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bauerd··on Creepy Crawlies
They're the exception, not the rule. They get crawled like any other site, but happen to host git repositories. It's not obvious that these are targeted crawls and they likely may just end up in crawling queues a lot generally
bauerd··on Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management
I returned to hand-written notebooks. None of these knowledge management frameworks ever worked for me. Sure my agents have their own semantic memory system but I’m not an agent.
bauerd··on Claude Opus 5
Because these productivity increases will be to the detriment of the average person. We won’t get to reap the benefits.
bauerd··on Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation
You don’t think there are causes worth fighting for? Or that deterrence is immoral? Help me understand.
bauerd··on Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'
>I don’t know how I could work in any of these military industry companies.

You'd sing a different song quite quickly once the threat stops being abstract as you don't get to free-ride on the security a defense industry provides.

bauerd··on The dead economy theory
It's part of a constantly evolving ecosystem. It's a stable product because reliability engineers make it so and software engineers get the integrations right.
bauerd··on The dead economy theory
>What on earth do you do with that many devs on a project like Messenger? I mean, really?

What makes you think it's a simple system to develop at scale?

bauerd··on The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox
>Having said that, some components need to live outside the sandbox (otherwise, who creates the sandbox?).

I run a single-node k3d cluster on each of my MacBooks which uses Agent Sandbox[0] to keep harnesses isolated. Harnesses access models through LiteLLM only. I have aliases for `kubectl exec`ing into whatever harness I need.

[0] https://agent-sandbox.sigs.k8s.io

bauerd··on Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
Fully agree, I only pay the minimum for frontier models to get DeepSeek v4 output reviewed. I don't see this changing either because we have reached a level of good enough at this point.
bauerd··on I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
They can't afford to care about individual customers because enterprise demand exploded and they're short on compute
bauerd··on An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
>On March 4, we changed Claude Code's default reasoning effort from high to medium to reduce the very long latency—enough to make the UI appear frozen—some users were seeing in high mode

Instead of fixing the UI they lowered the default reasoning effort parameter from high to medium? And they "traced this back" because they "take reports about degradation very seriously"? Extremely hard to give them the benefit of doubt here.

bauerd··on Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs
Health insurance and opportunity cost
bauerd··on Claude Design
It would be interesting if they’re dogfooding it by building these research projects on those building blocks
bauerd··on Claude Design
They are building infrastructure components that they will soon wire together with an orchestration layer. Managed agents, scheduled tasks, workflow webhook automation.
bauerd··on Claude Design
This is a really verbose way to say that using generative AI has a detrimental effect on the user because one deprives themselves of the learning experience.
bauerd··on The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
No because the technology will be used against you.
bauerd··on The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
The argument isn't that LLMs are bad because they can hallucinate. Author (clearly) argues that LLM use has negative cognitive effects on their users and on society as a whole. Plus, the technology would wipe out a large, large number of jobs.
bauerd··on The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs
>They still have a long way to go before they can master a domain from first principles, which constrains the mastery possible.

Mastery isn't necessary. Why are Waymos lacking drivers? Not because self-driving cars have mastered driving, but because self-driving works sufficiently well that the economics don't play out for the cab driver.

bauerd··on Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?
Not sure what you're insinuating. What do you think is the statistically average job on this planet? It's still going to be cultivating a smallholder farm in developing countries, or working in logistics, manufacturing or the broader service in developed countries.

All of these average jobs are structurally repetitive. Yes, humans do constantly inject creativity, but it's a means to an end, to getting the job done.

You apparently mistook my descriptive comment for a value judgment, but it isn't.

bauerd··on Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?
The vast majority of people on this planet work repetitive, uncreative jobs.
bauerd··on World Happiness Report 2026
>a lack of imagination on what could be better

I'd argue it's likelier that people are more informed about their absolute position globally. Any screen gets you the mental image of the top of the ladder. So happy people would end up scoring themselves low, because there's a globalized vision of wealth nowadays.

Besides there's a difference in life self-evaluation and experienced happiness, so the report really is a misnomer.

bauerd··on The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product
>Testing workloads that take hours to run still take hours to run with either a human or LLM testing them out (aka that is still the bottleneck)

Absolutely. Tight feedback loops are essential to coding agents and you can’t run pipelines locally.

bauerd··on MaliciousCorgi: AI Extensions send your code to China
brew install emacs
bauerd··on Scaling long-running autonomous coding
Generally wrong. It may cost less because its externalities aren't priced in.
bauerd··on Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)
The company's values may align to yours, even though they reject you. It's because the interview process doesn't need to have anything to do with their real-world process. Their engineers probe you for the same "best practices" that they themselves were constantly probed for in their own interviews. Interviewing is its very own skill that doesn't necessarily translate into real-life performance.
bauerd··on Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)
In interviews just give them what they are looking for. Don't overthink it. Interviews have gotten so stupidly standardized as the industry at large copied the same Big Tech DSA/System Design/Behavioral process. And therefore interview processes have long been decoupled from the business reality most companies face. Just shard the database and don't forget the API Gateway
bauerd··on It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
It’s not how you get promoted though. Plus implementing complex UIs is challenging which engineers like. The incentives are off.
bauerd··on Covert web-to-app tracking via localhost on Android
The sum absolutely does matter. All you’re saying is the fines are too low
bauerd··on Self-Hosting like it's 2025
Last thing I need is Kubernetes at home
bauerd··on Go European: Discover European products and services
Please add mlbile apps that scan product barcodes and display the origin country. I think EAN-13 barcodes make this easy already
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