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triyambakamon Why is AI generated language so hard to understand?

Yeah I got this mixed up. I was thinking idiomatic vs grammatic. Maybe de kommer vs dem kommer is better

triyambakamon The State of Context Engineering

The cardinality of terms feels too high and too much semantic overlap between different terms.

I would like to counter with Theo Browne's "Your Prompts Kinda Suck" [1] I'm not a "fan" of Theo but his perspective here is useful.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-B3jIMMmUE

triyambakamon Why is AI generated language so hard to understand?

This is prescriptive vs descriptive grammar, where descriptive grammar describes how people actually use language. Using "they" in that context is only wrong because someone or group decided that must be the rule.

In Swedish -

> Vi går till mitt hus

"Let's go to my house" - this is correct but not really said

> Vi går hem till mig

"Let's go to my place" - incorrect but the actual way to say it

triyambakamon Show HN: UI micro interactions prompts for AI

Yes, this level of abstraction is now commodity

triyambakamon Tiny possum and glider thought extinct for 6000 years found in remote West Papua

I wouldn't be surprised if more such discoveries were found. Papua is, as best as I can describe it, insane.

triyambakamon Battlezone Online: BZFlag in the Browser

Oh wow, I was on Hepcat too. That was a good one

triyambakamon An ad-free Android TV

I've been using Jellyfin for my family for years. But the number of clients is interesting.

The web experience on a desktop/laptop is pretty much the only tolerable experience.

And I appreciate that the alternative clients try and address the poor UX of the default but I still find so many of the basic behaviors missing or inconsistent.

I can't offer anything better but I find it curious.

triyambakamon Docker Agent

This is an almost rage bait take, but in any case I agree that the models ability to write correct code and fuzz and test that code does make language choice a different tradeoff than it was before.

triyambakamon Docker Agent

> bittlest

Sorry, what do you mean there?

triyambakamon JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history

Actually I really only need bare vim now. It's really refreshing. I can view, navigate, diff etc without any fancy plugins. I can add comments where I want the agent to change something.

triyambakamon Agents don't need memory, they need documentation

It's often better to just find ways to embrace what it tries to do naturally. Otherwise you're fighting the weights and hidden prompts

triyambakamon Zig v0.17.0

Ghostty is a strange example though because Mitchell is very keen on agentic engineering.

triyambakamon Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi

I've seen other apps do this as well e.g. Cal.com

triyambakamon Polyedergarten: Garden of Paper Polyhedron Models

Polygarten hätte passen können? Und kurz: Pita haha

triyambakamon Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

The Kingdom of Tonga stood out to me. Are you still there? Why were you there? It's a very interesting place, especially for anyone not from there. I'm only adjacently aware as someone who spent most of my life in a different Polynesian country.

triyambakamon What I did at Recurse Center

I always shudder hearing about RC. It feels like both wrong ends of career and hobby intersecting and the whole experience sounds dank and clammy.

triyambakamon Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?

The most surprising thing about this to me is Alan Kay answering questions on Quora.

triyambakamon OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites

Just my guess

triyambakamon OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites

They're doing this on purpose to make a case for regulation in their favor. No way they are this stupid.

triyambakamon How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance

What?! Apparently only about 1% of the estimated hundreds of thousands of documents were ever published.

triyambakamon Attention is all you have

I made it 37 words into the article - highlight and search "Tetromino" -> Wikipedia Tetromino -> Alexey Pajitnov -> ...

triyambakamon GPT-5.6 Luna vs. GPT-6 Astra: Is a $1.20 Model Good Enough for Code Review?

What have you noticed about Astra? I haven't used Claude models lately so I can't compare but it seems fine compared to 5.6 Sol

triyambakamon D2 Is Non-Profit

> D2 thus far has been a product of handcrafted code. That era is over. This next phase of D2 will be driven by AI. By this, I mean that all of my contributions will use AI. I welcome AI contributions and will use AI to review your AI, etc. The exception is writing -- I will author all blog posts and comms without AI.

Really cool, seems like the right balance.

triyambakamon OKF Agent Memory – Git-native persistent memory for AI coding agents

How well does the model adhere to using this in a harness like Codex where it may be directed to use the built in memory tooling? Maybe I'll need to try an experiment directing it to save to its native memory to use OKF instead

triyambakamon Asus Bike Booster

Most products don't exist to fill a need but instead want

triyambakamon Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering

https://avi.press/posts/2026-07-10-after-7-years-in-producti...

"After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell"

And moved to Python, pretty much for the reasons you stated

triyambakamon I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won

More than help. It certainly has a uniquely identifiable voice

triyambakamon Deep-sea vehicles spot 'alien' sharks deep beneath the waves in the Pacific

> the animal leisurely glid along the sea floor

Strange. I thought it was glided, or at least glode

triyambakamon Where .env Went Wrong

Yeah Pydantic Settings is pretty nice