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Absolutely insane week for agentic engineering 37K LOC per day across 5 projects Still speeding up

I was a super early adopter of VS Code to the point of being one of the first people to extend it, before there even was a plugin market (you had to diddle XML files inside VS Code to add syntax highlighting) It used to be snappy and small Shame how far it fell Emacs forever

Have you seen the average game dev code quality? Even LLMs produce better slop. Don't take system design advice from game devs, especially when they tell you to commit node_modules.

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

For today, as my crowning achievement, I saw Codex call its own code slop without me mentioning anything at all

I sometimes think to myself - we talk about companies spying etc as if it's a bad thing, but people who are interested in this find ways around. Like, privacy-conscious people won't use google all the time etc. But - most people don't care, hell, are happy because "waow look technology so cool I can see the history of my location and whatnot" At this point - is google even evil or are they just capitalizing on people being stupid, where both sides are happy? I guess it's the type of question that's like "if someone willingly wants to do something that has a 50% chance of bankrupting them, should we stop them?"

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Wow, RISC-V is really gaining traction again. Alibaba just announced the Xuantie C950…which is basically claiming Apple M1 (ish) levels of performance. I don’t see a lot of people talking about it! (2.6/Ghz SPECint2017, Apple M1 P-core also around ~2.6)

Pretty soon, I think we’ll see software shipping with Claude Code SDK embedded inside. Users will use it to configure and modify the software to meet their exact needs. The best changes will get passed back to the software developer and reincorporated in the master release.

Pretty soon, I think we’ll see software shipping with Claude Code SDK embedded inside. Users will use it to configure and modify the software to meet their exact needs. The best changes will get passed back to the software developer and reincorporated in the master release.

Life with Linux 120 Days Later...

Scrolling through the steam sale and I think I might have hit the jackpot

i can't decide