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ThePrimeagen (@ThePrimeagen) on X I am slowly coming around to AI assisted programming. I am genuinely trying to codify every rule about programming that I have and using that + several stages to build out small changes. Not s… X (formerly Twitter) · x.com If agents make prime a bit faster, what does that mean for the rest of us mortals?

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.

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.

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.

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.

What an amazing set of photos created by the Artemis II crew accompanying a fantastic breakdown by Hank Green. Whole gallery is worth looking at https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/

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.

THIS is the future of homelab, excited to see someone who knows so much more about hardware than I do get excited about this.

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

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.

Bush on tiny desk. Iconic band on an iconic platform. Will be re-listening to this several times.