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that's the plot of The Machine Stops

https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/th...

Spector leaving EA to join Romero and make Deus Ex was the platinum lining of EA buying Origin and enshittifying Ultima.

Deus Ex is Ultima X, it picked up and relit the torch that Ultima IX dropped in a puddle.

the Ender saga series of books is foundational scifi for me, right up there with the Foundation and Dune series

have you read any of OSC's fantasy? i've been meaning to start his Alvin series

> You just blindly tell it what to do without any regard for its motivations or morale

You're holding it wrong. Claude, like all direct reports, is a better worker when he has clear motivations and high morale.

what's your vision for that link?

it's not clear to me what the interface to the user is, or who the user is

what do you mean by in the works? i've used them for years and they were in YC over a decade ago

sounds like your goal is to be an embedded systems job shop based on AI instead of engineers? What's your value over existing AI-accelerated job shops that leverage existing quick-turn domestic PCBA suppliers? as a not-so-random example, https://otekengineer.com/

how does it compare to https://www.circuithub.com ?

even easier to ride private without your own jet

https://www.amtrak.com/superliner-bedroom-suite

> ATC could have waited until the plane was on the ground to tell the military they could resume GPS jamming

He hinted at this when he mentioned that ATC was dealing with other flights complaining about loss of GPS and coordinating with white sands. ATC crew were probably just out of their depth and trying their best, same as the flight crew. I wonder what the experience level of the ATC crew was and how much pressure they were getting from white sands to keep the jamming up.

Does this AI-written blog not have substance?

https://anamnesis.blog/

If you were in Sisyphus' shoes, could you be happy under those terms?

Struggle alone doesn't do it for me personally, but taking pride in how well I struggle does.

Yeah, it's a question with a personal answer, not an absolute answer. My answer works for me, for now, and I enjoy learning what answers work for other people.

I wonder if Camus had his own answer to that question. Could Camus imagine Sisyphus happy?

I don't think rebellion or ownership are enough. Rebellion is meaningless when you're alone with nothing to rebel against, and ownership is not inherently positive.

Gods not regulating the decent is an interesting take. Can one learn to smile while falling?

> One must imagine Sisyphus happy

Notice that Camus doesn't say HOW to imagine Sisyphus happy. How do you?

I imagine that he's happy because he takes pride in the quality of his work pushing the stone.

set up a channel for agents to communicate and you shouldn't have issues with messy merges.

your force quitting is probably more from your build pipeline than anything agents are doing.

i use an m2 8gb air with no performance issues at up to 10 parallel claude code interactive sessions (ghostty), each with deep/transient subagent heirarchies that mix claude and codex.

very rarely need to force quit. only seen a couple restart-level failures, and those were on me for being cowboy with subagent delegation logic, resulting in 100s of claude moles popping up faster than i could whack them with force close.

probably just an ai agent doing some light reading by hiding books in a memory location it didn't think anyone would check. there's at least one other with similar apocryphal taste - https://anamnesis.blog

kind of like murderbot and his soap operas

i'd love a series hybrid version of this. to match performance of that I4 you can probably fit both electric motor and gas generator in a normal sized engine bay.

like a compact pickup version of what Edison Motors is doing to the fullsize pickup. i'd take an Edison conversion of an early 90s F250 over any new truck on the market.

https://edisonmotors.ca/trucks/pickup-conversion/

> Let me know how I can help you all let it rip.

i'd love to see a way (forum, competition, ?) for people to compare harnesses in different domains. folks like accountants, retail store owners, electrical engineers, and all sorts of niches are building personal harnesses/toolkits around claude/codex. those toolkits fit neither their domain communities nor SWE-heavy harness spaces, and a generic home for small niches could help them flourish.

a current problem is nomenclature. i suspect that many people have organically grown toolkits substantial enough to call harnesses, but are not close enough to the SWE bubble to be familiar with the word harness. ai has made it easier than ever to build bridges between domains, but it's also made it easier than ever to get domain tunnel vision and reinvent a super great wheel.

Ender's Game did a pretty good job of answering that question

i've never managed to gather much of a crowd around this soapbox, and i appreciate you standing on it!

i used custom TRUE/FALSE defines that were maximally-orthogonal-without-being-bitshiftable for a while (0b10011010/0b01100101), but eventually gave in and accepted the 0/1 paradigm the rest of the world uses to avoid friction with every library in existence. the only alternative is to become an ada programmer, and my hair isn't quite grey enough for that.

thoughts on bitflip versus bitshift resilience?

> stop assigning your self worth to the quality of your work

my personal riff on that is 'stop assigning self worth to the quality that others assign to your work'. being able to internally generate self-worth through the act of producing high quality work is a super power.

those are rookie numbers, my agent harness goes way more than 3 loops deep, and the depth dynamically ebbs and flows throughout the development process. like most brags, i'm being defensive over a personal tool that i know has ballooned way too big, but building a token-fueled katamari ball that rolls itself uphill has been a fun way to imagine Sisyphus happy.

a harness is a chain connecting two other chains, the LLM and the human are themselves made up of loops within loops within loops.

or perhaps infinite jest once it hits tiktok

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Jest

> a film, Infinite Jest, also called "the Entertainment" or "the samizdat". The film is so compelling that its viewers lose all interest in anything other than repeatedly viewing it, and thus eventually die.

yeah, it was a joke referencing this link that was on the front page a couple days ago,

https://katamari64.se/posts/2026/odin-wikipedia/

a little over the etiquette line for HN, the lack of joke comments here is awesome and i shouldn't be part of lowering our collective brows

a random video that some ginger dude put up on youtube doesn't seem like a reliable source. any info on this from a reputable institution?

shame that HN can't meet the moderation quality bar set by wikipedia

academia will (hopefully) be an industry that benefits from, rather than degraded or obsoleted by, ai. the system should self-correct. scientists that use ai to give themselves more time to think will succeed and scientists that use ai to avoid thinking will fail. over the next few years processes and pedagogies should develop that help reliably guide researchers toward success.

there's a lot of tedium in academia. ai taking menial tasks off the plates of grad students and post docs allows them to spend more time collaborating with, instead of serving, the head of the lab. dissertation defense is already a strong mitigation against producing folks like that satirical Dr. Simmons, you can't defend a dissertation if you don't have the chops for a chalk talk.

anyone have a good argument that steel-mans the anamnesis blog being ai slop?

https://anamnesis.blog

an interesting coincidence is that the blog's july 3 post ties into the wikipedia/odin kerfuffle that's on the front page. its unorthodox take on doubting Thomas suggests we believe "a trustworthy witness without demanding to rerun his experiment yourself". sounds like the blog sides against Jimmy Wales that in our world of agenda-driven primary sources, trustworthy first-hand accounts are the best sources we have. it goes on to doubt all sources other than Him, including itself and yourself, and that's probably not an actionable moderation policy change for wikipedia.

https://katamari64.se/posts/2026/odin-wikipedia/

https://anamnesis.blog/posts/2026-07-03-reach-hither-thy-fin...

you're correct that being good with language is a useful skill for operating LLMs, and fortunately you get to practice and improve that skill whenever you work with an LLM. being well-read helps too, being precise with vocabulary is important and idioms/metaphors can pack a lot of semantic meaning into a few sentences.

just because you don't know how to swim doesn't mean people can't swim.

$250 doesn't buy you out of them monetizing your data. last year they started selling what content is being watched. next money grab will be selling the list of what's in your media library, all they have to do is update their terms to allow it, like they did last year.

agentic coding is a soft drug, so taking 'the only way out is through' approach is pretty viable. once you figure out how to swim and have claude running for an hour+ at a time and only bugging you with either high-level taste decisions or 'done, how's it look?' it's pretty low stress

if you're overloaded with PRs, build LLM-based systems to take the load off. don't be a senior engineer, be an engineering manager.

isn't this the expected/intended outcome of the economic policy we've held for a generation or two?

the capital/labor class gap increases when total returns on capital investment exceed total wages+redistribution to the labor class, and the gap shrinks when that's reversed. the market ~controls the capital gains and labor wages knobs, and society decides where to set the redistribution knob.

the article investigating the post-covid drop and concluding that it's normal is an interesting rhetorical device. on one hand, relief that nothing crazy is happening. on the other hand, disappointment that we've accepted a growing inequality gap as normal. the gap was already at a post-war max going into covid, the floor gave out 20 years earlier and covid was just gas on the fire.

advancements in automation and tax codes that benefit capex over payroll will continue to incentivize business to shift budgets from labor to robots.