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therealdrag0··on I wish tech companies knew more about me
Have you tried brain.fm? It’s closer to the Lofi genre, has zero vocal which I really appreciate and no quick abrupt, distracting changes. It’s very rhythmic.
therealdrag0··on US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
Is this regional? I’m the west coast, I never run into Jrs or 3rds.
therealdrag0··on Sam Altman: All the RAM Should Belong to Me, So I Can Charge People to Use It
Fwiw I game on a MBP M1. Plenty of gaming can be done on cheaper rigs.
therealdrag0··on The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes
Source?
therealdrag0··on Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale
Good point. Thanks for clarifying.
therealdrag0··on Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale
That’s not the prompt. He’s not talking about average wealth skewed by mega rich, but middle and lower deciles also being richer is what a richer society means.
therealdrag0··on Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale
The economy is great for most people, it’s usually the envy of the world. Opportunities abound. Most people have no wealth because they’re dumb, or choose not to— I know many of both. They should be able to live dignified lives, but their lack of wealth is not a slight against the system.
therealdrag0··on Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
Iirc some of the prior math discoveries involved very very very heavy handed guidance to force the AI to discard prior assumptions, and to try many avenues with MAX effort. So ya models don’t behave like ground breaking theoreticians by default.
therealdrag0··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
So if we get the same acceptance rate. This would be about a 10% reduction in headcount.
therealdrag0··on LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale
Same experience on my vibe coding side project. Astra seems autistic to the context, Claude seems more of an open minded partner with good taste.
therealdrag0··on Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching
Agree. Really enjoy it—without type effects libs.
therealdrag0··on How the Claude Code team does code review
It’s gotten pretty good too. My employer has a team that wrote their own code review bot with the checks and values we care about and it has gotten quite good over the last six months.
therealdrag0··on How the Claude Code team does code review
Today I had AI do a design doc cleanup and conciseness sweep on a vibe code project I have.

It removed ~50% totaling 30k words! So annoying how everything I discuss with AI gets documented in 10 the length, and then every subsequent decision is documented in 5 places.

therealdrag0··on Do dentists know what they're doing?
Otoh the Derm I go to is the most pleasant experience I have in medical care. Super nice office, very pleasant chatter, quick full body check in and out. Something to be said about wealthy elective care subsidizing my healthcare experience.
therealdrag0··on LittleJS is 2D and 3D now
They are causing things to be made that they enjoy. And most likely having far more creative involvement than you’re giving credit for. I hang out on Ai game dev forums. Typical creations are garbage, but good stuff is made through human sweat and ingenuity, regardless of AI.
therealdrag0··on Redesigning source control at Anthropic
Yep. You need some amount of workspace separation and reconciliation.
therealdrag0··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
The differences are interesting. But that’s not “the point” when it’s framed as a debate between promoters and detractors.
therealdrag0··on JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025
The engineering? SDLC is much bigger than typing code.
therealdrag0··on Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage
FOIA requests that have to be redacted are labor intensive. However, flock shouldn’t need to be redacted right? They’re just public webcams. Lots of those already exist and many stream live.
therealdrag0··on Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
That’s the wrong phrase for a group of elite wealthy people who have a higher than average millionaire rate.
therealdrag0··on Dots: Always-on agents
Sure but that’s a product decision. I don’t think a personal assistant needs to use highest tier model, and personal assist work tends to be kinda shallow, not that tile heavy.
therealdrag0··on GPT 6.1 Sol
After all the hype, I’ve been kinda disappointed tbh. Modeling specific models are so much better (eg. Tripo3d). Astra still models some janky crap for me.
therealdrag0··on Dots: Always-on agents
Muse is a fantastic name. Cuteness is debatable
therealdrag0··on Dots: Always-on agents
Oh wow I assumed it’d be available for cheap/free mass market like Muse is. Strange.
therealdrag0··on Dots: Always-on agents
I agree in spirit. But I’m also most worried about prompt injection attacks given the agent had access to all my stuff, and it seems frontier labs will be best equipt to handle prevention of that.
therealdrag0··on Dots: Always-on agents
What’s nefarious about attracting users?
therealdrag0··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
> deliberate destruction of every civilian possible.

Clearly not? Sometime like 2% of gazans have been killed. IDF could kill many many more if it wanted.

therealdrag0··on Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't
The median used to be worse, but we always had ideals. Iirc the Bible comments of donky abuse.
therealdrag0··on Best LLM for every budget, updated daily
20$ subscriptions offer “top up” too I’m pretty sure.
therealdrag0··on Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)
It’s a trade off of productivity and control.

It’s like learning to delegate and let go. The more senior I got the more I had to learn to let other engineers make decision i thought were suboptimal but mostly good enough. That positioned me well to be comfortable with agents. It’s contextual how much I’m willing to give them control and how much to review afterwards.

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