Posts tagged: ai

make no mistakes Listen and make your own on Suno. suno.com [1] Ai prompt music, the right level of cringe to be great. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://suno.com/song/f5821216-ea6e-49c3-98de-67880e517a89 [2]: /thoughts/

I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do Last Week in AWS · lastweekinaws.com [1] This post was filled with real life, snark, entertainment, feelings. I get a lot of these emails that claim they can change my SEO game if I give them 500, for a site making 0, Link partnerships from small startups. A lot of these are so automated that if I do respond I dont even get a response. I’ve responded to many simply asking what is this about, I get 10 others just like you a week. Can you tell me what exactly you want and what each of us benefit from it, how did you find me. All normal questions, they almost always result in crickets, no response, maybe its time to implement a Billie for more snark. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/i-hope-this-email-finds-you-before-i-do/ [2]: /thoughts/

- Absolute banger of a conference talk, saving to come back with more notes later. Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

Opencode is changing on the daily right now, today I noticed the word low pop up in Orange text in my opencode window. Looking into this they are exposing variants [1] to the user. This allows you to change between fast or slow and thinking, the later taking more time to prepare before doing an action. Swapping Variants in opencode [2] It looks like this toggle may have been here for awhile and I’m just now discovering it. Potentially because its a new feature of the free Zen provider. Variants Many models support multiple variants with different configurations. OpenCode ships with built-in default variants for popular providers. Built-in variants OpenCode ships with default variants for many providers: Anthropic: high - High thinking budget (default) max - Maximum thinking budget OpenAI: Varies by model but roughly: none - No reasoning minimal - Minimal reasoning effort low - Low reasoning effort medium - Medium reasoning effort high - High reasoning effort xhigh - Extra high reasoning effort Google: low - Lower effort/token budget high - Higher effort/token budget References: [1]: https://opencode.ai/docs/models/#variants [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/0b...

Don’t fall into the anti-AI hype I'm glad someone was brave enough to say this. There is a lot of anti-AI sentiment in the software development community these days. Much of it is justified, but if … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1] Never believe in absolutes, see what I did there. The hype bros will take you to the extremes, ai will take your jobs in six months or be burned to the ground in six months. How about its useful now and will be more useful in six months. If you turned off the hype bro feed for six months you would probably be fine, in fact you would probably be better off for not capturing so much noise along the way. AI has gone the way of next js framework, it churns fast, hype bros are always an expert that know exactly whats best for everyone. It changes fast, what was the best last week might be dead next week. In fact getting to know what works well for you and knowing that tool really well for a longer period will take you farther. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/11/dont-fall-into-the-anti-ai-hype/#atom-everythin...

- Salesforce gets pwnd by the ai hype bros and killed its reputation with employees, letting them know where they truely stand with them. 4k people sounds like a lot, its probably a big chunk of savings, but was it worth the loss of reputation? There must be a better way to give this a trial run that lets them understand this before disrupting the lives of real people right??? Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

- I thought this was an interesting take from Simon. I’ve been hearing him consistently say there will be more demand for software engineering in the future. More companies will have the ability and need to deal with software applications, but fewer of us will be hand editing any code. I thought this was an interesting interaction in the clip. Uh Simon, what do you got for us? I’ve just got the one. I think the act of the the the job of being paid money to type code into a computer Yeah. will go the same way as punching punch cards. Okay. I do I think in six years time I do not think it will anyone will be paid to 80:56 just do the thing where you type the code. Just type the code. Okay. I think software engineering will still be an enormous career. I just think the software engineers won’t be spending multiple hours of their day in a text editor typing out syntax. 81:09 It will look like punching cards. I think so. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. In uh in six years. Um and but software engineering still very much exists. I believe so. I I hope so. [laughter] I very much hope so because I think the um the challenge of being a software 81:23 engineer is not remembering ho...

This is opencode’s init prompt. Please analyze this codebase and create an AGENTS.md file containing: 1. Build/lint/test commands - especially for running a single test 2. Code style guidelines including imports, formatting, types, naming conventions, error handling, etc. The file you create will be given to agentic coding agents (such as yourself) that operate in this repository. Make it about 150 lines long. If there are Cursor rules (in .cursor/rules/ or .cursorrules) or Copilot rules (in .github/copilot-instructions.md), make sure to include them. If there's already an AGENTS.md, improve it if it's located in <dir>

Photoshop for text In the near future, transforming text over an entire document will become as commonplace as filtering images. Steph Ango · stephango.com [1] While the non deterministic nature of llms scare the heck out of me in the sense of just cutting it loose on my writing. letting it go through all of my files and just edit them. I do like the idea of mundane tools like “desaturate”, “Gaussian blur”, evolving out of it for text. I don’t yet see this with the tools we have now, but it will be interesting to see them evolve. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://stephango.com/photoshop-for-text [2]: /thoughts/

I’ve found Gemini to be very useful lately, especially for finding information within long form content. When writing thought-896 [1], I wanted to use a direct quote from Jeff Dickey, Gemini popped it out very quickly. give me a quote from jeff just before the timestamp I'm at the interviewer asked what makes a good cli and he started talking about stdout/stderr In another case, my wife and I are huge Good Eats fans. Alton Brown taught us how to cook during college and on. We watched every single good eats episode nearly 10 years after they aired. He is back with some updates to those those shows on his Youtube. Gemini gives very good detailed responses with timestamps. Alton Brown had a recent YouTube video for cooking turkey. Can you get the instructions from the video? References: [1]: https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/post/896