Ujkan

i object to "luck" characterizing inheritance in discussions of desert because "luck" in this case means only "you deserve nothing, your ancestors deserve nothing, and btw we're going to make sure that's what you all get" no thank you

and the syntactic rules matter too, from a UX POV. even if we assume that there is a way to prompt agents to produce predictable output (e.g. through spec languages), that LLMs allow arbitrary inputs means that they will not consistently be prompted in the right way

i never make plans i hate looking at markdown i don't wanna read markdown files i just plan by having it make changes to the code then i look at the code to see what sucks then i prompt again

programming got rly boring after i stopped physically stimming the same way using neovim magicks and just started using claude code/codex for everything some people really like systems for the sake of systems or playing optimization games but i’m pretty sure all the dopamine for me came from typing out combos and then going :wq fried asf

Highschool in 2006

Everybody who thinks ai is conscious has to do a mandatory from scratch transformer implementation. There are only floats and multiplications.

I say this w/ no joy at all but it seems to me that Dutch intellectual life is just as vapid & hollow as American intellectual life. America & the Netherlands are both “muh freedom” nations.

i actually don't want this "but you don't review compiler output either" meme to die. it's the perfect signal for being immediately able to ignore someone in this space.