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pitched··on Anduril and Meta's quest to make smart glasses for warfare
The latest update makes it harder than ever to use. Like, it looks better, I see that. But whoever designed the new UI clearly doesn’t actually use one. For example, the battery level isn’t in the home screen UI anymore. You have to go into settings to see it. Battery only last a couple hours so it’s pretty critical to keep on top of.
pitched··on Anthropic acquires Stainless
The moment a group accepts VC money, this becomes the plan
pitched··on What do you NOT like about Cursor / VSCode / Claude Code desktop / Codex / etc.?
They all do way too much. I just want it to load fast, type with no latency, and get the hell out of the way. Like vim, but less confusing.
pitched··on Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics
I opened and it said to use a repo tab. There are no tabs so I pushed a button. It had a list with Linux so I clicked that. It redirected to a 404 page on github and I gave up.

I don’t know what this is supposed to do, let alone how to use it. But I looked at it for you!

pitched··on Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable
I can’t find any primary documents online that back up your claim directly but this gets pretty close: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/why-...

That is still a lot closer to collective bargaining than “save the children”.

What you’re saying is plausible enough to be easy to get an LLM to hallucinate, is the larger concern here. If this opinion does come from one, try asking it to verify using external sources. The Luddites would have been violently opposed to AI slop, if they had an opinion on it.

pitched··on Why modern parents feel more sleep deprived than our ancestors did
A lifetime is a long time. Much longer than children are children.
pitched··on Why modern parents feel more sleep deprived than our ancestors did
On studies showing napping increases lifespan and all the good things, a common complaint is that presence of naps is also an indicator of high socioeconomic status. This anecdote is a good counter to that!
pitched··on Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable
The Luddites were against the systems that were shifting work away from skilled workers (them) to unskilled workers (commonly children). I have no doubt serious injury and death happened at those machines but find it hard to believe that was the cause of the Luddites. All signs point to them being more worried about themselves.

There’s no way they would have been pro-AI. It would take a very skilled VC to warp the world enough to make that sound true.

pitched··on Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server
All of them (except Eve) feel too much like WoW reskins to bother with. This is personal opinion but the feeling probably reflects why they have 1% (estimated by ChatGPT) of WoW’s subscriptions.
pitched··on Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages
Let’s not forget how much US tech came from government programs like ARPA/DARPA. It isn’t exactly a decentralized bureaucracy. Just hasn’t been hitting as well recently.
pitched··on Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages
I would take a sticker for a sponsorship. That could be a good deal. Not for free though!
pitched··on Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages
VSCode updates itself what feels like daily so everyone is on the bleeding edge. There are upsides and downsides to that but it doesn’t feel like a trade-off many have made purposefully.
pitched··on Embedded Rust or C firmware? Lessons from an industrial microcontroller use case
Fil-C says it doing runtime checks which is fantastic for debug builds (like valgrind) but I worry a bit about performance with that for release builds. Valgrind can be pretty rough!

My personal view is that good C code looks a lot like Rust where ownership is clear and a borrow checker would approve. The mindset that Rust forces you into is the same one you should be using when writing C.

The longer-term concern is that, if you’re spending late nights learning Rust, it’s probably with the borrow checker. Late nights with C, it’s probably with memory management. One of those two is a bit more applicable to understanding computing at a deeper level.

pitched··on Embedded Rust or C firmware? Lessons from an industrial microcontroller use case
I think there’s another hidden issue of testing how new devs use the language vs. those seasoned devs. I expect someone with a few months of experience would prefer Rust (fewer footguns) but someone with more experience would prefer C (the sharper knife). The flavour of the thing changes as we age.
pitched··on The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious
The thought that consciousness or intelligence might be mechanical is horrifying and unthinkable to most people. The Turing test isn’t testing the clankers, it’s testing us.
pitched··on Thoughts on Historical Language Models and Talkie-1930
It’s an interesting thought that our LLMs are Professor Oldman from “Man from Earth”, rather than someone more of this age. It probably isn’t actually true because training would reinforce more recent data but an interesting thought that these things are actually impossibly _ancient_.
pitched··on Ask HN: Any good ways to extend Codex sessions?
Switch to codex! That will extend sessions 4x at least.

Outside of that, the key is to keep context as low as possible. The cost of a token increases a lot as context grows. My current favourite approach to that is RPI. Run the Research, Plan, and Implement phases each in their own isolated agent that produces a markdown file for the next.

pitched··on CrabTrap: An LLM-as-a-judge HTTP proxy to secure agents in production
Securing agents in real time and testing them for drift in CI are pretty different use-cases…

This post is an AI-generated ad, isn’t it? It’s getting too hard to tell!

pitched··on Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?
What do you think about slow rollouts for new features? Like, we think this new push notification system will be loved but let’s ship to only 1% of users in case there’s a horrible unforeseen consequence like occasional 10min delays? Dashboard goes upside down -> revert then work through logs to figure out what the hell went wrong.
pitched··on Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want
> is the mechanism you'd build if you wanted to shape what a billion users read without them noticing.

A pretty large accusation at the end. That no specific word swaps were given as an example outside the first makes it feel far too clickbate than real though

pitched··on Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage
I’ve been keeping them open in tmux and using either send_keys or paste buffer for communication. Using print mode and always resume last means you can’t have parallel systems going.
pitched··on Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7
I see the 512GB Mac Studios aren’t for sale anymore but that was a much cheaper path
pitched··on Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7
I haven’t tried this myself yet but you would still need enough non-vram ram available to the cpu to offload to cpu, right? This is a fully novice question, I have not ever tried it.
pitched··on Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%
I just switched fully into Codex today, off of Claude. The higher usage limits were one factor but I’m also working towards a custom harness that better integrates into the orchestrator. So the Claude TOS was also getting in the way.
pitched··on Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%
For a business with ten or more engineers/people-using-ai, it might still make sense to set this up. For an individual though, I can’t imagine you’d make it through to positive ROI before the hardware ages out.
pitched··on Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7
For a 30B model, you want at least 20GB of VRAM and a 24GB MBP can’t quite allocate that much of it to VRAM. So you’d want at least a 32GB MBP.
pitched··on Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%
I want to bump this more than just a +1 by recommending everyone try out OpenCode. It can still run on a Codex subscription so you aren’t in fully unfamiliar territory but unlocks a lot of options.
pitched··on Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7
Running an open like Kimi constantly for an entire month will cost around 100-200$, being roughly equal to a pro-tier subscription. This is not my estimate so I’m more than open to hearing refutations. Kimi isn’t at all Opus-level intelligent but the models are roughly evenly sized from the guesses I’ve seen. So I don’t think it’s the infra being subsidized as much as it’s the training.
pitched··on Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%
Now that Anthropic have started hiding the chain of thought tokens, it will be a lot harder for them
pitched··on Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0
We’re all at different points along this path. Today, I was one of the lucky 10000. I hope you get to be in that group again in the future too.
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