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It’s really hard to grasp that everything is free now!

Milky mask user interface effect.

Humans can do stupid sh*t, too, sure.

In this article I continue the more critical line of thought I began in Mindless Drones.

Man’s collective mastery of nature, moreover—even if we could ignore the mounting evidence that this too is largely an illusion—can hardly be expected to confer a sense of confidence and well-being when it coexists with centralizing forces that have depri…

Screenshot from a CMUX workspace; left hand side me speaking to the agent: “im not even sure what to look at” - to which it responds: “Let me just point at them directly - I’ll outline both titles in the live browser and screenshot”; right hand side, it,…

A new question which started bugging me recently is how, if I start allowing my AI to make more and more edits in my “second brain”-type notes archive, can I tell what’s what, i.e. what changes did the agent make and which ones did I make.

I keep thinking about this article I Sold Out for $20 a Month and All I Got Was This Perfectly Generated Terraform link and how it maps to my own experience with my own projects, one of which is a Todo app I make heavy, heavy daily use of and which has be…

Currently enjoying: Prompt Tuning.

Little Sunday art project I’ve made here.

That is funny 😂.

Drawing on Karl Popper, David Deutsch, and a Rich Hickey quote about “guardrail programming,” this essay speaks about the tension between specs and code — particularly relevant now in the context of AI-generated software.

Recently I found I had good success with what I dubbed text-driven development.

“All intelligence systems have this property of trying, acting, seeing the difference, changing, acting, seeing, sensing.”

Good that that debate has been put to rest, if there ever really was one.

Currently having a blast with LLMs and books.

As someone who is a fervent adherent to automated testing, I should have known better anyway, but for fairly complex vibecoded projects of mine, I found myself neglecting to add tests at some point.

For a couple of days already I have been ruminating over putting down an ontology for Tracker (GitHub), my personal issue tracker, somewhere, when it hit me all of a sudden, that I already have a perfect place for this: my Personalist app, about which I’ve

I’ve decided to follow through with my conviction expressed here and in other places, “to interact mostly with material and sources we have a direct relationship to”.

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