Most of the effort I put into writing is modeling the reader's mind. I never would have known this if someone hadn't invented a soulless writing machine that faked this process!
We had a funny chat at work. Two of us were light-heartedly joking about how you never paste the AI at people. A third team mate uses a voice dictation tool to get down the basic ideas and then massages it with AI, but…
Once everyone is using these tools, the rat race will have caught up and we'll have no choice but to race with the other rats. The punishment will resume.
Back in my early 20s starting a company with friends we had boom and bust cycles, and our boom cycles were so extreme that we would work 100+ hours for 3-6 weeks at a time, towards the climax of that given cycle. We…
My teammate insists that prompt and "context" engineering solve this. You just have to tell the agent "don't make any mistakes" and "keep it simple" and "don't add fixes on top of already broken code"
Wild! I don't actually do a lot of gaming, but the idea of having a small android device running desktop linux is what I've wanted for a long time!
Everyone can easily identify when people they don't like are captured in bubbles, but can rarely notice it when people they do like are trapped. Probably all hot-button topics work like this. Probably we should downplay…
charlie-day-conspiracy.gif
Basically how I feel, but I use the low-powered API models like Sonnet. I feel more energized and focused on the bigger picture than getting stuck on stupid implementation of micro-problems. I think the muscle memory of…
I would pay a few actors (mostly Star Trek TNG cast) money for a license to their voice. I don't know how the next generation of beloved actors comes about and how we don't descend into a pit of neverending photocopies…
The AI-maximalist on my team does a lot of work to setup fancy loops and burn tokens like crazy. It feels a lot like guitar players who get all these fancy pedals and forget that they can plug a nice guitar into a nice…
I'm also stubborn. I clone multiple copies of the repo. I'm currently at two at my job right now, because I was trying to vibe-code an E2E test suite. I'm probably missing something that people see as a huge advantage…
My ai-maximalist coworker spent a day last week getting Claude setup with work trees. He asked me how I did it and I said "I just clone the repo a second time and run claude's CLI in a new terminal window." His mind was…
I used it with opencode to build an admin UI for a React slideshow presentation app I use to do presentations. It worked pretty well on a 64GB Mac M3 Pro and took 1-2 hours.
We were forced to merge 2 HUGE PRs this week because of a customer deadline. It didn't need to be this way, but our AI maximalist team member went full toxenmaxxing and we had 92 frontend files and 40ish backend.…
I've worked with my teammate to see why this is suboptimal and negotiated a lot of concessions. I didn't re-review the code before we pushed it to staging for QA to test over the weekend... I'm worried about what I'll…
Maybe these larger models are better at producing concise, internally-consistent, non-polluting (of the wider codebase) features. I just spent 3 days reviewing the code of a vibe coding maximalist at work. They needed…
I'm totally willing to believe that new orders of magnitude of software complexity are going to be possible with this kind of engineering. And also, my company brings in a lot of revenue off of 200k lines of code. My…
An AI maximalist on my team put up 2 pull requests with ~120-140 changed files this week. If they spent $200 on tokens to achieve this, we spent $2500-3500 in human salary and opportunity cost reviewing it.
I suspect that we will end up with a social convention or understanding around reputation that is tied to whether someone pushes slop on other people. If I need to pass on some AI slop, retyping and copy-editing works…
La dee da! I have convinced myself to donate a kidney to someone I don't know, and also gain clout!
I no have a few esp32s sitting around. I no wonder what else I could use these for?
I have similar feelings. I am sympathetic to a perspective that says this is not the responsibility of a mayor of a single city... But also; who else is going to do it? Normal people have very little say over the…
Canadian here. My exposure to this topic is mostly: - News coverage about how extremely hot it has become in north/central Europe - News coverage/comments about heat-related deaths in Europe - People suddenly…
I find it unintentionally hilarious to see our weather reporting channel (Weather Network in Canada) constantly ringing the "extreme weather warning" bell! They manage to have an alert or warning at least every week. In…
Most of the effort I put into writing is modeling the reader's mind. I never would have known this if someone hadn't invented a soulless writing machine that faked this process!
We had a funny chat at work. Two of us were light-heartedly joking about how you never paste the AI at people. A third team mate uses a voice dictation tool to get down the basic ideas and then massages it with AI, but…
Once everyone is using these tools, the rat race will have caught up and we'll have no choice but to race with the other rats. The punishment will resume.
Back in my early 20s starting a company with friends we had boom and bust cycles, and our boom cycles were so extreme that we would work 100+ hours for 3-6 weeks at a time, towards the climax of that given cycle. We…
My teammate insists that prompt and "context" engineering solve this. You just have to tell the agent "don't make any mistakes" and "keep it simple" and "don't add fixes on top of already broken code"
Wild! I don't actually do a lot of gaming, but the idea of having a small android device running desktop linux is what I've wanted for a long time!
Everyone can easily identify when people they don't like are captured in bubbles, but can rarely notice it when people they do like are trapped. Probably all hot-button topics work like this. Probably we should downplay…
charlie-day-conspiracy.gif
Basically how I feel, but I use the low-powered API models like Sonnet. I feel more energized and focused on the bigger picture than getting stuck on stupid implementation of micro-problems. I think the muscle memory of…
I would pay a few actors (mostly Star Trek TNG cast) money for a license to their voice. I don't know how the next generation of beloved actors comes about and how we don't descend into a pit of neverending photocopies…
The AI-maximalist on my team does a lot of work to setup fancy loops and burn tokens like crazy. It feels a lot like guitar players who get all these fancy pedals and forget that they can plug a nice guitar into a nice…
I'm also stubborn. I clone multiple copies of the repo. I'm currently at two at my job right now, because I was trying to vibe-code an E2E test suite. I'm probably missing something that people see as a huge advantage…
My ai-maximalist coworker spent a day last week getting Claude setup with work trees. He asked me how I did it and I said "I just clone the repo a second time and run claude's CLI in a new terminal window." His mind was…
I used it with opencode to build an admin UI for a React slideshow presentation app I use to do presentations. It worked pretty well on a 64GB Mac M3 Pro and took 1-2 hours.
We were forced to merge 2 HUGE PRs this week because of a customer deadline. It didn't need to be this way, but our AI maximalist team member went full toxenmaxxing and we had 92 frontend files and 40ish backend.…
I've worked with my teammate to see why this is suboptimal and negotiated a lot of concessions. I didn't re-review the code before we pushed it to staging for QA to test over the weekend... I'm worried about what I'll…
Maybe these larger models are better at producing concise, internally-consistent, non-polluting (of the wider codebase) features. I just spent 3 days reviewing the code of a vibe coding maximalist at work. They needed…
I'm totally willing to believe that new orders of magnitude of software complexity are going to be possible with this kind of engineering. And also, my company brings in a lot of revenue off of 200k lines of code. My…
An AI maximalist on my team put up 2 pull requests with ~120-140 changed files this week. If they spent $200 on tokens to achieve this, we spent $2500-3500 in human salary and opportunity cost reviewing it.
I suspect that we will end up with a social convention or understanding around reputation that is tied to whether someone pushes slop on other people. If I need to pass on some AI slop, retyping and copy-editing works…
La dee da! I have convinced myself to donate a kidney to someone I don't know, and also gain clout!
I no have a few esp32s sitting around. I no wonder what else I could use these for?
I have similar feelings. I am sympathetic to a perspective that says this is not the responsibility of a mayor of a single city... But also; who else is going to do it? Normal people have very little say over the…
Canadian here. My exposure to this topic is mostly: - News coverage about how extremely hot it has become in north/central Europe - News coverage/comments about heat-related deaths in Europe - People suddenly…
I find it unintentionally hilarious to see our weather reporting channel (Weather Network in Canada) constantly ringing the "extreme weather warning" bell! They manage to have an alert or warning at least every week. In…