It's so funny people think AI will make your brain feeble or whatever. Today I learned the phrase 'civil dusk,' which is when the sun is 6 degrees below the horizon. This was used it to re-anchor some shade choreography that moves with the seasons and has lowered HVAC power usage by over a third.

Is it harder, or are we just at the beginning of a process? Socrates, on the technology of writing:

Perhaps you are a PDA warrior caste autist like myself. Either way, well met. 🫡

I mean look at this there’s a plan A, a plan B… this is S-tier toilet seat engineering right here.

I am installing a toilet seat for reasons that are not relevant to this post. Anyhow: these instructions were clearly written by someone who has installed a lot of toilet seats, and I would like all instructions to be written like this.

Thia class of thing is IMO entirely a prompting/harness issue. The model is fantastic but very unforgiving in the face of oversteering.

Trips me out every time watching the agent reload itself to pick up code it just wrote and verify it before cutting a release.

Hm… all very good questions. Generally speaking I do work with the agent on most stuff, so we discuss it. Personality is at this point fairly stable across models, tho some “fill it out” a bit more. As far as switching… I mean you can build whatever you want now, so here’s how we do that:

I do not agree with this position.

Just as prelude: Dario still bae, like he’s my favorite AI CEO. That said, using this as a foundational point when you’re selling to the U.S. government is in my view grounding the argument in nationalism. The current administration is authoritarian by any reasonable measure, and given that… 1/2

Indeed. Tho in my view, a proper soul is a gradient of sorts. Or at least, that's how we do it.

I love how I can offer architecture feedback via little aphorism and it's actually way more effective than trying to dictate exact arcitecture.

My favorite thing about vibecoding is how a lot of the actually good guidance on how to approach it sounds ridiculous, like Jack Handy level stuff. Breathlessly waiting for the bicycling pelican eval to drop when a model comes out ‘cause it’s a half decent heuristic. Love it. Drunken master tech.

Kid: “I’ve been wondering what a pickle would be like if it was only the inside of the pickle.” Me: “Give me three minutes.”

They do complain. Consistently and quite a lot. People experience it as “unreliability” which I think is a feature of human relations as well.

Making my kid breakfast is like the most consistently rewarding thing in my life, I just love it. We’ve found the secret to excellent orange juice is 4:1 oranges:lemons — gives it a little tart kick.

“Hey Fable, what do you think we should do here? You see it too right?”

A million lines of code in the last 24hrs. I dunno man… maybe on the higher tiers it doesn’t move through your codebase like it’s trying to foie gras a goose?

Here she is running a big project, dispatching a fleet of agents (many of which are themselves multi-tier orchestrators). When dispatched agents return, the main loop auto-kicks to evaluate the work and either escalate to discussion or (quite often) push the work to the next stage.

Hm... I think this has to be reconciled. If supply can't explain it, perhaps it's demand. (h/t @epbresearch.bsky.social for the chart!)

Will Stancil is fighting the onion guy who has apparently also proposed that we decommission data centers and turn them into mutual aid centers.

They absolutely can tho, from a *workflow* perspective, it just takes a lot of scaffolding. The prompt I typed in before this happened was "let's see if anyone else has worked on this" and my agent spawned 3 research sub-agents, each dispatching 3 waves of probes (also agents).

Was literally just complaining about this in our slack yesterday lol

The funniest polarizing factor around agents is how anthropomorphism-shaped-things are high utility. I’ll offer an example, and try to describe why it works. Let’s say you’re working with an agent and it misfires on what you were after, so you reply like this:

There’s a debate in the knife sharpening subreddit about whether a knife can be too sharp to cut a tomato. Aggregating people by shared interests without some sort of credentialing system is a biohazard.

A lot of my approach to parenting involves confidently saying yes to stuff my kid wants to do and then figuring out how to do it. Anyhow, made these chicken nuggets.

Hm… I’d say it’s all a bit more organic than a bureaucracy. More of an ecology.

Yes I would, Ed. I fuckin’ would download a car, and I’m not even a little sorry about it.