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New comment by columk in "AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement"

columk — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 02:56:24 +0000

But you can imagine an agent trading crypto and using its profits to rent a rack of H200s using a cloud provider. There are definitely ways for one rogue orchestrator to expand their compute without anyone being aware.

New comment by columk in "Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving"

columk — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:40:27 +0000

But $10/mo this year gets you the same quality and throughput as $200/m did last year. Most of us prefer to spend that $190 on our friends and family each month. It's like buying a new iPhone every year - not necessary unless you absolutely need the latest features. If your employer wants you to use a SOTA model they can pay for it.

New comment by columk in "Library of Juggling"

columk — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:31:27 +0000

I remember happily going through these each day after school until I could do everything.

There wasn't much on YouTube at the time but I also think YouTube is a worse resource for pretty much all of these simple tricks. All you need is a slow loop to learn any ball juggling trick.

There was also a similar site that let you input siteswaps.

The noob gains once you get comfortable with 3 balls are addictive, compared to later patterns or tricks that can take hours, days or even weeks to pick up.

New comment by columk in "OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again"

columk — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:18:13 +0000

Unless you're swamped with email I don't really get it. If someone calls me to arrange an appointment I say "Hey Google add x to calendar" after the call and it's done. Gemini can use Gmail and other workspace apps. You can also set up commands to do a few different things at once, like turning on the lights when you get home by saying I'm home. With any cheap set of bluetooth earphones this is all hands free.

Lots of these YouTubers are using openclaw to replace simple Google/Siri voice queries with something prohibitively complex, expensive and insecure.

Also, people in the 90's didn't have push notifications. We see emails on our watch/phone and can delete/archive/snooze from there. Email triage takes zero time these days and can be done from anywhere. I do get it though if you're someone who is extremely busy and really needs a PA.

Much more likely that the average user is either unemployed or in the leisure class.

New comment by columk in "OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again"

columk — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:23:15 +0000

That's the sad thing. There are so many millions of talented under-employed people in the world that would gladly run errands or set up automations for you for $200-$1000 per month or whatever people are spending on this bot.

Developers trust lobsters more than humans.

The other wild thing is that many of these expensive automations that are being celebrated on X can already be done by voice using Siri, Google, or any MCP client.

New comment by columk in "Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale"

columk — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:17:02 +0000

>We should take Yegge’s creation seriously not because it’s a serious, working tool for today’s developers (it isn’t). But because it’s a good piece of speculative design fiction that asks provocative questions and reveals the shape of constraints we’ll face as agentic coding systems mature and grow.

I have no doubt Yegge would agree wholeheartedly with that take. He wants the community to explore these ideas with him.

The bizarre thing is that Gas Town has been popping up in mainstream news and media. It's being discussed in my economics podcasts.

It's relevant for them because it hints at a very disruptive idea: The hierarchy of Gas Town, when extrapolated, suggests that agents won't just replace your workers, it will replace your business too. It suggests that in a few years there could be a tool that is effectively a software agency, which means companies like Anthropic could eat any software shop that can't compete.

UseOptimistic Won't Save You

columk — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:48:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.columkelly.com/blog/use-optimistic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46637216

Points: 1

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New comment by columk in "JSDoc is TypeScript"

columk — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:46:14 +0000

To address point 2 you can enable the VSCode setting: "TypeScript: Prefer Go To Source Definition".

If it's your own library you can add declarationMap: true to your tsconfig.

I almost always want to see the source when I cmd+click.