@shakoistsLog new project diablo 2 and path of exile 2 season coming up. group-self found is always fun.
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chillwave
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fwiw there may or may not be a spot to play games with us in the future. you can request to join. admission will be heavily limited, and a complex function of how much i like you, how funny you are, how smart you are, and how talented you are.
kache@yacineMTB
@shakoistsLog you miss ONE diablo night
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it's a little bit of everything. specs as a means to articulate intent/requirements (so the CEO actually sits down with his claude/codex and rips out 50 pages of content) and serious documentation at the backend for future use by internal people/agents. my teams only build agentic solutions so we have a trust factor in how to make things real so less of a concern on the cutting us out piece. we just do things differently now.
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@elelgy @eightcien wait are you saying they are trying to get specs as part of a proposal, to cut you out, or they are asking for specs as a deliverable?
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I'm beginning to suspect that Agile was just a reaction against Software Engineering, created by people who lacked the discipline to read and write specs.
"Waterfall" - ie strict sequential development phases - was a complete straw man; it had been diagnosed and solved by 1970.
Lewis Campbell@LewisCTech
Dr. Winston W. Royce... which I'm sure most Agile developers have read.
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@LewisCTech @eightcien it 100% does change things. i've been working with ai-pilled CEOs (non-tech) who are demanding specs even in proposal discussions. they know it's doable now and that the spec plays a role in the production of the thing.
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@eightcien Which is ironic if you think about how many companies speed ahead at 100mph down the wrong path.
Do you think the rise of "spec driven development" via agentic coding changes this?
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@craigzLiszt on the other hand, it builds further demand for the organizational context builders and intent translators out there.
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just another day where an ai lab drops a single feature and slaughters 1000 startups simultaneously
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@Halcyon625 @christopherrufo in that case you're supposed to cash in by opening a day care and swapping kids with the mom down the street or family member.
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@christopherrufo But stay at home moms get nada. That’s in home care right?
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EXCLUSIVE: California spends $30 billion per year paying 800,000 people to cook, clean, shop, and watch television with family members and others. This "in-home care" program operates mostly on the honor system—and loses $6 to $12 billion a year to fraud.
city-journal.org/article/califo…
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tech which renders the terminator storyline as too optimistic
Steven Nelson@stevennelson10
SCOOP: CIA used secret tool called 'Ghost Murmur' to find airman in Iran, sources tell me Ghost Murmur pairs long-range quantum magnetometry sensors with AI to find human heartbeats nypost.com/2026/04/07/us-…
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@KelseyTuoc @Noahpinion right, but situation gets taken to another level if the leverage moves from "you can't use our tool" to "we have 0day capabilities beyond your wildest imagination". we haven't yet seen that play out
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@elelgy @Noahpinion we have clearly already encountered it. to my disappointment the government proved to have no fucking clue what was going on, panicking over stuff like the Anthropic model spec being called a 'constitution'.
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At some point, superintelligent AI will be able to defeat the U.S. Military -- or any military -- just by hacking all its weapons. At that point, either we de facto nationalize AI, or a corporation is our new government by default.
Kelsey Piper@KelseyTuoc
An underrated feature of this situation: a private company now has incredibly powerful zero-day exploits of almost every software project you've heard of. And Hegseth and Emil Michael have ordered the government not to in any capacity work with Anthropic.
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@KelseyTuoc @Noahpinion how about the formulation of "who will control the really-but-not-super-intelligent AI"?
it's possible (even likely) you'll encounter government vs. private organization conflict before superintelligence
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@Noahpinion 'who will control the superintelligent AI' is a fundamentally confused question. the superintelligent AI will control the superintelligent AI
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chillwave retweetledi
The small footprint meant we had to be very efficient. The height limit was 45 feet and despite our protests the building official required two stairs‼️
This cut us down to about 800 square feet in footprint. The developer wanted 2 units / floor — 400 sf each.
🆕 📸
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Unusual circumstances around an existing building, zoning code and building requirements (2 stairs 😡) converged to shape this *small and unique* 😊 Baran Studio project. 🏘️
Walk with me for the tale ⬇️
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@tautologer openfront.io - click, click, click browser strategy-map game. relatively shallow learning curve, has single player, has youtube content
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I want to get my dad (late 60s) into video games as a pastime, as an improvement over cable TV news and YouTube shorts. he agrees and is on board, but he's tried playing video games in the past and "they just don't grab me." any recs for a novice gamer? maybe map games?
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I think we’ve reached peak LARP
- 1.7k likes
- the github repo is empty
- there’s literally zero code
- it’s just a readme
Marcin Krzyzanowski@krzyzanowskim
I reimplemented "claude" CLI with codex and gpt-5.4-high. It cost $1100 in tokens, and is 73% faster and 80% lower resident memory during sustained interactive use. It is very easy to reverse claude from npm distribution, then reimplement is 1:1. It is indistinguishable from the Anthropic version to the every header and analytics it send back github.com/krzyzanowskim/…
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chillwave retweetledi
People are asking "I just don't know how you do it? I still have to write code by hand so often" and the answer is simple. Your codebase is crater lake. If you use an agent from anywhere other than wizard island, it just won't work, and the LLM knows whether you're there or not
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@doodlestein reverse engineered a claims adjudication engine this week using these techniques. Yep, it's weird out there.
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This is truly the most alpha I can give people. If you can get this loop going for yourself and your use case, it doesn’t take many iterations before you can start doing really extraordinary things.
Jeffrey Emanuel@doodlestein
It's also so powerful to take learnings from agent sessions where your custom CLI tools are used by agents and then feed them back into the skills the agents use to help them operate those tools. This is sort of "in-context recursive self-improvement" if you will, cyborg style:
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@lumpenspace just another simulation. of a simulation. while simulating.
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the title is more correct; ons meta-level up and you got it
Shi Feng@ihsgnef
New post: Sycophancy Towards Researchers Drives Performative Misalignment We found no clear evidence that scheming is more valid than sycophancy to explain alignment faking. 🧵
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Anyone who thinks the big wave of "luxury" apartments doesn't benefit lower-income renters downstream isn't paying attention. Check out this chart. In any market above the red line, average rents (with concessions) are now affordable to renters at 60% area median income.
That's the usual suspects of high-supplied markets: Austin, Raleigh, Salt Lake City, Denver, etc.
Then look at the markets below the red line. It's the usual suspects of low-supplied markets like New York, San Francisco, SoCal, Boston, Chicago, etc.
In those high-supply markets, wage growth has far exceeded rent growth for 3+ years -- boosting affordability. Not because of weak demand (it's the opposite). But because of high supply.
Getting more in the weeds: This chart also shows why most affordable housing / LIHTC operators probably can't push rents to max allowable levels based on area median incomes. (Disclaimer: This is a very generalized estimate of max rent at 60% of AMI and 30% of income spent on rent, but doesn't account for utilities, neighborhood-level variability in market rent, etc etc.)
When LIHTC max rents exceed market-rate rents (like in Austin etc) conventional apartments become more competitive with Class B & C apartments -- and renters may choose market-rate options given all the hassles and paperwork associated with affordable housing.
BIG DISCLAIMER: Don't make the lazy mistake of concluding this means we don't need more affordable housing in these markets, or that 60% is too high etc. Why?
It's absolutely critical to acknowledge that this is a TEMPORARY phenomenon resulting from the biggest supply wave in 50 years putting downward pressure on rents. Eventually, those market-rate rents WILL rebound and those LIHTC max rent premiums will evaporate.
Remember that LIHTC max rents hold steady as a percent of AMI, while market-rate rents do not. So it'd be a HUGE MISTAKE to assume we don't need more LIHTC in these markets because if you take that mindset, you'll be caught by surprise when the dynamics change -- and it'll take 2+ years to get the supply response to address it.
So keep building more housing of all types, including LIHTC.
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@dieworkwear probably true in a broad sense, but relying on your own curation, especially within niche domains can ratchet up what new ideas you are exposed to and is still fantastic.
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my hot take is that this is not a good medium for learning. you have to dwell and spend time with ideas. write notes at the margin; engage in long conversation. social media is too fast moving, limited, and superficial to deliver meaningful info in an impactful way.
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i stopped going to menswear forums the day i realized i couldn't think of anything i've learned there in the last five years. i've since started wondering what i've learned from reading social media and i honestly can't think of a single meaningful thing.
Bryan Johnson@bryan_johnson
Finished a seven day social media fast. It feels like the most effective longevity therapy I've done. Everything got better: mood, sleep, energy, presence, judgment, relationships, and optimism. Evidence shows a seven day fast produces a reduction of anxiety (16%), depression (25%) and insomnia (15%). The effects felt bigger. Conversely, dipping back in, I can viscerally feel that my body metabolizes social media similarly to a fast food meal, corrosive relationship, hangover, and sleep deprivation. My body hates it. After the previous fasts (40/hr and 70hr), I wrote that social media is pollution. Not a vice or guilty pleasure. It’s closer to water toxins, air pollution and microplastics. This time, the major insight was that social media is a form of intoxication. Alcohol is honest intoxication. It clearly tells you what it's taking from you. Social media on the other hand does not disclose itself as an intoxicant. It produces the sensation of being informed, engaged, and connected while quietly evacuating your capacity for depth and independent thought. You don’t feel drunk, you feel current. But evidence shows that it causes your brain to shrink. The impairment is real by you can't feel it. Making it the more dangerous type. If you haven't tried it, I strongly encourage you to try a social media fast. Even if for one day.
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@nickgerli1 every AI fundraising event = more buyers in SF right now.
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Something is going on in San Francisco's housing market.
Inventory just dropped 38% yoy and is now at the lowest level in 6 years.
Demand is rising. And rents are surging.
This market got hammered during the pandemic, with prices in some ZIP codes dropping 15-30%.
But now - the recovery seems to be here.
Reventure has a firm "buy" signal on San Francisco County right now, projecting prices to rise 3.1% in the next 12 months, with the market 15% undervalued.
Access data for your area at reventure.app/mobile
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🚨 HOLY CRAP. The greatest Secretary of State Marco Rubio just said America is about to "UNLEASH CHIANG" on Iran in the coming hours and days
Intensity is about to SURGE. Here we go. 🔥
"You're ABOUT to see, we're gonna unleash Chiang on these people in the next few hours and days. You're gonna really begin to perceive a change in scope and intensity of these attacks."
"We are taking apart this terrorist regime!"
LFG 🇺🇸
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