What Happens When AI Stops Being Artificially Cheap
The subsidy era is ending. Here
danielmiessler.com [1]
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.
References:
[1]: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/ai-stops-being-artificially-cheap
Publishing rhythm
External Link
baty.net [1]
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.
References:
[1]: https://baty.net/journal/31mar26/
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uv adds dependency cooldowns via #16814 [2]. Well needed feature in todays world, far from a guarantee, but its something.
References:
[1]: /static/https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/tag/0.9.17
[2]: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/16814
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 [1]
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.
References:
[1]: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/24/package-managers-need-to-cool-down/
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 [1]
Everyone look away, nothing to see here.
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References:
[1]: https://x.com/ThePrimeagen/status/2038978962089492631
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/090f03b2-e6f5-4ede-a814-bfbb4e237b54.webp
Mete Polat (@metedata) on X
@Fried_rice @Scobleizer Anthropic is now officially more open than OpenAI
X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
Anthropic safewords are the talk of the town today.
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References:
[1]: https://x.com/metedata/status/2038924041453441422
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/c097c6dc-4b10-4fab-a9f9-1d4181422285.webp
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 [1]
webdev twitter is blowing up with implementations of pretext text calculations. The examples are absolutely fun and ridiculous.
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References:
[1]: https://x.com/_chenglou/status/2037713766205608234
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/350a368f-0e6b-4375-98d6-6303961c0d6c.webp
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.
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 [1]
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.
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References:
[1]: https://x.com/joshmedeski/status/2039010741039120417
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/8cf5cf65-40e1-4f40-8d09-b596a97dd51d.webp
[1]@nicknisi [1]) — Y'all, I think I'm a convert to pi" loading="lazy">
Nick Nisi (@nicknisi [2])
Y'all, I think I'm a convert to pi
Bluesky Social · bsky.app
I’m about to be pi pilled.
References:
[1]: https://bsky.app/profile/nicknisi.com/post/3mhgcbpm4ds2p
[2]: https://nicknisi.com
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 # [1]
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.
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- 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
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Rules # [2]
- lightweight
- replacable
- no emotional attachments
- utilitarian
- everything serves a purpose
My kit # [3]
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Photo taken March 2023
Phone # [5]
Google Pixel 6
I will not get finance a new phone for the foreseeable future again. The last
time I feel lik...
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.