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groestl··on We are not going anywhere
> the cost of building those unique shaped legos explodes with the size of the lego piece required.

The cost of plastic injection molding is almost entirely due to the cost of creating the steel mold. My argument is: with LLMs we are entering a world which makes it cost effective to build many more things from scratch, which is akin to going from building things out of pre-fabricated lego pieces to 3D printing (agreeably not cost effective for everything, but for many things).

groestl··on We are not going anywhere
We might not even need libraries after all, since APIs, libraries and abstractions in general exist for humans to grasp complexities. Abstractions have their merits, but they have downsides too, and AI might be a way to solve them. The interesting part for me is where that ends, because it's systems all the way down, and even on a higher level abstractions exist to allow humans to make sense of the world. Services, products, companies, political parties, what if in the future we don't need any of it anymore because the abstraction is obsolete?
groestl··on Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
Simple toolchain which supports trivial lightweight deployment is my go to attribute to select Go in projects.
groestl··on Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export
The signal is the ceiling.
groestl··on Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude
Intuitively I'd say lashing out on an LLM overconstraints it and so worsens the output, therefore the skill to stay calm and neutral is useful for guiding a machine as well. Would be useful to have data on that.
groestl··on Why I am not going to buy a computer
> It wasn't written by a human so they see no human value in it.

Which is true, in a way, the data put down as documentation can now be calculated in seconds, and documentation is just a cache.

groestl··on US power use to beat record highs in 2026 and 2027 as AI use surges, EIA says
AI is what we were missing to be fully cooked. Quite literally.
groestl··on Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28
> we still have to keep them chugging along on Java 8

There's something else amiss here. Compared to other platforms, upgrading Java, even on complex codebases, has never been a nightmare for me.

groestl··on Prove you're human by winning a claw machine
I can prove I'm human by losing a claw machine.
groestl··on AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
Maybe plan itself was also generated by an LLM
groestl··on AI sticker shock hits corporate America
Maybe managers going back to coding.
groestl··on Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch
More money right?
groestl··on Appearing productive in the workplace
I guess they just close the PR.
groestl··on DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
And recruiter agents still do.
groestl··on Claude struggles to cope with ChatGPT exodus
If you're able to predict, you're able to simulate.
groestl··on Claude struggles to cope with ChatGPT exodus
> are so evenly matched

It's because the real value of the models is in what we (humanity) fed them, and all of them have eaten the same thing for free.

groestl··on US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February
Well, my business would be paying the trips, and everybody still refuses. So it's not the money.
groestl··on UUID package coming to Go standard library
Let's call it a valid UUIDv0 - all bits randomized including the version bits :)
groestl··on Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?
Not sarcasm. Not cynism. Just pure humor.
groestl··on I'm helping my dog vibe code games
I don't do any moral judgement at all, and I also don't predict the future.

I respond to "You are not causing more water to be used by asking a human to work on something.", because that statement is false. (Mental) work has an effect on the human metabolism.

groestl··on I'm helping my dog vibe code games
> You are not causing more water to be used by asking a human to work on something.

That's certainly not true. Asking me to think hard about something will cause me to burn more calories. Asking me to do physical work even more so.

groestl··on Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok
There are projects where long term addicts are given pure medical heroin (Diamorphin) in a controlled environment, and they do considerably better than their control group who does not receive their drugs like that.

E.g. https://patrida.de/

groestl··on Trunk Based Development
100%. I don't want to know how the sausage was made. It's similar to research papers, or history books, where the way we arrive at results or outcomes in the real world is often quite different from the way it's presented in the final form.
groestl··on Micropayments as a reality check for news sites
And your data.
groestl··on What every compiler writer should know about programmers (2015) [pdf]
If you're self hosting your compiler on C, you are your own user.
groestl··on Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
Sounds like your daily interactions with Legal. Each time a different take.
groestl··on Product and design are the new bottlenecks
I'd never share my pizza. A one pizza team, that's just me.
groestl··on The Missing Layer
Maybe I'm missing something, or we do it differently here, but I think "spec" is defined to narrowly in that article. Start writing the first part of that document in that meeting, and everything ties together neatly.
groestl··on Greenland tensions harden Europe's push for energy independence
I also discuss on a local newspaper forum as well, which is pretty popular, but the crowd here tends to be more insightful :)
groestl··on Greenland tensions harden Europe's push for energy independence
We might be able to bring back some nuclear reactors, but building new one's: that's not on a feasible timeline.
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