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Context Poisoning Was There All Along

I wrote some code by hand on Sunday. Sat down with my son and started building out a game in pygame from scratch. We went to google, we searched how to do something, we copy and pasted from the docs. Not because we are dumb, but because we cant remember some aspects of the pygame api. Now that these patterns are established we no longer have to google them, we simply grep our codebase and replicate the pattern. Easy right? It's funny that it took ai to coin the term `context poisoning` even though it was there all along.
⭐ tobi qmd
If you’re into interesting projects, don’t miss out on qmd [1], created by tobi [2]. mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local References: [1]: https://github.com/tobi/qmd [2]: https://github.com/tobi
⭐ ratdoux OrcaSlicer-FullSpectrum
Looking for inspiration? OrcaSlicer-FullSpectrum [1] by ratdoux [2]. G-code generator for Snapmaker U1 with Full Spectrum layer blending References: [1]: https://github.com/ratdoux/OrcaSlicer-FullSpectrum [2]: https://github.com/ratdoux

Agents cannot replace the thinking, they only amplify it

Agents cannot replace the thinking, they only amplify it. If you set the agents off in the wrong direction that's where they will go. They will sprint there faster than you can go. This is ok, its one of their advantages, they can give you signal quick. Remember if they are off in the wrong direction more research and planning is needed, and maybe a little bit more thinking on your end to steer them in the right direction.
Almost Cheesed It To Port Aquelite
Its A Trap
Collection Party Balloon
Collection L Bracket
Wyatt Hits The Gap
ten year computer alexwlchan.net
Dreaming of a ten-year computer – alexwlchan alexwlchan.net [1] Great gusto here from someone looking to fill landfills less. Get more use from what they paid for. Dodge some tough times in the hardware industry. I’m going to argue that the 10 year computer is not one bit crazy right now. No idea what the future entails, if local llms get good enough to really get so useful they feel required this could easily change. One issue I had with the post as they are looking to get a machine for the next 10 years is they were so focused on themself that they missed the point. They were so focused on buying something that would work for them for 10 years that they bought something brand new rather than thinking about the bigger issue of how do we get hardware to last 10+ years. Some factor of this involves giving our devices a second life. Two things went wrong here. First it appears they they have a perfectly good imac with a broken screen. I know nothing about apple/imac, assuming that the screen is toast and unrepairable, I know you can ssh into a mac this feels like good potential for server hardware. Next they purchased a brand new mac mini. Hardware has been good for a long time,...
The future of Coding and Code Quality - YouTube www.youtube.com
- Very interesting takes from @thdxr in this interview. A lot has been hashed out by others all over the place, but a hot take here is that code quality is higher than ever right now. Codebases are becoming more consistent than ever. If you are not starting with a good consistent base from the start you are poising your context and doomed to fail and have all the common failures of ai written code. He still reads almost every PR, and will read all of the code eventually. There are a few cases where reading the PR is not worthwhile only when its low stakes, knows that good patterns have been established and followed. He argues that someone needs to be the expert of the code and of the product still and fears that too many people not looking at prs will fail companies.

Thinking about ai productivity again

Thinking about AI productivity again. It's allowing massive amounts of work to get done, to levels that humans cannot physically type out in some cases. But not all of this work is necessarily high value work. Right now I'm working on one of the biggest PRs to an internal cli library. Probably the largest PR I've ever done professionally. It touches all of the cli, refactors every command, reaches into the business logic layers to drive deeper separation. I reaches into the common layers to drive consistency. It ensures that every command (50 or so) has similar flags, supports --plain, --no-color. It specs out contracts to ensure that data goes out stdout, any extra goes out stderr. This makes everything unix pipe friendly. There was quite a bit of research and prep that went in, that turns out to already be distilled down into clig.dev. The point is that this is all good work. It will make the product consistent, repeatable, expected, and most of all boring. Most of the time, it wi...
Dummy13 On A Skateboard
Tonight Wyatt gave me a dummy13 that he printed, assembled, and posed all on his own. He's printed quite a few of these in the past, and none came to this level of completion. I'm so proud of him. This one was a near flawless build with only a few mistakes, that I'd argue were poor design, small vertical pins. More importantly he was able to problem solve and use resin to fix these mistakes.
Groal The Great Fail 1
Groal The Great Fail 2
Do You Have Token anxiety? - YouTube www.youtube.com
- Kids are leaving the party early, not drinking, cant watch netflix without the laptop open. They are leaving the party early to check on their agents. I get it, that feeling that you need to eek out one more prompt, keep your agents running. if they arent running what are you even doing. If not you 6 others are ready to pass you up. The timeline to be first has shrunk to nothing but unachievable.
⭐ cyxzdev Uncodixfy
I recently discovered Uncodixfy [1] by cyxzdev [2], and it’s truly impressive. the holly uncodexify instructions - letting GPT create uncodexified UI References: [1]: https://github.com/cyxzdev/Uncodixfy [2]: https://github.com/cyxzdev
The web is bearable with RSS pluralistic.net
Pluralistic: The web is bearable with RSS (07 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net [1] It’s wild how much of a hit Google took from killing reader, almost any time I hear about killedbygoogle, reader is the top of the list. Its the thing that we all remember being really good and the incumbants just did not match up. Somehow we are here 13 years later still bitching about it, despite it only having a 6 year run. You should probably get an rss reader, and follow some incredible people that make feeds. Most sites that produce content have the ability to subscribe over rss. Unlike @pluralistic [2], I dont read in my reader. My reader is just a list of links out to the web and I typically read it how the author intended on their site. I nod a long to Cory’s enshitified internet just as much as the next guy, I love text based interfaces, I despise the bloat that js has brought on. But I don’t believe all js is bad, I don’t turn it off, even though he has me questioning this now. News sites kinda suck, we can agree there, but its rare that a small indie web creator has fully enshitified their site with js. I don’t buy that. Sub to the feeds. Refer...
I need a new blog to subscribe to. Know… | justin․searls․co justin.searls.co
Justin Searls @searls I need a new blog to subscribe to. Know any you think I'd like? E-mail me: [email protected] justin․searls․co · justin.searls.co [1] Sent Justin my list https://go.waylonwalker.com/blogroll, will soon be on the main site, but right now its only on the go subdomain. I’ve long had reader.waylonwalker.com, but thats soon going to be wrapped into the main site as well at /reader. I’m interested to see what good stuff Justin gets and if you have any good ones to share reply. References: [1]: https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-08-23h18m29s/