Chris Arcand

Seeing an "Excellent work on $thetask" message given to a subagent on shutdown from the lead has me....confused? Uneasy?

It’s worse. The answers weren’t on Google, they were in a binary file on GitHub that was XOR-encrypted to make it impossible to Google. The AI decided it must be a benchmark; systematically went through benchmarks; downloaded the file (which it shouldn’t have been able to do); and decrypted it.

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."

--Edsger Dijkstra

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

It's a --dangerously-skip-permissions kind of day

The Factory Model: How Coding Agents Changed Software Engineering Software engineering is not about writing code anymore. It is about building the factory that builds your software.

The Factory Model: How Coding Agents Changed Software Engineering - addyosmani.com/blog/factory...

It's felt for months now that the fed govt is doing everything it can, including acts of violence, to make the Twin Cities unlivable. Vance's announcement shows that effort continues even if Trump's thugs aren't killing people in the street rn. I just don't see how this can go on for 3 more years.

Sigh

The lawyers in the banking industry are gonna have so much fun with this.

Claude/LLMs could write COBOL eons (relatively) ago but it's taken the market until now to suddenly panic (likely erroneously) about it?

smh

In this 2024 interview, Jack Hughes, who just scored the game-winning goal for the US Olympic hockey team, explains why it was important for him to embrace Pride Night when many other NHL players refused to do so.

I usually rant about bullshit normalizing headlines from @npr.org so I should give credit where it’s due for an accurate, appropriate one. Nice work.

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

Feeling fairly accomplished as I've now moved completely off of Google; Chrome, Gmail, Calendar, domain registrar and DNS, etc in favor of out of country, end-to-end encrypted and zero-access solutions.

It's been long overdue to start caring more about personal data sovereignty and privacy.

As a principled libertarian, I voted for Trump and supported all of his attacks on free speech and civil rights until it became clear that Trumpism had no political future

ICE all over Northside this morning. Almost like they need to get their shift in before the Super Bowl.

Ok, this is actually incredible.

"And yes, it can run Doom"

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me

for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

holy fuck steve

You're absolutely right! (enthusiastic, jovial)

vs.

You're absolutely right. (grim, serious, down-to-earth)

Ah bummer, I thought it had gotten much closer really - but I know very little beyond seeing links and going "Wow, looks nice!" I had been eyeing the Framework last, even, I think.

Any Linux distro has more polish and ease of use than ever, which (at least used to be) the main reason folks wanted Macs over Linux.

The hardware you can buy for Linux is _nearly_ (though, still not entirely) as sleek and polished as its Apple equivalent (never used to be true)

Less jokingly, I'll say this: There's just way less of a divide between OS's, programming languages, _everything_ in tech then there used to be, IMO. In other words: If you're heavily invested in Linux, it's likely not worth going to Apple. Conversely, $theopposite

I don't want Apple to own the world more then they do, Tim Cook is a piece of shit in our modern political climate, agnostic open tech, all the usual non-spicy arguments against Apple that people have ;)

If it makes you feel better l’ve been pondering the opposite lately 🤪

Yeeeeep totally.

As one in a sensible, functioning government does.

AI-enhanced productivity is not a shortcut to competence.

How AI Impacts Skill Formation (Judy Hanwen Shen & Alex Tamkin)

arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245

Coding agents are a TON of fun if you are (1) extremely ambitious and (2) have middling standards.

They are still fun if you are (1) extremely ambitious and (2) ruthlessly exacting standards, but markedly less so.