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swingboy··on ThinkRail from JetBrains
Of course it depends on the type of software you’re writing and just how strict it needs to be, but in general, I find that you need the “spec-driven development” paradigm less now than you did maybe 6 months ago. Older specs really begin to become noise and context pollutants, plus the model is just going to explore the codebase to get a current state of truth regardless.
swingboy··on ThinkRail from JetBrains
Empathy?
swingboy··on Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions
Good luck arguing that with this Supreme Court. A future decision to the contrary wouldn't be applied retroactively anyway.
swingboy··on Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions
Or in some cases, not necessarily "owned" but purposely acting on behalf of foreign agents. Kushner + Witkoff running point on all Middle East-related talks on behalf of Israel with their only credibility to do so is just being Jewish, apparently.
swingboy··on Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions
Trump is just going to pardon everyone around him like Biden did. Not saying anyone Biden pardoned did wrong, just that it's a thing that can be done without having to name any "crimes" the pardons may be for.
swingboy··on Men Can't Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI
"How Much They Know About AI" ... but it's actually how men lie about knowing "celebrities" in the space that may or may not exist? Seems like a pointless article. Same thing happens in every space. See: people wearing Nirvana t-shirts not knowing they were a band in the 90s.
swingboy··on GLP-1 may slow biological aging
I think you still have to eat less.
swingboy··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
Does DeepSeek provide the inference code along with the weights? I read here recently that for models where only the weights are released, providers have to implement which could be different than what the labs themselves use.
swingboy··on How the Claude Code team does code review
Sorry, but how the hell does a TUI harness have 30,000 changes _a day_?!
swingboy··on Details Leak from Meeting Where Weiss's 'Handpicked' Editor Threatened CBS Staff
The whole Skydance/Paramount (Ellison) take over of Warner Bros, CBS, etc. and then installing people like Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief does _not_ help the “own the media” trope.
swingboy··on Gemini 4 Argon
Well, the manuscript _is_ written in an unknown alphabet, hence the “chokol daiin…”
swingboy··on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
Not sure it bolds well for these AI companies if GP is seeing the LLMs fall short when all they are making are “to-do apps”?
swingboy··on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
It’s more pre-IPOp doomposting from Anthropic employees.
swingboy··on Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence
Is there a better term for self-improvement where the model is actually improving _itself_ (e.g., adjusting its own weights in real-time upon learning new, verifiable information)? I’ve heard online learning.

The way “recursive self-improvement” is being used recently seems to be intentional marketing. A model helping code/train/test the next generation of its model family isn’t technically “self”-improvement.

swingboy··on Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well
Opus doesn't push back against this kind of thing for reasons like "not your code"?
swingboy··on Software developers are not okay
What is the current “state of the art” of AI development? Aside from running as many agents as possible, the models seem to have gotten to a place where iterative, straight-forward prompting works pretty well. SDD frameworks and such might have helped at one point but they seem like document bloat noise now.
swingboy··on US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
The Israeli lobby poured a lot of money into his campaign after 10-7 and the entire reason the current administration even has beef with the ICC is because they issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu.
swingboy··on Decisions API is in public beta
I think the hardest part would be coming up with the instructions/inputs to send for every non-trivial action?
swingboy··on Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
This must be related to how Toto turns off George Russell’s car if it’s looking like he’s still a potential threat to the golden child, Kimi. Kidding. Kind of.

Signed, a bitter George Russell fan.

swingboy··on Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code
Just create two $20 plans and swap between them when you hit limits.
swingboy··on [dead]
Manyfold's Agents.md Is Cringe*
swingboy··on Clef: Open-source decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
It allows image input. Nice!
swingboy··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
If you disable all other providers but DeepSeek in your OpenRouter guardrails, is that effectively the same thing?
swingboy··on Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
Any good classifiers like this or Jev that support image input?
swingboy··on Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game?
Interesting the `high` effort on the Claude models. Did you find that going above that is unnecessary?
swingboy··on Sonnet 5.5
Is Opus still 2x usage of Sonnet after this? My Claude Code isn't showing that warning anymore when I look at /model.
swingboy··on DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)
Is there a lab more innovative than DeepSeek? Imagine if they had the same compute resources that Anthropic and OpenAI have.
swingboy··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
I'm wondering how much was to push towards supporting Israel during the college campus protests and any future (at the time) conflict with Iran and it's proxies post October 7th like a lot of other Jewish million/billionaires such as Bill Ackman that typically supported Democrats or liberal causes. Brockman doesn't seem to have anything publicly stating he's Jewish but "Brockman" has English/German/Jewish origins and his mother's maiden name was Feldman.
swingboy··on Best LLM for every budget, updated daily
I guess it’s hard to actually calculate, but most people are probably on subscription plans with Anthropic or OpenAI and there’s not any good resources to estimate which models are the most “usage limit” efficient. I suppose you can sort of correlate raw API costs with how much usage a model would probably drain, but it would be nice if there was a reliable place to get that info.
swingboy··on People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes
Wellbutrin worked for me.
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