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Put another way: “reading code costs the same as it always did” arguably more when you consider that the cost of reading goes down when the ability read goes up. in other words if you wrote the thing it is likely you can read it fast. but reading someone elses stuff is harder.

Interesting. Has anyone found running multiple parallel agents useful in practice?

Is there any marked difference or benefit over Claude Code?

Estimates will continue to go earlier, and more things that were, or are, alive will be considered exceptional. Seems to be a function of looking.

exactly, the real question is what the elves are doing while they’re unseen.

i have a house in a lot of sun in mid atlantic usa. i have spent a modest amount of time casually exploring solar. the cost/benefit never seems that great. what am i missing?

Go on

Currently, the only way to understand code is to read it. You no longer need to understand code to produce it (maybe in some pre-AI cases that was also true).

So no, you don’t _need_ to read code anymore. But not reading code is a risk.

That risk is proportional to characteristics that are very difficult, and in many cases impossible, to measure.

So currently best practice would be to continue reading code. Sigh.

It seems like the archery gets disproportionately more “hollywood doesn’t understand how it works” coverage than other things.

Is that because I’m an archer and that’s what I see?

Projects like this are fascinating for reasons, I guess, unintentional to their creators.

Is what you can see at this level of detail helping anyone understand the painting?

Someone thinks so. So what do we now know?

there is no such bar.

We don’t even have a good way to quantify human ability. The idea that we could suddenly develop a technique to quantify human ability because we now have a piece of technology that would benefit from that quantification is absurd.

That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to measure the ability of an LLM. But it does mean that the techniques used to quantify an LLMs ability are not something that can be applied to humans outside of narrow focus areas.

idk, i think it’s as worth mentioning as the writing style, which a lot of the comments are about. and i think they’re fair — don’t mind the style myself

What’s the saying? Twice the work, half the credit?

In all seriousness tho, I don’t buy it. It’s pretty hard to solo-achieve things in most complicated work environments. Saying you’re part of a group effort means more to those more interested in collaboration, good groups know to select on that criteria.

yeah, on a small scale it’s actually pretty easy to make a decent dent in the feed bill. once you get over a dozen hens though it would take a few adults to make enough waste. chickens eat a lot!

yeah that’s my point.

im in md, and my hens have been laying all winter, no artificial light. they are a hybrid cross i bought from a local egg producing farm. i think they are called sex linked reds (not sure).

it’s crazy how many eggs they lay.

yeah, they deter aerial predators, but you can’t have too much room for them to roam away from the geese. in my experience you need to have the geese and chickens together within about 200sq feet.

i have a simple system for keep my birds safe from land predators.

so the birds get a point for each level of protection they receive. each group needs two points to be safe.

i mainly raise geese, which are tough, not going to be bothered by a hawk. geese (turkeys similar) start with one point. an electric fence is one point, a fully enclosed coop is one point, night light (.5?), guard animal (.5?). chickens are always inventing ways to die, so they start with 0 (should probably be -1).

fingers crossed i haven’t lost any geese to land predators in three years and only one chicken that flew the enclosure. hawks have taken a few chickens, but never when the geese are around.

yes. i have a flock and the feed alone puts a doz at $3.

the labor is somewhat enjoyable and the chickens are incredible child-leftover disposal machines. but when you factor infrastructure and labor youll probably never recoup your “investment” in eggs.

for anyone dealing with land predators, get electric poultry net. it’s magic.

I’ve got a flock, not counting infrastructure my costs are tied directly to feed. I source local non-gmo and herbicide free grains. My cost is about $3/doz. It’s unusual to be so close to a farm that produces the variety of grain at that level of quality.

A local farm that produces on a large scale and sources grain from the same farm charges $8/doz. Seems totally fair, if not a little too cheap.

I love this

it’s so good. no context switching with a different app. also, there’s a fairly compatible version for emacs with the same name.

no marquee? c’mon

American Genesis covers a few inventors around the turn of the century 1900, including wright bros IIRC, inspiring stuff.

in the fiction realm i think the martian fits the bill too!

I write through substack and agree with the main point here: substack’s primary interest is creating a walled garden at the expense of writers. I also agree their main hold over writers is convenience, even considering the alternatives.

It won’t change, and for that reason I’ll eventually switch.

Love this. Similar info to a book I picked up a while back called: the rainbow beneath my feet. the authors of that book have a lot of really good identification and reference books on mushrooms.

dying with natural materials in general: brace yourself for lots of tan

My takeaway from that experience is that nutrition is the best way to prevent disease/pests. once there’s a problem it’s probably too late.

I’ve had terrible luck growing pumpkins until this year when I put five root bound starts in the former bedding of my goose flock. All the starts were tangled together in a two gallon pot, didn’t even bother separating. Those plants easily produced 200lbs of pumpkins.

My neighbor, who gave me the starts and took much greater care with the plants, had all of his die from various pests and diseases.

It’s true that some companies will place a PO in order to establish a hierarchy over a scrum team. But that’s not a scrum problem, it’s an organization problem.

In a reasonable team theres a dialog between product and engineering that establishes direction and priority.

The process is derived from PDCA (plan, do, check, act), which you might find more freeing.

The beauty of PDCA is that it is an adaptive framework. Meaning how it’s applied to my team will be different than your team. That’s a healthy development that relates to the fact that different people will work together differently. (side note: agile is often used as a synonym with pdca and it can confuse thing bc Agile tm is what a lot of people have bad experiences with)

i wrote a bit about my experience using agile: https://hedgerider.substack.com/p/agile-for-anarchists