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by themgt 2mo ago
Wrote this after realizing every MCP server on my machine had the same access to ~/.ssh that I do I have some bad news ... I hope you're sitting down.
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by themgt 2mo ago
The boy who cried wolf is a parable we read to children to teach them the lesson that wolves are imaginary creatures you shouldn't believe in.
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by themgt 2mo ago
We've created Walinux, a Linux that runs as a durable object in S3, so it's diskless, serverless, transistorless, electricity-less, scales to zero and infinity simultaneously, and can be traded as an NFT ape. Mathematicians are du
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by themgt 2mo ago
“I’m not an elitist,” Green said. “It’s just that I’d much rather sculpt or write in my journal or read Proust than sit there passively staring at some phosphorescent screen.” https://theonion.com/area-man-constantly-menti
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by themgt 2mo ago
No one will care because it's just another addition to the mountain of slop, and the guy bagging your groceries can do it. Did the universe bestow on you some right to code better than the guy who bags your groceries? This whole post
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by themgt 2mo ago
But if you’re my colleague and we’re in a Slack discussion and you post a wall of Claude output Claude, post that wall of output to Slack yourself. Make no mistakes.
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by themgt 2mo ago
You can look at the benchmark and the GPT-5 failures like answering "April 22, 2019" instead of the correct "Oct 23, 2018" for the question: What day, month, and year was Carrie Underwood's album "Cry Pretty&q
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by themgt 2mo ago
most people can make do with a cabinet that is literally identical to everyone else's If you want software that is literally identical to what someone else is using then you don't need AI. Hey GLM 4.6 – spot the load-bearing s
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by themgt 2mo ago
I view a lot of this as downstream from sort of the IaaS version of the "DRM problem" in cryptography. In the DRM problem you want to sell someone a Blu-Ray with a movie they can play, but also not allow them to copy the movie. So
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by themgt 2mo ago
100x higher than it is now?
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by themgt 2mo ago
Ed Zitron is like the living human embodiment of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, except he only talks about the one topic.
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by themgt 2mo ago
Gas Town was intended to be reusable, but I only ever wound up using it to build itself. Gas Town fell apart at the seams with Opus 4.7. Up through 4.6 it was working brilliantly. With 4.7 we saw the introduction of the "just two more
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by themgt 2mo ago
> NATS control-plane events: stream leader election / R3 quorum re-form during pod churn. > Jesus. I had to lookup almost every word to make sense of this. There's a lot to say about this, but I would just start with why a
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by themgt 2mo ago
It's an interesting piece. The great attraction of the Ars notoria for John was its promise of quick access to advanced scholarly knowledge. He recounts his continuing wish to study, and how he was lent a copy of a book of necromancy
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by themgt 2mo ago
The prestige: "I Fired My AI Assitant" was the draft engagement bait post.
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by themgt 2mo ago
Blub is good enough for him, because he thinks in Blub.
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by themgt 3mo ago
Also the same vibe-code leader as zerolang, "The Programming Language for Agents" which Vercel launched with much fanfare in May, landed 1200 commits and then stopped ~mid-June. https://github.com/vercel-labs/
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by themgt 3mo ago
They landed 802,000 lines of code in a single commit: https://github.com/vercel-labs/scriptc/commit/23d5918a5381e0...
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by themgt 3mo ago
It's not World War 3. It's just two increasingly overlapping unsolvable wars involving two increasingly coherent geopolitical blocs consisting of dozens of countries spanning three continents, most major nuclear powers holding 95%
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by themgt 3mo ago
for sure, "fun" is definitely the vibe: Identifiers included in uploaded data. Information you upload to use the Services may include personal identifiers such as your name and email address (including names and email addresses o
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by themgt 3mo ago
Pro-tip if you're a Tangled newbie: migrating knots and spindle on your Tangled PDS before building Bobbin? Remember that Bobbin "is only a glorified edge index, in the graph theory sense. Additionally it has a record cache, re-fi
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by themgt 3mo ago
There's actually two additional sockpuppet accounts (liquid64 / yakimbo90) in here self-promoting. Whole thing is throwing off a ton of red flags.
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"I would prefer a world of rapid RSI and human disempowerment"(twitter.com)
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by themgt 3mo ago
As a programmer I wrote my app TheseusA by hand. As a product manager I vibe-coded my other app TheseusB. Then I had my LLM port TheseusA to Python, while I ported TheseusB to Python by hand and deleted the original codebases. Do I get to c
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by themgt 3mo ago
Maybe they were poisoned, had malaria, were stabbed, and also suffocated and drowned, all at the same time? Just now learning Grigori Rasputin died of malaria.
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by themgt 3mo ago
William Roper: "So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!" Sir Thomas More: "Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?" William Roper: "Yes, I’d cut down every law in
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by themgt 3mo ago
Claude-written code is quite easy to spot - because it has this particular style of overly verbose "walls of text" comments, that 1. repeat verbatim what the code just below does, 2. include "list of things" that quickl
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by themgt 3mo ago
That screenshot is some Lynchian horror. "#engineering. New direction, team – we're moving the prototype to Flutter" and then the humans and agent bots engage in flirty emoji-filled chats with cutesy names "I nailed the
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by themgt 3mo ago
So, is there a reason that your link to the official playground is dramatically more underwhelming and lacking in features compared to the from-scratch-in-C Minikotlin compiler page? You claim that the submission is uninteresting work from
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by themgt 3mo ago
"If you owe AWS a hundred thousand dollars, that's your problem. If you owe AWS three billion dollars, that's Amazon's problem."

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