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SJMG··on Prompting Claude Opus 5.5
I have a clear view the plan.

> 3 tool calls

- git clone https://github.com/chauncygu/collection-claude-code-source-c...

- cd claude-code-source-code

- sleep 33h

SJMG··on Prompting Claude Opus 5.5
33h one-prompt? Okay I'll bite—what was the prompt?
SJMG··on Best LLM for every budget, updated daily
For intelligence only as of 8:51 MT
SJMG··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
If individuals had power to allocate funding or not to public research projects rather than get a blanket tax, there would be a lot more conventional marketing in the public sector as well.
SJMG··on A misalignment of AI in mathematics
Of course not. I'm so tired of the chess analogy. It was always a game and it was always performative.

Research is fundamentally different. We are seeing the erosion of specific needs for thinking at depth. AI is the automobile for the mind. There will 100% be undesirable consequences and selective atrophy of cognitive abilities once prized. This is a loss. There's no getting the cat back in the bag at this point so long as the objective dimension of work, as in object opposed to subject, is held as the most important.

SWEs felt this same crisis late last year. Now it's the mathematicians. They won't be the last.

SJMG··on A misalignment of AI in mathematics
Denial of service is the established term. Hammering their API (reviewer committees) would be an informal one
SJMG··on RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree
You would think, except in their own testing they found no benefit. Some measures it was even worse on.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/2026/05/what-happens-when-you-...

SJMG··on iPhone Duo
I would guess that they will release a folio that can accommodate one. If not, a competitor certainly will.
SJMG··on iPhone Duo
Wow coming apple pencil support! That will be pretty awesome.
SJMG··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
They pay at cost though, not the public API pricing.
SJMG··on Mathematics in the age of AI
Like not-not live in Montecito?

Not everyone can be rich by your definition.

SJMG··on Mathematics in the age of AI
So who gets to live in Montecito?
SJMG··on The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source
Jane Street's use of OCamel gives them a comparative advantage in hiring. Many devs put a premium on the tools they use. Same story with Anduril/Mercury using Haskell. You can run a successful prop trading firm/weapons design shop/startup-banking(?) platform without these things. They differentiate you from your competitors by being cool, not by being the best technical solution. If anything they were otherwise unprove at scale and out of pure engineering consideration a gamble. Developers are consumers.
SJMG··on GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
A billion a day? How many agents are you running?
SJMG··on Mojo 1.0
> Literally 30 seconds

And knowing the magic keyword search `adix` to arrive at a prerelease library that you yourself wrote. That not's exactly an endorsement for discoverability. Unless I'm missing something, Nimble is essentially stateless. You have no sense of how many times or how recently a library has been downloaded. These are important proxies.

> There has never been much prog.lang. benefit from being "in the stdlib/core" in Nim (unlike Python or Go, say) … more batteries core distribution is valuable - just less than you might guess

You've been around the community a lot longer than I have. Don't you find this strange? What top 10 language has as weak of a std lib as Nim? [Status all but says](https://status-im.github.io/nim-style-guide/libraries.std.ht...) don't use it.

> practically that needs delegation.

Yeah, I don't think this is the community's strong suit. It strikes me that Araq is tired of explaining himself (but doesn't care to consolidate discussion into ADRs), so when a well-meaning, would be contributor like the parent-poster comes along they get shot down and we lose them.

SJMG··on Mojo 1.0
Andreas is simultaneously brilliant and myopic to needs outside of his own (compiler dev).

It's amazing how many fights he gets into with Status-IM engineers who are the biggest financial supporters of the project and the only noteworthy company that heavily uses Nim.

Has OrderedTable been ported to Nimony? Does it still have this bug?

SJMG··on YC startups are abandoning .com
They have abc.xyz
SJMG··on Mojo 1.0
For sure, those things would go a distance towards making it a more competitive language.

Why haven't they happened yet though...? Nim is not a young language. Leadership [Andreas] doesn't think they are more important than spending time adding another memory management option.

SJMG··on Mojo 1.0
Julia as well.
SJMG··on Mojo 1.0
Language-feature-wise it seems like Nim will be competitive. Ecosystem-wise… yeah it's kind of a nonstarter over in Nim land. There are not many go-to libraries and its culture is not very collaborative. People seem more enamored at what they can hack together than what they can contribute to.
SJMG··on Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
I just wouldn't bet against Mitchell. He doesn't need the money. He does it for the love of it.
SJMG··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
Oh? What are the American model censorship tells?
SJMG··on Safari Technology Preview 248 Released
Well this preview includes many changes made to WebKit which Kagi, a so called independent browser, depends on. It's good news for you.
SJMG··on Every Byte Matters
This looks to be the end of the conversation now. Just wanted to drop in and thank you for your time commenting, pron.

The common discourse is that "XYZ language is close to the metal and therefore Blazing Fast (tm)" people become tribalistic and forgot that this there are engineering considerations and trade-offs all the way down. I appreciate you making the argument for the JVM delivering performant code when a budget matters.

SJMG··on Which sparkling water is the best?
Spindrift is amazing. So much better that champions of other brands will disqualify it on the basis of it actually having a trace amount of sugar.
SJMG··on We replaced Zendesk
The problem — it's not that they don't write anymore; it's that they don't think anymore.
SJMG··on Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality
You must not own property in Texas
SJMG··on SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket
I'm concerned about the cracking clearly visible on the heat shield tiles. It doesn't bode well for rapid reusability.
SJMG··on SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket
Quite a bit has changed. Here's the highlights: https://www.spacex.com/updates#starship-v3
SJMG··on Was my $48K GPU server worth it?
Do you value the infinitesimal improvement of model quality more than your privacy?
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