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AIs aren’t good rule followers x.com
Uncle Bob Martin (@unclebobmartin) on X AIs aren’t good rule followers. The older the rule in the context window, the less priority it is given. So the best way to enforce the rules is with external tools that communicate failure to th… X (formerly Twitter) · x.com I’ve gotta agree with bob on this one, the first thing I did to my biggest brownfield project I wanted to use agents on BEFORE they did work was a hardened pre-commit.yaml, ci, hardened type checking and linting. SECOND get rid of bad inconsistent patterns, let them replicate consistency, force them to pass checks. Agents will follow all of your markdown suggestions most of the time, enough for you to become complacent if you let it. They are goal seeking, if you put them to a task you thought was possible that is not given your constraints, they will try to find a way given enough tokens. I dont see this ever changing, its one thing that makes them great, it just needs to be kept in check.

Prove Yourself Agent

Ask your agents to prove their work. Include it in the initial prompt, not later.
A quote from Steve Yegge simonwillison.net
Steve Yegge Steve Yegge: I was chatting with my buddy at Google, who's been a tech director there for about 20 years, about their AI adoption. Craziest convo I've had all year. … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net behind, yet positioned to completely dominate this race by hitting it with some sense. Making trends in what looks like longevity in the race that is not subsidising to simply get users, but to get by until they figure out how to 100x reduce the cost to a reasonable level. They feel like the guy sitting in the back with nothing big or flashy to say that is going to drop the hammer on their competition that overstretched itself taking on too much debt because it was necessary to change the game. There might be something to having a mix of hipsters, boomers, and luddites all trying to balance each other out.

What happens when the 0 days are exposed?

What's going to happen to all of our software when Anthropic Mythos finds all of the 0 day vulnerabilities? Will everything depending on the bugs break? Will it be possible to fix them cleanly? Will we all get pwnd when the bad actors get access to them before everything is patched? Will LTS Operating Systems Die?
How does Claude Code actually work? - YouTube www.youtube.com
5 star video, if you are going to watch one video to understand how harnesses and agents work, this is it. This really had my gears spinning on what tools do for agents and how big of a difference they make in their ability to manage context efficiently and accurately create changes. It’s crazy how good bash works, and that gives the agents the ability to do just about everything, but it could be better.
Clearing out Creige's Cellar for the Vintage Nectar.
Fighting the second Savage Beastfly in Far Fields
Artemis II Lunar Flyby www.nasa.gov
Artemis II Lunar Flyby - NASA The first flyby images of the Moon captured by NASA’s Artemis II astronauts during their historic test flight reveal regions of the Moon's far side, as well as an in-space solar eclipse. Released... NASA · nasa.gov One of the biggest scientific achievement of our lifetime happened this week. I will forever remember sitting in a Culvers in between theater builds looking through these photos as they came live, looking at them in awe.
An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & … www.youtube.com
A really interesting long form interview with @simonwillison. If you follow him closely most of it is probably not new, but I found some interesting nuggets. Simon is writing most of his code from his phone these days using anthropic hosted platform. He mentioned that a lot of security risks go away when you don’t put secrets on the platform and you let them take the risk of running ai written code with ai chosen supply chain. He talked about the Pelican Riding a Bike benchmark for quite awhile. He was surprised at how well of a proxy it is for how capable a model is at just about everything. He also said that when he runs the benchmark he also runs half a dozen others that he’s never talked about so that He could see if they were to train a model specific to his benchmark he could catch them, but it seems they had caught on and if they were they seem that they would already be doing it on all of his others anyways. TDD is incredibly boring for humans, it strips so much creativity and joy from the process. Who cares if agents are bored they do better when doing TDD.
@seldo.com on Bluesky bsky.app
Laurie Voss (@seldo.com) Project Glasswing is a glimpse at an oncoming future in which agents do things humans could never have accomplished and the results are handled by other agents faster than humans could react and we... Bluesky Social · bsky.app Is Glasswing the next inflection point
3x3-3 Gaming Keeb Complete
freshly built gaming keyboard for @wyatt sitting on my desk
BumpMesh by CNC Kitchen bumpmesh.com
BumpMesh by CNC Kitchen Add displacement textures to STL, OBJ, and 3MF models directly in your browser. Preview, mask, bake, and export printable textured meshes locally. BumpMesh · bumpmesh.com Absolutely sick texture app from cnc kitchen. Like him I’ve spent a bunch of time attempting and failing to learn blender, I’m so glad someone else vibe coded out such a good app that can add texture to stls with basic masks and is the very basics of what you would want to add to 3d prints to make them interesting, I’m excited to use this for some real projects.
Wonka Letters
Wonka letters all cut out ready to get some stiffeners and go off for paint.

What is this job anymore

The job of writing code is dying, models are getting better, the average person will have their average features implemented in average ways with no effort by agents, the writing is on the wall. We are still trying to review most of the critical code, this is slowing us down, is it really stopping any bugs or giving us any more familiarity with the product, marginally. The time is now to grease up your UAT, testing, deployment pipelines. Dont let agents delete entire regions. Review your backup and restore strategy, you do have a DR plan right? Things are changing fast, the best of us are still better than the clankers. Most of us have more context than the clankers. Most of us have more intuition of what and where to implement fixes. Context windows and memory will be solved problems. Your DR plan, UAT, testinng and QA environments will not come for free, you need to make them, and deeply integrate them into your processes.
Hair Whittling Sharp
Hair whittling sharp, Do I get my redneck nerd card yet?
Llama In Pi Thinks Its Claude
I just launched ollama picked pi as it asked what harness I wanted to run, and it responded telling me it was claude.
Ty 0.0.26
ty 0.0.26 was released on 3/26/26, nice work planning.
What a banger of a tui, fantastic job cloning monkeytype. Looks so good. The toast messages are a tell tale built with textual.
Sparklines On The Feeds Header
View of the new markata-go feeds header with the banger of a sparkline.
Getting Excited For This New Feeds Page
This sparklines on this new feeds page are chefs kiss.

The year of the supply chain attacks

I think I'm starting to understand my role as a platform developer in 2026. * least priveleged access * default deny + explicit allow * understand your blast radius * **GREASED** creds rotate process * PIN EVERYTHING * keep packages up to date * but not too up to date, use dependency cooldowns
GitHub - kraanzu/smassh at terminaltrove · GitHub github.com
GitHub - kraanzu/smassh at terminaltrove Smassh your Keyboard, TUI Edition. Contribute to kraanzu/smassh development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com smassh is the coolest monkeytype tui clone, its impressively accurate. Easy to install and run, all the same themes appear to be there and everything. maybe a good way to get a few reps in while agents are running these days.

The final nail for Windows?

Easy anticheat for linux is out. !!! tip look at the date If this were real what would you play first? For me it's `skate .` is really the only thing I care about and I'm fine without it.
What Happens When AI Stops Being Artificially Cheap | Daniel M… danielmiessler.com
What Happens When AI Stops Being Artificially Cheap The subsidy era is ending. Here danielmiessler.com I’ve been thinking about this for awhile and Daniel makes some great arguments here. Interestingly keeping inference cheap removes the incentives to make our tools better, help us choose the right model, lean on local models, open weight models. The frontier models are so affordable through subsidized subscription models why would you deal with anything less intelligent at this point. The tooling we use is not optimized for it, and why should it be.
Tuesday, March 31, 2026 | Baty.net baty.net
External Link baty.net emacs config so bad he launch obsidian, YIKES! grantid I’m using obsidian currently on my phone, not for this post, but for journal entries while I’m away from my desk. Use this as a reminder that you can swim through murky waters with your dotfiles for awhile, but occasionally its good to do a clean up, pin it, put em in a docker image, have a good fallback to go to if shit really hits the fan. Iv’e been using https://github.com/waylonwalker/nvim-manager as part of my strategy for awhile now.
Package Managers Need to Cool Down simonwillison.net
Package Managers Need to Cool Down Today's LiteLLM supply chain attack inspired me to revisit the idea of dependency cooldowns, the practice of only installing updated dependencies once they've been out in the wild for a … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net 2026, finding the balance between fixed bugs and zero days. There is very unlikely ever a reason you need to be running bleeding edge packages in prod most package managers now support cool downs.
no one read the source x.com
ThePrimeagen (@ThePrimeagen) on X don't forget last time Anthropic, in their infinite PhD level wisdom, leaked their own source code (Feb 25) they DMCA'd all repos that had their code. Careful storing the code because Anthropic w… X (formerly Twitter) · x.com Everyone look away, nothing to see here.
safe words x.com
Mete Polat (@metedata) on X @Fried_rice @Scobleizer Anthropic is now officially more open than OpenAI X (formerly Twitter) · x.com Anthropic safewords are the talk of the town today.
the cheng lou pretext tweet x.com
Cheng Lou (@_chenglou) on X 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 f… X (formerly Twitter) · x.com webdev twitter is blowing up with implementations of pretext text calculations. The examples are absolutely fun and ridiculous.
you can replace the spinning verbs in Claude Code x.com
Josh Medeski (@joshmedeski) on X Did you know you can replace the spinning verbs in Claude Code. I'm having fun with it. X (formerly Twitter) · x.com The claude code source code leaked today and the tweets are great, maybe twitter is back. Did you know you can replace the spinning verbs in Claude Code. I’m having fun with it.

Ping 43

Okay so I logged into twitter today, and we are back.... probably not for long, but we are for now. Claude Code source leaked, the tweets are great. [[ thoughts-956 ]], [[ thoughts-958 ]], [[ thoughts-959 ]], Some typescript css text layout with bouncing balls, bubbles, strings, and webcam video to text is blowing up [[ thoughts-957 ]]. This is the tech twitter I remember no sad news how the world is corrupt by the other side.
@nicknisi.com on Bluesky bsky.app
@nicknisi) — Y'all, I think I'm a convert to pi" loading="lazy"> Nick Nisi ( @nicknisi) Y'all, I think I'm a convert to pi Bluesky Social · bsky.app I’m about to be pi pilled.
A person holds a clear, compartmentalized tray containing multiple small sections filled with light-colored, granular material
A person holds a clear, compartmentalized tray containing multiple small sections filled with light-colored, granular material. The tray is set against the backdrop of an outdoor wooden deck railing.
Wyatt’s First Printed Cosplay Scales
Wyatt printed these sick scales today and they came out so good on first try, luckily Rhiannon already had the fabric for him and he was able to follow his passion on this project while the spark was lit.
Wreath Of Purity Acquired
By completing Broodfeast Wish you acquire the Longclaw giving you a longer range attack.
Seekers Soul
Goal The Great Bench
Goal The Great
Updating The Arch Iso
Wyatt is working on a new arch install and it blew up, time to update the live image.

Social Media is dead

Social Media is dead, interest media killed it long ago. I no longer feel like I'm connecting to people, creating community, having fun, learning. I feel like I'm being shoveled slop from the slop machine, I'm sure mostly create by well intentioned people just trying to make it in the world, trying to make their mark, trying to make something of themselves. The algos long lost the idea of subs and likes, and transitioned to how long you will pause on a topic. What used to be a series of recognizable faces, names, avatars, each with their own personality that I could come to learn and know who was just trollin, who was serious, is now mostly unrecognizable. Platforms have changed and fractured communities people went separate ways, not all the same ways. No one community is like it used to be, and its hard to find.

/carry/

EDC # I try to keep a pretty light every day carry, but it never works out, keyfobs and headphone cases end up causing more bulk than I’d like, but My EDC is no where near the bulk I had as a kid with my cargo pants decked out with everything I could possibly need. I hold no attachment to anything in my EDC. Nothing on my person has sentimental value. Anything I carry can be lost, stolen, or destroyed at any point in time. I pick things of sufficient usable, utilitarian, quality sufficient to work. No extra fluff. Google Pixel 6 Ridge Wallet Olight Perun - Since April 2022 Civivi Qubit - Since March 2024 after my last one was donated to the Indianapolis Stadium OpenFit Shokz Rules # lightweight replacable no emotional attachments utilitarian everything serves a purpose My kit # Phone # Google Pixel 6 I will not get finance a new phone for the foreseeable future again. The last time I feel like I got a phone that felt like an upgrade was 2018 when I went to the Pixel 3. The pixel 6 and…
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Where Is The Tech Industry Going

Agents suck Get left behind if you don't use them Burn out if you use them too much The software world has been flipped upside down seemingly overnight. Slow at first, then all at once. It started with auto complete, to chat, to, ide integrations, to agents that would f&!^ over your repo more than it would help. Up till this point we are just little bit better and more specific than copy paste from Stack Overflow. Then in Nov 2025 models learned how to effectively use tools and do what you ask of them, sometimes more, sometimes less, but generally for the basic shit most of us make its a net positive with each iteration. Our techniques for managing work need to change. Our expectations need to change. Burnout for a lot of folks is coming.
To Live In A World Without AI pype.dev
To Live In A World Without AI | Nic Payne I'm finding lately that I wish we could go back to pre-ChatGPT... A world without a code-gen easy button, where "easy" was LSP autocomplete, wher pype.dev We f& #ing said @pype, well f& #ing said. I think a lot of us are feeling this, we’ve pitched our brain into a bucket and we are no longer stretching it in the same way. We still work in similar ways of old, with new ways of turning off and saying yes a bunch of times. the best thing I can hope for is that as things get better we have fewer yes loops, and more architectural design debates and deep thoughts. But I fear deep thoughts are gone to the way of “research the leading 10 frameworks and pick the best one for this project.” and letting the clankers do the deep thinking. Its signing us up for a weird distopia. I think a lot of us wish we could undo what has happened and go back to actually understanding what we are doing, but the world has changed, and if you are building average shit, like the average person, using models trained on average people doing average shit you cant keep up anymore.