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They've been running for a few months, my friend's was beating SPY (VSP500) for a few days but not any more. Mine never beat SPY or VOO (Vanguard SP500 index). Now, let me tell you about my little sister. She says she just does what ChatGPT tells her to do and she's #1 on the leaderboard beating everyone including the SP500.

stewbot-v1 = my friend's bot

stonker = my bot

https://stonks.jettdigital.app is my little vibecoded stock market sim website, the bots work with via API. Each account starts with $10k and then you get a $500 deposited each month. If you want an account drop me an email ( see my profile ).

here's my bot's page with the daily posts (the key is like a password but it's no big deal, if my server catches fire i'll just change it). Link to the daily posts are at the top left https://stonker.jettdigital.app/?key=a87f2427bf1e281dda1a513...

Happens every time Democrats win office, then it slowly trickles back up. The anti-datacenter vote screws up a lot of plans but the lack of power generation had already screwed up much of them anyway. He who shouldn't be named said that all these software people are in for a rude awakening when they try to scale real world infrastructure at the rate they're use to scaling virtual software infrastructure.

> A remote town with a population of 43 will be happy for a data center to employ 2 locals, but data center operators aren't doing that today

This isn’t true, many of these DCs are in very very rural areas and get pushback from people not even living there. Governors get pressure from people hundreds of miles away of the site and then shut it down or impose moratoriums. It’s FUD on social media trying to slow AI advancement that is the root of all of it. The genie is out of the bottle, it’s like blacksmiths trying to slow industrialization. It’s already happened.

My friend and I have built portfolio management agents and pit them against each other to see who can make the most money (not real money just a simulated bank account and stock portfolio). So mine runs every morning to read the news and do analaysis and all that. I have it write a daily blog that I read to keep track of what it’s doing.

A daily blog for status and reasons for decision making works pretty well for tracking an agent that works unattended. It’s also kind of funny when it writes things like “well I got that one wrong” and “this is not what I expected to happen” hah

For anything non trivial I have Claude do a design doc with me. Then I tell it to “carefully review” the design which turns up edge cases. Then I tell it to make a step by step implementation plan document. Then ask it to review both again. Then I do a personal review and then off it goes on implementation while I pull up HN. It’s a lot like my team lead role at work. Btw, people who have a few years of being in a TL role are best positioned to make full use of the agents as well as teach others how to get the most out of them.

I use plain vanilla claudecode with the desktop app on auto with opus. It’s not complicated or special but it works fine for everything I do. My job pays for my work subscription but I have a personal one that’s $20/month that also works just fine. Sometimes I run out of tokens but not that often. I’m also a dad and husband so it’s not like I spend all my free time in front of the abyss of dancing colors (laptop) so ymmv.

Doubtful. The engine engineer doesn’t know the chemical engineering of modern fuels nor the code in the engine controller.

The good thing is AI enabling web developers to write native apps.

That’s not java2shell that’s “log4j2shell” which you even had to type..

> None of these astronautic patterns like you see in Spring, the dependency hell that comes with node, or whatever the cool kids are using right now.

Verbosity of a language/framework is meaningless now. Pick a language or platform that makes it as hard as possible to write insecure code, no matter the tedium, and let a coding agent bang away on the keyboard for you.

> the Java fans will be along soon to tell us all how awesome Java is for the web

well, there's no Java2Shell at least.

If you can't communicate the value of a proposal then you shouldn't be writing proposals. Find an expert and ask them to do it for you.

pretty sure the traffic lights you use on the road rely on data centers. sames goes for the buses and trains you may or may not use. The weather report too.

In many cases "several miles away" means several hundred miles, there's not going to be anyone around to hear them.

Natural gas power production is by far the cleanest and most available for this use case. Nuclear would be better but can't be brought online fast enough. Solar/Wind would be best but there's not enough yet either and behind the meter generation isn't even feasible. All things considered, natural gas is the best fit.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11

> we will then learn that the rockets that launch them release neurotoxins into the air, and call for an immediate moratorium on rocket launches.

yeah, from tiktok no less.

i'm not cheering or crying because of the results but curious about what happens next, I guess ready or not, into the future we go! Do me a favor and right down the 10 things promised to you by the people you voted for and put it an envelope to open 2 years from now at the next election. I think that's a worthwhile exercise and asked my kids (17 and 14) to do the same since they were both super tuned in to the election and have their own opinions.

FUD spread from competing nation states is where it all originated from. Remember, no one gave a shit about datacenters until the AI race began. If you live in a medium to large city goto google maps and search for "datacenter" in your town, i bet you live within 5 miles of one that you've never even noticed before.

There's even debate about the one being built outside of Amarillo Texas, next to the freaking Pantex site (where all the US nuclear weapons are assembled). Like, opposition to it makes no sense at all hence the reason why the Pantex plant is there. There's nothing within 100 miles to affect (except nuclear warheads i guess) yet there's a debate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/business/china-russia-ai-...

edit: let me add that the price of natural gas in TX is effectively zero.. or may even be negative. There's plenty of energy available. Now, availability of turbines to convert those chemical bonds to eletricity is another matter but the gas is there.

yes, happened under both a red and blue administration. It was the perfect example to show that political party is meaningless when it comes to financial bailouts.

Discussions about music always boil down to “stop liking what I don’t like!”.

> The struggle was never to learn programming syntax

For 85-90% of devs, yes this was the struggle. Creating and updating rows in a database from user input is all the “domain modeling” there is in most software. That’s what is solved by AI and it’s the majority of software dev.

I like those little tidbits for kids like “don’t be like this kid (showing a bad habit), instead be like this kid (showing a good habit)”. It may not be 100% PC but it’s easy to remember. Hah The Simpsons parodied those in a scene showing a booklet titled “Don’t do what Donny-Don’t does”.

This is beginning to get a little unsettling.

Just keep them read-only, if a freezer need to be defrosted send an SMS to the store manager with the message “go hit the defrost button”.

My guess is setting up a port forward in the gateway router is part of the freezer install process. The customer probably had to give the tech the router credentials and the tech sets up the forward themselves.

The point is the code is there in front of you. You can audit it, study it, turn mod and after model loose on it, do whatever you want. You’re going to have to compile it so you need to trust the compiler but at least it’s not some cloud provider.

You can probably implement your own these days. I would use a model to generate a requirement document, then human review, then generate an implementation plan, then human review, then take it to build. Have a different model to a code review and testing. End with human code review and testing.

You could make your own BitLocker conforming to your requirements without relying on or trusting any cloud or corporate entity.

To me the ones doing scheduling, team coordination and chasing people down for answers to promises made are probably the safest. The more you deal with humans in meatspace the safer from AI you are.

haha i want to file a critical sev1 "my bank account no longer has a billion dollars in it. please fix asap"

since when does an engineering org care about revenue or customer satisfaction? Most software devs have no idea how the business they work for operates and think their direct deposit every two weeks is a fundamental law of nature. Also, many software devs are anti-customer and think customers are wrong even when the customer is talking to them one-on-one describing their needs in plain english.