yen is building stuff

51 is the smallest composite number that feels prime

One of the tells for whether you're a millennial or older is if you take your phone out before going into a pool

Javascript's ['10', '10', '10', '10'].map(parseInt) "bug" is an example of why multi-arity functions might not be a good idea in practice.

I also don't know what benefits they bring, except maybe as a way to overload existing functions?

Dragons in western myth are evil

Dragons in eastern myth are good

Anthropic is planning an IPO, so it makes sense they're doing a ton of PR

This is a problem that pre-LLM engineering managers have to deal with right? Since they aren't necessarily hands-on with the codebase, and therefore aren't always up to speed with what was built.

How do they deal with it?

I wish more government websites were vibe-coded, it would be a significant improvement in quality over the status quo

the burden is literally onus

Haskell subreddits were like “I extended TypeInType that's closed under higher-rank forall lifting.”

Python subreddits were like "I wrote a script to automate my bathroom lights"

Fast forward a decade, and code written in Python is taking over the world, while code written in Haskell is not.

Claude didn't seem to be aware of "skills" when I asked it to create one. It kept making an MCP server. Very bizarre

Private discord servers, for some reason

Google is the Microsoft in this analogy I think

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Hypothesis:

The ingredients in this sentence can be replaced with any 2 distinct nouns, and the statement will still be true.

There are times when I'm driving when I wished some dude from the Philippines would take over just for a bit

the polecats are becoming self-aware

I want to believe this. Can you make a tiktok that confirms this?

Honestly? I think you're right

They are trying to capture that FarmVille magic that made Facebook a trillion-dollar company

Screenshot of a Google Trends comparison between ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. ChatGPT is significantly higher than Claude or Gemini

People are searching for "ChatGPT", not "OpenAI".

I am pretty sure you can get Opus 4.5 to read Opus 4.5 code and identify a bunch of problems.

Apple had - probably still has - one of the largest revenue in gaming, despite not owning any games or game consoles themselves.

Almost entirely from iOS app store revenue.

Probably cashflow, hence ads.

They tell their shareholders it's branding and marketing, but I suspect it's a flex

There's the fun possibility that models get worse

(This is likely when the best models are proprietary, and can regress for all kinds of non-technical reasons)

They also haven't tried to sell me crypto so that's nice

👀

I'm curious to see what about the site (rather than the agents) can be changed to drive a different outcome.

Copilot not being in the convo despite starting the whole thing is sad

curious to see what happens if you give them procreate

Do not push the button.

Do not even think about the button

(will smith irobot meme)

"Robots will never know the taste of butter"

"Do you?"

"...yeah?"