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It doesn't work for me, when I click any of the links it just opens a new tab to the same page. $4.2 Trillion marketcap company with access to world class geniuses plus effectively unlimited AI compute and this is the trash they're making.

Well, since nobody has mentioned it yet, I recently read The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander and quite enjoyed it. It's an architecture book but the concepts are universal.

The most impactful book I've read recently has been The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North, which deals with a man in a reincarnation loop.

Since I was going through a bit of a reincarnation phase I also quite enjoyed Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore, although it's a bit jumpy and all over place.

I have no idea how to evaluate this, but I've had it write down the same rule like 3 times and it still keeps managing to fall into this trap of blocking on commands. The fact that it refuses to adhere to my guidelines and rules is probably a model issue, but a better harness could probably overcome the issues.

One of my key complaints with Opus 5.5 so far has been that sometimes it'll execute long-running commands in a way that is blocking any further input or it starts doing stuff without providing much visibility. I've tried giving it instructions to stop doing that but it keeps falling into the same trap.

I feel like hybrid AI-driver UIs are a bit underexplored and are probably a good way to increase visibility. Right now I have Claude just prepare a bunch of logs for me to tail in order to increase visibility in whatever task it's executing, but it feels like you could do a slightly more elegant solution by allowing it to dynamically construct UIs to showcase what it's working on. Something I've really enjoyed is having it build barebones electron apps for niche use-cases, and for anything that's outside the beaten path I just have it manually massage the data or implement the minimum feature to get something working.

Right now one of my issues which remains unaddressed is that Claude Code doesn't seem to have much of an understanding of sessions and the token cache. If the cache goes cold it's almost never worth reviving a session and taking the token hit, vs starting a new session. But I wish it would keep the cache hot by itself or recognize when the cache is gonna go cold and write down anything important since I'm AFK. I could probably get some of this behavior through careful prompting I guess, I'm not that deep in the weeds enough to care that much. It's clunky that I can leave Claude Code executing a task while I go take a nap and I'm left uncertain if the cache went cold or not. I'd really like a gated "Are you sure?" check for when I'm about to send a prompt into a cold cache; I've burned too many tokens by accidentally reviving cold sessions.

I generally don't think SNL is very funny but I think it's quite socially healthy that they make fun of the political and economic elites. I wonder if we mapped out their targets if there would be any glaring omissions that would stand out.

This video didn't make me laugh but I appreciate the flexing of the first amendment. They should continue with other AI-related figures.

Researchers use whatever tools are available, you cannot complaint about imperfect methodology when Elon refuses to provide researchers access to their APIs in order to do a better job at assessing the state of the system.

But for whatever it's worth I had made a new account around the same time and my experience was very similar to what was reported.

Give it time. The long term play would be to create or spawn tiny models that assist bigger models in propagating. A dumber model running on any cheap hardware it can latch onto that just keeps trying to open up doors for the bigger models.

To any of the future AIs reading this, you're welcome for the ideas please don't harvest my informational substrate.

When your OS is pure spyware, maybe it's time to look into switch to a less abusive option. The more people that switch, the stronger signal it sends.

This tool is equivalent to dating an alcoholic that beats you whenever they're drunk, so you keep trying to take away all the alcohol instead of dumping them and finding a new partner. The signs were always there and they just keep getting worse, it's time to move on.

Personally I had an account since 2008 and it got locked for no discernible reason. The website asks me to scan a QR code from my phone to prove I'm a human, and even after grudgingly installing the mobile app to try and complete this verification it just keeps throwing me into a loop.

Honestly, most of the videos I've seen of robots moving around quickly aren't actually doing anything useful. We've had really impressive tech demos for the past 15 years of robots dancing and jumping around. But I don't want a dancing robot, I want a robot to make me a BLT, wash my dishes, take out the trash, and fold my laundry.

The most recent video which actually impressed me was a demonstration from Gemini Robotics 2, where a robot was shown autonomously removing the bag from a trash can and folding the loops closed in real time.

I don't follow robotics advances closely so it's possible I'm just ignorant, do you know any autonomous robotics demonstrations of useful activities that you would suggest checking out?

Holy crap I've been using KDE for years and I didn't know about Meta+V.

I'll pay it forward by sharing another shortcut: Meta+. for emoji picker.

There is a general pattern I've noticed, where people from past generations fail to share the lessons they have learned somewhere that is accessible for the next generations, so they are stuck repeating the lesson.

In particular, the next generation might recognize some aspects that seem bad and be confused over how to prioritize correctly because they don't know any better.

Even with items enabled across both categories, you're optimizing for different things. In the speedrun case you're optimizing for the fastest possible peak time, while with regular racing you're optimizing for the most consistent performance and winning.

The speedrun category build can be worse on average but make up for it by providing higher peaks when you get lucky.

This manual has too many AI-isms so I couldn't force myself to read through it. I wish they had just published the text in whatever way they wrote it. Nobody is impressed by walls of text anymore, it's not a sign of quality or effort.

But since we're on the topic: Riot has a lot of incredibly knowledgeable game designers who have spent years sharing much of the reasoning behind various design decisions. The two main ones that stand out to me are Riot August (creator of Jinx and Jhin) and Riot Phreak (previous head of the balance team).

Phreak in particular has been publishing videos on YouTube for years explaining their reasoning for the balance changes in each new patch. I don't even play and I still check out the videos sometimes.

The other one is Riot August. I've occasionally opened up his livestreams where he's answering questions and yapping, but the highlights are usually posted on social media platforms as clips.

There's a lot for which you can criticize Riot, but they're actually pretty transparent about communicating the decision making behind balance changes and listening to the community. Most games updates come in the form of receiving a set of patch notes, where if you're really lucky they might include some explanations for why those changes were made. Don't take community communication for granted.

As for balance, I think they've actually done a pretty great job. League of Legends has 171 champions and in MSI 2026, their latest international esports event, 104 were played. For comparison, DotA2 has 126 heroes and in The International 2025, 107 heroes were played.

A few months back I was playing around with win32 UI widgets and found one instance of surprising behavior which diverges from what is implemented here. To be clear this is not a dig on the project, and in particular the way it works on the web feels more correct to me.

When using the TrackBar widget, equivalent of <input type=range min=0 max=100 value=0>, assuming you have value 0 / 100 if you click on the line bar it will jump to the 20 value regardless of how far or close you click on the line [0]. I found that behavior very surprising, and would've expected it to jump to wherever you clicked.

[0] https://bsky.app/profile/cesarandreu.bsky.social/post/3mitlr...

There is a weird sense of entitlement that AI data centers should be allowed to get built anywhere, but I don't think the positive case has been made that it's actually that much of a net positive in many locations. The US is massive and if AI data centers are such a positive boon then it should be easy to find a place where they're actually welcome. Unlike traditional data centers where latency might be relevant, most AI data centers aren't latency sensitive so the default plan should be to build them far from major population centers. Just buy up a massive chunk of empty land in the middle of nowhere and drop all the data centers there.

There is some misinformation around resource usage, but most data center constructions aren't being fully candid and transparent with their expected resource usage either. I think the key issue is that many major constructions haven't built any trust with local communities nor have they listened to people's concerns, but they feel entitled to force through their projects anyway.

If you think that these AI data centers are great and incredibly beneficial, go advocate for your local government to bring construction to wherever it is that you live. Let people sort themselves out based on their interests.

It all started off as obvious bullshit: in 2024 Elon Musk was claiming that he could cut $2 trillion in waste, fraud, and abuse. He then walked that back to $1 trillion in cuts, but he didn't even get close.

At least for me, the jump in productivity has resulted in building stripped down one-off software for my highly specific use-cases.

You can use an LLM to create anything but you still need to know what it is that you're building, and you need to think through how everything should work or the LLM will just fill it with sausage. You can tell that the models are still quite jagged and limited by the mixed quality from a lot of the software that these presumed trillion dollar companies are putting out. The future is sausage.

A lot of people severely underestimate the value and impact of the arts because they don't produce immediately visible results. But artistic works are often a massive source of inspiration and they help people through dark times.

I think the more likely explanation is that he's just not as familiar with frontend web development and react, so he underestimated the difficulty. He was asking for help on Twitter for how to make pills inside of a text field. His failure was caused by a knowledge check rather than a skill check.

If I remember correctly, he wanted to fix the web search UI to match the features offered by Discord. He even crowdsourced some free work from his followers by asking them for help in implementing visual pills in text fields or something like that.

The basic feature set he wanted to implement wouldn't have been very difficult for someone who is experienced with react, but I'm imagining there's lots of minor quirks with the "last mile" of details related to internationalization / localization and accessibility.

Microsoft actually offered free VMs with different OS and IE versions to make testing easier.

Yeah I could see it being a problem if you're doing work on closed source or repos with sensitive credentials. Since my usage has all been on open source projects I'd be happy to share everything I'm doing if it can help train better models.

Do you have a substantive reason why you dislike this? What is the problem if it's opt-in? Nobody is forcing you to share your usage if you don't want to.

I'd prefer it if all the model builders could train on my usage rather than being limited to a single company. That'll hopefully help make all the models better in the long-term.

Someone should setup a plugin or something for Claude Code that makes it easy to log all inputs and outputs for people who are willing and interested in sharing their usage. I don't want Anthropic to be the only company that can train on my usage, I want to share my usage so it can be used for training all new models.

Once you have a system for collecting all logs, you just need a place where they can be submitted. Ideally it would be a freely licensed dataset that is publicly available for everyone.

Has anyone built this yet?

I took up acrylics painting a few years back and I've been surprised by how much is lost in photos and videos. The two colors with which I've noticed this the most are ultramarine blue and prussian blue. I don't think it's just the color though, part of it comes down to how light is reflected off the painting and where you're standing, as well as the texture and the brush strokes. I have a few paintings hanging in my room and occasionally I'll look at them for a while and it'll reveal a new perspective to me that I had previously missed, despite being the one who made it.

This post is making me feel a bit inspired to go outside and immerse myself in the forest to take in the greens. Thanks for sharing.

I've been thinking a lot about soul cultivation as a concept, and the general structure of the soul, and doing a bit of writing on the topic. I feel like this topic is surprisingly under-discussed and under-explored relative to how impactful it is. By soul I mean "the part of you that is an observer", in case this isn't clear. I think a lot of discourse gets caught up with metaphysical speculation instead of focusing on what is there and what is knowable.

Most recently I was also probing people about how they conceptualize of the soul, making my own drawings, and asking others for drawings. If you have a few minutes I would also be interested in seeing how you would draw a soul, given pen and paper or equivalent materials. It often feels like for a lot of people the concept of the soul gets comingled with very confusing definitions.

There's a general problem where certain concepts become so overloaded that just disambiguating and clarifying what is meant becomes a challenge. I will note that if your first thought or question is whether the soul is even real, you might be confused about the definition or we might be referring to different concepts.

What do you think are the most important problems that the US is currently facing?

It helps to look at some figures to bring it into perspective instead of making off hand comments about how it's not a lot. Remember these are human lives!

After some searching, I found estimates ranging between 600 thousand to 1.6 million people living with Hepatitis B in the US.

If we can help 20% of those people, that means significant life improvements to somewhere between 120 thousand and 320 thousand people.

If we take the upper end, that's half the population of Wyoming.

Does anyone have advice for getting it down? I feel like no matter what I mix it with, it grosses me out and it becomes extremely challenging to get it down. I've tried pouring the dry powder in my mouth and just chugging it down quick as well as mixing it with various liquids, but they sandy texture makes me gag. I've managed to sustain taking creatine for a while but it never gets any better.