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Allegedly.

https://youtu.be/AqI9RICKETY (rickety) https://youtu.be/wORkSYsTEMs (work systems) https://youtu.be/5dmDOWntimE (downtime) https://youtu.be/ShedoGmODEM (she dog modem) https://youtu.be/5KusuallyYk (usually) https://youtu.be/WhiskeyCb9A (whiskey)

I looked, and it seems like there aren’t enough LLM evals out there!

“We’ll just cache it” “We’ll add the retry later” “The timestamp will tell us the order of events” “We’ll parse it with a regex” “We’ll duplicate this field, it’s just one field” “Disk is basically reliable” “We’ll use the filesystem as a database” “We’ll…

bad prompts “Don’t make mistakes” it will never not be funny, so I will keep repeating it.

When I ask you to do something, prefer any of these responses below to doing stuff blind-enthusiastically.

Me: “are the pads and the pins aligned” (attaching the image below) AI: GPT-5.5: “From what I can see in the image, yes—the pads and pins appear to be aligned correctly.”

I just took part as a team of 1 (or 0, really) at the ICFP Programming Contest of 2026.

I’ve been refraining from saying ‘vibe networking’ or ‘vibkrotik’ or some other abomination, but it is true - I have been using LLMs to setup a few networks these last few months, and things have generally gone over swimmingly.

Everyone needs backups, we all know it in our bones, but you can also live your life without any backups.

Friends, this post has been in the making for maybe, 20 years.

This will be a confused post, because I am confused.