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Alex_L_Wood··on SwiftUI After 7 Years
I think SwiftUI is just a reflection of the times we live in. If you look around, many things which used to be done at "great" or "amazing" levels, are now just "good enough". Cars, houses, software, service - it all is just a reflection of the attitude, and even I noticed that I follow this in some of my day-to-day decisions.
Alex_L_Wood··on AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers
Which parasites?
Alex_L_Wood··on Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
Yeah, my immediate picture was a blue hobo tent with some extenders sticking out of it.
Alex_L_Wood··on Apple WWDC 2026
I am so happy that just by setting Siri to an unsupported language I can kill Apple Intelligence across the whole system.
Alex_L_Wood··on Claude Opus 4.8
How much must one tie their self-worth to a chatbot to debase themselves like that? To think that a winner in the arms and intelligence race of animal kingdom, a member of the species that made this chatbot, would put down themselves like that in the defense of the thoughtless silicon is absolutely laughable and depressing at the same time.
Alex_L_Wood··on Leave Me Behind
You don't even know what "main character syndrome" is.
Alex_L_Wood··on The Eternal Sloptember
They aren't, it's just populating context window until "memory" is pushed out.
Alex_L_Wood··on The Eternal Sloptember
I heard that a year ago, I guess we still need to wait a bit more. Thought agents were fast!
Alex_L_Wood··on The Eternal Sloptember
LLM proponents always use some language like "these old, stuck up dinosaurs with their manual labor vs us cool smart kids with automated labor", but they forget one thing - with automated labor the performance and cost difference was easily measurable in favor of the automation. With LLMs it's neither measurable nor visible (no better software, no faster delivery overall in the industry), and the costs are pretty bad. Besides personal anecdotes of someone toiling away at yet another AI harness project on GitHub.
Alex_L_Wood··on The Eternal Sloptember
It's not just that, but the core is just that, even with reasoning models. Harness can only get you closer to the good result, but can't save you from every pitfall. As for PM analogy - don't forget that models don't learn and keep doing same stupid stuff they were doing a month ago.
Alex_L_Wood··on The Eternal Sloptember
Well, since the fundamental underlying structure is still the same, yes.
Alex_L_Wood··on OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days
Not only we are looping, we are also adding layers of Idiocracy upon each loop. I kinda envy retired software engineers now, they can just grab the popcorn and watch this dumpster fire without a worry.
Alex_L_Wood··on OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days
Gary Tan building something AI-related on top of your work is an anti-flex.
Alex_L_Wood··on The sigmoids won't save you
I can’t take anyone who puts probability on events like that seriously. How would you even explain the calculations behind that with a straight face?
Alex_L_Wood··on The sigmoids won't save you
For basic primitives with known output it’s verifiable, but as long as you’re dealing with real systems with tons of inputs and side effects this no longer holds true.

> research showing with the right policy, Rest of the owl.

Alex_L_Wood··on The sigmoids won't save you
Coding is anything but “easily” verifiable.
Alex_L_Wood··on Agentic AI systems violate the implicit assumptions of database design
This article has all the correct conclusions and solutions based on one assumption that doesn’t have any hold in reality - that someone would be insane enough to allow direct DB access to an AI agent.
Alex_L_Wood··on GPT-5.5
Well, they obviously are going to say that, they have vested interest in OpenAI and thus Nvidia stock price growing.

Also, I honestly can’t believe the 10x mantra is being still repeated.

Alex_L_Wood··on Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0
I think at this point it’s all but confirmed that LLMs sycophantic tendencies coupled with yes-man attitudes produce AI psychosis and AI fanaticism. Especially if you’re already of high opinion of yourself (be it deserved or not).
Alex_L_Wood··on Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
Yeah, this while video I honestly couldn’t stop chuckling because it’s built on assumption that bicycles somehow either can’t brake at all or will take five business days to brake like a freight train. Though looking at Berlin cyclists the assumption seems to be true - so many of them insist on just plowing headfirst into an obstacle instead of braking that I start to think that the video was made by one of such cyclists.
Alex_L_Wood··on The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
Commenting every method, how pedestrian! I comment every letter of my code!
Alex_L_Wood··on Toward automated verification of unreviewed AI-generated code
If you care about the product, you double-so-much care about code correctness and the alignment with the expectations of the stakeholders.
Alex_L_Wood··on Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule
Oh, please enlighten us what is the entity, don’t be a coward!
Alex_L_Wood··on Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule
It’s so funny reading most comments here, knowing that they’d be celebrating and saying this is good if it was Netanyahu. But when it’s a maniacal islamist declaring his goal to be the destruction of US and Israel, it’s suddenly very nuanced.
Alex_L_Wood··on I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word”
“Stochastic parrots” only stopped because AI fanboys stopped screaming “AGI” and “it will replace everyone”. Maybe they finally got the memo?
Alex_L_Wood··on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
Here’s a bit of history lesson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine

TL;DR has nothing to do with Palestine of today

Alex_L_Wood··on Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents
Why does everything related to AI have to have such awful names? It’s as if everything is named to be as annoying as possible.
Alex_L_Wood··on Software factories and the agentic moment
>If you haven't spent at least $1,000 on tokens today per human engineer, your software factory has room for improvement

…What am I even reading? Am I crazy to think this is a crazy thing to say, or it’s actually crazy?

Alex_L_Wood··on Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)
One of the Swift’s worst parts is how Apple keeps putting features in there just for the sake of SwiftUI.
Alex_L_Wood··on The recurring dream of replacing developers
Well, who designs the system of flows?
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