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4b11b4··on Ask HN: Are you tired too in this AI era?
Yes, but periodic audits.
4b11b4··on Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?
I'd lean similarly, but those regimes you list aren't likely going to be done by accident.
4b11b4··on Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?
Putting pair programming and TDD in the same box as agentic development (with, as you assume, zero review of the code) seems...
4b11b4··on Bernstein – open-source governance layer for AI agents
How can people even...
4b11b4··on Start Doing Graph Theory
I have just taken this in stride but it has struck me a few times recently that everything I see now.. I basically have to classify it as to be immediately discarded or worth my time to even begin reading, and even if I do continue reading then I still have to be constantly evaluating if a person bothered to struggle with (write) it or not.

Quite frankly this is.. fucking terrible? Even worse, the end of something for humanity..?

4b11b4··on Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking
There's a dedicated furry toggle? I mean... I've heard of this but, now I feel like I really missed some societal shift in the world.
4b11b4··on New 'Circadian' Subtype of Depression Affecting 1 in 4 Patients
This reads as some people made up some categories then classified people into them.
4b11b4··on New 'Circadian' Subtype of Depression Affecting 1 in 4 Patients
FWIW me too now, but because of my old dog. Also I'm possibly about to sign for the guard, so I guess I'll be ok with that 4am wake up.
4b11b4··on Show HN: ADRs for AI – Deliberation records for human–AI work, versioned in Git
wait over a year?

What were the design decisions which you have settled on and what did you throw out?

4b11b4··on No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
No, we know that when technology (particularly: Internet connected laptops) is introduced into classrooms competency declines. This has been shown to be true internationally
4b11b4··on Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea
The first half of your first sentence is correct
4b11b4··on Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea
Yeah, using them for any (most) subjective task is generally incorrect
4b11b4··on The Future of CSS
Probably. Trade-offs is engineering
4b11b4··on The Future of CSS
Ignorance and generally a hater position
4b11b4··on The Future of CSS
Good to see Josh writing, especially after his courses have taken such a hit. He is excellent. As an electrical engineer and also now CS grad and someone who has purchased his courses wanting to be able to work across the entire stack.. yet have also thought "thank god I don't really have to learn css" now (yes, due to increasing model performance).

On that note I may know just enough to be dangerous thanks to Josh (casting spells: e.g. shouldn't we group those in their own container and then within that container shouldn't that be a flex box?). I guess I'm here to say humans are full of contradictions.

4b11b4··on SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful
Same I just leave 6.1 on Max. Don't touch that dial
4b11b4··on Advanced coding in low-resource programming languages
That's.. not..
4b11b4··on Credit where credit is due
Nevermind! I just went down a rabbit hole on "negative hard feature mining" that has simple origins from early days of object detection and bootstrapping!

I'm sure pangram has to deal with a lot of bullshit to keep retraining on new model output though.

4b11b4··on Credit where credit is due
Can someone educate me - does pangram actually work? Why are people acting like this tool is god?

I thought definitively classifying writing was essentially an impossible problem. Of course, we can often smell it, but again, that's not definitive.

4b11b4··on Is MCP becoming the common foundation of smart, decentralised search?
No.. MCP is for actions
4b11b4··on Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits
this is just a guard on the function definition?
4b11b4··on Open source 160 sound visualization experiments
Can you make them all move on repeat for a sine sweep followed by some misc transients
4b11b4··on ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust
that is a good one re llms
4b11b4··on ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust
I like this mindset but damn that's a lot of tokens? At what cost? And then to continue to maintain and .. idk.. I suppose it'll work? If the motivation is strong enough and momentum is sustained?
4b11b4··on All I wanted was a custom domain email
Seems you're... conflating the concepts of spamming people with using a language model to generate code
4b11b4··on Blogging with Gleam, Org-Mode and Pandoc
lol yeah this should just be a pile of elisp
4b11b4··on DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows
Run as server, agent can run arbitrary elisp
4b11b4··on Turbo Haskell
Sit down
4b11b4··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
Didn't even bother trying it yet
4b11b4··on OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns
Haven't even tried Astra, nor GPT 6.. I don't even have fomo anymore

5.6 Sol still cranking along

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