's ability to navigate unexpected mammals with that attitude.

Really hard to get the requisite Spousal Approval Factor for a $3500 machine that they see as being "for a hobby"

Honestly what made it even better was his delivery - especially with the accent. Just amazing.

I keep reading about what hardware you need and finally found a few folks who were a bit more honest about, "You're not fully replacing Claude/Gemini/<frontier model> with this. It's for smaller tasks."

Still want to get decent performance for a local model for a chatbot I wrote for home stuff

IIRC his comment after a moment of silence was something like, "If you are a tester, your job is not to love the baby. It is to smash the baby against the wall and lick its blood off the wall and tell the developer what was wrong with their baby's blood."

My favorite demonstration of a good QA engineer will always be Juval Lowy picking up a coffee cup in a conference and explaining how a normal person would test it, and then how it should be tested - the latter being done by throwing it against the wall right above an attendee's head.

Meta’s AI glasses reportedly send sensitive footage to human reviewers in Kenya Meta claims media stays on the smart glasses — unless you share it with the company.

Meta’s AI glasses reportedly send sensitive footage to human reviewers in Kenya

Oh, I need this sticker.

My Congressperson is Young Kim. I want to walk into the sea.

This is really true of all US corporate regulations, honestly. The assumption that MOST companies would have some moral compass.

From the technologically illiterate people bringing us “your 3d printer has to have the ability to scan every model to comply with gun registration laws even though that’s not remotely how 3d printers work and ghost guns are already illegal”

Both granddads were WWII veterans.

One stayed in the military and went on to work in some sort of position related to nuclear weapons in the USAF IIRC (I never really got to know him).

Other one went back to being a farm-hand/handyman/mechanic barely scraping by in North Dakota.

Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.

I did enjoy the exchange of:

Me: "/opsx:propose ThingA is doing X. It should be doing Y."
CP: "ThingA is supposed to do X according to the spec."
Me: 🖕

So, lesson learned to read the spec that it creates more closely cause the change request that led to that was for an unrelated UI change (it did this as part of "validating the state").

While using openspec with GH Copilot (Opus 4.6) I created a change to fix a bug that was a surprise to me because I wrote the original spec by hand and remember fixing the bug. Turns out at some point GHCP opted to change the spec, then the code, then the tests back.

#vibecoding

As a former long-time municipal employee, I can confirm.

Quote from Washington Times editorial board "[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

I remember when I used to subscribe to his newsletter because I thought he had interesting things to say and not batshit crazy things to say.

That is where corporations will probably see the savings. That engineer waiting for clarification is now a bot only paid when actually generating code. Because their hope is that there won't be a well-paid engineer to wait. Just a token-burning bot. And if the bot screws up, fire the SDM.

I will say that at least with managing teams of agents, if one of them is waiting for me, we aren't burning the valuable time of a human being. So at least I'm not inconveniencing a person.

But...

It may be just the companies that I worked at, but I never found a good alignment of the company agreeing that maybe I need time to do the fuzzy-front-end work of architecture vs. "what if you attended 13 hours of meetings in your 8 hour day?"

I actually spent a lot of time when I first became an SDM working to do more systems-level architecture stuff. My mentor was very big on the fact that "at some point in the future they will push to automate writing code, but they still need the person to design the system." But...