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triyambakam··on Docker Agent
This is an almost rage bait take, but in any case I agree that the models ability to write correct code and fuzz and test that code does make language choice a different tradeoff than it was before.
triyambakam··on Docker Agent
> bittlest

Sorry, what do you mean there?

triyambakam··on JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history
Actually I really only need bare vim now. It's really refreshing. I can view, navigate, diff etc without any fancy plugins. I can add comments where I want the agent to change something.
triyambakam··on Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
It's often better to just find ways to embrace what it tries to do naturally. Otherwise you're fighting the weights and hidden prompts
triyambakam··on Zig v0.17.0
Ghostty is a strange example though because Mitchell is very keen on agentic engineering.
triyambakam··on Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi
I've seen other apps do this as well e.g. Cal.com
triyambakam··on Polyedergarten: Garden of Paper Polyhedron Models
Polygarten hätte passen können? Und kurz: Pita haha
triyambakam··on Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
The Kingdom of Tonga stood out to me. Are you still there? Why were you there? It's a very interesting place, especially for anyone not from there. I'm only adjacently aware as someone who spent most of my life in a different Polynesian country.
triyambakam··on What I did at Recurse Center
I always shudder hearing about RC. It feels like both wrong ends of career and hobby intersecting and the whole experience sounds dank and clammy.
triyambakam··on Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?
The most surprising thing about this to me is Alan Kay answering questions on Quora.
triyambakam··on OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites
Just my guess
triyambakam··on OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites
They're doing this on purpose to make a case for regulation in their favor. No way they are this stupid.
triyambakam··on How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance
What?! Apparently only about 1% of the estimated hundreds of thousands of documents were ever published.
triyambakam··on Attention is all you have
I made it 37 words into the article - highlight and search "Tetromino" -> Wikipedia Tetromino -> Alexey Pajitnov -> ...
triyambakam··on GPT-5.6 Luna vs. GPT-6 Astra: Is a $1.20 Model Good Enough for Code Review?
What have you noticed about Astra? I haven't used Claude models lately so I can't compare but it seems fine compared to 5.6 Sol
triyambakam··on D2 Is Non-Profit
> D2 thus far has been a product of handcrafted code. That era is over. This next phase of D2 will be driven by AI. By this, I mean that all of my contributions will use AI. I welcome AI contributions and will use AI to review your AI, etc. The exception is writing -- I will author all blog posts and comms without AI.

Really cool, seems like the right balance.

triyambakam··on OKF Agent Memory – Git-native persistent memory for AI coding agents
How well does the model adhere to using this in a harness like Codex where it may be directed to use the built in memory tooling? Maybe I'll need to try an experiment directing it to save to its native memory to use OKF instead
triyambakam··on Asus Bike Booster
Most products don't exist to fill a need but instead want
triyambakam··on Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
https://avi.press/posts/2026-07-10-after-7-years-in-producti...

"After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell"

And moved to Python, pretty much for the reasons you stated

triyambakam··on I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won
More than help. It certainly has a uniquely identifiable voice
triyambakam··on Deep-sea vehicles spot 'alien' sharks deep beneath the waves in the Pacific
> the animal leisurely glid along the sea floor

Strange. I thought it was glided, or at least glode

triyambakam··on Where .env Went Wrong
Yeah Pydantic Settings is pretty nice
triyambakam··on Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise
This is why I dislike offsites in general
triyambakam··on This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)
It's hard to tell what is sincere vs sarcastic here
triyambakam··on The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
Fair...
triyambakam··on The front end framework for correctness: built on Effect, architected like Elm
I was thinking about agentic coding as well and a few years ago I probably would have really been interested in this project. But now it sits at a lower abstraction where I care less since the agent is the one managing it. It's strange
triyambakam··on It's getting harder to focus every day
Amazingly well said. I have nothing substantive to add but thank you for writing that
triyambakam··on What most histories get wrong about MUMPS's first standard
So... it looks like this was written by Claude. I am less motivated to actually read it.
triyambakam··on What most histories get wrong about MUMPS's first standard
Is it still used at EPIC?
triyambakam··on Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved
Couldn't this just be in git commits and give the a skill to look there?
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