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New comment by draxil in "LLMs reward expertise"

draxil — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:05:39 +0000

> my friend is a novice and needs extra help with things like: copy pasting the code into a text file

I don't think this is using an agent harness.

New comment by draxil in "The state of open source AI"

draxil — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:18:40 +0000

Almost all about open weight, but the title says Open Source.

New comment by draxil in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

draxil — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:26:38 +0000

rip off.

New comment by draxil in "The Emacsification of Software"

draxil — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:36:52 +0000

Google wave rides again!

I'd say the thing with email that most improvements would need improved standards?

That said, as with the emacs user example, the ability to automatically process all your email in madly custom ways can now be opened to the masses.

New comment by draxil in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

draxil — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:09:42 +0000

Except it's often faster to make the change yourself than explain it to an AI.

New comment by draxil in "Grok 4.3"

draxil — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:51:08 +0000

I don't like that word, which was previously a common part of my vocabulary, being forever ruined?

New comment by draxil in "I quit. The clankers won"

draxil — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:34:10 +0000

I think the fact you need tool calling to stop it doing that, shows the underlying issue with trusting it to do anything without a human

New comment by draxil in "I quit. The clankers won"

draxil — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:32:05 +0000

Useful tool, and if you're just scratching a small itch it's great.

For any serious system you still need to understand and guide the code, and unless you do some of the coding.. You won't. It's just novelty right now is skewing our reasoning.

New comment by draxil in "I quit. The clankers won"

draxil — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:29:39 +0000

This is a good parallel. In the 90s when I learned to drive I was quite good at navigating. Now google maps is on a screen in my car telling me where to go whenever I drive beyond my most common routes.

Really all the research telling us about AI skills atrophy.. We should have guessed from previous experience.

New comment by draxil in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

draxil — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:17:51 +0000

Good to have more than a hammer in your toolbox!

New comment by draxil in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"

draxil — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:12:54 +0000

I assume you mean open weight models? I wish we had better open source models. It would make LLMs far less icky if we had nice clean open trained models. A breakthrough on the cost of training would be nice.

New comment by draxil in "The “small web” is bigger than you might think"

draxil — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:59:14 +0000

I think Gemini might be wise to rename, now there's a commercial product trampling all over it's namespace.

New comment by draxil in "Two Years of Emacs Solo"

draxil — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:36:50 +0000

emacs users who are hostile to you configuring things, aren't really getting the point IMO :)

New comment by draxil in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

draxil — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:36:56 +0000

how many of these stars were applied by openclaw?

New comment by draxil in "Redefining Go Functions"

draxil — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:55:27 +0000

Spirit of Perl is still alive

New comment by draxil in "Testing Ads in ChatGPT"

draxil — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:31:55 +0000

We've seen this process before. If you don't pay, you are the product.

New comment by draxil in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

draxil — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:11:15 +0000

Well especially the lisp parts!

New comment by draxil in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

draxil — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:10:45 +0000

Sort of except it seems the more the co-worker does the job it atrophies my ability to understand.. So soon we'll all be that annoyingly ignorant manager saying, "I don't know, I want the button to be bigger". Yay?

New comment by draxil in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

draxil — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:05:35 +0000

This to me is the point.. LLMs can't be responsible for things. It sits with a human.

New comment by draxil in "Vibe coding kills open source"

draxil — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:14:16 +0000

I think that's an optimistic interpretation of how good LLMs are?

But I think the reality is: LLMs democratise access to coding. In a way this decreases the market for complete solutions, but massively increases the audience for building blocks.