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What stops the senior from using AI to review the AI generated code the junior published?

You also sound like me I have NielMed. I’m wondering if you used that before and how Navage compares to it? Appreciate the recommendation.

I did this 15 years ago. I didn’t feel like it helped much at all. But, that doctor was later on got sued for insurance fraud so it got me wondering if I was scammed as well. I’ll discuss this with my primary physician next exam. Thanks for the reminder!

You sound like me! I have had sinus issues all my life before 17. I even had a surgery at 16 but I honestly don’t think it helped. Now I have the sinus problem a bit under control, aka I still have occasional infections during allergy and cold season. I use NielMed to wash my sinus and I think it helps a lot. Besides that I really don’t know what it would take to fix it permanently. I constantly can feel the mucus dripping down my throat everyday.

Yes, the iPad Air and Pro all come with M chips.

I’m confused. The iOS device line gradually shifts towards the M chips. Why does Apple make a laptop with the A chips? Isn’t the M line is more performant and energy efficient comparing to the A chip?

I am also not surprised that many P.E. have become Political Engineer as opposed to Principal Engineer.

You know, all of a sudden, I am starting to lose interest in meticulously drawn Mermaid diagrams in README, perfect grammar and spelling in doc reviews, or neat generated general photographs. They are all correctly presented, of course. But the ideas are mostly wrong, too.

I guess my stick figure hand drawn diagrams, a doc with few mistakes in grammar or spelling would be seen as more worthy to read as long as my ideas are sound. Right? :-)

> Since most projects now use main instead of master…

I see that even the CIA, a federal government office, has not fully used DEI approved, inclusive language yet :-)

Kimi 2.5 nails it:

Walk. It's only about a minute away on foot, and driving such a short distance wastes gas and isn't great for your engine (it won't warm up properly).

*Wait*—if you're taking your car to the car wash, you'll obviously need to drive it there. In that case, yes, drive the 50 meters, even though it's barely worth shifting out of park.

Plot twist: humans become the new Proof of Work consensus mechanism. Instead of GPUs burning electricity to hash blocks, we burn our sanity verifying whether that Medium article was written by a person or a particularly confident LLM.

"Human Verification as a Service": finally, a lucrative career where the job description is literally "read garbage all day and decide if it's authentic garbage or synthetic garbage." LinkedIn influencers will pivot to calling themselves "Organic Intelligence Validators" and charge $500/hr to squint at emails and go "yeah, a human definitely wrote this passive-aggressive Slack message."

The irony writes itself: we built machines to free us from tedious work, and now our job is being the tedious work for the machines. Full circle. Poetic even. Future historians (assuming they're still human and not just Claude with a monocle) will mark this as the moment we achieved peak civilization: where the most valuable human skill became "can confidently say whether another human was involved."

Bullish on verification miners. Bearish on whatever remains of our collective attention span.

It’s interestingly related that Amazon is also buying a copper mine: https://www.wsj.com/finance/commodities-futures/amazon-is-bu...

You are absolutely right!!!

You mean like this:

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

I wonder if LLMs and Gen AI represent a shift similar to the invention of the tractor a century ago. Initially, both technologies struggled to find their most effective applications, despite grand promises of transformative productivity. It took tractors several decades to become truly mainstream. Perhaps the same pattern will unfold with LLMs and AI. The difference this time is that companies are investing enormous amounts of capital in preparation for that inevitable moment of widespread adoption.

I tried this on OpenRouter chat interface to write a few documents. Quick thoughts: Its writing has less vibe of AI due to the lack of em-dashes! I primarily use Kimi2 Thinking for personal usage. Kimi writing is also very good, on par with the frontier models like Sonnet or Gemini. But, just like them, Kimi2 also feels AI. I can't quantify or explain why, though.

For work, it is Claude Code and Anthropic exclusively.

The agentic development scene has slowly turned into a full-blown JavaScript circus—bright lights, loud chatter, and endless acts that all look suspiciously familiar. We keep wrapping the same old problems in shiny new packages, parading them around as if they’re groundbreaking innovations. How long before the crowd grows tired of yet another round of “RFC” performances?

And if you don't agree with me, I don't have to explain to you!

I can’t help but wonder: if we had poured the same amount of money into fusion energy research and development, how far might we have come in just three short years?

Really? I bought an Archer AC1200 at Costco. It was a recent model at the time but received no updates after 1 year.

I suspect that the OpenRouter result originates from a quantized hosting provider. The difference compared to the direct API call from Moonshot is striking, almost like night and day. It creates a peculiar user and developer experience since OpenRouter enforces quantization restrictions only at the API level, rather than at the account settings level.

I believe draw.io achieves complete state persistence solely through the URL. This allows you to effortlessly share your diagrams with others by simply providing a link that contains an embedded Base64-encoded string representing the diagram’s data. However, I’m uncertain whether this approach would qualify as a “state container” according to the definition presented in the article.

Is there a jj tutorial not assuming git knowledge at all? I'd love to see how to approach jj without git.

The Turbo Pascal “IDE” was my very first dive into programming, and it’s still the best experience I’ve ever had! Maybe it’s just because it was my first, but wow, it already had tons of cool features back then, like syntax highlighting, step debugging with breakpoints, and a quick peek at variable values.

Do you think there’s anything like that out there today? The only ones I can think of that are closed are nano and micro editors, but I wouldn’t really call them IDEs.

I can’t quite put my finger on why this doesn’t excite me. First, there was MCP — and honestly, my feelings about it were mixed. In the end, it’s just tool calling, only now the tools are hosted somewhere else instead of being implemented as function calls. Then comes this new “skill” concept. Isn’t it just another round of renaming what we already do? We’ve been using Markdown files to guide our coding agents for ages. Overall, it feels like yet another case of “a new spin on an old thing.”

It’s on there, right? And that “thought leader” title they’ve put on LinkedIn? I’m still scratching my head trying to figure out what that means!

I'm waiting for the day when the iphone would be equipped with an M chip. Maybe not long of a wait I hope.

A side note: is it just me or not but I prefer my new car to still providing tactile buttons to control things? I get that smart cars like Tesla wants to push touch-screen on everything but the control mechanism just feels clunky for me. When I sit on a car with physical buttons, I know exactly where they are and what they do when I press & turn them.

It is as good as the desktop version from my experience.

This is not applicable on iOS. The Firefox app remains a wrapper built on Apple’s WebKit engine rather than a fully native implementation. However, with the recent release of uBlock for iOS, Safari has become significantly more tolerable. I’ve tried many so‑called “browsers” (acknowledging they’re all essentially WebKit wrappers), but none match Safari’s energy efficiency or the seamlessness of its sync features.