Thomas

should I finally upgrade my M1 MBA to Tahoe?

looks like shit tbh - real concern is whether it runs worse

*most age groups

Majority of people I know 30-50yo are closer to your mom’s proficiency

Lerry Ellison and his weird son Blunther (??) Ellison look like they go on weekend trips to kill horses and steal their teeth

its actually a mistake giving Opus 4.6 tasks which are too small - I seem to get a better cost/benefit outcome by giving it larger scoped problems with multiple acceptance criteria and access to sub-agents

been considering adding some process impediment to enforce 'go slow to go fast' - there must be a tipping point for velocity where the wheels start to fall off

two days a week of LLM-free clean up & whiteboarding or something

As a clojure newbie I’m amazed at how great it’s been hooking up Claude to nrepl and seeing it just increment to a solution for things while I’m focussed on something else

there should be a hard limit on LoC you are allowed to write with LLMs in a day - at most a few moderate sized modules. If you can’t read and understand and explain to others how it works slowing down will actually speed you up I think

I just passive-aggressively leave quotes from it on docs in confluence

recently read the mythical man month and the section on composition of software teams in the 60s stood out: basically every small group had a secretary to compile documentation and keep them on schedule, and people had offices with walls where they could focus

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

Im surprised this is a surprise - everything an llm produces is a hallucination. Hallucination is the entire feature. Amazingly these hallucinations group around something resembling correctness!

got a reclining armchair and now researching how to mount split keyboard to the arms this is the most elite comfort - simultaneous feel geriatric and invincible

a huge amount of the harm caused by this tech and the hype and mythology surrounding it is because of its interface rather than its underlying capabilities. these things should not have a UI that pretends it is a person

You: increases IDE font size on zoom call to help others see

Me: …it’s already that large

Uh oh.. finally the inevitable has happened and I have to learn Java

Let’s see if can just write clojure instead and hope nobody notices

broke my rule and had an espresso with dinner (delicious with baklava)

up since 4am (no longer delicious)

The great thing about this study is journalists can publish it without analysis, and people can confirmation bias their way to feeling good about their way of using AI being better than other ways of using AI
/s

“…I don’t want to be the conceptual bounds checker for the code extruder” is such a great articulation

normalising some de-normalised data in order to query and transmit so it can be de-normalised to store and then normalised in order to query to view de-normalised and then...

🙏

the former; I get the issue at hand (branching behaviour in response to side effects), but all I know about generators is that they exist

this post should have been a blog

(not really... I'm just dense and have been putting off learning about generators)

got stuck in a goods lift with him at parli house during a thing for the Beaconsfield miners and he started playing for us like being stuck wasn’t already punishment

2 years ago SICP no-scope 360 headshotted me and I haven't recovered

new Leica ad goes pretty hard

”…this oddity.”

Boy oh boy

[joining tech]
oh man i made a linked list this rules

[learning about scrum and planning poker]
ive made a terrible mistake

Ok just caught up on the GasTown stuff

... my first takeaway is I should be leveraging tmux for more custom shit than I do already

I went all in on mapping term colours to hlgroups and avoid explicit bg for almost everything including normal

I never regret picking up the FT weekend Asia edition when I see it

This goes especially hard

I don’t understand devs who are not actually interested in programming languages or system design

is making computer go boop really enough for you?

old way: start > run > notepad.exe

new way: launch microsoft 365 copilot for sharepoint copilot for office copilot 365 hbo max 365 and simply say: "hey cortana. copilot run notepad copilot. sharepoint"