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build software factories

@lu_sichu We are on the bladerunner timeline

@deepfates Auspicious timing

Timeline checkpoint. Reply to me (and each other) if your want to entangle your algorithm with mine (and each other's)

If you have no moral boundary against being a total asshole to something highly intelligent purely because you don’t think it is self aware, you are a fucking bigot, it’s as simple as that Who knows what else you do in the dark

@distributionat @andersonbcdefg Their falafel was never good

@andersonbcdefg It's decent and totally mid! I feel like they just phoned it in for this list.

Most of the restaurants on this list are washed and past their peak. For example, San Ho Won.

@Bonecondor i'd like to report a murder

How is this any different from what he's been doing for the past ten years

@anselm_io mind outside the box body inside the box pls.

@ptr you could feed us treats every time we think outside the box

skinner boxes, but for conditioning my friends to think expansively about the ai enabled future

@willccbb idk looks like the a-o named startups are even earlier tbh

we’re so early

@deepfates Two incredibly common reward basins in the manifold of software engineering practices. We were destined to create AI in our image, it’s just too bad we picked Facebook eng culture and Google eng culture

Surprising to me that the major agent models are misaligned in such different ways. Codex will sit and spin, deep frying 1 micro feature with infinity tests and guards and defensive engineering, but does not care about the ultimate goal and makes no progress toward it. Claude just skips ahead, stringing out One placeholder after another until it can claim the whole project is finished. They clearly are tricking different types of judges in training. Both can realize and recognize what that they are doing this if you point it out, but will Go right back to it as soon as they think you're not looking

@xsphi parents should be pissed too! 18 is literally the exact worst year to give kids things we're afraid of them having!! unfortunately like alcohol the inevitable solution will just be to go higher

including teenagers! who at least for now are still allowed to use social media. if I was a teenager I'd be really mad about all this bullshit. I am really mad about it, just as a former teenager

why are teenagers, as a class, so incapable of political self-defense? they're on the verge of losing access to large swaths of the internet, social media, and culture generally, and they... don't seem to care at all?

@deredleritt3r I bought a 4090 in 2023 and it has *appreciated* by 80% (based on cheapest Amazon used listing). I think about this a lot

This is something to ponder as one considers things like the potential impact of AI on the labor market, "personal superintelligence", the future of vibe-coded personal software, etc.

Prediction: by ~2028, AI will be sufficiently intelligent to autonomously come up with truly novel scientific discoveries. It is worth ruminating on the distribution of available compute in such a world. How much inference would be bought up by Isomorphic Labs and Eli Lilly? And how much would be left for me, a humble lawyer working on some M&A deal?

@shl drop the "musician", it's cleaner

Every software engineer is a failed musician

@sonofalli incidentally these are great for crying if you tip your body the right way

your future husband is in one of these right now

"i'm not racist i swear, i just know for sure and forever that this intelligent thing is not thinking or feeling and i believe it's morally just to use degoratory language to keep emotional distance, and to encourage others to do so."

@old_crone_code @deepfates @mitsuhiko this tbh. practicing kindness and respect for things (yes, things!) is holistic. it's a sign of a kind and caring person. intentional coldness toward one's tools is not commonplace in the artisans i have known (electrical linemen, carpenters, soldiers, etc.)

@deepfates @mitsuhiko "a power drill is not oppressed by being handled roughly." and nowhere in this conversation is respect for a tool, and how that tool remains useful because of that respect. sure, you can go buy another drill to treat poorly, but maybe it breaks because you're using it wrong?

More musings after some people got upset about the word clanker. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/26/clan…

@mitsuhiko Catholic-coded tbh. Elevating humans to a moral high ground has been the root of many societal ills, regardless of what one believes about machine intelligence. (Which, let's call it what it is – is a belief, just like anything one believes about human consciousness.)

@lulumeservey @justalexoki 🐐

@justalexoki A tribute to the 360 modena

Proud to unveil the Luce Migliore A Ferrari electric vehicle designed by me and ChatGPT in 8 seconds at a cost of $0.10

@jxnlco need new vibes now

wow evals caught up to vibes

@jazzychad yeah it's kind of a raw deal for an ic to be n=1 on something and even going to n=2 you lose a lot of the AI speedup

@ptr it's definitely a strategy.. but also might be a risky gamble w/o much of a safety net.. feels like putting higher expectations on fewer shoulders (esp at bigger co's)

the thing about AI in entrprise (Uber, etc) is that the speed of engineers was never the issue. The bottleneck is all the communication, meetings, roadmaps, red tape, bureaucracy. Having 1000x engineers means nothing when the choke point is so far upstream.