Ashwin Bharambe

Ban this flopper

@ankrgyl In what ways?

it's a new world. gpt-5.5 has very different ergonomics. start using it as your coding agent to understand it.

@radoshi Huge congratulations, Rushabh!

Hiro is joining OpenAI!

Is it weird that AI coding assistance is not giving me identity fracture? A lot of software developers are feeling disoriented and threatened these days. Programming by hand is clearly going the way of the buggy whip and the hand-cranked auger. Which is how we're finding out that a lot of people have their identities bound up in being good at hand-coding and how it feels to do that. That's not me. It's not me at all. Rather to my surprise, I don't miss coding by hand, not any more than I missed writing assembler when compilers ate the world and made that unnecessary. (That was in a couple years back around 1983, for you youngsters.) Maybe the fact that I'm not feeling any of this disorientation disqualifies me from having anything to say to people who are. On the other hand...if you can learn to emulate my mental stance and be completely unbothered, maybe that would be a good thing? So. If you're a programmer, and you're feeling disoriented, try this on for size: I like being a wizard. I like being able to speak spells, to weave complex patterns of logic that make things happen in the world. Writing code is a way to manifest my will. Yes, I've piled up a lot of arcane knowledge over the 50 years I've been doing this. But languages of invocation, they come and they go. Been a long time since I've had any use for being able to program in 8086 assembler, and that's okay. I have better spells now, and these days some rather powerful familiars. What I'm inviting you to do is think of yourself as a wizard. Not as a person who writes code, but as a person who is good at assuming the kind of mental states required to bend reality with the application of spells. And if that's who you are, does it matter if the spells are painstakingly scribed in runes of power, versus being spoken to an obedient machine spirit? It's all one; it's all the manifestation of will. Arcane languages come and go, machine spirits appear and then diminish to be replaced by more powerful ones, but you? You are the magic-wielder. Without you, none of it happens. Same as it ever was. Same is it ever was. And so mote it be.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes the color of your thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius

i like luxury things like: resting without guilt slow mornings watching sunsets being present

@Vjeux Yuge!

If you are annoyed you can't use shift-enter in iterm2 in Claude Code, found out you can run /terminal-setup and it'll work afterwards!

Why is no big lab building a competitor to Cursor Tab?

@charlieholtz @conductor_build I can’t get Claude to work because the Claude binary is an org private wrapper which injects its own separate auth etc. What’s Conductor trying to do which makes this not work? Does it have its own build of Claude?

live in @conductor_build

Cursor Tab has become so unbelievably bad. This is what happens when you try to write "cool" blog posts about online RL. You lose all taste.

Maybe a very prosaic observation, but I've been reflecting on just how much the pandemic changed the world in ways that are completely unrelated to the pandemic itself. I think I've underestimated it 'till now. In a recent interview, I was struck by the comment that so many of the shops that we associate with the best of France—the poissonneries and the fromageries—closed during the pandemic, to be replaced by take-out pizza shops and the like. College professors almost uniformly describe big changes in student behavior: lecture attendance and willingness of students to complete reading assignments are both way down. A UK government official recently told me that British economic statistics have become much less reliable since the pandemic: data on trade, employment, and population is suspect. (The true GDP per capita figures are probably worse than what is indicated by the published data, since the 2021 census is believed to be an undercount.) In the West, there are far fewer bustling workplaces than there used to be. In recent conversation with a well-traveled friend, he bemoaned how so many cities—places like Madrid, Buenos Aires, and Bali—have lost so much of their erstwhile vibrant nightlife. Immigration accelerated enormously across many countries, including the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia. In China, I hear descriptions of how fear, caution, and conservatism have persisted since the COVID lockdowns. (And Western travel to China remains massively depressed.) Lots of the changes are neutral, or even good. Retail participation in the US stock market almost doubled overnight, say, and has persisted at that elevated rate. Firm creation in the US increased by around 50%, which is probably a very good thing. Overall, the number of time series (either literal or figurative) that jumped discontinuously during COVID and then didn’t return to baseline is just very striking. Which are the best historical analogs? Are there any apart from major wars? I want to read this book!

No AGI is coming. These models be dumb as F*

typing on Cursor is so slow. ugh what is eating all the CPU? first principle of an editor is to render the character ASAP.

and terminal UIs are beating the crap out of IDEs. maybe cursor could release a neovim integration for cursor-tab.

gpt-5-codex: main brain claude sonnet: main executor, reasonably sharp but super fast cursor-agent: F** that it is terrible ugh, so much regression cursor-tab: best if you actually code but so rare now

Claude Code is so pretty I love using it even though it can be _so_ dumb a lot of the times.

@sawyerhood why is that? faster but too sloppy in thought?

I have such a hard time trying to use sonnet after using gpt-5-codex.

This slapstick sequence happened in the 4x100m relay prelims at the World Humanoid Robot Games.

When startup founders go to therapy:

Came across this video, explains a lot..