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I've been seeing "It's not x, it's y" on YouTube a lot now part of the script someone is reading across many random topics and channels. Dunno if it's frequency illusion or real, but it seems real. "Here's the kicker," there's so many of tells it seems obvious when I hear it or read it. Guess it's not surprising people grinding out content are using content bazooka to help. Just a new type of dystopian vibe. The algorithm demands content and the talking head is devoid of original thought. Is this a type of reverse centaur?

sort of looks like it was made with mobile in mind but I can't get it to work.

I'm one of those people. I don't really use jj, but want to give it another try. Think I'd feel more comfortable letting ai mess with jj because of its excellent ability to undo/redo (op log).

doesn't come off as llm to me. Funny, comments like this exist on every blog post shared here. Don't think there's a way to escape it unless you video yourself typing or something..

I can't wait to try it. Love that it's keyboard layout agnostic. A lot of other good sounding ideas in the docs. Especially inspiration from Emacs as everything being an editable buffer. There's always some massive tradeoffs between editors though. Guess I'll have to see.

First time hearing about this tool and person. Just looked for a youtube video about it and he was recently interviewed and sounds very serious / bullish on this agentic stuff. I mean he's saying stuff like if you're still using IDEs you're a bad engineer. Basically you're 10x slower than people good at agenic coding. HR going to be looking for reasons for fire these dinosaurs. I'm paraphrasing, but not exaggerating. I mean it's shilling FOMO and his book. Whatever. I don't really care. I'm more concerned where things are headed.

Hand roll something on k8s. Yaml seems unavoidable in that ecosystem. :)

>ask it why

Always cracks me up asking the LLM why it said something like it really knows and won't just make up something plausible.

Scary thing is how similar we are in this regard. People confabulate and rationalize things the time, but it's especially apparent in people who engage in denial of illness (anosognosia) due to brain damage. One well documented example is stroke damaging the right hemisphere of the brain and paralyzing the left side of the body. Some will deny their paralyzed arm is paralyzed; Make up all sorts of excuses if cross examined / confronted with evidence of illness [0], or practically hallucinate their arm working, fail to notice it's not working etc. Video goes into like half a dozen experiments least. Mini spoiler: can ask someone with similar brain damage a ridiculous question "why did you just do x" (when did didn't do anything) and they'll confabulate an answer. Reminds me of split brain patients videos rationalizing why they did something (speaking left side of the brain) that was communicated visually only to the right hemisphere. [1].

Anyways, I was rewatching the anosognosia video the other day for the first time in like a decade and it really made me wonder how many evolutionary brain specializations it would take to more closely mimic human behavior in a machine.

- 0; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDHJDKPeB2A - 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfGwsAdS9Dc&t=347

Agreed. I've been working professionally with Rust for a year and it is my experience that it's rock solid.

I read the comments you linked and don't really think they literally believe Rust is magic. I dunno though I guess I could imagine a vibe coder tacitly believing that. Not saying you're wrong. I just think most people say that tongue in cheek. This saying has been around forever in the Haskell community for decades. Feels like a long running joke at this point

Just to throw one on the pile https://github.com/yuliskov/smarttube for android based TV media box is great.

Pretty sure I saw some comments saying it was too inconvenient. Frictionless experience.. Convenience will likely win out despite any insanity. It's like gravity. I can't even pretend to be above this. Even if one doesn't use these things to write code they are very useful in "read only mode" (here's to hoping that's more than a strongly worded system prompt) for greping code, researching what x does. How to do x. What do you think the intention of x was. Look through the git blame history blah blah. And here I am like that cop in Demolition Man 1993 asking a handheld computer for advice on how to arrest someone. We're living in a sci-fi future already. Question is how dystopian does this "progress" take us. Everyone using llms to off load any form of cognitive function? Can't talk to someone without it being as common place as checking your phone? Imagine if something like Neuralink works and becomes ubiquitous as phones. It's fun to think of all the ways Dystopian sci-fi was and might soon me right

I was replaying Cyberpunk 2077 and trying to think of all the ways one might have dialed up the dystopia to 11 (beyond what the game does). And pervasive AI slop was never on my radar. Kinda reminds me of the foreword in Neuromancer bringing attention to the fact the book was written before cellphones became popular. It's already fucking with my mind. I recently watched Frankenstein 2025 and 100% thought gen ai had a role in the CGI only to find out the director hates it so much he rather die than use it. I've been noticing little things in old movies and anime where I thought to myself (if I didn't know this was made before gen ai, I would have thought this was generated for sure). One example (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGSNhVQFbOc&t=412) cityscape background in this a outro scene with buildings built on top of buildings gave me ai vibes (really the only thing in this whole anime), yet this came out ~1990. So I can already recognize a paranoia / bias in myself and really can't reliably tell what's real.. Probably also other people have this and why some non-zero number of people always thinks every blog post that comes out was written by gen ai.

>I do hate that if you publish anything online these days, someone will accuse you of having used AI to write it.

Noticing this too. Sabine said something a while ago in one of her videos that stuck with me [0]. about people expecting proof of suffering by next year. She was talk submitting an essay, but it might as well be anything ai could have done.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICjubxfeICo&t=245

I worked for a company that.. Used msql sever a lot and we would run into a heisenbug every few months that would crash our self hosted msql server cluster or it would become unresponsive. I'm not a database person so I'm probably butchering the description here. From our POV progress would stop and require manual intervention (on call). Back and forth went on with MS and our DBAs for YEARS pouring over logs or whatever they do.. Honestly never thought it would be fixed. Then one time it happened and we caught all the data going into the commit and realized it would 100% reproduce the crash. Only if we restored the database to a specific state and with this specific commit it would crash MS SQL Server. NDAs were signed and I took machete to our code base to create a minimal repro binary that could deserialize our data store and commit / crash MS SQL sever. Made a nice powershell script to wrap it and repro the issue fast and guess what? Within a month they fixed it. Was never clear on what exactly the problem was on their end.. I got buffer overflow vibes, but that's a guess.

small feedback for the readme: I think demo should be above the explanation on the differences in the port. Perhaps it doesn't matter as this might just be a thing people find after they know what they're looking for. I didn't really get what it is until seeing the demo and still had to lookup what a webring is on Wikipedia because I was curious why it's called that. Anyway cool looking project. I might even use it if I ever stop procrastinating and blog again.

BTW your blog is probably the most pleasant looking website I've seen in a month at least to my eyes on mobile.

>good awareness of the codebase

Wondering what you're using here?

Quizzes available publicly or conference talk?

Yea I don't know. I didn't mean to sound accusatory. I might very well be wrong.

I'm just pointing out a personal observation. Completely anecdotal. FWIW, I don't strongly believe this. I have at least noticed a selection bias (maybe) in myself too as recently as yesterday after GPT 5.1 was released. I asked codex to do a simple change (less than 50LOC) and it made a unrelated change, an early return statement, breaking a very simple state machine that goes from waiting -> evaluate -> done. However, I have to remind myself how often LLMs make dumb mistakes despite often seeming impressive.

Dunno if you're right, but I'd like to point out that I've been reading comments like these about every model since GPT 3. It's just starting to seem more likely to me to be a cognitive bias than not.

I wonder tone affects performance. It's something I'd like to think they surely benchmarked, but saw no mention of that

Just to throw one on the pile, Inception's lesson in shared dreaming scene is good.

> like how copying and pasting any multiline document into your browser's URL bar will almost certainly format it into a sane single-line format.

Didn't know that. I learned the other day that one can paste a password into the URL bar and drag it to a password field on the website that's annoyingly blocking paste (on Firefox at least). Probably a bad idea for security reasons (telemetry?). Just found it surprising. Also noticed many crappy sites that block paste will forget to block Ctrl + insert or Ctrl + Shift + v. I usually don't have this problem because the plugin of my password manager usually works..

Would be truly living in a dystopian sci-fi universe if this shit gets normalized to being ubiquitous. And that seems to be the direction we're heading. Gamification. Tiered access. Implicit Data harvesting. Loyalty rewards or getting "ripped off" for opting out. Mundane corporate control and manipulation embedded in everyday consumerism. Next up: Daily deal lottery. Unlock new flavor packets.. Predicted craving "flash deals"

Think You're Right. Then they'll justify price hikes with AI shit nobody asked for.

> I'm also someone whose open browser tabs tend to grow indefinitely until I just have to bookmark and close all hundred of them or whatever, so...

You might like the tabstash browser extension

It's a good blog post, but the site is ironically unreadable outside Firefox Reader due to the annoying snow flake animation.

I migrated today as well from Firefox to LibreWolf. I'm curious why you need a chrome based at all? I mean I have ungoogled Chromium on my desktop just in case I want to see if a broken site is only broken for Firefox, but that's rare.

For anyone else like me that hasnt tried uBO lite wondering what features are missing: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...