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What are you using it for, primarily?

No love for caddyserver?

Tech Lead, not PM. (in my experience)

not a joke.

Also, the future you are referring to is... like... 6 weeks from now.

I don't know why we need a term like "Async AI programming." this is literally what you would do if you were a Tech Lead directing a team of other developers. You define what you want and hand it to one of your devs.

This is just being a TL. the agent is an assistant or a member of the team. I don't know why we need to call it "Async AI programming", unless we want to shy away from or obscure the idea that the agent is actually performing the job a human used to perform.

> is that it assumes you already know what you want at the start, and, implicitly, that what you want actually makes some real sense.

My experience is different. I find that AI-powered coding agents drop the barriers to experimentation drastically, so that ... yes if I don't know what I Want, I can go try things very easily, and learn. Exploration just got soooo much cheaper. Now that may be a different interaction that what is described in this blog post. The exploration may be a precursor to what is happening in this blog post. But once I'm done exploring I can define the problem and ask for solutions.

If it's DOA you'd better tell everyone who is currently doing this, that they're not really doing this.

Kerbernerd revealed.

> disabled RC4 where possible

I'm curious. Under what circumstances would it be _not_ possible to disable RC4?

Is this in case there is a Windows 98 machine running somewhere in the network?

do you know the name Luigi Mangione?

> even in Japan somebody could make some kind of battery ignited home-made shotgun and kill Shinzo Abe

ok let's try data instead of feels. Per Capita, what is the number of mass shootings per year in the USA, and in Japan. I did't know the answer but asked Gemini.

The most recent year for which there is data, apparently, is 2023, during which there were 604 mass shootings in the USA, and 1 in Japan. Given the respective population counts, the per-capita rate of mass shootings in the United States was about 225 times higher than in Japan.

Given that, are you confident that your observation that "one guy made a gun once in Japan" is a strong refutation of the idea that the US could reduce mass shootings by strengthening regulations?

We had no idea what we were dealing with. It was unprecedented. People were doing the best they could. All the anger didn't help.

It's not a prompt injection _in the MCP Server_. It's injection facilitated by the MCP server that pulls input from elsewhere, eg an email sent to your inbox, a webpage that the agent fetches, or in the comment on a pull request submitted to your repo. [1]

[1] https://www.thestack.technology/copilot-chat-left-vs-code-op...

> -all existing investors and vested employee/equity holders are paid out;

But the statement from Cognition was:

  >    100% of Windsurf employees will participate financially in this deal
  >    100% of Windsurf employees will have vesting cliffs waived for their work to date
  >    100% of Windsurf employees will receive fully accelerated vesting for their work to date

The details matter. "vesting cliffs waived" meaning what? Windsurf shares exchanged for Cognition shares? at what ratio?

"Participate financially" means what exactly? They could all get a coupon for a free doughnut, and that statement would be true.

I'm not saying the employees are getting nothing, or even a raw deal. I'm saying we have no idea if the deal is good for them, without details.

> theoretically the remaining company could pay accelerate vesting, then pay out the cash to their remaining employees, and then shut down, to give everyone the same exit as an acquisition, or better.

unlikely that will happen. More likely the investors and VCs will take the lion's share of the $2.5B, that is what they do. That is why they exist. And they'll distribute as thin a slice as possible to the employees.

> I think anthropic and OpenAI are both sufficiently differentiated that they would be profitable/extremely successful companies by all accounts if they stopped spending today.

Maybe. But that would probably be temporary. The market is sufficiently dynamic that any advantages they have right now, probably isn't stable defensible longer term. Hence the need to keep spending. But what do I know? I'm not a VC.

From Gemini

Based on reports from today, April 29, 2025, a Canadian federal election was held on Monday, April 28, 2025.

The Liberal Party, led by Mark Carney, won the election. Therefore, Mark Carney is the candidate who has won the position of Prime Minister. Reports indicate this is the Liberal Party's fourth consecutive term in power. It's still being determined in some initial reports whether they will form a majority or a minority government.

Sources and related content (links provided)

Nitpicky maybe, but I think "someone had to show them" is a little off the mark. Google had no incentive to start using AI to deliver answers, because Search was making lots of money. It's not that "someone had to", it's that "someone did". And when they did, Google pivoted.

Interesting. I had the exact opposite experience recently.

I've also been writing code for a long time, did the 6502 assembly thing way back when, and lots since then. For this current project I wanted to build a web app with a frontend in Angular and a backend in Java 21 relying on javalin.io for the services layer. It had a few other integrations as well - into a remote service requiring OAuth and also into subtlecrypto. After less than 10 hours I had a fully functioning MVP that was far superior to anything I could have created without an assistant. It gave me build files, even a test skeleton. Restyling the UI or reflowing the UX to include confirmations, additional steps, modals, ... was really easy. I just had to type it, and those changes would get made. It felt like I was "director of development" for a day.

I used Aider, plugged into Gemini 2.5.

There won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive _total consciousness_.

--Carl Spackler, quoting the Dalai Lama

> To have persons read them and decide how to use them for training.

Not that I have any actual insight. but doesn't it seem more likely that it will not be a human, but a model? Models training models.

Just curious, what tool do you use to interface with these LLMs? Cursor? or Aider? or...

But have you tried any other interfaces for Gemini? Like the Gemini Code Assistant in VSCode? Or Gemini-backed Aider?

I guess you're referring to "Fair and Balanced". That was retired a few years ago... if you can believe NY Magazine. :) http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/06/fox-news-is-dropping-...

Are you calling bullshit on that quote?

Can't bear to watch that guy; the constant face & nose touches are very distracting.

Isn't there a difference? Google is sharing that offline purchase insight with advertising clients, rather than simply using that data itself, as does Amazon.

Um, can you explain it like I am 5, why this is a Holy Shit thing?

ok , so DPRK is installing spyware on tablets that are sold in DPRK.

Reading this article, it occurs to me that it's not very different than the surveillance that the NSA is performing on US Citizens, except the NSA is smarter about it and taps the network access, at the network provider.

Weird that everything is saved as a gist. I feel like it would make more sense to store them in one repo. I went looking for the notes I created in github, and found a bunch of flat gists. ??

Pinning stickers! I am so glad the USA is still leading in innovation. Thank you to all the hard workers who devoted their time to solving this problem as opposed to working on some vague or diffuse health-related issue. The world is so much better now that we can pin stickers on instagram gifs.

> As population growth slows it's only natural for electricity to as well.

You missed the point. It's not that growth in total energy use is slowing, like growth in population is slowing. The point is that per-capital energy use is _declining_. You can't describe a decline as "slowing growth" with a straight face unless you are a Fox News commentator.