Justis Mills

@phokarlsson 1. Made my new tab something useful and nice to see 2. Automated an annoying flow I do a few times a week 3. Censored video titles by a gaming YouTuber who spoils whether he wins any given event in them

Been playing around with Claude Code, trying to get into the habit of noticing software-shaped problems in my life that I can remove. So far, I’ve - had it build a python pipeline that takes in my stripe payments, check the date and convert it to danish crowns with the right conversion rate for that day, and then compile a report for my taxes (which took about 30 mins to make, and will save me about 4 days a year + be of higher quality than what I could do manually) - gone through my entire catalog on the blog to flag all comments that I need to moderate - made a simple browser extension which cross posts my substack notes to twitter - built a simple pipeline that have processed a few hundred conversations I’ve recorded and added keywords etc that make them skimmable and readable I find it hard to fully internalize that the cost of simple software is now ~0. I feel like a toddler who don’t know how to handle this tool for what it’s worth, but it feels good to get into the habit of removing small problems like this, and building things that let me do thing I couldn’t before. I’d very much appreciate to hear what others are making + any advice on how to get better at noticing good ideas that I can turn into code.

man: i wish to publish reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini

@selentelechia we got a one time immediate "bess U" after a sneeze, though we were so excited about that that now she just goes "ah-choo" repeatedly so *we'll* say "bless you"

yesterday I coughed and my 1yo looked at me with concern and asked "mama 'kay?" 🥲

@sympatheticopp a certain unnameable je ne sais quoi

wu wei....otherwise known as lao tzu faire

@NOIRthinks let's gooooo

@AlecStapp Pythagoras warned of this temptation...

So we are on the verge of trading the most powerful technology ever invented by humans in exchange for… beans.

I told him he can't eat the street lamp and now he has been sulking for 20 minutes

@selentelechia noooo don't tell me this it was bad enough the first tiiiime

fascinating the urge to bother the baby slightly to make sure they're alive when they're sleeping particularly soundly does not go away with baby 3

@tszzl @TheZvi This is interesting! I would have guessed it held in common between all; thanks for the update to my understanding. Heterogeneity of LLMs is neat

@TheZvi really varies model to model

if it’s not obvious. the models can obviously already write erotica out of the box and are blocked from doing so by elaborate safety training and live moderation apparatus. it requires significantly less work to serve erotica than not to

@selentelechia When my wife was in labor she asked me to get her unstuck in the video game she was playing. I did it for love but oh my god was it terrifying that a hospital employee might come in and find me Gameing.

for a lot of labor I wanted eigen nearby but doing something else. super available but very obviously not hovering. so he was on his phone a bunch and I was worried occasionally that the nurses would think he was being a bum even though he was doing exactly what I needed 😂

birth thoughts

@demiurgently feel bad for the model here - prompted to square such a ridiculous circle: "make sure to start with a link from their interests to our new chateau"

Scott Aaronson has, for the first time, put out a paper in which a key technical step in the proof of the main result came from AI. He describes his process using GPT5-Thinking. 'There's not the slightest doubt that, if a student had given it to me, I would've called it clever'

@RuxandraTeslo @tszzl (Oops, typo, I trust it a lot *less* than an SME)

@RuxandraTeslo @tszzl (Or any kind of long-form explainer since I'm a blogpostovore, doesn't have to be formal. I have asked GPT-5 to show me studies but it's kinda a firehose and I trust it a lot than a subject matter expert like you for stuff like this.)

@RuxandraTeslo @tszzl I think "we have defaulted to" is a little dunk-y? Like it loops a specific person's point/style into a "what's wrong with Us in General" lately category.

@tszzl what exactly am I doing that's "dunking" other than disagreeing with your points?

@JoeyOtweets @besttrousers I think probably an interesting question would be what proportion of houses are owned in various ways, and how that's tracked over time. I don't know the answer, to be clear, but if a lower % of properties are investment properties, or if that % has been stagnant, I'm convinced.

@besttrousers Okay, start by convincing me. It seems entirely plausible that investors buying up properties to rent them reduces the supply of housing for sale thus making it more expensive to buy a home. Why is that not the case?

I don't really think this makes much sense: - It seems plausible that many Americans think that "investors buying too much housing" causes price increases. - It seems very clear that this belief does not correspond with the facts. - Given this, we should convince people.

According to the IMF, world GDP per capita (PPP) is now $25,591. That's pretty incredible. That's about where the United States was in 1972. What a victory for humanity.

@Otaboo_K In my observation, question gets sharper/thornier the harder you (seem to?) make it

How can I fake it till I make it while also bein me.