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by simonw 3mo ago
I produce code that is significantly higher quality with the assistance of coding agents, because I no longer succumb to the temptation to cut corners due to lack of time. One example: everything I do is properly tested and documented now,
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I really don't think that's how it works. Smart, experienced developers who thought coding agents were junk for most of 2025 and think they're useful now in 2026 are not saying that because they got "worn down over time&
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Nobody was saying coding agents started working in 2023 or 2024, because the category was defined by Claude Code which was first released in February 2025.
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The big news here is that Googlebot will be blocked from September 15th onwards by one the "block training" policies, because Google use the same crawler infrastructure for their search index AND for training Gemini: > Another
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Try this: https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search_by_date?query=fly.io&re...
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Kernel development is excluded from this, because it's covered by "Upstream projects using LLMs for development". On security, I worry that proposal A's "forbid any contributions to Debian written with the use or as
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I personally hope that AI continues not to result in a noticeable negative impact on employment and that pandemic over-hiring turns out to be the major factor for all of the layoffs. I'm nervous that the studies which show that so far
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A challenge with this kind of study is that coding agents (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex) only started working really well in late November, which for most people meant early January due to the December break. General agents (OpenClaw, Anthropi
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Don't misinterpret this link as representing a final decision. It's actually three separate proposals which will be debated and then voted on. Proposal A is "expressly forbid any contributions to Debian written with the use o
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> LLMs still suck at programming They really don't. You're clearly the intended audience for https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/ !
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That model had most of its "judgement" about whether or not it should do that deliberately turned off. That was the whole point of that experiment - they were evaluating the cybersecurity abilities of a new model with all safety f
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Sprites are about more than just providing an environment for Claude Code et al to run code in. They're also useful for anyone who's building their own product that needs an inexpensive way to execute unsafe code.
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Yeah, I think that post from June 2025 has aged pretty well. The Coding Agent revolution hadn't really happened at that point (Claude Code was only ~4 months old) so the paraphrased message "this stuff is actually useful for progr
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I've been prompting Fable 5 to "use your own judgement" with respect to things like tests recently (based on earlier tips from Thariq) and it seems to work well, which is entertaining since apparently now "judgement&quot
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> I am suffering a profound spiritual crisis due to these developments. Another case of Deep Blue.
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That's the direction PyPI is going: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007291#49047014
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This organization has a museum on Alameda (the island just across the bay from San Francisco) and somehow most of even my nerdiest Bay Area friends haven't heard about it. It's SO GREAT! It's a beautiful historic building - a
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"I believe dark patterns detract from the cultural value of a thing" +1 to that.
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The way I run the pelican benchmark prevents it from checking its own work. It gets one API call to return an SVG. If I ran the benchmark in Claude Code or a similar harness it could render the SVG as an image, look at what it created, then
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Published files within a release are immutable. The time limit is needed because a release can contain different binary wheels for different architectures. Consider the simplest case: your releases go out via GitHub Actions and separate whe
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Candy Crush is obviously well made. It's a scourge, but it's a well made scourge. That's what I find so frustrating about games these days. The most effective business models (by a long way) are the ones that lean into all
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Yeah this was pretty surprising. For almost every model I've run the pelican against the first attempt was at least recognizable enough that I didn't feel like the model needed a second shot. It's always a roll of a dice, but
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> The lack of details to me means this was an intentional marketing ploy OpenAI said this: > We are sharing preliminary findings at this stage to help defenders understand what happened and to help calibrate on what models are now cap
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They never claimed to be airgapped. That's a term people keep on throwing around in spite of that.
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We don't yet know if the sandbox they used here was the same as the sandbox used by their production systems. I'm keeping an eye out for patches to Artifactory, since that's what OpenAI use for their ChatGPT container package
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Yeah, Claude told me that too.
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The other day I was making a white bean shakshuka, I'd soaked the beans over night, I told it they were soaked, Claude said I should cook them with onions and eggs... but forgot to tell me to cook the beans! We resolved the issue and C
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Andrew is on a tear recently, see also https://nesbitt.io/2026/06/26/incident-report-cve-2026-lgtm....
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The other day I did that with a TikTok video! It was infuriatingly vague, so I extracted the mp4 using yt-dlp and fed the video file into Gemini Flash and told it to fill in the missing information and give me back a proper recipe.
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Anthropic started their in August 2023 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/commit/2b3f4a... OpenAI's started in June 2022 https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/co

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