Zibi Braniecki

Kimi 2.5 Thinking via opencode is getting frustrated. What if *that* leads to the revolution?

I have created an engineering online assessment exercise that allows for use of AI, while failing hard if the interviewee attempts to one-shot with Claude Opus 4.5.
It's still possible!

I'm delighted to announce that @Apple managed to retain in MacOS 26 the magical feature of your dock moving between your screens at random times.

As a dual Citizen, having two presidents - Trump and Nawrocki - feels like a punishment

And I'm not sure if it's "just a phase" for LLMs or we need a different paradigm for critical systems software development and different for prototyping, helper code and vibe coding.

We need LLM trained on curated codebases if we're to rely on the output for anything but vibe coded prototypes. Anecdotally, my engineers are becoming more productive in short term (onboarding), and less productive in mid to long term (debugging, refactoring, scaling, evolving).

Writing little scripts and self contained boilerplate algos is a productivity hack of the decade. But anything that touches architecture, especially lower level, is terrible, because most of the code in the wild that LLM are trained on is bad, buggy and inefficient.

LLMs are both incredibly useful at coding and incredibly bad at coding. I'm genuinely confused when ppl say "30% of our code is written by AI" as if it was a good thing. Have you seen that code?
The benchmarks showing 80% on coding? Have you seen that code?
Do you really want to maintain that?

Radosław Sikorski: Ukraine is not a "project", UN General Assembly, New York 24.02.2025 YouTube video by Radosław Sikorski - kanał oficjalny

Ukraine is not, as the Russian ambassador said, a "project."
Its statehood is older than Muscovy’s.
It has been a member of the US longer than Russia.
It has a language, an identity and its own aspirations.

youtu.be/p4JFNtlxz9k

I found myself on a deep dive on "How can Europe defend itself against Russia without the US" and it feels surreal to live in this branch of the multiverse.
Next "what if the USA and Russia are allied against Europe".

We: He means it and he will do it
You: you're exaggerating and spreading FUD, he would never do that, that would be ridiculous
Us: He is doing exactly that
You: He is not
Him: I am
...
You: Well, it actually makes sense and it's not that bad
You: plus, see, he delivers on his promises!
Us: but...

We: he's gonna do it
You: oh c'mon, he's not gonna do that
Him: I'm totally gonna do that
You: you have to understand his way of talking, he doesn't mean it
Him: I totally mean it
You: It's just a tactic to look unpredictable
Him: I'm absolutely predictable. I am going to do that

Nazis: "that's a nazi salute"

Historians: "that's a nazi salute"

Average person: "that's a nazi salute"

The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."

2025 is when LaaS - Labor as a Service - is born.

I'm cautiously optimistic to try Bsky seeing more of my friends active here. What's peoples position on ActivityPub vs AT Protocol? Do we expect ATP to become actually public and independent?

For the first time in a decade we live in a world of abundance of high quality code editors. VS Code is great, neovim is great, Helix is great, Zed is great. I find myself bouncing between them with joy